The man’s insanity will plague us for decades. (Gift Article) The Coast Guard risks ending up “like a lottery winner who spends all their money buying the mansion, and then goes broke once they realize they don’t have the money to maintain it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts (Gift Article)

The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.

nytimes.com

Gavin Newsom Makes An Ass Of Himself On Antitrust, Paramount Merger It's hard to not have noticed that a key enabler of U.S. authoritarianism was our consolidated corporate media, which... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/04/gavin-newsom-makes-an-ass-of-himself-on-antitrust-paramount-merger/

The Trump DOJ refuses to deploy the FBI to investigate any leads from the Epstein Files. Blanche has been shown unredacted documents that provide evidence to pursue and he won’t do it.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago

Phang: "Think about what could be done if the FBI was deployed to really follow the investigative leads that have come out of even these bullshit redactions that we have in the Epstein files right now."

This NYT profile of David Ellison ends with something I've been wondering: Was he so willing to hold off on the Warner acquisition bc he can't afford it anymore. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...

The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK

The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK

Nigel Farage’s £5m gift, the Cottrell family’s links and donations, and Richard Tice’s business dealings form part of an increasingly clear nexus of relationships

theguardian.com

Check out the Merriam-Webster post below. It’s good fun. Try it. I was born in ’62. Do these 5 new-in-’62 words sum me up?! 😬😉🤣 - artsy-fartsy - body-count - business-class - ground-effect - one-liner

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

Just an insane picture www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Scoop: Cecilia Vega broke her silence on Thursday and detailed how the Bari Weiss-led CBS News management tried to meddle in her stories, according to an audio recording of her remarks that I obtained. Full story in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...

Vega Breaks Her Silence

The fired “60 Minutes” correspondent revealed stunning new details about how CBS News management tried to meddle in her reporting, according to an audio recording obtained by Status.

status.news

Cecilia Vega says she was pressured by Bari Weiss and other CBS execs to include misinformation and political bias in reporting that aired this year. "Never in my career, until now, have I felt that those edits, that those suggestions, came from a place of misinformation or politics."

“60 Minutes” correspondent says Bari Weiss pressured her to report on events that “never happened”

Cecilia Vega said CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pressured her to include “misinformation” and “political bias” in several news segments.

ms.now

no reporter or producer or correspondent reallllly wants to be the source, the subject of an important but bad and sad story of urgent national importance but she did it, anyway. thank you cecilia vega - www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Fired ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Cecilia Vega says she was told to report events ‘that never happened’

Two months after she was fired from “60 Minutes,” Cecilia Vega is sharing details about the troubling editorial pressures she said she faced after Bari Weiss was placed in charge of CBS News.

sfchronicle.com

Ganderkesee: Kleinflugzeug stürzt in Wohnhaus

Ganderkesee: Kleinflugzeug stürzt in Wohnhaus

Der Pilot soll bei dem Unglück am Samstagvormittag ums Leben gekommen sein. Nach einem weiteren Insassen wird gesucht.[mehr]

ndr.de

After ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Araujo, the FBI leaked to Fox News a claim that he was found with possible meth in the van. His family said it was a total falsehood; it was a bag of salt to be used to make an electrolyte drink. And they were right. It was not drugs.

How did Tether go from resisting stablecoin regulation to supporting the Genius Act? Anthony Cormier and David Kocieniewski detail how Trump insiders helped shape the process that led to the law in ways that benefitted the company.

Tether Saw Benefits After These Trump Insiders Helped Shape Crypto Law

One Trump advisor ‘managed to kill’ earlier, less favorable legislation, a court filing says. Another pushed a measure Tether wanted, observers say. Both wound up benefitting from the company.

bloom.bg

New cutaway and article on Covert Shores, Ukraine's FP-1 deep strike drone -> www.hisutton.com/FP-1-Drone.h...

jesus fucking christ

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?

now to take a big sip of coffee and read what Fred Lambert was writing about Tesla's "self-driving" systems at the time that he received this text message directly from Elon Musk

Thomas Hansen@thomashansen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fred Lambert: «Musk privately admitted radar-plus-vision is safer in a DM to me (below). Engineers begged him to keep radar. Tesla removed it, marketed the camera-only system as able to handle “whiteout conditions” and “all conditions,” and softened the on-screen warning when the cameras go blind.»

Nearly all car ‘assault’ cases promoted by DHS in press releases have been disproven or dropped, a Guardian analysis of court records reveals

ICE keeps accusing immigrants of ‘weaponizing’ vehicles. Most claims fall apart

theguardian.com

NEW: Apple readies end-to-end Mac overhaul, including M6 MacBook Pro and new iMacs this year; and several new redesigned MacBook Pros with touch and OLED and new MacBook Air and MacBook Neo models across end of this year and next year. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Apple Plans Overhaul of MacBooks, iMac in Push to Meet AI Demand

Apple Inc. is readying an overhaul of its Mac line, seeking to capitalize on demand for powerful laptops and desktops fueled by the artificial intelligence boom.

bloomberg.com

@dailykanban.com

Lego is coming out with an amazing, fan-created set dedicated to the decade's best sci-fi show.

The X-Files officially returns in 2026 with a new Lego set

Lego is coming out with an amazing, fan-created set dedicated to the decade's best sci-fi show.

polygon.com

LG TVs seem to be actively surveilling their users and LG monitors are auto-installing unwanted software on Windows PCs. No bueno, LG... hothardware.com/news/lg-tvs-...

LG TVs And Monitors Spark User Outrage Over Bloatware And Tracking

LG TVs seem to be actively surveilling their users and LG monitors are auto-installing unwanted software on Windows PCs.

hothardware.com

Well that makes sense of the murder spree. Prosecute everyone.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.

Took 5 minutes for her to go from formal to former PM on the screen. Ironic- it took only a little longer to go from next PM to former PM in real life.

THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 3w ago

What’s that job title Liz Truss? 😂 Shambolic start to day two of the UK’s version of MAGA conference CPAC this morning… (Hastily corrected after about 5 mins)

NEW: Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says Josh Hawley accuses Mark Zuckerberg’s firm of relentlessly pursuing her. She gave evidence to his committee. Meta denies claims/says she's using legal process to sell books... Story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says

Republican Josh Hawley accuses Mark Zuckerberg’s firm of relentlessly pursuing and attempting to bankrupt her

theguardian.com

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent - VideoCardz.com

Connecting some LG monitors to a Windows PC may automatically install software that promotes McAfee subscriptions.

videocardz.com

My latest in The Atlantic, about the women who form the backbone of Ukraine's resistance. Many of the drone strikes we're seeing are the last link in a complex kill-chain — one that begins with agents deep behind enemy lines. I was granted rare access to this network. Their courage is staggering.

The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance

An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory.

theatlantic.com

The view of the Northern Ontario forest fire haze engulfing the Toronto Skyline from Humber Bay Park West. #ForestFire #TorontoHaze #TheBigSmoke #Toronto

@dailykanban.com bsky.app/profile/szab...

Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today, Viktor Orbán’s former foreign minister Péter Szijjártó stunned everyone by quitting parliament—not to join Gazprom’s board, as some expected, but to lead external relations at Chinese EV giant BYD, which he had backed with billions of forints as minister. Quite shameless.

“I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all” @petergeoghegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan

Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale

theguardian.com

Just had Palantir’s comms person call me an ‘anti Palantir campaigner’ The classic 2026 populist move ‘I don’t like what you’ve said. You must be a campaigner against me’ Anyway read the pieces and judge for yourself….

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3w ago

🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...