Stop the death penalty for Palestinians!

URGENT: Israel is already preparing a death row for Palestinians.

Avaaz

Am stunned at the amount of money being thrown at a Supervisor’s race in Butte County California. A Supervisor is a vaguely political individual broadly in charge of running county government. Actual management is done by a Chief Administrator or Executive officer (the State constitution allows either.)

Someone with a very lot of money to BURN wants a REPUBLICAN in office. In theory, pollsters would have you believe #NorCal votes #Right. Not necessarily true. We have a mind of our own.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/08/liberal-democrats-lib-dems-ed-davey-elections. The #LibDems love to position themselves as "centrist" & "moderate" - ignoring the fact that the #centre isn't a fixed point, but moves, & has been moving, further & further to the #right, with the rest of the #political #spectrum, for a very long time now. It may be reasonable to talk about counteracting the #threat from #ReformUK; but to lump them & @thegreenparty together is (a) insulting the #Greens; & (b) not very sensible #politics, given the LDs may need to go
Lib Dems can counter extremes of Reform and Greens, Davey says

Party makes gains in Portsmouth and Richmond upon Thames in local elections but loses a Scottish stronghold

The Guardian
But not for everybody. Oh no. All those holy mf #founding #father mfers. Oh bow down to the #holy #murderers. Oh holy murderers. And we are still bowing down to those mfers today. End #wealth #imbalance. A #home is a #human #right. They founded #genocide and broken treaties with indigenous #nations.
#MissKittyRaw There are so many things I can do to be useful. How-to #books once I iron out all of the suffering so that people can get some #privacy and fight back. If they don't know what you're thinking and doing, it makes it harder for them. Privacy matters and it is a #human #right.

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
@ChrisMayLA6 It's not going to be easy to remove the stench that is Trump! And the far #right had been more than happy to associate itself with the Orange Ogre and some - Italy's Matteo Salvini - still are Trump lovers. With a little luck, the far right will lose a lot of credibility. Becoming more moderate (a sham) won't work with traditional far right voters but lost votes might be replaced with those of right and centre right voters. We shall see!
"The modern US #right is, to a large extent, an #alliance between #oligarchs & #white #Christian #nationalists - & the latter are deeply hostile to #Enlightenment #values, #modern #science very much included." Indeed so, @GeraldKutney.