🚨NEWS: Democrat Andy Thomson has won the Boca Raton mayoral race by just ONE vote.

🔵 Thomson — 7,568
🔴 Liebelson — 7,567

With 100% of votes in, Thomson becomes the first Democratic mayor of Boca Raton in over 30 years.

One vote decided the election.

He is also Crazy @piperformissouri.bsky.social

GOVERNMENT’S MOTION TO DISMISS THE INDICTMENT AS TO CATHERINE SHARP AND JOSELYN WALSH As the United States Attorney’s Office does in every case, the government has continued to evaluate new facts, evidence, and information to ensure that the interests of justice are served. Accordingly, the United States hereby moves to dismiss with prejudice the indictment against Catherine Sharp and Joselyn Walsh, in the interests of justice. Respectfully submitted, ANDREW S. BOUTROS United States Attorney

#BREAKING Federal prosecutors in Chicago drop charges against Catherine Sharp and Joselyn Walsh, two of the so-called "Broadview Six" ICE protesters who were indicted for conspiracy.

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Pi Day is an celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi). Observed on March 14 since 3, 1, & 4 are the first three significant figures of π, first celebrated in US 1988 by Larry Shaw en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day / @piperformissouri.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social

photo of a sea of UFW flags in a march with the words support needed for farm workers rallying against Trump wage cuts

100+ farm workers from across CA want to be in Fresno as our case against the Trump Admin’s wage cuts is heard in federal court. They'll rally in front of the courthouse. We need funds for buses, vans, food & water for them.

Will you donate to help? act.seiu.org/a/courthouse...

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

The Most Dangerous Corporation in America? The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.

Palantir Technologies raked in $1.5 BILLION in income last year — including from lucrative taxpayer-funded DHS contracts — and paid ZERO federal income tax.

It's fast becoming the most dangerous and least accountable corporation in America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88

Ossoff: "The president appears increasingly to have lost touch with reality. That is deeply concerning when you have a a cabinet much more concerned with winning his favor than giving good advice & the nation now plunged into war. It speaks to the necessity of winning these midterms in a landslide."

Share of election spending by billionaires before Citizens United: 0.3%

Share of election spending by billionaires in 2024: 19%

It is not a coincidence that we're about to get our first trillionaire while working people struggle to afford rent, groceries, and healthcare.

Iran is sending more crude through Hormuz NOW than it was before the war — “showing it is in control of a strategic waterway that it has closed off to the rest of the region’s oil producers.”

@wsj.com
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Anthropic Sues the Administration Here's why Trump wanted to bring firms to heel with his executive orders. Here's what can happen when he fails.

One of the law firms Trump tried to intimidate with an executive order is representing Anthropic in court. Here are the details of the two lawsuits against the government after DOD tried to blacklist the developer of Claude AI.
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that a former DOGE software engineer may have walked out the door with access to two highly sensitive SSA databases and intended to bring that information to a private sector employer.

A new whistleblower complaint is raising alarms over a potential data breach tied to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The Social Security Administration’s inspector general has launched an investigation into allegations

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

This is the guy who likes to downplay non-fatal injuries suffered by US service members in combat.

🔵 Democrats flip another seat in the New Hampshire State House.

Democrat Bobbi Boudman wins a special election in a Trump+9 district, after losing the same seat by 14 points in 2024. A 13-point Democratic overperformance.

“.. a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols at an agency that serves more than 70 million Americans.”

@washingtonpost.com
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Blumenthal after getting briefed on Iran: "We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. There's also the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives ... China also may be assisting Iran"

People Hate AI Even More Than They Hate ICE, Poll Finds The only things less popular than AI in the poll were Iran and the Democratic Party.

USA: People Hate AI Even More Than They Hate ICE, Poll Finds
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#pol #polUSA #AI #ICE

(Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now, according to sources familiar ..

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A win! A federal judge in Oregon restricted federal officers from using tear gas at protests outside Portland’s ICE building, following an ACLU of Oregon lawsuit filed on behalf of protesters and freelance journalists.

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

Rural America Needs to Band Together Against Corporate Greed - OtherWords New schemes for fully robotic farming could push the last remaining farmers — and their communities — to fold.

NEW: Companies are already selling robots that pick fruit and vegetables and weed bots that can tell baby ragweed from baby carrots.

Corporations are trying to automate farming. Time for farming communities to come together to resist, writes journalist, organizer, and farmer @suzan63.bsky.social:

Bears, always bears.

The President Of The United States is mentally unfit to conduct the duties of his office.

Yes, it is.
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The response is….comprehensive.