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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) has “been with the Republicans” since Congress returned, after the Michigan Democrat endorsed former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) in the midterms.

“She’s been with the Republicans ever since she’s come back. So she’s been on the Republican side of the aisle,” Ocasio-Cortez said during an appearance on “The Don Lemon Show” that aired Thursday.

“This is just the epitome of a certain kind of transactional politics,” she added. “And it’s really sad.”

Trump purchased up to $5m of stock before revoking Biden-era rule that limited Nvidia’s ability to sell to China

Donald Trump bought Nvidia stock worth millions of dollars as he made decisions on America’s China policy that would benefit the chipmaker, an analysis has found.

In May 2025, Trump’s administration rescinded a Biden-era rule designed to prevent the most advanced US-made AI chips from being exported to China.

This rule aimed to strengthen the US’s own chip industry and to protect America from what was widely regarded as a national security threat: the possibility that China might develop superior AI.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who is challenging Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to be the next Senate majority leader, said Friday he wants to abolish the filibuster and ruled out a potential presidential run in 2028.

Van Hollen, speaking to reporters at the What’s Next conference in Denver, argued that legislation should pass the Senate with simple-majority votes and that the filibuster, which requires senators to muster 60 votes to pass most legislation, is “undemocratic.”

“My personal opinion is that we need democracy in the United States Senate and that means allowing ultimately a majority of senators to answer the call of the American people, so that means 51 votes,” Van Hollen said.

“My personal view has been all along that the filibuster is an antidemocratic — small ‘d’ — provision. It’s not in our Constitution. It was put in there by senators to enhance their power over the power of the people,” he added.

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Sen.-elect Scott Colom (D-Miss.) pushed back on the idea that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) personally recruited him to run for Senate, saying the people of Mississippi deserve the credit for his upset victory.

“He did initially understand that our party has to look south for future leadership,” Colom told MS NOW’s Symone Sanders Townsend in an interview that aired Thursday. “I think that it’s not accurate to say he recruited me, though.”

“I push back on the idea that I was recruited, not as a disrespect to anybody, but just as an acknowledgement that the people of Mississippi are the folks that deserve the credit,” he added.

Development finance institutions for Britain, Norway and Canada on Friday launched a joint initiative to channel US$10 billion into climate projects in emerging markets by 2030.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/59367100

I'm pretty excited about this project as a whole and figured I'd share their blog post from the other day.

This isn't necessarily a "self hosted" thing but it compliments self hosting and data privacy so I figured it fits. If it doesn't please remove.