u/Soft-Principle1455

A wave of 2026 primary defeats and an extraordinary House vote suggest the consensus AIPAC long enforced on U.S.-Israel relations is breaking down.

Here’s the google translated article from Swedish to English.

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I get not liking aspects of private development but why is building housing bad? YIMBYs mostly just want to build housing and trains in a reasonable amount of time and funding to help push back the housing crisis. Is the attitude mostly about order of operations in terms of needing to change the economy first before building more housing? I also get being against hardcore YIMBY-ism of the type that wants to build a gazillion AI datacenters everywhere, but it does make real sense that laws allowing people to file nuisance lawsuits to frustrate projects that are not doing undue damage to the environment and the like should be removed in my view. Like what am I missing? I am a pretty ardent anti-capitalist and have been active with a number of anti-capitalist candidates and their campaigns, and am pretty ardently anti-capitalist. I want only to understand this.

Welp, the GOP is coming undone...

And that is helping Unions...

It’s happening!

June 14, 2026 - Fulltext

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would “only” be deployed at polls during the midterms if a “threat” arises.

“Briefly, at your hearing recently, you didn’t rule out sending ICE agents to the polls in the midterms. Are you willing to rule out sending ICE agents?” Kasie Hunt asked Mullin on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“No, what I said is that we would only be there if a threat” arises, Mullin responded.

“So, you’re not ruling it out?” Hunt pressed.

“No, keep in mind, why would ICE be there? Because only people that should be voting there is American citizens. There shouldn’t be any immigration enforcement,” he said.

Mullin added later that “if a threat were to arise, for whatever reason, at a polling station — say a bomb threat would be called in — our ICE agents are more than just immigration customs enforcement.”

“They’re also trained to have SRT, which means that we can have an emergency team respond quickly,” Mullin said, referring to special response teams (SRT). 

“The only reason why we would be there is not for voter identification. It’d be because a law enforcement is needed, and the local law enforcement would be part of that conversation, so we wouldn’t show up on our own,” he added.

DHS has faced controversy over President Trump’s strict immigration agenda, especially after federal immigration authorities killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis earlier this year.

Back in February, former White House strategist and podcaster Steve Bannon suggested that he wanted to see ICE officers “surround the polls” during the midterm elections this fall.

“You’re damn right we’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” Bannon said on his “War Room” podcast.

“We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again. And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen,” he continued.

>The United Democracy Project, the super political action committee started by the lobbying group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, purchased $2.21 million in the Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids and Traverse City markets, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact. The super PAC also bought another $87,000 on the CNN and MNOW networks and $37,000 for the satellite market.

>.Stevens, a four-term congresswoman from Birmingham, is endorsed by AIPAC in her bid to represent Michigan in the Senate. She is facing state Sen. Mallory McMorrow of Royal Oak and former public health official Abdul El-Sayed of Ann Arbor, a vocal critic of Israel who wants to end all foreign U.S. military aid.

“If you don’t learn how to use A.I., you’ll be left behind” feels like the same logic of when cities ripped themselves apart so as not to get “left behind” as everyone adopted the new automobile tech. Both techs have their uses but it would have been so much better if we didn’t go as “all-in” on cars. I am fearful we are doing the same with A.I. and people will look back and wonder why we destroyed what we had.