A Deeply Fractured US

[brihard]

JD Vance says US could veto NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms

Republican vice presidential nominee says ‘Germans and other nations’ – not Russia – would ‘have to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction’

www.independent.co.uk

It’s not technically about Trump so I think it fits better here.

Holding support for Ukraine hostage to shallow political ends isn’t exactly unprecedented from a Trump presidency, so I’m willing to take Vance at face value on that.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Polling USA (poll aggregator) suggests Democrats are going to dominate the House, also noteworthy all of the pro Hamas/Hezbollah reps will be re-elected.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1836645937579495426

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I kind of put this into the same folder as Gutenberg, Caxton and the Stamp Acts of 1712 and 1765 and other Taxes on Knowledge.

The basis of the Freedom of the Press amendment.

Along with The Royal Mail going private, which I believe created the original internet, Boyle's "Invisible College"

Royal Mail - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Invisible College - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Prior to privatization of the Mail people had to meet face to face to discuss ideas - Colleges and Institutions
After the mail ideas could be expressed clearly across Britain and over oceans. The environment for the proliferation of Coffee Houses, Taverns and Free Masons.

Elon Musk may be a bastard, but I like him. Boyle and Luther would approve as would Locke, Shaftesbury and Mills.

Al Gore invented the internet.

 

[brihard]

Polling USA (poll aggregator) suggests Democrats are going to dominate the House, also noteworthy all of the pro Hamas/Hezbollah reps will be re-elected.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1836645937579495426

Trump’s control over the RNC fundraising apparatus isn’t doing the down-ballot candidates for other offices any favours.