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Amtrak's done it again: For the third year in a row it's set a new ridership record
• Ridership: 37.1 million (+7% YoY)
• Ticket Revenue: $2.96 billion (+9.5% YoY)
• FY 2026 Revenue: $4.13 billion (+4.8% YoY)
The Northeast Corridor alone saw over 16 million passengers
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Party consultations with President Herzog have concluded. Here's whom each party recommended for PM:
🔴Eisenkot: 67 MKs (Yashar, Together, Democrats, Yisrael Beteinu, Joint List, and Ra'am)
🔵Netanyahu: 46 MKs (Likud, RZP-Zehut, Shas, and OY)
⚪Abstained: 7 MKs (UTJ)
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Mike Johnson will not seek another term as Republican leader of the House — Punchbowl
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Dems flipped 16 FL House seats and lost 1 – yielding the smallest GOP majority since the GOP won control of the chamber in 1996.
This is the most seats any party has flipped in 60+ years.
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In the FL Senate, Dems held the seat they flipped in March and flipped an Orlando-area district.
4 GOP incumbents narrowly held on in Miami, Polk, and Pinellas (all under 2-point races).
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Oh look at that, @KalshiPolitics - which has bought off half of Election Twitter - is a big donor to the Florida Republican Party
Replying to @Jason_Garcia
Other notables:
- Kalshi (~$3.5 million)
- Duke Energy ($1.7 million)
- Orlando developer/airport contractor Craig Mateer ($1 million)
- Slide Insurance ($550K)
- Data center developer Ferreira Construction ($510K)
- Data center developer Palm Beach Aggregates ($110K)
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Israeli "democracy":
- 500,000 West Bank settlers can vote, but not the 3M Palestinians under occupation
- 230,000 Israelis in occupied East Jerusalem can vote, but not the 350,000 Palestinians under their rule
- The fewer than 2M Palestinians left in occupied Gaza cannot vote
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America’s newest national park is rock solid!
Chiricahua is officially our 64th national park. Welcome to the "Wonderland of Rocks."
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This is the ideal marmot body. You may not understand it. But this is what peak performance looks like.
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King George: If you don’t pay taxes on that tea, I will send my British troops!!
American Colonists:
This is WILD. I legit thought it was a skit/high school video project.
It is 100% real.
This is Jaime West (Democratic Party) - she’s running for election for Fayette County Council, District 4 in Indiana.
I had to make sure she did not have a neurological disorder that could account for the slurred speech and insane rambling.
She doesn’t.
And even if she did have a diagnosed neurological disorder, “we have guns too!” after talking about firing all Republicans would ordinarily be disqualifying.
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” -Plato
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"God could be running as a Republican and I would vote against him or her[...]"
#MaineSenate
Maine voter interviewed by the Washington Post
“I like Susan Collins… But God could be running as a Republican and I would vote against him or her because I think this country will be destroyed if Trump has another two years unfettered.”
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.















































