Democratic Party lawmakers are refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani and are spreading lies about him in the process
Democrats would rather lose to a Republican, to a conservative, to a fascist, to Trump, than address the material conditions of the American people.
Democratic Party lawmakers are refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani and are spreading lies about him in the
Despite his decisive primary victory and impressive campaign, many Democratic lawmakers are refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani and are spreading baseless lies and smears in the process.Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
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Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Three lies the election shattered (I believed them)Ken Klippenstein
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
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Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32566109Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Three lies the election shattered (I believed them)Ken Klippenstein
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32566109
Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Three lies the election shattered (I believed them)Ken Klippenstein
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025
"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Three lies the election shattered (I believed them)Ken Klippenstein
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Technology giants Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, and IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab were named as "central to Israel's surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction."
First as tragedy, then as… also tragedy. IBM and the Holocaust
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the government of Adolf Hitler from the beginning of the Third Reich through to the last day of the regime, at the end of World War II when the US and Germany were at war with each other.Published in 2001, with numerous subsequent expanded editions, Black outlined the key role of IBM's technology in the Holocaust genocide committed by the German Nazi regime, by facilitating the regime's generation and tabulation of punched cards for national census data, military logistics, ghetto statistics, train traffic management, and concentration camp capacity.
What is happening on Programming.dev instance?
Trump tours 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center in Florida Everglades
Trump tours 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center in Florida Everglades
President Trump visited a migrant detention center in a reptile-infested Florida swamp dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" on July 1, 2025.USA TODAY Staff (USA TODAY)
In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze
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The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET
[A Palestinian friend who lived in my neighborhood in the US is there now, in his family's home. He said it was like 3 nights in a war zone.]
"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."
In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze
The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html
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In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32561522
The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."
In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze
The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html
Republicans test a new red line: Denaturalization
Republicans test a new red line: Denaturalization
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the possibility of revoking Zohran Mamdani’s citizenship status and didn’t say no.David Weigel (www.semafor.com)
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Trump Dismisses Extension of July 9 Tariff Deadline, Hits Japan
Trump Says He Won't Delay July 9 Tariff Deadline, Criticizes Japan
President Donald Trump said he is not considering delaying his July 9 deadline for higher tariffs to resume and renewed his threat to cut off talks and impose duty rates on several nations, including Japan.Jennifer A Dlouhy (Bloomberg)
Lugansk People's Republic: Freed and Fueling a New Future
Lugansk People's Republic: Freed and Fueling a New Future
Now that the LPR is fully liberated, it's ready to shift back to peaceful economic growth.What's the region's potential?Sputnik International
First Victory In Dnepropetrovsk Region: Russian Forces Won Dachnoe
First Victory In Dnepropetrovsk Region: Russian Forces Won Dachnoe
The Russian military has secured significant territorial gains in June 2025 through systematic offensive operations, especially in the southern Donbas...Anonymous103 (South Front)
Maybe the downvoters are just waiting for a credible western media outlet to pick up the story.
Oh wait... 🤔
Date systems in Excel - Microsoft Support
Learn about the 1900 and 1904 date systems and how to change the default if necessary.support.microsoft.com
I thought about that, but decided to leave it as an exercise for the reader.
Don’t forget that Integer8 (the middle dragon) counts increments of 100 nanoseconds, because… reasons.
And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.
I have been able to outsource low level parsing to third party libraries
Hahaha!!!
Today I watched a Java server crash because a library decided it needed more than 3GB of heap space to read a 10MB file. That was after manually removed background colors from around 100,000 cells, which apparently caused the parser to create even more objects in its internal representation of the sheet.
Yeah, I get it. I've had many libraries fail me in as many ways, which is why I consider it lucky to not have to implement my own. I work in .net these days, but there have been times where I had to just dig into the xml inside the xlsx and use xml tools. Those were mostly one-offs, thankfully.
Back when I did Java I had a frustrating experience with IBM's libxml causing our app to crash after several days due to a memory leak. I didn't have access to the production environment so it took me probably 3 weeks to find the cause and only after digging through a crash dump provided by the sysadmin. Not related, but you triggered my traumatic memory 😀
And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.
Thank you! Saying this finally made me realize why I always need to add/subtract one day when I’m trying to convert dates to and from the Excel representation. 🤦
Converting numbers is easy
Explanation (which might be wrong, since I’m writing this after banging my head against a wall. Please do correct me if I’m wrong):
In regular numbering systems (i.e., decimal), we exhaust all 10 digits (0–9) before we reach two-digit numbers. The first number to require 3 digits is 10². The first to use 4 is 10³, and so on.
In music intervals, there is no “0”. The interval c’–c’, for instance, is called a prime (1). This has the funny consequence that moving by a fifth and then by a fourth doesn’t land you on the ninth, but the octave (8). Moving by an octave and then another octave gets you to the 15th, not the 16th.
In Excel, shit hits the fan when you need to convert column names (A, B, C…) to numbers (0, 1, 2…). Since we use 26 characters as our ‘digits’, we’re in the hexavigesimal system. Knowing what I told you in the first paragraph, you’d expect the first double-digit column (AA) to be 26. And you’re right.
However, when do we need 3 digits? Which column is column AAA? A sane person would say it’s 26², so 676. Ha! No. Column number 676 is actually ZA. What gives? Well, we only ditch the zero for single digit numbers. All subsequent columns actually use 27 different characters, the ‘empty character’ being one of them. That’s where we get the ‘single digit’ – there actually is a second digit, only it’s empty.
So the column AAA actually has index 702, or 26×27. Which index does the column AAAA have? 26×27². The system of adding powers of the base works, only we changed bases midway through.
You can see the lopsidedness in the index lookup table (I’m not displaying all characters for brevity). Sane number systems have square tables. Excel’s is 26×27 (shown are 4×5).
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Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world.
Scientists said the peer-reviewed authoritative reports save money and lives. Websites for the national assessments and the U.S. Global Change Research Program were down Monday and Tuesday with no links, notes or referrals elsewhere. The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law, but gave no further details.
Searches for the assessments on NASA websites did not turn them up. NASA did not respond to requests for information. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries.
Kurdish PKK leader says Israel secretly promised them a state for 30 years
Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating with the leftist Palestinian liberation groups. In the document, Ocalan presents himself as the leader who could stop Israel from becoming a hegemonic power in the Middle East.
"Israel has been at this for 30 years. For three decades, Israel has been secretly promising us a state," Ocalan said during the meeting, according to the document.
He added that Israel was using the media to encourage Kurds to establish an independent state. "Whoever aligns the Kurds with themselves will gain dominance in the Middle East," he said. "They realized this before I did."
He also described an exchange of messages with then-Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir in 1982, when Ocalan was based in Damascus under the protection of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
A series of Israeli governments lent political and military support to Turkey in the 1990s, establishing a close alliance with secularist generals at that time.
But under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the relationship has deteriorated, and Ankara has occasionally accused Israel of indirectly supporting the PKK.
In November, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar openly called for closer relations between Israel and Kurdish communities, saying that his country should reach out to Kurds and other regional minorities that are "natural" allies. Ocalan said the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad also contacted him in Moscow, where he was seeking refuge from Turkish authorities in 1998, telling him they could hide him even in Russia.
PKK's Abdullah Ocalan: 'No Israeli dominance through Kurds'
Since the Israel-Iran conflict erupted last year, Turkey has found an unexpected ally: Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).Ragip Soylu (Middle East Eye)
If you’re not deliberately min-maxing the CAP Theorem or doing EDA, there’s no reason to use microservices and every reason not to.
It is not just an implementation detail or a matter of preference. There are fundamental UX implications.
That can be a net positive for users (and developers). But if you’re doing it “just cuz”, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Italy limits outdoor work as heatwave breaks records across Europe
Outdoor working has been banned during the hottest parts of the day in more than half of Italy’s regions as an extreme heatwave that has smashed June temperature records in Spain and Portugal continues to grip large swathes of Europe.
The savage temperatures are believed to have claimed at least three lives, including that of a small boy who is thought to have died from heatstroke while in a car in Catalonia’s Tarragona province on Tuesday afternoon.
In Palermo, Sicily, a 53-year-old woman died on Monday after fainting while walking along a street. She had reportedly suffered from a heart condition.
Italy limits outdoor work as heatwave breaks records across Europe
June temperature records have been broken in Portugal and Spain, as French schools close amid heatAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
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Chairman of Azerbaijan-Ural organization detained in Yekaterinburg
Chairman of Azerbaijan-Ural organization detained in Yekaterinburg
Law enforcement agencies did not specify the reason for the detentionTASS
Russian forces strike Ukrainian army’s command system, UAV workshops over past day
Russian forces strike Ukrainian army’s command system, UAV workshops over past day
Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted roughly 180 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed three enemy armored combat vehicles in its areas of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reportedTASS
Bessent: There has been no inflation, no recession
Bessent: There has been no inflation, no recession
Instance PeerTube généraliste francophone. General French-speaking PeerTube instance.Mes Numériques
Putin Holds a Phone Call With Macron - Kremlin
Putin Holds Phone Call With Macron - Kremlin
Putin, in a conversation with Macron, discussed the situation surrounding Ukraine and reminded that the conflict is a direct consequence of the West's policies.Sputnik International
I can track my old lease car
So, I still receive telemetry information from my old lease car, a Kia e-Niro, to my app. A huge, HUGE privacy issue.
I made sure to remove my profile from the car before turning it in, and doing a factory reset of the car's software.
I can see everything, AC, whether there are doors open, odometer, and above all, location.
Also tried to see if I can turn off the AC, but any commands throw an error, so disabling my account on the car at least did something 😅
I had it in the Netherlands, it's in Poland, and it looks like it's on its way to Ukraine.
Kia, you need to check your security.
Edit:
Holy shit it gets real bad. I can lock and unlock the car.
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Nissan does this too. I leased a new Kicks when they came out and HATED it. Seats were terrible, car was underpowered, and some jackass decided to program the cvt to "shift" because Nissan got complaints that the car was stuck in gear. Just learn how a CVT works.
Anyways, 4 years later, I still get emails about monthly maintenance work, tow alarms, and tracking updates. I never asked for them to begin with and I guess I'm stuck with it as a VW guy now.
Statement by Bob Vylan:
"Not the First. Not the Last.
Today, a good many people would have you believe a punk band is the number one threat to world peace. Last week it was a Palestine pressure group, the week before that it was another band.
We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to use ‘unnecessary lethal force' against innocent civilians waiting for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza.
We, like those in the spotlight before us, are not the story. We are a distraction from the story. And whatever sanctions we receive will be a distraction.
The government doesn't want us to ask why they remain silent in the face of this atrocity? To ask why they aren't doing more to stop the killing? To feed the starving?
The more time they talk about Bob Vylan, the less time they spend. Answering for their criminal inaction.
We are being targeted for speaking up. We are not the first. We will not be the last. And if you care for the sanctity of human life and freedom of speech, we urge you to speak up, too.
Free Palestine."
Russian Official Says BRICS Internal Trade Has Surged to $1 trillion
Russian Official Says BRICS Internal Trade Has Surged to $1,000,000,000,000
The BRICS economic alliance has clocked $1 trillion worth of internal trade between its member countries, according to a Russian official.Conor Devitt (The Daily Hodl)
Elon Musk fonda il suo partito dopo il sondaggio su X: «Oggi nasce l'America Party per restituirvi la libertà »
L'intelligenza artificiale Grok è pure diventata un sondaggista per l'occasione. 😂
Secondo la sua intelligenza artificiale, Grok, la nuova formazione potrebbe assestarsi intorno al 5-10%, rompendo così il granitico bipolarismo americano.
Elon Musk fonda il suo partito dopo il sondaggio su X: «Oggi nasce l’America Party per restituirvi la libertà»
L’annuncio segue un sondaggio lanciato dal miliardario il 4 luglio, in cui il 65% degli americani si è detto favorevole alla nascita di una nuova formazione politicaUgo Milano (Open)
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Bob Vylan social credit score depleted
Bob Vylan is dropped from United Talent Agency after controversial Glastonbury set; United States withdraws band’s visas
After a provocative weekend at Glastonbury, the band faces a litany of backlash.Tony Le Calvez (The Needle Drop)
"The BBC respects freedom of expression but stands firmly against incitement to violence. The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves…The team were dealing with a live situation but with hindsight we should have pulled the stream during the performance. We regret this did not happen."
British state media is absolute trash. Everything that comes out of it should be considered false before proven otherwise by a reputable source.
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