Just to make the point abundantly clear, Chris Wallace is now a paid advisor to an investment firm that has a large stake in Paramount and a vested interest in getting the Warner Bros. merger over the line. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Chris Wallace: States Are Playing Politics With the Law to Block Paramount’s Warner Bros. Deal

"I don’t believe government should use its powers to determine who owns a news platform or to control how that outlet reports the news," writes the former Fox and CNN anchor, who is now a paid advisor...

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦@jvipondmd.bsky.social · 2d ago

"new state laws and safety codes are reclassifying these plug-in kits as standard appliances — meaning renters can finally treat home solar like a simple toaster oven, plugging a personal power plant into any wall socket and cutting electricity bills by up to 25% with zero landlord approval."

If you want a laugh, with a dose of sobering reality. www.youtube.com/shorts/Rix2K...

This is going mega viral…

YouTube video by Keith Edwards

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Just seen a progressive Scottish think tank using an obviously AI slopped image as a splash for an article, which has instantly discouraged me from reading the article and also makes me question the quality of their other work. Using genAI for anything makes everything you do less credible.

The coming lies. I have written about LLM grooming - the process where large language models are intentionally poisoned with lies & disinfo. Here Meta is beginning the process of feeding us RW lies presented as news. Be aware. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy popular.info/p/meta-will-...

Meta will train its AI on far-right media outlet

This week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal with Meta.

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The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund (NBIM) lent Meta money so that they could build this Louisiana data center.

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · last wk.

This is some incredible in-the-room reporting from @elitan.bsky.social and Maureen Farrell on how Meta got its vast, six-square-mile data center cooking in Louisiana www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

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Red Lori Bright Eyes A Fucking Bitch@redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · last yr.

they are doing it It calls for an evaluation of all pending proceedings under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), which was first passed in 1974 and amended in 1976 to prevent lenders from discriminating against women based on marital status. www.newsweek.com/trump-execut...

Late one night last August, Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, was at his summer residence two hours west of Helsinki when his phone rang. On the other end of the line was President Trump, calling with a request. He wanted to buy a fleet of massive ships designed to cut through Arctic ice.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4d ago

Wait, so we don't need the Jones Act* after all? *The first four ships will be built in Finland

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

🇺🇸🗳️ Vote From Abroad @vfaglobal has LIVE answers to all your abroad voting questions on Sunday Aug 2! Make your voice heard back in the US #2026elections! www.votefromabroad.org/voter-support #AmericansAbroad…Save our democracy. Start by requesting your ballot at votefromabroad.org

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

How could we have allowed one man and his entire gifting family corrupt all of our institutions? It is not too late to alter course. 11.03.2026 in: 95 days 3 months 3 days 13 weeks 4 days 2,280 hours We can vote out Trump's Republican enablers and get our government back. vote.gov

Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov

Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

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A brilliant and necessary move. Bravo, EU! 🇪🇺 #SheShed

Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · last wk.

"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares

"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."

The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.

Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...

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TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)

Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System

Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...

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"During an episode of The Intersection, Michael Popok called out the DHS general counsel, James Percival, and called for his immediate removal. Popok explained that Percival has been using official taxpayer-funded social media accounts to attack federal judges by name."

Raw Story@rawstory.com · 2w ago

A legal expert sounded the alarm on a lawyer for the Department of Homeland Security who's been attacking federal judges.

URGENT🚨 Arturo Quinonez Solis is a Navy veteran, who was detained on 7/18 at Camp East Montana. He just had heart surgery last month & is being denied his heart medication by ICE! #ICELawlessness He's pale & unwell & they're about to deport him. Call Sen Cruz & Cornyn & Rep. Escobar 202-224-3121

"I went up there with my book, and I sat down with this dog named Auggie. I started to read to him, and after we had to leave, I started to cry, because I didn't want to leave the humane society," the 11-year-old said.

11-year-old who read more than 100 hours to shelter animals shares his story

Nehemiah Turner, 11, told ABC News he hopes his reading helps soothe animals who are waiting for new homes at the local humane society.

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Grace Farris' book brings readers behind the med school scenes — documenting anxiety over loans, bouts of impostor syndrome, friendships forged in stress, and the ever-impossible work-life balance. n.pr/4fRi7VS

Get into med school in the graphic memoir 'See One, Do One, Teach One'

Grace Farris' book brings readers behind the med school scenes — documenting anxiety over loans, bouts of impostor syndrome, friendships forged in stress, and the ever-impossible work-life balance.

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Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.

👀 El Salvador's AI Agency has named Ginger Luckey Gaetz (Matt Gaetz's wife, Palmer Luckey's sister) as Strategic Advisor. Palmer’s firm Anduril is backed by Peter Thiel & partners w/ Palantir. El Salvador recently joined the Thiel-ally-led “Pax Silica” global initiative. They are moving fast...1/

Politico has one of the world's largest climate reporting teams. Meanwhile, its parent company is owned by a private equity firm with major investments in liquefied natural gas, and it's run by a guy who is steering the political discourse toward the right: drilled.ghost.io/meet-the-rig...

Meet the Rightwing German Media Mogul Enabling Technofascism

For a long time now, I've been keeping an eye on the media purchases of the infamous private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, or KKR. I say "infamous" because they were the stars of the book (and ...

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HuffPost: In a letter to RFK Jr, Jon Ossoff noted the CDC changed a pathogen monitoring program to no longer include cyclospora: “Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak sweeps the nation. Your foolish and self-indulgent demolition of public health programs puts Americans at risk.” #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

AOC: Ask Peter Thiel. Ask Elon Musk. Ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these centers, please raise your hand.

1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Cuts www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...

1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds

New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.

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Related: Peter Thiel previously made a “$50 million investment” in a new venture capital firm started by Axel Springer CEO Matthias Döpfner’s son, Moritz—who also served as chief of staff at Thiel Capital. Per Manager Magazin. www.thenerdreich.com/politico-pet...

Politico's $50M Peter Thiel Problem

Is Axel Springer CEO's son the 'German JD Vance'?

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