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#LOÚLTIMO | ⚠️ 🚨 Rafael López Aliaga no será alcalde de Lima: JNE aclara que otorgará credenciales de primer regidor a reelectos
La secretaria general del organismo electoral, Jessica Clavijo, dijo que los exalcaldes que postularon como primeros regidores y ejercieron la alcaldía durante el periodo municipal anterior no podrán recibir credenciales para volver a ese cargo.
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In Fahrenheit 451, the chief book-burner, Captain Beatty, describes how reading became obsolete because the public demanded increasingly fast-paced entertainments, and those entertainments slowly corroded their ability to think. “Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column … Many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed, ‘Now at last you can read all the classics.’ … School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches?”
In this passage Ray Bradbury foretells the intellectual hollowing out of the working class, the advent of AI-generated “summaries” of classic novels, the attention-frying culture of short-form video, the relaxation of educational standards into non-existence. All of this in a book published in 1953.
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Millions of Paraguayans have lost their savings due to the collapse of a bank involved in corrupt deals orchestrated by right-wing President Santiago Peña. His daughter attends Columbia University in the US and wears a shirt saying "tax the poor".
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Paraguay’s president has just resigned
Mensaje del Presidente de la República, Santiago Peña, al pueblo paraguayo.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
La renuncia de Peña antes de una condena en juicio político le permite acceder a la senaduría vitalicia (art. 189 de la Constitución). Esto le da fueros parlamentarios: para someterlo a un proceso penal se requeriría el desafuero aprobado por dos tercios del Senado (art. 191).
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Jonathan D. Miller, the libertarian candidate for North Carolina State Senate who just recently live-tweeted an armed pursuit and standoff with police and who said he was going to kill himself (though didn’t go through with it), won 1.96% of the vote.
Michael Baney retweeted
when he signed the civil rights act, lbj famously told his press secretary bill moyers “we may have lost the south for your lifetime—and mine” and my brother pointed out bill moyers died last year.
ALT wikipedia page reading “Billy Don Moyers (June 5, 1934 – June 26, 2025) was an American journalist and political commentator who served as the eleventh White House Press Secretary from 1965 to 1967 during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. He also served as the de facto White House Chief of Staff for a brief period from 1964 until 1965.”
Michael Baney retweeted
I woke up today thinking I might have to pull an allnighter to see if democrats had a chance at taking senate seats in michigan or maine
now they have 54 and I'm up at 3am desperately looking for updates on the dead heat race out of MISSISSIPPI
Michael Baney retweeted
And now let’s turn to the crowd for their reaction
Tonight wasn’t the night our campaign had hoped for.
To everyone who stood alongside us, gave your time, and believed in what we set out to accomplish, thank you. I will never forget your dedication, your friendship, and, above all, your love for the great state of Texas.
As Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
My dreams for Texas and America remain undiminished, as does my faith in the indomitable spirit of the people of the Lone Star State.
I’m not going anywhere — because we have work to do.
Onward.
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Here at Ken Paxton HQ, man in crowd yells “no!” as race called called for James Talarico. Then “Gloria” begins playing loudly on speakers.
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She's made off with the Mackinac Bridge! But she's left this clue for you, gumshoe: All the Great Lakes might be great, but this one's only the fourth largest of them by surface area.
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Mamdani went undercover at the New York City marathon passing out water and congratulating runners on the route.
This may seem harmless but it is actually an extension of the practices of the fifth leader of the Abbasid caliphate Harun al-Rashid (786–809 CE) who would go into the city in disguise in order to assess the unguarded sentiments of his subjects.
#Mamdanistan
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Rancho el cielo en la tuna Badiraguato totalmente destruido por grupos rivales a la facción Chapos del cartel de Sinaloa
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Breaking news: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, whose attempts to win Mexico’s presidency helped break the ruling party’s grip on power, has died at 92.
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