As evidence for Warsh’s rough start as Fed chair, the Treasury secretary is now going after reporters for their coverage of the central bank.
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Alexandra Lahav@alahav.bsky.social · 6h agoNew @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...
Republican Rep. Max Miller refuses to drop out as his scandal worsens, with the House Ethics Committee now investigating him over accusations of “domestic violence and abuse or illegal drug use.”
Morning Digest: Max Miller now faces an ethics investigation. Will he stick around?
Some Republicans want him to drop out, but Trump hasn't demanded it
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/mili...
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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Our hearts are with everyone impacted by the devastating #Spokane #wildfires. Fire experts break down how a snow drought, months of dry vegetation, low humidity and wind gusts up to 45 mph created the conditions for explosive wildfire growth ⬇️ theconversation.com/why-the-spok...
Barry Eichengreen: Bottom line is that Washington, fearing the consequences for US financial markets, is reluctant to see foreign central banks use their dollar reserves. This is telling us that the dollar is not the attractive reserve currency it once was. www.ft.com/content/86db...
The real message in the yen intervention
The dollar’s status as a reserve currency is not what it used to be
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Several states had already banned affirmative action for contractors before the Trump administration did it. Data from those states shows the policies were linked to smaller workforces at many minority- and women-owned firms, but did not cause them to shut down.
The AP has called the #KSsen Democratic primary for Adam Hamilton. He's a moderate pastor who could make November uncomfortable for incumbent GOP Sen. Roger Marshall.
A Kansas ballot measure to change state Supreme Court justices from governor-appointed to popularly elected has failed (69–31% with 32% reporting). Republicans pushed the measure as a way to make the court more conservative.
El Sayed is winning big in Michigan. Meanwhile, Wesley Bell is winning big in his rematch with Cori Bush in St. Louis. Unlike in 2024, Bell is leads both in the suburbs and the city. So maybe not everything is about Israel, Palestinians or AIPAC, which opposed El Sayed, and backed Bell.
Gary, Ind. is aiming to demolish 7,000 blighted buildings and homes to make way for new investment. Early demolitions in some neighborhoods have sparked renovations and new homebuilding. www.wsj.com/us-news/gary...
Gary, Indiana, Wants a Comeback. Step One: Demolish a Chunk of Downtown.
With an $80 million blight elimination campaign and new private investment, the steel town is clearing away ruins to make way for a comeback.
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As his confirmation to lead the Justice Department hung by a thread last week, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told faith leaders on a private call that he was preparing to take action to roll back abortion access nationwide. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.
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The Fed goes WACKO: Warsh's Awful Communication: Knowingly Opaque Coming across as obtuse is a dangerous for unelected economic institutions My newsletter: www.ft.com/content/cbc7...
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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When it comes to nostalgia, no one out-pizzas this Hut in southwest Pennsylvania. 🍕 Locals celebrate the location's preserved retro appearance. @teppercmu.bsky.social's Jeff Galak explains how emotional responses impact consumer behavior, and the power of nostalgia. @us.theconversation.com:
What a western Pennsylvania ’90s-style Pizza Hut reveals about nostalgia
A Carnegie Mellon University marketing researcher explains why the love of a retro Pizza Hut has more to do with the relationships attached to it than pizza.
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ICYMI: 5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole. theconversation.com/5-ways-data-....
5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole
Even as they create and enable expansive virtual worlds, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe.
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University of Cambridge historian Ben Zdencanovic explores America's long struggle to build a healthcare safety net.
Trump administration is withholding more than $1B in Medicaid funds from California and Minnesota, in latest example of weaponizing real and imagined fraud
For six decades, politicians have blurred the distinction between protecting Medicaid from abuse and using abuse to discredit Medicaid itself.
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Dems strongly favored to take the House in our new election forecast. Senate just better than a tossup: Iowa: 41% Dem Texas: 48 Alaska: 51 Ohio: 53 Maine: 68 Michigan: 69 North Carolina: 84 Georgia: 94 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats strongly favored to take the House, Senate tilts Democratic in our new election forecast (crosspost)
Our brand-new election forecast for the 2026 congressional midterms puts Democrats at above even odds to take control of both chambers
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Cutting property taxes sounds simple—but the trade-offs can be complicated. Here’s an analysis of the fine print of a proposed Florida amendment, which would create winners and losers depending on where Floridians llive and how communities make up for lost revenue.
New: Adam O'Neal's abrupt departure from the Washington Post's Opinion section blindsided even some senior leaders In recent weeks, he'd been privately touting the progress of his overhaul, giving little indication he was preparing to exit www.status.news/p/adam-oneal...
The Post's Opinion Parting
Days before his abrupt exit from The WaPo, Adam O’Neal was privately boasting that he had pushed the Opinion section further to the right—raising new questions about what really drove his departure.
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What if the fastest way to be more creative... was to stop trying so hard? Neuroscientists have been scanning the brains of musicians, and what they found might change how you think about creativity (thread ⬇️)
What I found when I scanned the brains of kids creating tunes on the piano
Playing improv music activates the reward system of the brain.
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As a share of income, Miamians now pay more for housing than residents of any other big American city, including San Francisco and New York. Those who cannot afford these costs are leaving. Discover the full story. Register to read for free
The tide turns for a Florida darling and California loser
Miami faces new problems as San Francisco makes a comeback
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New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Mr Market spoke this week, and I took [a] signal from it,” Alberto Musalem, president of the St Louis Fed, told the FT. “The signal emphasised to me that we need to continue to earn our credibility every day with both effective communications and actions as needed.” www.ft.com/content/2735...
Bond sell-off sent warning on Federal Reserve’s credibility, says top central bank official
Alberto Musalem says he supported dissenters’ calls for a quarter-point interest rate rise
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American faith in news is at an all-time low, aided by a president hostile to the press. But this isn’t the first White House to attack journalists as biased. A journalism professor explores what objectivity really means: theconversation.com/58-years-of-...
Reactions like this show EU's slide towards what Le Pen's RN approvingly calls a "double border" regime: external Schengen borders AND more common (in some cases de-facto permanent, infrastructural) controls on frontiers within the zone. A recipe for fragmentation. www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
Italy reimposes border controls on Spain after Ceuta migrant surge
Italy's government said the measure would not affect Spanish or other EU citizens traveling to Italy and would instead involve targeted checks on non-EU nationals arriving from Spain by air or sea.
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DOJ has dropped charges against a former Olympian accused of damaging the Reflecting Pool, saying that internal Trump admin documents show the damage was likely due to contractor error. Trump and his aides have publicly blamed the damage on vandals for weeks.
Prosecutors drop Reflecting Pool damage charge against former Olympian
Trump has claimed vandals deliberated damaged the pool, but prosecutors say internal documents show it was likely contractor error.
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