It took two complex computer algorithms to make it all work. [Scientific American]
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THE FEED
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Sure beats Manchin not backing any voting rights reform bill
Sen. Joe Manchin is breaking with Democrats and throwing his weight behind a more measured voting rights bill in lieu of the sweeping Democratic voting reform bill that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has labeled a top priority of the caucus.
The Democrat from West Virginia told ABC News exclusively that he intends to support the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, a more narrowly tailored piece of voting rights legislation that he said he believes could muster bipartisan support even as voting legislation is becoming a flash point between the two parties.
“I believe Democrats and Republicans feel very strongly about protecting the ballot boxes allowing people to protect the right to vote making it accessible making it fair and making it secure and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, if we apply that to all 50 states and territories, it’s something that can be done – it should be done,” Manchin told ABC News’ Rachel Scott. “It could be done bipartisan to start getting confidence back in our system.”
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politics
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Is that right?
“I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election,” McCarthy says
—@burgessev
politics
Liz Cheney Meets Her Fate in a Capitol Basement
Liz Cheney has not changed her tune after being ousted
“We cannot embrace both the big lie and the Constitution,” Cheney says following removal from her leadership post. She says she’ll do “everything I can” to ensure Trump never gets near the Oval again. “We cannot be dragged backward by the dangerous lies of a former president.”
—@kaitlancollins
the national interest
House Republicans Purge Liz Cheney and Join Trump’s War on Democracy
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politics
U.S. Is Leaving Afghanistan? Tell That to the Contractors.
immigration
Unaccompanied Child Migrant Arrivals Decreased in April
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Death Penalty, Hate-Crime Charges Sought in Atlanta Spa Shootings
The NRA is dealt a major blow in court
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a New York state lawsuit that accuses it of financial abuses and aims to put it out of business.
The case was over whether the NRA should be allowed to incorporate in Texas instead of New York, where the state is suing in an effort to disband the group. Though headquartered in Virginia, the NRA was chartered as a nonprofit in New York in 1871 and is incorporated in the state.
Judge Harlin Hale said in a written order that he was dismissing the case because he found the bankruptcy was not filed in good faith.
politics
The Return of the Welfare Queen Myth
Sad!
[Former president Trump’s] blog has drawn a considerably smaller audience than his once-powerful social media accounts, according to engagement data compiled with BuzzSumo, a social media analytics company. The data offers a hint that while Trump remains a political force, his online footprint is still dependent on returning to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
The Desk of Donald J. Trump is limited — users can’t comment or engage with the actual posts beyond sharing them to other platforms, an action few people do, according to the data.
Trump’s new blog has attracted a little over 212,000 engagements, defined as backlinks and social interactions — including likes, shares and comments — received across Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Reddit. Before the ban, a single Trump tweet was typically liked and retweeted hundreds of thousands of times.
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Romney is no fan of the effort to oust Liz Cheney from GOP leadership
Expelling Liz Cheney from leadership won’t gain the GOP one additional voter, but it will cost us quite a few.
—@MittRomney
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