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Harris campaign picks up speed and voters Democrats’ switcheroo on presidential candidates is turning more than Republican and pundit heads. On top of polling showing Vice President Kamala Harris picking up support among Black voters, The New Republic has a scoop this morning regarding growing support for Harris among Latino voters: Harris leads Trump by 55 percent to 37 percent in the head-to-head finding, which sampled 800 Latinos across Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and North Carolina. The survey—provided to The New Republic in advance of its release on Monday—was conducted July 23-26, well after Biden stepped aside on July 21. The poll dovetails with other national polls finding similar advantages for Harris among Latino voters. But, significantly, the larger Latino sample size in the survey—commissioned by the voter engagement group Somos PAC and conducted by Latino pollster Gary Segura—provides a stronger basis for confidence that Harris’s lead among Hispanics is real.
A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.
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Around the world, computers were down. ATMs weren’t letting people get their money. Delta alone canceled more than five thousand flights. Hospitals halted surgeries and called off cancer screenings. Emergency dispatch services were disrupted. Eight and a half million Windows devices were affected. And one single company was responsible for what amounted to the world’s largest outage in the history of information technology: CrowdStrike.
It’s the kind of total failure that calls, obviously and at minimum, for an apology. And as always, your first response when you’ve made a mistake like this is going to be the response people remember. Here was what the CEO of CrowdStrike George Kurtz posted:
Investigative journalist Whitney Webb breaks down Peter Thiel’s influence on Trump and JD Vance and how a Trump administration would advance a CIA-Mossad backed plan to expand the technocratic surveillance state.
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Please help me. I’ve accidentally become the perfect choice to be Kamala Harris’s running mate. And I really, really don’t want to be VP.
Last week, I had everything going for me: I am white male middle-aged governor of a crucial battleground state, have a 72 percent approval rating among single mothers, and am a boat owner. Now, everybody’s telling me it’s my “duty to help save democracy.” I don’t want that target on my back.
What’s good about being vice president? Absolutely nothing. You spend the entire fall (apple-picking season) campaigning in the worst places on earth (Battle Creek, Michigan) for a job where, at best, you do nothing (boring) and, at worst, you get blamed for some crisis you had nothing to do with (the border).
Meanwhile, my term as governor of a popular swing state is up next January, and I was dreaming of finally going to culinary school. Now, I’ll probably have to meet J. D. Vance and shake his sweaty little hand.
If only my résumé wasn’t so damn impressive…
The Government announced the barge will close in January 2025 but figures released to Byline Times on 'health incidents' on the barge have reignited calls for the most vulnerable residents to be moved immediately
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Following the largest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, the UK is being urged to adopt a policy on hostage cases and establish a point of contact for families involved
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Imagine my surprise when, nearly eight months ago, commenting on the state of the country as it approached the 2024 presidential election, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg noted that “Biden has set himself the task of trying to jolt the country out of its learned helplessness in the face of Trump’s exhausting provocations.” Unbeknownst to most Americans, that term, “learned helplessness,” was profoundly and inextricably tied to this country’s disastrous post-9/11 Global War on Terror and, in particular, its horrifying torture program. Yet there it was, being used in a new context — one that, while perhaps altered by the president’s recent decision not to run for a second term, has been employed with remarkable frequency in the intervening... Read more Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 4 2024 by Tony Wikrent Gaza / Palestine / Israel US Urged to Condemn Israel’s ‘Summary Execution’ of Two Journalists Edward Carver, August 02, 2024 [CommonDreams] A Palestinian journalist on Thursday pressed a U.S. State Department spokesperson to characterize the killings of two Al Jazeera journalists by Israeli forces as summary execution. | ||
