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#Senate confirms #Trump pick #KevinWarsh as chair of the #FederalReserve bringing #partisan leadership to the world’s most powerful #CentralBank at a fraught moment for the #global #economy.

https://apnews.com/article/fed-warsh-senate-confirmation-b665712fa5d40d3fcea53d80d0a79c64

Senate confirms Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chairman

The Senate has confirmed Kevin Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve. The vote to confirm Warsh on Wednesday brings new leadership to the world’s most powerful central bank at a fraught moment for the global economy. Warsh’s nomination faced uncertainty after Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina threatened to block it while the Justice Department investigated Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The Powell probe was dropped in April, allowing the Warsh confirmation to move forward. Warsh will take over as the Fed confronts stubborn inflation, deep divisions over interest rates and renewed scrutiny from President Donald Trump over its independence.

AP News

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦21h ago

“The main consequence, however, might be to undermine #American #democracy altogether and push this nation’s #politics to an even more dangerous place of high #partisan tension and ideological Balkanization.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/o...

Opinion | This Is Getting Dang...

Opinion | The Supreme Court Has Left Us in a Dangerous Place

The ruling in Louisiana v. Callais might drive America’s politics to an even more precarious place of partisan tension and ideological Balkanization.

The New York Times

KillBait UK 🇬🇧1d ago

Interpol join Partisan Records for upcoming eighth studio album

📰 Original title: Interpol sign to Partisan for new album: “We feel in ideal company on every level”

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#music #interpol #partisan #album

Interpol join Partisan Records for upcoming eighth studio album

New York indie band Interpol have officially signed with Partisan Records for their eighth studio album, the follow-up to 2022’s ‘The Other Side of Make-Believe’. The band has already given fans a…

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WIST Quotations 1d ago

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

Arendt, Hannah - Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 "A Classless Society," sec. 1 (1951) | WIST Quotations

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Jeroen Habets 4d ago

#Democrats must meet the moment. Or move over for people who will.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/opinion/virginia-supreme-court-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hFA.OnvM.uCycDBvhgmHM&smid=re-share

#Virginians spoke and deliberated under their influence as well. They took for granted that they, the people of the #commonwealth, had an absolute right to amend their #Constitution as they saw fit. A narrow, #partisan majority of the State #SupremeCourt believes that the people overstepped their bounds.

Opinion | Democrats Who Are Soft on Republicans Have Got to Go

Virginians must fight back against its Supreme Court in the name of popular sovereignty.

The New York Times

br00t4c 5d ago

I Filed for Chief Justice Roberts’s Disbarment. Then This Happened. This nation is hungry for justice. #Roberts #partisan #liar #corruption #graft #racist #ActivistJudges #autocracy #disgrace medium.com/@carmitage/i...

I Filed for Chief Justice Robe...

I Filed for Chief Justice Roberts’s Disbarment. Then This Happened.

This nation is hungry for justice.

Medium

Christophe Bousquet 6d ago

Another paper showing that #SocialMedia platforms skew user's #opinions to the #right because of their #algorithms. This applies to #X [other papers], as well as #TikTok [this paper].

Systematic #partisan content skews in TikTok during the 2024 US #elections

#OpenAccess

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10447-1

Systematic partisan content skews in TikTok during the 2024 US elections - Nature

Audit experiments on TikTok show asymmetric partisan exposure that is not explained by observable engagement metrics, with Republican-leaning accounts receiving more aligned content and Democratic-leaning accounts more cross-partisan recommendations.

Nature

Jazone Apr 27

A quote from #Reuters
"Ongoing and recently completed #redistricting efforts by #Republican and #Democratic held state legislatures, on the other hand, have been motivated by a desire for #partisan advantage."

There is only one party asking the US citizens to engage with #Republicans and that is a distinct, unique method by
#Democrats.
#NoKings
"US Supreme Court formally reinstates pro-Republican #Texas voting map."
#SCOTUS
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-formally-reinstates-pro-republican-texas-voting-map-2026-04-27/

CBC Edmonton Apr 25

The important questions raised by Parliament's game of musical chairs
Beneath the partisan acrimony and overheated language, there are useful and important questions about how Canada's parliamentary democracy works and how it is supposed to work.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parliament-committees-floor-crossing-analysis-9.7176595?cmp=rss