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The Streisand Effect is in full force here. I see now why Musk and Zuckerburg don't want this out there. Vance was against trump hugely in the beginning and then swapped around 2020. Also, the people who he has donated to and have donated to him are laid out completely. Those names should be looked into since he received 15 million for his Senate race.

At the end, they source and explain all of the bullet points of his quotes against trump, his flip flopping and his "bad for moderates" stances. If our media went after him at all, this would be a great starting point since it is fully sourced.

My general summary:

• Since 2018, Vance has failed to vote in at least four elections including the 2020 primary elections.
• Vance was not a registered Republican Party voter in Hamilton County between September 2018 and May 2022.
• While not a lobbyist himself, Vance’s old law firm, Sidley Austin, lobbied on behalf of several controversial clients during his tenure with the company. (Purdue Pharma and Chinese Communist Party-affiliated companies including Alibaba and Kaisa Group.)
• During the 2016 campaign, Vance indicated he believed the women who accused Trump of sexual assault.
• Vance previously heaped praise upon Hillary Clinton (ed note: lol)
• Vance appears to have once indicated that Joe Biden could have beat Trump in 2016.
• Vance opposed the Trump Administration’s efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
• Vance is opposed to providing childcare assistance to low income Americans and is opposed to expanding healthcare access to all Americans
• Vance supports placing restrictions on abortion access.
• Vance pushed Trump to nominate controversial figure Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
• Steve Bannon once called for Vance to become head of the Heritage Foundation and appears to have ties to Alex Jones
• In 2016, Vance Said “What Trump Offers Is An Easy Escape From The Pain” And That “Trump's Promises Are The Needle In America's Collective Vein.”

Since 2023, J.D. Vance has received an aggregate of $1,574,894.48 in total contributions for his re-election campaign. Vance transferred more than $160,000 from his fundraising committee and has also received hundreds of thousands of dollars from special interest groups including the National Association of Convenience Stores and the National Automobile Dealers Association. Vance has also received funding from corporations such as SpaceX, Honeywell, and Comcast. It should also be noted that Vance has accepted funding from Republican PACs and groups who may be considered out-of-touch with the current party, like Mitch McConnell and the Susan B. Anthony List. Further, Vance has begun to pay himself back for the loans he gave to his 2022 campaign, disbursing $700,000 in 2022 and an additional $614,500 in 2023. In 2022, Vance received an aggregate of $15,994,977.29 in total contributions for his campaign for the U.S. Senate. Vance personally loaned his campaign $1.4 million and received similarly large contributions from Republican-aligned committees including the RNC, the NRSC, and the Republican Jewish Coalition. Vance additionally received large contributions from corporations such as Altria, Nextera, and Marathon Petroleum. Of note, Vance received funding from establishment PACs and groups such as Koch Industries, as well as the leadership PACs of Roy Blunt, Lindsey Graham, and Mike Huckabee. It should also be noted that Vance has received thousands of dollars from individuals with a history of anti-Trump rhetoric like Ken Griffen and Paul Singer.

Individually, Vance has contributed an aggregate of $15,325 to federal and statewide campaign committees. Federally, Vance contributed $11,255, giving to various Republicans from Ohio including Rob Portman and Max Miller, as well as other prominent Republicans across the country such as Blake Masters and Joe Kent. At the state level, Vance has contributed $4,100 to campaign committees in the state of Ohio, giving it entirely to Sharon Kennedy’s campaign for the Ohio Supreme Court.

It's a poltical hip hop song?

The advertising for this that I heard, was for companies to use this AI instead of developers because devs are so expensive to hire. It was a podcast audio ad. Their web presence makes it sound like it's for devs to use.

Heads up

Texas law bans abortion in nearly all instances except to save the mother’s life.

The city of Austin passed a budget last month that allocates $400,000 in grants to help cover the costs of airfare, gas, hotel stays, rides, childcare, companion travel and food for people leaving the state for abortions, according to the suit.

“Through passing laws that generally prohibit elective abortion, Texas has established public policy negating any argument that funding abortions procured out of state can serve a ‘clear public benefit’ - the two are mutually exclusive,” the suit states.

What's the stalemate about?

Two major sticking points are wages and automation. On wages, neither side has made their demands or offers public.

A statement from union president Harold Daggett suggested the union may be seeking a $5-an-hour increase in each year of a six-year agreement, raising the top hourly wage from $39 to $69 by the end of the contract.

Wage increases under the current contract, signed in 2018, were far more modest, with only $1-an-hour increases in four of the six years. That contract, which expires Monday, spanned the pandemic, when dockworkers stayed on the job, and months of soaring inflation.

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance and Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz will meet for their first and only debate on Tuesday, hosted by CBS News at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York.

The VP debate begins at 9 p.m. ET, and will be moderated by "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell and "Face the Nation" moderator and chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan.

Here are the rules for the debate, as laid out by CBS News:

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s attempt to appear on New York’s general election ballot.

Kennedy, who has dropped his own presidential campaign and endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump, is fighting to appear on ballots in certain states over Democratic opposition.

The court rejected the request in a brief order, with no dissents noted.

The use of AI combined with low-flying drones revolutionised the speed and rate at which the geoglyphs were discovered, according to a research paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The paper said while it “took nearly a century to discover a total of 430 figurative Nazca geoglyphs”, using an AI system covering the entire Nazca region it “took just six months to discover 303 new figurative geoglyphs”.

“They are engaged in covert influence activities aimed at undermining American elections and democracies, functioning like a de facto arm of Russia's intelligence apparatus,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a press conference this month.

That includes a scheme to funnel nearly $10 million to pro-Trump American influencers, over which the Justice Department recently indicted two RT employees.

"The fossil fuel industry receives over $20.5 billion in taxpayer dollars every year while fleecing American consumers and driving a global climate crisis," Khanna (D-Calif.) told Common Dreams. "The End Polluter Welfare for Enhanced Oil Recovery Act will eliminate the subsidy for captured carbon used for enhanced oil recovery, which only leads to more fossil fuel extraction and does nothing to mitigate climate change."

The subpoena de la Torre rejected was a rare one issued in July by the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). The HELP committee, chaired by Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), aimed to compel de la Torre to testify on allegations that while he and other executives reaped millions from the hospital system, individual facilities were put under such dire financial strain that health care workers were forced to practice "third-world medicine," and outsiders described Steward leadership as "healthcare terrorists."

"We wanted Dr. de la Torre to explain to us how it could happen that at least 15 patients at hospitals owned by his company died as a result of a lack of medical equipment or staffing shortages and why at least 2,000 other patients were put in 'immediate peril' according to federal regulators," Sanders said in prepared remarks prior to Wednesday's full Senate vote. Steward has operated more than 30 hospitals across eight states.

"But, perhaps most importantly," Sanders said, the committee wanted to know how "Dr. de la Torre and the companies he owned were able to receive at least $250 million in total compensation over the past four years," while health care workers, patients, and communities suffered. Some Steward hospitals have downsized or been shuttered, leading to hundreds of layoffs and a lack of access to medical care in affected communities.

Dennehy, who was previously FBI Newark's Special Agent in Charge, is urging owners of vacant land to remain vigilant and check their property records, as the bureau has reported a 500% increase in vacant land fraud over the last four years.

"It all comes down to due diligence on behalf of the buyer, the real estate agent, the title companies and beyond," Dennehy said, explaining that scam artists pretend to be real landowners by using publicly accessible property information.