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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

She didn’t just win, she whopped Don Samuels ass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fuck ya! Finally AIPAC doesn't get a win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

AIPAC didn’t invest in this race

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They did, just not as heavily as the others

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Technically, yes. But the amount of money they spent was basically nothing.

Open Secrets has them on record for spending twenty five bucks.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrat-ilhan-omar-faces-latest-test-us-houses-liberal-squad-2024-08-13/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Ah, interesting. I guess that helps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

56% doesn't seem like a whopping

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

A 14% lead is pretty substantial in this day and age.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

AIPAC are saving the big guns for AOC

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Omar reported raising about $6.2 million. Samuels raised about $1.4 million.

Oh wow, she actually raised more money than her opponent. Did AIPAC even donate in this race?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Off topic, but how is the thumbnail actually picked up? I looked at the article and can't find this specific picture anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

For breaking news stories, the website might keep updating the pictures.

Lemmy presumably goes to the website, and downloads a relevant image to use as a thumbnail. Then the writers update the article images.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Typically, when links are published to link aggregator sites like lemmy or reddit or whatever, the link aggregator looks for a meta tag marked thumbnail to grab the URL for the image. It looks like this:

<meta name="thumbnail" content="https://path/to/img.jpg">

In this case, the thumbnail tag contains a url to a different picture, and the one used for this link is nowhere to be found, so I’m guessing that when OP created the link, Lemmy cached the thumbnail picture from the provided URL, and then afterwards, AP changed it in their article.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I think websites do that quite often these days. If you are trying to see the thumbnail in full resolution, they won't put it in the article, so you have to scan the entire page fruitless.

It causes me irritation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Look up twitter cards and Facebook graph HTML tags.