Against authoritarianism. RT/likes not necessarily endorsement. Clemson('87) and UT-Austin('90) alumna. Français/Italiano/Português/Español/Deutsch
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Can't make this stuff up. But as they say, where there's smoke, there's fire. Almost naive to think that the fling with the Chinese spy was Huang's only extramarital affair. #NvidiaGate
NY Times: "Jensen Huang, the leader of Nvidia who is under investigation for an affair with a woman who U.S. intelligence determined is a Chinese spy, also had an extramarital relationship with an executive who reports to him, according to five people who worked at the company. The relationship, which has not been previously reported, was with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care... Mr. Huang, 63, and Ms. Powell, 48, were captured on video being affectionate at a San Jose, Calif., hotel during a Nvidia conference in March, according to two of the people who worked at the company... Both Mr. Huang and Ms. Powell are married to other people."
(h/t @Investingcom)
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The case of this mentally ill and incompetent ICE agent who shot a Colombian immigrant in Maine needs to be investigated by @SenateDems and @HouseDemocrats, for justice to be served. No surprise that this administration doesn't want their corrupt hiring practices at ICE to be exposed.
ICE agent who fatally shot an immigrant in Maine talked of foreign bloodlines, denounced noncitizens and more, according to emails
My story w.@AlexandraBerzon
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Great column by Andrew Sullivan. In particular this paragraph:
Resign, Mr President andrewsullivan.substack.com/…
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At a speech at the Kennedy Space Center on 11/6, Trump boasted of U.S. technological achievements.
Link next post is an article describing how this White House is actively destroying U.S. supremacy in scientific innovation and causing a brain drain of top scientists fleeing the USA. 1/2
At 6:03 yesterday evening, Donald Trump walked out from behind the stage, clapping for himself after being announced to the small audience gathered at the Kennedy Space Center. As he made his way to the podium, he stopped, refusing to move any further until his entire hype song, “God Bless the USA” was finished blasting from the speakers. His entire time on the stage lasted just 27 minutes, and every second of it was a disaster. He said things like how he would be happier if the country lost money instead of making it: “Despite the $3 trillion lost yesterday… If we would have gained three trillion, I probably would have been more unhappy.”
He told his captive audience that America invented “almost every other thing that’s worth mentioning,” after naming off the telephone, television, internet, GPS, and the smartphone, apparently forgetting, in ways that only Donald Trump could, that scientists and engineers from around the world contributed to the development of nearly every single one of those inventions.
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LOL, LSU twitter is great tonight. (And the replies are the icing on the cake!) #LSUvsBama
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💯 I likewise noted that most of the media missed the extent of voter dissatisfaction w/ Trump, before the #midterms. While the media certainly covered the corruption, they didn't tie it into a larger, sustained, multi-cycle narrative that dominated political news coverage, as they did with Hillary's emails in 2015/16. #Midterms2026
There are quite a few ways the media has completely misread the public on Trump, such that a historically bad president losing historically seems to have surprised the Beltway. The idea that he’s just so entertaining and likeable to a decent segment of the population may have been true in 2017 but I think the media missed just how much the typical American dislikes Trump, which has been clear in polling for a while.
And for all the negative coverage of “cultural issues/identity politics” the media seems to have missed that voters (thankfully) really don’t care about berating trans people, but black and Latino voters do care about their civil rights.
I think the media has covered Trump corruption but not centered it as an overarching scandal in the way they the public clearly views this administration, in contrast to non stories like Hunter Biden headlines that went on for months.
Lastly, the media is so addicted to underestimating Democrats that even some of the strongest candidates the party has had since Obama (like Talarico for example) weren’t taken seriously as viable until close to Election Day.
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The below was my reply at the time to that incredibly tone-deaf/off-base post by Silver. I'm just a nobody but seems that I had more of a clue as to what was going on with regards to U.S. politics?
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In the #midterms aftermath, the below post, which can be charitably described as tone-deaf, is being revisited and I repost my reply at the time. I have to say, for a rando, I was pretty much on the mark there, back in July. To reiterate, seems that some of the political commentariat whiffed on the significance of #Midterms2026.
It's kind of striking how, apart from Iran, most of the Trump-related stories this summer have been boring and dumb (reflection pool, White House Correspondents' Dinner) or kind of funny (FIFA), maybe we're moving on from him being the central figure in American politics.
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1. Convince Roy Cooper to run in NC
2. Finally unseat Susan Collins in Maine
3. Hope Sherrod Brown can pull off a comeback in Ohio
4. Somehow win Texas? Get Peltola to run in Alaska? 🤷♂️
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Vaccinate your kids for the measles! Sheez.
Breaking News: A child in New York’s North Country died after contracting measles, officials said. Gov. Kathy Hochul called it the first such death in 30 years. nyti.ms/3WKjJtw
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This is sincere, without snark, I would like the Democrats who run things in both NYC and NYS tell me why stuff like the below is OK. This perp was only charged with a misdemeanor? @KathyHochul @ZohranKMamdani
NYC madman arrested twice for attacking 4 women over 2-day period - walks free both times: 'Most insane story ever' trib.al/RMw3aP3
It will forever remain ironic to me that the white and Hispanic working class voters who incessantly complained about inflation in 2021-24 nonetheless voted for a tariffs policy in 2024 that only pushed prices of food/housing/etc. even higher. But that's populism for you.
IMO, an even more fundamental issue is that the mainstream media in 2024 failed to report that Trump's tariffs, upon which he campaigned prominently, would only raise prices further, at a time when voters were (supposedly) concerned with high prices due to post-pandemic inflation.
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The reply is yes.
The Trump administration is pressing Lithuania to open a central Baltic Sea port to potash exports from Belarus, despite European sanctions.
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Some good observations from @JoshPateCFB regarding the current state of the #Clemson FB program. And nor do I see Swinney having the self-awareness required to admit that he's a roadblock/impediment to Clemson's future success. A real dilemma for the university.
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Disgusting. Families are still trying to locate the bodies of their loved ones and these hideous people are already exploiting this tragedy, for reasons that are 100% malign.
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It’s disappointing to have to say this, but @CBSNews, this is a serious failure of editorial reporting. I clearly state in this clip that while I have not personally been to Cuba, I have spoken with Cubans who have described it as a dictatorship, and I believe them. To claim I declined to answer the question is categorically false. That is not journalism. It is misinformation.
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