iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

😅 with such CONSERVATIONISTS, the nature will be absolutely ruined even if not by Google and AI data centers... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Vesa Hyyryläinen, chair of the local SLL district, said three-toed woodpeckers nesting in the forest had been pushed out. “All of us nature conservationists are very worried about our Finnish political situation and politics,” said the biologist and osprey expert. “I wonder why we have to sacrifice so much of our nature. They give everything away too easily.”

He said, however, that he understood why authorities were trying to bring in new sources of investment and jobs, given the region’s ageing population. “Young people go to Helsinki and Berlin and Paris,” he said. “There are so few people. We have to sacrifice.”

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

just check the examples the article made about "class traitors" Bill Gates, Marc Benioff, lol the "class war" "class traitors" are just nonsense. finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...

United Airlines CEO: 'We should have a national wealth tax'

"We've updated our tax system before to keep up with changing times, and we need to do it again, starting with raising taxes on people like me," Gates wrote on his blog in 2020.

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce (CRM), wrote in 2019 that "increasing taxes on high-income individuals like myself would help generate the trillions of dollars that we desperately need to improve education and healthcare and fight climate change."

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Saudi Arabia has been committing genocide against people with diverse SOGIESC (sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics). database.ilga.org/saudi-arabia...

Aside from the death penalty, imprisonment, corporal punishment, or "conversion" practices may also be mandated.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

www.currentaffairs.org/news/no-king...

Back in 2016, Indivisible provided information and tactics that taught Americans how to make things uncomfortable for elected officials. The Indivisible Guide taught constituents to hold onto the microphone at town halls until they got an answer, and explained exactly how to get a staffer to go off-script during a phone call. It urged Americans to disrupt congressmembers’ ribbon-cutting ceremonies (“Don’t let them get photo-ops without questions about racism, authoritarianism, and corruption”), and to “barrage” them with demands until they answered.

Today, the group’s website explicitly writes that one of their core principles is “no civil disobedience.” An updated version of Indivisible’s viral 2016 handbook now simply tells Americans “while some of the original Indivisible Guide is applicable, not all of it is.”

image text.

[No Kings events are nonpartisan and are designed to increase participationfrom all eligible voters
A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action and no civil disobedience We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.
For inquiries, please contact info@nokings.org]

The 2026 guide is almost exclusively focused on electoral politics, assuring the reader that a resounding win in the midterms will puncture Trump’s aura of omnipotence, create federal checks on MAGA power, and protect the democratic transfer of power in 2028.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

some claims that it's "truth" determined "democratically"... news.sky.com/story/politi...

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Republicans literally campaign with the most violent, vile, fascistic rhetoric everyday everywhere. but "That's just not what we do here in this country." lol www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

And now they realize it won't hurt me at all. And, in fact, my partisans may actually like it. And so you had -- I think, in those three cases, all three of those things were sleazy behavior, Troy Jackson. Susan Collins has some Boeing stock in her portfolio. And he calls her a war profiteer because of that? That's ridiculous.

The insinuations that El-Sayed is involved in terrorism because he's Muslim, ridiculous. Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani suggested on Monday that he didn’t approve of the NYPD’s decision last week to deploy a controversial protest response unit to arrest scores of demonstrators, including several of his own political allies.

What Mamdani didn’t say: His office could have easily stopped the deployment.

Under a previously unreported directive issued by Mamdani in the early days of his administration, the NYPD must get City Hall’s permission before it sends the Strategic Response Group to conduct arrests at protests, a police department spokesperson confirmed to POLITICO.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

the so-called "independent and nonpartisan" VoteHub is "in partnership with Kalshi" votehub.com/2026-forecast/

2026 Midterm Forecast

Last updated October 6, 2026 · 3:00AM

Explore the forecasts

In partnership with Kalshi

House
86% chance Democrats will control.

Senate
61% chance Democrats will control.

Gubernatorial
Democrats favored in 21 governor races.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

metro.co.uk/2026/09/25/s...

While many claims relate to claims that Prevent is overly focused on right-wing extremism, other posts investigated by StaCU are negative about the government in different ways.

One Tweet claims that Prevent ‘closes down conversations in the classroom’ because ‘Muslim children are seen as a “threat”.’

Another X user is on the list because they alleged that Muslim children could be referred to Prevent for ‘saying Free Palestine’.

Open Rights Group, a digital rights campaigning organisation, had one of their tweets logged which said: ‘How data is managed and stored under the Prevent programme lacks transparency.’

Open Right said they were ‘deeply concerned’ about revelations their own critical posts were being stored by the government.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

heartbreaking nonprofitquarterly.org/no-more-24-a...

While Mamdani never came outside to speak with the protestors during the sit-in, he sent a staffer to talk to them at one point who told them that they had consented to working their 24-hour shifts. When these women apply to work for home care agencies, the form they must fill out asking if they are willing to work a 24-hour live-in situation. But Kim Beck, a co-leader of the Downtown Nasty Women’s Social Group, explained that if the women “don’t tick that box, then they don’t get other shifts . . . there’s really no such thing as consent.”

“Mamdani’s claim is ridiculous because it’s not about whether we agree to it, but about how it’s affecting our health,” Chan added.

Ning told NPQ that many home care workers have expressed that they feel betrayed because they supported Mamdani and even mobilized their families and friends to vote for him. “The fact that he won is, I think, because many workers thought he would be different.” Ning calls it “pretty insulting” that Mamdani sent a staffer to say that workers want to work 24-hour days.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-cele... www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-cele...

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

not again lol the replied post from the liar skylib.coffee/profile/alls...

All Silk No Vitamins
@allsilknovitamins.bsky.social
3mo
Yikes, bad news about your friend Mike too

(Kim Kelly
·Feb 6, 2025
O
Joined Apr 23
just found out that a certain
"labor reporter" with a
decades-long history of
violently harassing women
and queer people in the labor
movement (myself included)
is lurking around on here.lif
you care about workers and
Mike Elk follows you, do us all
a favor and block him.)

July 08, 2026 - 12:06 UTC

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

I have the screenshot for the liar since they blocked me. skyview.social?url=https%3A... like they literally post the evidence themselves.

CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now
83d
In a fun note, Mike Elk used to email me off the clock to tell me that his girlfriend asking him to pay for his half of the abortion was the same as sexual assault, and telling me that he liked to "break evil women" like me. This was because I asked him to stop yelling at women at work.
A cat like that
83d
Jesus Christ, it's creeps all the way down.
CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now
83d
This is from an email at least a thousand words long, sent September 9, 2014. There are more. Everybody who worked to unionize In These Times got them, and he told me that if I went public with calling him abusive, he'd falsely accuse me of being a union scab, which he did.
I am also a survivor of domestic violence. Right when I got back from Chattanooga after the loss, a woman, who was also a therapist seduced me then sexually assaulted me and hit me. I dumped after knowing her less than five days. I should have paid attention to what my health teacher said about always wearing a condom, but she told me it was fine on the disease/birth control favorite and I believed because she was a therapist. She got pregnant and forced me at the threat of having the child to pay the full 500 bill. This all occurred the weekend before labor notes. I dont know what you are dealing with and I dont want to debate union stuff, but you gaslighted the fuck out of me and called me crazy. What you didn't realize was that I was a domestic violence survivor Cole,Jessica, and Jeremy here which is why they are cced herem know what kind of feminist I am so I want you to know how badly it hurt me and how badly it amazed me that you "gaslighted" me, you someone who invented the term did it yourself. you called me the abliest slur "crazy" - gaslight, gaslight, gaslight, gaslight, gaslight SADY

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

"harassment" is not sexual harassment, it's not about women and queers, they are mad because his reporting. this is so clear that it's a smear campaign from these scums. nitter.tiekoetter.com/heyadiana/st...

Diana Hussein
@heyadiana
9 Dec 2020
Hey Mike Elk, you inane failson. Since you love to name search yourself on Twitter & unblock folks to spam their mentions before blocking again — I hope you know that the outcry against you isn't because of the story in the Times.

It's the harassment of women you're jealous of.

Dec 9, 2020 · 3:01 AM UTC
Diana Hussein
@heyadiana
9 Dec 2020
Every single woman in the labor movement or adjacent to the labor movement has a Mike Elk story.

He floods our mentions.

He floods our DMs.

He floods our inboxes.

He often floods the inboxes of leadership at our workplaces.

He's gone as far to flood women's FB and phones.
Diana Hussein
@heyadiana
9 Dec 2020
Does Mike Elk harass men?

Oh, yeah. He does.

But it's no coincidence that 90% of who he targets with aggressive & unrelenting behavior are women.

Mike Elk is one of the most severely toxic people that floats around the labor movement as if he's earned anything.

Bro. You suck.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

because it wasn't a big issue, omg, the candidate he worked was nobody, are you serious??? paydayreport.com/platners-gur...

Moraff told me he was recruiting Bryan Pietzrak, a General Electric locomotive factory worker and UE member, to run for Congress in Erie. He said he wanted Pietrzak to run as an independent. While researching Pietrzak, Moraff found anti-Trump quotes he had given Payday and asked me to delete them.

In October of 2020, Pietrzak spoke at a Biden rally at Carrie Furnaces in Rankin, PA, where he blasted Trump at length.

“No union member should vote for Trump,” Pietzrak told Payday Report in October of 2020.

Moraff explained at length that Pietzrak’s quote against Trump could hurt his chances of appealing to Trump voters in Erie. I told him deleting a quote as a political favor would violate journalistic ethics. He insisted I do it even after I said no.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

omfg, Every single woman????? you believe this??? it's obviously a lie. nitter.tiekoetter.com/heyadiana/st...

Diana Hussein
@heyadiana
9 Dec 2020
Every single woman in the labor movement or adjacent to the labor movement has a Mike Elk story.

He floods our mentions.

He floods our DMs.

He floods our inboxes.

He often floods the inboxes of leadership at our workplaces.

He's gone as far to flood women's FB and phones.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

even in South Korean, they didn't have the votes to impeach the president as well, and at that time they hadn't successfully impeached any president, but they still successfully impeached and removed him after they threatened voting on impeachment every Saturday. m.imaeil.com/page/view/20...

민주당 "매주 토요일 윤석열 대통령 탄핵 추진"
Democratic Party "Pushing for President Yoon Suk-yeol's Impeachment Every Saturday"
임재환 기자 rehwan@imaeil.com
Reporter Im Jae-hwan rehwan@imaeil.com
입력 2024-12-08 20:15:44 수정 2024-12-08 23:01:10
Posted 2024-12-08 20:15:44 Updated 2024-12-08 23:01:10

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

even for the second trump impeachment, which was killed by pelosi, there was no former inquiry and hearing processes, and "the public available evidence" means news reports, etc. I guess. constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...

The second Trump impeachment occurred a year later in the waning days of the Trump presidency following the events on January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in which some supporters of President Trump attempted to disrupt the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election as having been won by Joseph Biden. The House moved quickly following those events. Passing on an investigation, the Judiciary Committee staff compiled publicly available evidence relating to the President’s actions on January 6 and within one week had introduced and approved a single article of impeachment charging the President with "incitement to insurrection."

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

I do think it reflects the variety of population growth of different countries, and boomers seem to be the best generation which is wild www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/news/...

Q
To what extent do you personally
agree or disagree with each of the
following statements?
A wife should always obey her
husband
----------------------------
Across the 29-country sample, one in five
(20%) agree that a wife should always obey
her husband, while more than half (57%)
disagree. Those in Indonesia, Malaysia, and
India were most likely to agree, while those in
the Netherlands, Sweden, France, and
Belgium were most likely to disagree.
% Strongly / somewhat
agree
% Neither agree nor
disagree
% Strongly / somewhat
disagree
20%
66%
60%
52%
46%
29%
28%
25%
23%
21%
20%
18%
18%
17%
16%
13%
13%
13%
12%
11%
10%
9%
9%
9%
7%
7%
7%
6%
6%
4%
20%
20%
23%
21%
20%
18%
37%
26%
23%
20%
23%
24%
29%
19%
26%
16%
18%
15%
19%
21%
18%
17%
18%
17%
14%
23%
16%
11%
17%
12%
57%
14%
17%
22%
33%
51%
34%
48%
50%
51%
54%
55%
49%
62%
55%
68%
63%
68%
66%
64%
69%
71%
68%
72%
75%
61%
74%
81%
70%
79%
Average
Indonesia
Malaysia
India
South Africa
Türkiye
Thailand
Singapore
United States
Brazil
Colombia
Australia
Peru
Ireland
Mexico
Chile
Argentina
Great Britain
Poland
Canada
Italy
Spain
Germany
South Korea
France
Japan
Belgium
Netherlands
Hungary
Sweden
Base: 23,268 online adults aged 18 years and older in India, 18-74 in Canada, Republic of Ireland, Malaysia, South Africa, Türkiye, and the United States, 20-
74 in Thailand, 21-74 in Indonesia and Singapore, and 16-74 in all other countries, 24 December 2025-9 January 2026

Q
To what extent do you personally agree
or disagree with each of the following
statements?
A wife should always obey her
husband
% agree (29-country average)
----------------------------
Across all generations, men are more likely
than women to agree that a wife should
always obey her husband. Agreement among
both genders is lowest amongst Boomers and
increases with each younger generation.
31%
29%
21%
13%
18%
19%
13%
6%
Gen ZMillennialsGen XBaby Boomers
Male
Female
Base: 23,268 online adults aged 18 years and older in India, 18-74 in Canada, Republic of Ireland, Malaysia, South Africa, Türkiye, and the United States, 20-
74 in Thailand, 21-74 in Indonesia and Singapore, and 16-74 in all other countries, 24 December 2025-9 January 2026

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

it is political campaign, not just average some public communication for public interests. archive.is/202609061811...

That view was clear in the administration’s strategy surrounding the announcement in March that the McKinsey contract was being canceled. Ms. Rowland’s team wrote to hundreds of social media influencers with instructions about how to enthusiastically describe the budget savings. (Mr. Jacquez and Ms. Hughes received the guidance; Mr. Stoller did not.)
“Share a short video or post explainer on the news that, in sharp contrast with the corruption and wasteful spending of your tax dollars that Eric Adams was infamous for, the Mamdani administration found $1.7B in savings,” they wrote.
The content creators and commentators soon responded in kind, and in kind fashion.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

archive.is/202609061811...

The lack of transparency concerns watchdog groups. And the mayor’s office declined to provide The New York Times with details of City Hall’s social media operation, including the budget of the new media office, a list of the social media influencers used and the total spending by city government on influencer campaigns.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

it's very clear that he is as phony as many other Dems. nymag.com/intelligence...

After Trump’s departure, Mamdani was asked if he should be criticized for meeting with Trump, the reporter noting that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took some flak for a meeting he had with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

“I committed over the course of the campaign as well as being in office that I would meet with anyone, work with anyone, that could deliver for New Yorkers. In the previous meetings I had with President Trump, we’ve been able to secure the release of a New York City college student who had been detained by ICE. We’ve been able to move forward what has been a long-standing dream about the construction of Sunnyside Yard. We have a significant way to go, but these meetings do truly assist in that path. To me, the question always is how can we deliver for the city? How can we deliver for the people of this city?” he said. “And so, having a conversation about potentially building 12,000 homes, about the importance of our Haitian neighbors here in this city, those are conversations that are worthwhile to have.”

He was asked if there were any details he could share about the state of the project, how much federal funding there could be, or what the timeline might be. Mamdani basically just responded that it was a very important priority for his administration, and he expressed his excitement over the possibility of such a “transformative” project happening.

Mamdani is continuing to speak with reporters, however.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

the dems, the unions, the corporations, every time... www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

But as those reports circulated, and concern mounted over the business reaching a standstill as the parties to the suit waited for a trial date, several major Hollywood players began pushing for a settlement. The Hollywood unions IATSE and the DGA went public with their interest in a quicker deal, as did California Gov. Gavin Newsom, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and, in a reversal, movie theater chains. Pressure mounted on Bonta and his fellow state attorneys general.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

the Quoted Posts bsky.app/profile/vick...

Vicky ACAB
9h
No one in national politics seems to even acknowledge that full system reformation is required, they can't see that the republic has already been lost, and as such they are the nails in its coffin. Ironically the only case for US restoration would be a sewer socialist campaign at fed level
Jessica Ellis
9h
Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.
Vicky ACAB
9h
It's increasingly unrecognizable imperial presidencies, some kind of dissolution/civil war, a reconstruction with teeth, or global revolution
Vicky ACAB
9h
(Or all 4 in excruciating sequence, of course!)

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

"b̶y̶ U̶.̶S̶.̶ a̶n̶d̶ C̶a̶n̶a̶d̶a̶" as usual ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

The records involve a U.S. program set up after the Second World War to secretly settle large numbers of Nazi war criminals in Canada, often with the support of Canadian officials.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

and I just found these, same vibe really professional hacks

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

so it's this Jacob Tobia xcancel.com/JacobTobia#m

Jacob Tobia
@JacobTobia

⚡️THEY/THEM ⚡️#AbolishPrisons⚡️trans arab socialist spunky girl ⚡️
Los Angeles, CA
jacobtobia.com
Joined May 2012

Tweets 5,303
Following 1,288
Followers 22,397
Likes 11,659

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026

aren't you a stupid narcissist, lol www.politico.com/newsletters/...

THE RIGHT TO NOT VOTE: State Assembly candidate Conrad Blackburn boasted about not voting for the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates in either 2016 or 2024 — and called Trump’s first election “a necessary evil,” Chris reports.

Blackburn, a democratic socialist vying to unseat Assemblymember Jordan Wright in this month’s primary, made the comments in question on a Twitter account he has since restricted access to so only pre-approved followers can view his posts. Playbook was able to view his old missives via an internet archive.

Blackburn’s declaration that he didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016 or Kamala Harris in 2024 could unnerve middle-of-the-road Democrats in Wright’s deep-blue Harlem district.

But fellow progressives may also be peeved by other aspects of Blackburn’s voting record.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

this is how they defend Graham Platner, lol

One exchange was particularly striking:

Douthat: “Let’s be honest — the tone of the administration is not consistently a Christian tone. There is a tone of aggressive uncharity.”

JD Vance: “Tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working-class ways of communication, and covering them in elite preferences.”

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

incrementalism, democratic party reformism or appeasement, etc. none of these are pragmatic unless it's for fascistic self-sabotage. bsky.app/profile/dant...

Dante Atkins
@danteatkins.bsky.social
And one more thing: all the cranks demanding third parties should take a look at what Mamdani has done. He won his Democratic primary and then threw his support behind other primary challengers and won those. He's the King of New York, and he did it as a Democrat and with Democrats.

Dante Atkins
@danteatkins.bsky.social
7.9K followers
449 following
8.1K posts
Fiona and Rowan's dad, basically. Spider guy, Lefty Dem, pragmatic progressive. Win elections with the majority you have, not the majority you wish you had.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026

xcancel.com/LogCabinGOP/...

Log Cabin Republicans
@LogCabinGOP
Jun 14
🎉 Happy Birthday, President Trump! 🎉
Today, we celebrate another year of you being the life of the party! The Log Cabin Republicans salute your leadership and your unwavering stand for our country. Here’s to many more years of success!

[image, Happy Birthday President Trump! Log Cabin Republicans]

Jun 14, 2026 · 11:12 AM UTC

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026

are you literally quoting their selfboast? this is not journalism, this is stenography. oxford-union.org/pages/our-hi...

A Brief History of the Oxford Union Society

Contributed by Eden A. Smith (Ex-Returning Officer, Magdalen College)

The Oxford Union is the most prestigious debating society in the world. Our roots lie in free speech, but today we

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026

in case of people assume this Muslim GOP is a "moderated" one, www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...

Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, “Unity drives victory.”

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026

this is one of equality pac's donors. these pinked washed plutocrat pac is really anti LGBTQ. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/t... www.fec.gov/data/individ... docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/feci...

Coinbase President and COO Emilie Choi speaks at Axios' BFD event. Screenshot: Axios.

Coinbase donated to President Trump's $300 million White House ballroom project as an appeal to the administration, Emilie Choi, the cryptocurrency exchange's president and COO, said at Axios' BFD event on Tuesday.

The big picture: Major companies including Google, Amazon, Palantir Technologies donated to the project, which critics have argued amounts to a pay-for-play relationship with the federal government.

Driving the news: Axios' Dan Primack asked Choi whether the donation was intended "to keep good relations with the White House," to which she replied "sure."

What they're saying: "Frankly I don't even have a problem" with the donation, Choi said.

"I think if you go to D.C., there's a lot of buildings that need to be updated, and so if private industry has to do that, it is what it is."

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026

mynews4.com/news/nation-...

HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) — Powerful Democratic senators are strengthening their support for Maine’s Graham Platner, whose Tuesday primary win confirms the party’s nominee in a race for incumbent Republican Susan Collins’s seat.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, affirmed their allegiance to the embattled oysterman in a late-night statement. Platner weathered a storm of scandals in the weeks leading up to his dominating victory over Governor Janet Mills, who suspended her campaign in late April.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026

www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

That support has extended behind the scenes as well. Platner was a guest at a big Khanna finance event last month in Palo Alto, according to a prominent Silicon Valley bundler who was granted anonymity to candidly discuss the campaign. Platner was a hit among the donors, the bundler said, winning people over with his personal story and acknowledging his faults.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Before being elected New York City’s comptroller in 2021, Brad Lander made a pledge: If he won, he would not — under any circumstances — run for mayor while serving as the Big Apple’s top bean counter. The comptroller job, he declared, “is too big of a factor in the lives of 9 million New Yorkers” to treat it as anything but a full-time focus.

Lander, of course, broke that commitment, as he ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2025.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026

he posted personally? gosh xcancel.com/tedlieu/stat...

Ted Lieu
@tedlieu
Jun 8
I endorsed Xavier Becerra. That’s why I hope Republican Steve Hilton remains in the top two. The latest vote updates show Hilton will likely beat Steyer.
[
VoteHub
@VoteHub
Jun 7
WinCast update: Hilton’s chance to advance in the CA governor’s race rose from 85% to 93% after Steyer again fell short of his needed marks on Saturday. The aggregate drops were roughly as expected, but with more vote in, uncertainty is shrinking and Hilton remains clearly favored.

Jun 8, 2026 · 2:54 AM UTC]

GSundell PhD
@gsundell
Jun 8
Replying to @tedlieu
Very strange as a democrat rooting for a republican...

Ted Lieu
@tedlieu
Jun 8
I know right? I just call it math.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026

the net zero goal, big techs, social media ban on minors, etc? he even has walked back the platform of elimination of filibuster, he is open to keep it now. lol static1.squarespace.com/static/6892a...

Return the Senate to majority rule. The Constitution assumes majority vote except where
supermajorities are specified. Yet the filibuster now allows a minority to block legislation
supported by most Americans. At a minimum, the Senate should return to the talking
filibuster, where senators must stand on the floor and defend their position. Furthermore,
everyone living in the United States deserves representation, including in places like
Washington DC.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 06/06/2026

they met in D.C. gosh www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

When Ms. Fifield first met Mr. Platner in 2013, he was a student at George Washington University, and she was working on veterans’ issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and beginning to make a name for herself as a conservative activist online. Their roughly two-year, on-again, off-again relationship, as Ms. Fifield described it, was heady and passionate.

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 06/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

Jenny Racicot, 41, a Maine Democrat, who said she dated him casually off and on between 2019 and 2021, said the posts deepened her belief that he did not respect women. “When I saw the old comments that he made online,” she said, “I recognized a version of him that I had experiences with.”

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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 04/06/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

On Tuesday, Mr. Platner was asked by Democratic senators in Washington in private meetings if there was anything else controversial in his background. He assured them there was nothing, but he predicted his adversaries would lie about him, according to a person familiar with the private discussions.

On the campaign trail, Mr. Platner has consistently worked to reassure voters who have been rattled by what they have read about his messy personal history. He has said that he had not lived a “very complicated” life.

“I have a lot of ex-girlfriends,” he told voters at a town hall in late April. “They’re all still my friends.”

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