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Hitler’s birthplace in Austria reopens as police station to deter Nazi pilgrimages | PBS News | Here, Read This
> «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…
Trump Is Silencing Government Warning Signals of an Economic Crash | The New Republic | Here, Read This
> «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…
Futurism: Moon Denialists Are So Pathetic That They’re Using AI to Fake Artemis Footage | Here, Read This
> 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…
Viktor Orbán Could Actually Lose Sunday’s Hungarian Election – The Atlantic | Here, Read This
> (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…
Man Who Killed Dem Lawmaker and Her Husband Sentenced to Two Life Terms Plus 40 Years – MeidasTouch | Here, Read This
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Durham’s M&F Bank to merge with SC-based Optus | Raleigh News & Observer | Here, Read This
> «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…
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…
Fact-checking the Trump administration’s count of 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls – Politifact | Here, Read This
> 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…
MIT Technology Review: Redefining the future of software engineering | Here, Read This
> «This report, which is based on a survey of 300 engineering and technology executives….» Oh really? You asked executives. Huh.
‘Cancer Doesn’t Care What Party You Belong To’: Poisoned Water Is Turning This Rural State Bluer – POLITICO | Here, Read This
> «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.» …
Republican war-mongering is their worst economic policy | Here, Read This
https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/09/republican-war-mongering-is-their-worst-economic-policy/
> And here we have it. Republicans are morons: «Republicans have a part of their brain where they know that cheap energy is very important; it’s just not connected to the part of their brain that mak…
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…
Poll: These Americans say they’d be disenfranchised by Trump’s election law | Here, Read This
> «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.» 😆
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…
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/
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Pete Hegseth Just Revealed the Real Roots of His Sadism and Rage | The New Republic | Here, Read This
> I wonder if Twain was truly being satirical when he wrote *The War Prayer*? Or was it based on actual prayers he had heard?
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would not have helped us 2024 | Here, Read This
> Because guess who actually won the popular vote? That doesn’t mean we should give up on passing it (state by state), but it IS an argument against anybody on the right saying it’s just …
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 …
The New York Times: Opinion | The Warmongers Are Getting History All Wrong | Here, Read This
> (gift) Emphasis mine: «the Peloponnesian War, which pitted Athens against Sparta. **Ultimately, Athens was vanquished.**“What made war inevitable,” Thucydides famously wrote, “was the growth of Ath…
The Bulwark: How to Drive a Stake Through the Heart of Trumpism | Here, Read This
https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/17/the-bulwark-how-to-drive-a-stake-through-the-heart-of-trumpism/
> I really hate to post something by *The Bulwark*, a “conservative”* outlet that, as far as I know, has never and will never acknowledge the role “conservatives” played in ge…
Opinion | This Is How America Trounces China in the A.I. Race – The New York Times | Here, Read This
> «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&…
The Daily Beast: I Know the Men’s Issue Pete Hegseth Has Really Got | Here, Read This
> «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.
nbcnews.com: Evangelicals backed Trump. Now pastors denounce his ICE crackdown hitting their churches. | Here, Read This
> «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…
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale | Futurism | Here, Read This
> «“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.
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…
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…
MAGA Dolt Hegseth Accidentally Reveals Big Hole in Trump Victory Claim | The New Republic | Here, Read This
> «translating this into serious checks against a rerun of this insanity is a tall order.» Because 1/3 of our electorate are completely childish morons, and 1/3 couldn’t give a shit about anyth…
Viktor Orbán is gone. What does his fall mean for Europe? Our panel responds | Zsuzsanna Szelényi, Nathalie Tocci, Cas Mudde, Zselyke Csaky and Mujtaba Rahman | The Guardian | Here, Read This
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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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Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders – The New York Times | Here, Read This
> «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…
National Popular Vote remains popular | Here, Read This
https://herereadthis.blog/2026/03/28/national-popular-vote-remains-popular/
> The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has passed the Virginia legislature by 21-19 in the Senate, 61-36 in the House. The closeness in the Senate shows why every vote at the state level coun…
When ICE Blows Through Rural America – The American Prospect | Here, Read This
https://herereadthis.blog/2026/03/30/when-ice-blows-through-rural-america-the-american-prospect/
> «Salazar herself had always been told by family members to hide her emotions and keep her head down. Despite this, she couldn’t help but cry at an Albert Lea City Council meeting on February 9, whe…
On CPAC’s Main Stage, Fissures in the Party Trump Remade – The New York Times | Here, Read This
> «“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 …
The Era of Free Seas Is Unraveling—and Now Everyone’s Going to Pay – WSJ | Here, Read This
> (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…
