There's a separate $1,750 rebate for used EVs, but both rebates have a price cap.
Ars Technica
• Jonathan M. Gitlin
California creates $3,500 rebate for new electric vehicle buyers
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Ars Technica
• Jonathan M. Gitlin
There's a separate $1,750 rebate for used EVs, but both rebates have a price cap.
The San Francisco Standard
• Jonah Owen Lamb
Deputy Nanette Busto allegedly asked if the incarcerated woman had surgery to augment her body.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Jana Deak
A Sullivan County grand jury just unsealed several indictments tied to a smuggling operation inside a state prison. The money trail is something else. Continue reading…
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“Protestors swarmed Sen. Susan Collins’ district office in Maine on Monday, chanting ‘vote her out!’ and ‘ICE out now!’ hours after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents killed a man they said was using his vehicle as a weapon against them,” NOTUS reports. Mother Jones: Colombian immigrant in Maine reportedly killed by ICE agents.
WIRED
• Fernanda González
The video assistant referee system, or VAR, has led to some controversial calls at the 2026 World Cup. Here’s why.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“The U.S. is tapping in to its national stocks of crude with abandon. The withdrawals are taking a toll on the strategic reserve system,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Just in the past four years, the Biden and Trump administrations have ordered the largest releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve while seeking to tamp down […]
LA Dodgers player Kiké Hernandez has announced he will skip the team's White House meeting with Trump following their World Series victory.
Defector
• Chris Thompson
Berkeleyside
• Calliope Arkilic

How Markdown took over the world.
By Anil Dash:
Nearly every bit of the high-tech world, from the most cutting-edge AI systems at the biggest companies, to the casual scraps of code cobbled together by college students, is annotated and described by the same, simple plain text format. Whether you’re trying to give complex instructions to ChatGPT, or you want to be able to exchange a grocery list in Apple Notes or copy someone’s homework in Google Docs, that same format will do the trick. The wild part is, the format wasn’t created by a conglomerate of tech tycoons, it was created by a curmudgeonly guy with a kind heart who right this minute is probably rewatching a Kubrick film while cheering for an absolutely indefensible sports team."
A look at the history behind the musical “1776.” It’s surprisingly accurate. youtu.be/ZAHEUe7UV…
The Ringer’s Rewatchables podcast discusses “48 HRS," starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte. “This is my favorite movie ever. It’s indefensibly racist and got more racist every year.” Me too — I love this movie and yeah it is, as the young people say nowadays, problematic.
WordPress.com Blog
• Fredrik Rombach Ekelund
Faster local sites, a dependency-free CLI install, and Claude Sonnet 5 now the default in Studio Code — here's what's new in WordPress Studio.
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
• Steve Schmidt
Lindsey Graham died this weekend, and many are choosing to remember the man he once was instead of the harm he ultimately inflicted.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“His voice is going to be really, really missed in terms of the relationship that Senate Republicans have with the president and his team, because he was so good and so effective at talking to the president. And he was so respected by the president.” — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), remembering Sen. Lindsey […]