‘Pink Slime’ Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms - POLITICO

Partisan websites disguised as independent, local news outlets are shaping chatbots’ responses about key races…

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/25/midterms-partisan-ai-chatbots-01092138

 

Durbin: Patel "least qualified and most partisan FBI director"

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QGfDdcvFadY

 

Michigan bill would make school board elections partisan, breaking 100-year tradition

Michigan lawmakers are debating a bill that would require school board candidates to run with party labels, ending the state's long nonpartisan tradition. Education groups warn the proposal could inject politics into local districts and limit who can serve…

https://www.michiganpublic.org/education/2025-11-18/michigan-bill-would-make-school-board-elections-partisan-breaking-100-year-tradition

Fascism lurks behind the dangerous conflation of the terms 'partisan' and 'political'

Whereas "the personal is the political" was originally meant to flag ways in which government decisions unfairly affect and define personal lives, the mindset that "everything is political" creates a situation of perpetual conflict between divergent groups. 

That's the opposite of what politics is for and what a liberal democracy does: A liberal democracy specifically guards against using government power to further the agendas of distinctive groups. It seeks to prevent government encroachment into the private lives of individuals, and vice versa, in order to constrain the worst impulses of politicians and citizens alike. 

Fascism, by contrast, seeks to make government power an aspect of every dimension of its citizens' lives. Nazi apologist Carl Schmitt conceptualized politics as an all-consuming and literal life and death struggle between friends and enemies...

https://theconversation.com/fascism-lurks-behind-the-dangerous-conflation-of-the-terms-partisan-and-political-207277

The Information War (Sam Harris, Waking Up podcast #145)

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Renée DiResta about Russia’s “Internet Research Agency” and its efforts to amplify conspiracy thinking and partisan conflict in the United States.

Renée DiResta is the Director of Research at New Knowledge and Head of Policy at the nonprofit organization Data for Democracy where she investigates the spread of malign narratives across social networks. She regularly writes and speaks about the role that tech platforms and curatorial algorithms play in the proliferation of disinformation and conspiracy theories. She is the author of The Hardware Startup: Building your Product, Business, and Brand.
Interview:
https://samharris.org/podcasts/145-information-war/

It's not just 'Obama judges'. Here are Republican appointees who have ruled against Trump - USA TODAY

Several rulings against the Trump administration have come from conservative-appointed judges. Here are five major rulings this year. ....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/24/five-times-republican-appointed-judges-ruled-against-president-trump/2083399002/