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  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/ > Visit the post for more.

• Post #4217257

  ‘Cancer Doesn’t Care What Party You Belong To’: Poisoned Water Is Turning This Rural State Bluer – POLITICO | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/19/cancer-doesnt-care-what-party-you-belong-to-poisoned-water-is-turning-this-rural-state-bluer-politico/ > «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.» …

• Post #4217256

  The Daily Beast: I Know the Men’s Issue Pete Hegseth Has Really Got | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/20/the-daily-beast-i-know-the-mens-issue-pete-hegseth-has-really-got/ > «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.

• Post #4217255

  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…

• Post #4217254

  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…

• Post #4217253

  Fact-checking the Trump administration’s count of 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls – Politifact | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/fact-checking-the-trump-administrations-count-of-250000-noncitizens-on-the-voter-rolls-politifact/ > 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…

• Post #4217252

  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 …

• Post #4217251

  Durham’s M&F Bank to merge with SC-based Optus | Raleigh News & Observer | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/durhams-mf-bank-to-merge-with-sc-based-optus-raleigh-news-observer/ > «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…

• Post #4217250

  Hitler’s birthplace in Austria reopens as police station to deter Nazi pilgrimages | PBS News | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/hitlers-birthplace-in-austria-reopens-as-police-station-to-deter-nazi-pilgrimages-pbs-news/ > «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…

• Post #4217249

  Opinion | This Is How America Trounces China in the A.I. Race – The New York Times | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/opinion-this-is-how-america-trounces-china-in-the-a-i-race-the-new-york-times/ > «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&…

• Post #4217248

  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…

• Post #4217247

  Man Who Killed Dem Lawmaker and Her Husband Sentenced to Two Life Terms Plus 40 Years – MeidasTouch | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/23/man-who-killed-dem-lawmaker-and-her-husband-sentenced-to-two-life-terms-plus-40-years-meidastouch/ > Visit the post for more.

• Post #4217246

  Poll: These Americans say they’d be disenfranchised by Trump’s election law | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/24/poll-these-americans-say-theyd-be-disenfranchised-by-trumps-election-law/ > «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.» 😆

• Post #4217245

  AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale | Futurism | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/07/26/ai-companies-are-buying-antique-books-ingesting-their-contents-to-train-models-and-then-destroying-them-at-incredible-scale-futurism/ > «“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.

• Post #4217244

  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…

• Post #1406399

  MAGA Dolt Hegseth Accidentally Reveals Big Hole in Trump Victory Claim | The New Republic | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/08/maga-dolt-hegseth-accidentally-reveals-big-hole-in-trump-victory-claim-the-new-republic/ > «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…

• Post #1406398

  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…

• Post #1406396

  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/ > 😢

• Post #1406395

  The Era of Free Seas Is Unraveling—and Now Everyone’s Going to Pay – WSJ | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/11/the-era-of-free-seas-is-unraveling-and-now-everyones-going-to-pay-wsj/ > (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…

• Post #1406394

  Viktor Orbán Could Actually Lose Sunday’s Hungarian Election – The Atlantic | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/11/viktor-orban-could-actually-lose-sundays-hungarian-election-the-atlantic/ > (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…

• Post #1406392

  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 https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/13/viktor-orban-is-gone-what-does-his-fall-mean-for-europe-our-panel-responds-zsuzsanna-szelenyi-nathalie-tocci-cas-mudde-zselyke-csaky-and-mujtaba-rahman-the-guardian/ > Visit the post for more.

• Post #1406391

  Futurism: Moon Denialists Are So Pathetic That They’re Using AI to Fake Artemis Footage | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/14/futurism-moon-denialists-are-so-pathetic-that-theyre-using-ai-to-fake-artemis-footage/ > 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…

• Post #1406390

  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…

• Post #1406389

  MIT Technology Review: Redefining the future of software engineering | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/17/mit-technology-review-redefining-the-future-of-software-engineering/ > «This report, which is based on a survey of 300 engineering and technology executives….» Oh really? You asked executives. Huh.

• Post #1406388

  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…

• Post #1406387

  The New York Times: Opinion | The Warmongers Are Getting History All Wrong | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/04/19/the-new-york-times-opinion-the-warmongers-are-getting-history-all-wrong/ > (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…

• Post #928472

  Raleigh bus station causes crime downtown? Are fears racist? | Raleigh News & Observer | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/03/24/raleigh-bus-station-causes-crime-downtown-are-fears-racist-raleigh-news-observer/ > This is how systemic racism works. Probably not a single racist person to be seen, just a bunch of nice white people who only want the best for the city. «Remember that all the organizations that s…

• Post #928471

  The Bulwark: The Long War Is Coming and Trump Can’t Stop It | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/03/26/the-bulwark-the-long-war-is-coming-and-trump-cant-stop-it/ > «These are the second- and third-order effects that—again—no one in the American regime seems to have thought about before they did Warrior Alpha Lethality SplosionMaxxing. But I bet the Iranians and…

• Post #928470

  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…

• Post #928469

  On CPAC’s Main Stage, Fissures in the Party Trump Remade – The New York Times | Here, Read This https://herereadthis.blog/2026/03/28/on-cpacs-main-stage-fissures-in-the-party-trump-remade-the-new-york-times/ > «“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 …