cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1423875/oh-no

An election spending watchdog on Friday accused President Donald Trump of committing a "clear-cut violation of campaign finance law" through his stated control over spending decisions made by the MAGA Inc. super political action committee.

Citing decades of legal precedent, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) argued that federal office holders are prohibited from directing spending for super PACs, which raise money outside the scope of federal campaign laws.

Saurav Ghosh, director of federal campaign finance reform at CLC, noted that Trump has stated publicly on multiple occasions that he will decide where MAGA Inc.'s $400 million war chest will be deployed in the 2026 elections—which Ghosh said would be flatly illegal.

"Our laws are clear: No federal officeholder or candidate is allowed to direct the money raised or spent by a super PAC," said Ghosh. "President Trump, MAGA Inc., and anyone else who breaks campaign finance laws must be held accountable to help ensure that our political system is free of corruption."

Last week, CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that cited statements Trump made to reporters, whom he told funds raised by MAGA Inc. were "my money that I control."

This statement alone, the group said, was "a remarkable admission of a serious campaign finance violation."

The complaint then asked the FEC to seek "appropriate sanctions for any and all violations" of campaign finance law committed by Trump and MAGA Inc., "including civil penalties sufficient to deter future violations and an injunction prohibiting the respondents from any and all violations in the future."

While MAGA Inc. has a formidable stash of campaign cash at its disposal, it is unclear how much of an impact it will have on the 2026 midterms given that polls show the president and his party are in a deep hole with voters.

A report from The New Republic published last week revealed that the pro-Trump super PAC is plugging significant money into at least 17 districts that the president won by more than five points in 2024, and six districts that he won by more than 10 points.

David Wasserman, elections analyst for Cook Political Report, told The New Republic that this spending in pro-Trump districts is "an acknowledgment that things have shifted in a huge way since 2024."

"Republicans have hemorrhaged support among independent voters, they’ve got a real enthusiasm problem," said Wasserman, "and as a result, districts that ordinarily would vote handily for Trump and Republicans are now in play."

A Friday report in The Washington Post examined the states where Trump is preparing to campaign in the coming days, and found the president is being deployed in deep-red states such as Alabama and Oklahoma.

"Oklahoma is a state Trump won in 2024 with 66% of the vote—and won all 77 counties," the Post reported. "In Alabama, Trump won with 65%."

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Saw this posted on another deals site. Direct links:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.konami.epjCastlevania1&pli=1

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/castlevania-40th-anniversary/id1498019884

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1424047/americans-views-of-data-centers-have-turned-more-negative

Also, if French people take the month of August off, who is who is working at restaurants and stores? Do those people take a different month off?

Firefox running through XWayland is very choppy on my device. So I made this version that uses Wayland for rendering.

Source:

https://gitlab.com/asrpo/firefoxwayland

Experimental! Use at your own risk!

Let me know of any not-already-known issue.

• On-screen keyboard sometimes needs a long press followed a short press to reappear.
• Flickering on initial page load

My father abused and neglected me growing up, which intensified after my mom passed away. At age thirteen, I called the cops on him, which stopped the physical abuse, though the horrible things he said to me never ended until recently where he blocked me because I still wasn't good enough for him, which is a fact that is still blowing my mind.

My whole fucking childhood is defined by not being good enough. It didn't matter what I did, I was always wrong, and I was severely punished over the smallest things. Case-in-point, when I was thirteen, I had to write a paper. Y'know, five paragraphs. Forty-five minutes, tops, at that age. Problem: I had to do it on the computer. Double problem: my father removed Word, for some reason. And since it was the weekend and I didn't rush home and tell my dad on Friday that I would need basic fucking software every computer has, I deserved death threats, obviously, because he had to go into work and get the CD for Word.

So, y'know, this less-than-an-hour homework assignment turned into four hours of getting yelled at, smacked, thrown around, and threatened with effective death ("I'm going to throw you through every wall of this house until you stop moving"). He then goes to work. I am freaking out, hyperventilating, thinking I have the choice of death, suicide, or call 911. I called the cops.

Cop car rolls up. 250lbs of chewed bubble gum with a mustache waddles out. Accuses me of being on drugs because my legs are shaking and I have a hard time explaining. My dad comes back while he's still there; he realized I could have just used Notepad. Talks with the cop, they laugh. He leaves, my father bitches at me because that might ruin his chances at getting a handgun for hunting - a hobby he had stopped over a year ago by this point.

And here I am in the present day, just curious, what if I told him on Friday that I needed the computer? He would have still gotten pissed that he failed to keep basic software on his computer and had to go get it. The things he bitched at me about were always just excuses to hurt me. This always was the case. When he lashed out at me like this, it was never about me. It was about how his love life was falling apart, or how he needed to do something for his role as a father. I was just a punching bag.

The saddest fucking thing is that I notice myself doing similar things with my life partner, and I am apalled at myself sometimes, but I am ever so grateful he is beyond any man I've met, not just understanding and forgiving me, but actively being the thing that is reconditioning me out of this maladaptive behavior and thought patterns. We've been together three years now, and I've changed dramatically in this time. Learned a lot about the true nature of reality, too, and as a whole, I'm just better because of him.

Yet it's a bitter joy I have. My father is still the same. He still hurts my family who I'm also cut off from because my father is lord and his word is law. That's why he consistently throws out people he's close with; they challenge his perfection by calling out his bullshit. I don't believe I can help my father in this lifetime. At least I know I'm not going to be cruel to him as we move beyond this. At least he won't have that to carry with him for eternity. And it feels good knowing I am not a burden on that man anymore. Shame about what he's going to go through, though.

Besides telling me to get a new card, and knowing I play mostly older/emulation games, is there any optimizations I can do with 6400 4 GB card?

Running Bazzite as the OS and 16 GBs of ram.

https://archive.ph/JBI5k