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[ForMyBee @ForMyBeeBee]

Map Series: Last election a place was represented by a Republican House member
Today: Maine! In 2016, Bruce Poliquin won the Maine 2nd. In 1994, James Longley Jr. was the last Republican to win Maine 1st. In 1982, John McKernan was the last Republican to win the city of China.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

New York just became the first state in the country to sign a moratorium on data centers. I want you to sit with that, because it tells you everything about the two paths in front of us. One path builds the infrastructure that runs the next fifty years of the American economy. The other talks itself into a moral panic, bans the future, and then acts surprised when the jobs and the money show up in somebody else’s state. I am here to defend the data centers, and I want to walk you through why, because most of the fear you are hearing is manufactured.

https://t.co/4vpDFRvWoP

[Alex Datos @AlexDatos2]

Por PRIMERA vez en TODA la historia de la Copa del Mundo ni 🇧🇷Brasil ni 🇩🇪Alemania estarán entre los mejores OCHO del torneo

1930: 🇧🇷❌
1934: ❌🇩🇪
1938: 🇧🇷❌
1950: 🇧🇷❌
1954: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
1958: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
1962: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
1966: ❌🇩🇪
1970: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
1974: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
1978: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
1982: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
1986: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
1990: ❌🇩🇪
1994: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
1998: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
2002: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
2006: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
2010: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
2014: 🇧🇷🇩🇪
2018: 🇧🇷❌
2022: 🇧🇷❌
2026: ❌❌

[Charestiste🇨🇦🍁 @RealAlbanianPat]

I have made the world's first Japanese electoral simulator, it includes maps, constituency tables, PR blocks etc; The LDP is still winning big, it would be great if any Japanese can test it!

Link in the comment

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

I love this map of housing built before 1919.

It largely tracks economic development (Greater Paris, the West, the Alps, the South-East...)

But there's one nasty blue scar in the North-East that looks eerily familiar...

[Jake Halloran @jakehalloran1]

the united states did one (1) war *actually for oil* and it became the immediately most successful invasion of all time which is an incredible bit

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

See, here's the thing: I don't really care about personal drama.

I've said repeatedly that Charlie and I weren't best friends. Maybe you were best friends with Charlie. Maybe not. I don’t know, nor do I care.

For ten months, you’ve been slandering Charlie's wife, his friends, and all of the people he worked with. You're working to acquit his murderer.

You're spreading conspiratorial poison for cash.

That’s something anyone of decency should condemn.

The fact that so many are unwilling to do so is demonstrative of widespread cowardice, stupidity, wickedness...or all three.
https://t.co/MBBTs8kJEJ

[Phil 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐘 @Philzer7]

Platner is objectively worse and I despise Paxton

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Bonnie Tyler, best known for her hit single ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart,’ has died at the age of 75.

[America Elects @AmericaElige]

Colombia: President Gustavo Petro (PH, left) has announced legal action against the National Registry and the CNE to challenge the results of the presidential election. It will be filed on July 7th.

#Colombia

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Mother Ukraine, the most iconic statue in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, bathed in the colors of the American Flag, red, white and blue, in celebration of the Fourth of July and 250th Anniversary of the United States.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

The refusal of blue states to build housing means that they will lose the equivalent of Wisconsin in 2028 no matter how hard they campaign.

[Jason Hart @jasonahart]

Are people realizing @JDVance is a socially conservative Bernie Bro who owes @TuckerCarlson his entire political career? Is this common knowledge, finally?

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Absolutely wild story about Vladimir Putin micromanaging a completely fictional version of the Ukraine War

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

BTW if you really want to stop birth tourism, we recently required visitors to take a COVID test. We could totally require female visitors age X-Y to submit a pregnancy test, and to require additional conditions on entry (such as a shorter visa period) if it is positive.

[Jon Levine @LevineJonathan]

NEW from me

I called up David Duke to ask about Darializa Avila Chevalier's criticism of interracial relationships —  He was a fan!

"I think that people have the right to preserve their particular heritage," Duke tells me

https://t.co/gzOg8DlKUR

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

From HLS Prof Jack Goldsmith: It is hard to think of a time “that a court with six members appointed by the president’s party and three of his own appointees ruled against him on at least three different things he seemed to care a lot about in one term.” https://t.co/I3bRuEqRSC

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

It is so incredibly rich that this administration has emphasized the horrors of socialism while seeking stakes in a bunch of private companies. You can't reconcile that.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Maine Dems deciding that this was the year not to nominate a female center-left elected against Collins

[Dr. Adi Schwartz @Adi_Schwartz]

When are we going to talk about the settler colonial Turks who came from Central Asia, settled in Anatolia, and ethnically cleansed all other populations from current day Turkey?