Rep. Ro Khanna posts on X about fighting the oligarchy and hoarding wealth. Meanwhile his elementary-school-aged kids own three private Ohio golf courses with $45,000 initiation fees and earned up to $2 million in 2024. Khanna himself lives in a luxury home with a four-story elevator.
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Farash turns to Maine, where mainstream Democrats including Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are backing Graham Plattner despite his Totenkopf tattoo — which Plattner himself identified by its Nazi SS origin — and other controversies. He uses the Thomas Massie primary loss in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District as a data-driven analogue: polling trends can reliably signal where a race is heading. The NYT/Siena poll shows Plattner at 49, Collins at 47 — within the margin of error — and Collins typically outperforms polls by around 8 points, which would represent a commanding Collins win on election day. [1] — Shawn Farash "Graham Plattner — endorsed by Schumer and Jeffries despite having a self-identified Totenkopf tattoo — only leads Susan Collins by two poin…" 1:05:20 The deeper political story: Plattner has built his campaign around the working class, yet Collins leads him by 21 points among non-college voters, suggesting a broader realignment in which college-educated liberal Karens, not working-class voters, are the core Democratic constituency in 2026. Farash also calls out the hypocrisy of Democrats who spent years calling Trump supporters Nazis now rallying around a candidate with a literal Nazi tattoo.
Graham Plattner — endorsed by Schumer and Jeffries despite having a self-identified Totenkopf tattoo — only leads Susan Collins by two points in a New York Times/Siena poll, within the margin of error. Collins historically outperforms polling by eight points. The working-class coalition isn't buying his pitch: she leads by 21 among non-college voters.
A New York Times/Siena poll shows DSA-backed Maine Senate candidate Graham Plattner leading Republican Susan Collins 49–47, within the margin of error.
Shawn Farash noted that Senator Susan Collins historically outperforms her polling averages by approximately 8 percentage points.
Susan Collins holds a 21-point advantage over Graham Plattner among non-college voters, despite Plattner centering his campaign on working-class issues.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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