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Kamala Harris now leads in national polls but state-level data puts race on knife-edge
Analysis of 2024 polling & previous elections suggests race is too close to call
Even worse, data suggests that Democrats are unlikely to hold the Senate
theguardian.com/us-news/articlโ€ฆ


Someone on Donald Trumpโ€™s campaign has leaked an internal warning to staff to please stop leaking.

newrepublic.com/post/185631/trโ€ฆ



Here are 5 ways Trump would make the economy 'weaker' if elected to 2nd term: top economist alternet.org/stiglitz-trump-haโ€ฆ



My office today: my favorite tapas joint in Barcelona


Trump the day after another school shooting: "They had AK-47s. The ultimate guns. AK-47s. They can blow lots of people away real fast."


โ€œIโ€™ve been mad since I was a kid. Our father could have taught us how to fish, you feel?โ€

From the archives in 2023: One of Texasโ€™ most famous death row exonerees died before winning compensation under a law inspired by his own story. texasobserver.org/clarence-leeโ€ฆ

#politics #USpol #DeathPenalty #HumanRights #prison #law #Texas



Read... US arms advantage over Russia and China threatens stability, experts warn
Academics say vulnerability of the two countriesโ€™ nuclear launch sites makes dangerous mistakes more likely
theguardian.com/world/article/โ€ฆ



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If you don't want your tech site to suck Musk dick... Maybe support @osnews?

Jesus fucking Christ, Ars Technica.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20โ€ฆ




Little girls.
Fรฉlix Vallotton, from "Fรฉlix Vallotton; biographie" by Julius Meier-Graefe, Berlin, Paris: 1898 #art #woodcut oldbookillustrations.com/illusโ€ฆ


Stonehenge tale gets โ€˜weirderโ€™ as Orkney is ruled out as altar stone origin
Weeks after revelation that megalith came from Scotland, researchers compared key markers with those of the altar stone and found them to be strikingly different
theguardian.com/uk-news/articlโ€ฆ



I like this Manifesto for Science Communication as Collective Intelligenceโ€ฆ
scibeh.org/manifesto/

โ€ฆand the fact that it was created by the kind of collective intelligence it advocates.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/โ€ฆ

It recommends openness as in open-mindedness (good) and intelligibility (good). And it recommends OA preprints (good), but only for their speed. What's missing is a direct recommendation for #OpenAccess alongside the other recommendations.



Donโ€™t get into the weeds of these nonsense stories. Donโ€™t let them live in your brain. Just know this: theyโ€™re false. Theyโ€™re completely made up. If you hear someone repeating them, theyโ€™re not living in reality.

From @wdlindsyโ€™s news roundup:
toad.social/@wdlindsy/11308517โ€ฆ

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