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  MAGA is in fact shrinking, polls show | CNN Politics | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/17/maga-is-in-fact-shrinking-polls-show-cnn-politics/ > Visit the post for more.

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  ‘Cancer Doesn’t Care What Party You Belong To’: Poisoned Water Is Turning This Rural State Bluer – POLITICO | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/19/cancer-doesnt-care-what-party-you-belong-to-poisoned-water-is-turning-this-rural-state-bluer-politico/ > «In recent years, Iowa’s cancer rate has climbed significantly above the U.S. average. It now stands as the nation’s second highest, and Iowa is one of only three states where the rate is rising.» …

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  The Daily Beast: I Know the Men’s Issue Pete Hegseth Has Really Got | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/20/the-daily-beast-i-know-the-mens-issue-pete-hegseth-has-really-got/ > «Hegseth’s own testosterone levels are not publicly known, and he has not disclosed whether he has undergone testing himself.» Uh huh. Stand by for some made-up figures.

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  Pete Hegseth’s Bad Workout Form – The Atlantic | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/20/pete-hegseths-bad-workout-form-the-atlantic/ > «In response to an inquiry about the criticism of Hegseth’s workouts, Joel Valdez, the acting Pentagon press secretary, insisted that Hegseth was being unfairly singled out. “Have you ever seen Llo…

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  Trump vows U.S. will soon bomb Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/21/trump-vows-u-s-will-soon-bomb-irans-pickaxe-mountain/ > What use is it to telegraph your next move? Like, seriously… why run your mouth, if not to look good to some domestic audience that’s 15% of the electorate? Does it make him feel better…

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  Fact-checking the Trump administration’s count of 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls – Politifact | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/fact-checking-the-trump-administrations-count-of-250000-noncitizens-on-the-voter-rolls-politifact/ > On the “problem” of noncitizens voting: «In 2012, then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott ordered state officials to clear the rolls of noncitizen voters ahead of the election. Florida initially a…

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  Futurism: Flock Is in Serious Trouble After Massive Backlash | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/futurism-flock-is-in-serious-trouble-after-massive-backlash/ > «Unfortunately for privacy activists and citizens concerned about police surveillance, that doesn’t necessarily mean ALPRs are going away — just that they’re increasingly being supplied by Flock’s …

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  Durham’s M&F Bank to merge with SC-based Optus | Raleigh News & Observer | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/durhams-mf-bank-to-merge-with-sc-based-optus-raleigh-news-observer/ > «M&F and Optus are also Community Development Financial Institutions that focus on lower-income and underserved communities. Last year, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget withheld grant m…

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  Hitler’s birthplace in Austria reopens as police station to deter Nazi pilgrimages | PBS News | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/hitlers-birthplace-in-austria-reopens-as-police-station-to-deter-nazi-pilgrimages-pbs-news/ > «Debris from the construction was disposed at a secret location to ensure it would not become a new source for Nazi memorabilia, APA reported.» 🙄 Because Nazi fanchildren combing through remodellin…

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  Opinion | This Is How America Trounces China in the A.I. Race – The New York Times | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/opinion-this-is-how-america-trounces-china-in-the-a-i-race-the-new-york-times/ > «Two U.S. congressional committees have opened investigations into Airbnb and Cursor’s parent company….» “Cursor’s parent company.” Nice, NYT. Why not just say who’s Cursor&…

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  Will A.I. take your job? Mine? Everyone’s? | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/will-a-i-take-your-job-mine-everyones/ > «lots of people are mediocre and half of them are below average.» Median, Matt. Yes, I’m being cranky, but c’mon. I’m pretty sure exactly zero of your readers are idiots. Can we j…

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  Man Who Killed Dem Lawmaker and Her Husband Sentenced to Two Life Terms Plus 40 Years – MeidasTouch | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/man-who-killed-dem-lawmaker-and-her-husband-sentenced-to-two-life-terms-plus-40-years-meidastouch/ > Visit the post for more.

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  Poll: These Americans say they’d be disenfranchised by Trump’s election law | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/24/poll-these-americans-say-theyd-be-disenfranchised-by-trumps-election-law/ > «This would not be the first time in the last year when voters turned against something they thought they wanted. That is, in several ways, the story of Donald Trump’s presidency so far.» 😆

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  AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale | Futurism | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/26/ai-companies-are-buying-antique-books-ingesting-their-contents-to-train-models-and-then-destroying-them-at-incredible-scale-futurism/ > «“The optics problem is real,” ISBNdb’s site says. “‘AI company destroys two million books’ is not a headline that generates sympathy.”» No, it does not.

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  Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/27/sam-altman-announces-that-the-singularity-has-arrived/ > «Definitions vary, but the singularity is generally defined as the moment that the capabilities of thinking machines might start to accelerate [blah blah blah] Hey, Futurism: No. That’s not t…

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  @pleia2@floss.social «In theory the userid of the account you logged into TSO with. » Omg TSO. Suddenly I'm seeing a roomful of 3270s, with their green screens and magic buttons. I wasn't allowed on TSO. That was the *expensive* option. I had to walk my card deck (which I had punched myself) down to the machine room to get them to run it. @cstross@wandering.shop

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  @Nonilex Not to miss the point, but... somehow, we keep hearing about ugliness associated with Uber but never Lyft. @lisamelton

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  Her Name Was Nilufar Easmin. – by Pablo Manríquez | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/10/her-name-was-nilufar-easmin-by-pablo-manriquez/ > 😢

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  The Era of Free Seas Is Unraveling—and Now Everyone’s Going to Pay – WSJ | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/11/the-era-of-free-seas-is-unraveling-and-now-everyones-going-to-pay-wsj/ > (gift) This is the end of the postwar world order. History’s stupidest president. One of history’s stupidest electorates «America’s allies worry other players could try to replicate Ira…

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  Viktor Orbán Could Actually Lose Sunday’s Hungarian Election – The Atlantic | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/11/viktor-orban-could-actually-lose-sundays-hungarian-election-the-atlantic/ > (gift) New term dropped: *post-fascist*. «In Fehér’s telling, Orbán melds Russian-style tactics with the ideology of the American far right. He is, Fehér said, “truly a man of the future.” That’s w…

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  Futurism: Moon Denialists Are So Pathetic That They’re Using AI to Fake Artemis Footage | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/14/futurism-moon-denialists-are-so-pathetic-that-theyre-using-ai-to-fake-artemis-footage/ > Hey, Futurism, this isn’t just moon denialism. This is the bedrock of the war on expertise. This is children who don’t want to be told that they have to floss and get stuck with needles…

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  Keep Android Open | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/15/keep-android-open/ > Holy shit. 😳 Google’s going to totally lock down Android? Nothing open any more? I bought my Android instead of iPhone because of the promise of open-ness. We’ve apparently come a *long…

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  MIT Technology Review: Redefining the future of software engineering | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/17/mit-technology-review-redefining-the-future-of-software-engineering/ > «This report, which is based on a survey of 300 engineering and technology executives….» Oh really? You asked executives. Huh.

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  @SrRochardBunson I love the train. Just love it. And when you take the train to a city like St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago, or Washington, you have to get around on the bus (unless you want to "ride-share" everywhere, which is just stupidly burning money, imo). And then you notice who primarily rides the bus. It's amazing, the dichotomy. (Prolly also true of NOLA, San Antonio, and Little Rock, but I primarily walked in those towns or Lyft'd to/from Amtrak stations (N...

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  Raleigh bus station causes crime downtown? Are fears racist? | Raleigh News & Observer | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/03/24/raleigh-bus-station-causes-crime-downtown-are-fears-racist-raleigh-news-observer/ > This is how systemic racism works. Probably not a single racist person to be seen, just a bunch of nice white people who only want the best for the city. «Remember that all the organizations that s…

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  On CPAC’s Main Stage, Fissures in the Party Trump Remade – The New York Times | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/03/28/on-cpacs-main-stage-fissures-in-the-party-trump-remade-the-new-york-times/ > «“If you call yourself a patriot but you believe that it is your obligation to only praise or only worship your president, then you must not be a patriot of this country,” he said. “Because leader …

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  Pete Hegseth Just Revealed the Real Roots of His Sadism and Rage | The New Republic | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/03/30/pete-hegseth-just-revealed-the-real-roots-of-his-sadism-and-rage-the-new-republic/ > I wonder if Twain was truly being satirical when he wrote *The War Prayer*? Or was it based on actual prayers he had heard?

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  Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders – The New York Times | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/03/hegseth-fires-army-chief-amid-battle-with-its-leaders-the-new-york-times/ > «Mr. Hegseth had been pressing Mr. Driscoll and General George for months to remove the officers from the promotion list. But Mr. Driscoll and General George refused, citing the officers’ long reco…

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  nbcnews.com: Evangelicals backed Trump. Now pastors denounce his ICE crackdown hitting their churches. | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/03/nbcnews-com-evangelicals-backed-trump-now-pastors-denounce-his-ice-crackdown-hitting-their-churches/ > «Amid ICE arrests and detentions, attendance has dropped and churches have closed. “You’re deporting the future of American Christianity,” a Latino evangelical leader said.» Maybe…

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  Trump Is Silencing Government Warning Signals of an Economic Crash | The New Republic | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/03/trump-is-silencing-government-warning-signals-of-an-economic-crash-the-new-republic/ > «What they want in this instance is to shut off any warning lights that might dare blink red about the economy. It’s bad for business, and if a bust is coming they’d prefer we suckers don’t know in…