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New reporting reveals discontent among current ICE officers, including concerns of "pressure" from leadership "to get [new recruits] guns and badges quick.”

David Brouillette, the ICE officer who killed a Maine man last week, was a new recruit who joined the agency earlier this year.

Berkeleyside
Text • Joanne Furio

After ‘losing her soul to Hollywood,’ Ayelet Waldman just published her first novel in a decade

Her 12th novel, “A Perfect Hand,” has a Victorian marriage plot — with a twist. Other new Berkeley books include poems written on the Tamalpais fence in Codornices Park and a look at the influence of UC Berkeley faculty’s brown-shingle summer homes on Inverness’ architectural history.

Nieman Lab
Text • Neel Dhanesha

Search traffic has declined so much that some publishers are considering opting out of Google entirely

Back in 2024, Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, coined the term “Google Zero,” which he defined as “that moment when Google Search simply stops sending traffic outside of its search engine to third-party websites.” It increasingly feels as if that moment has arrived, and some publishers appear to be heading toward the decision that...

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Meet the megadonors pouring more than $1.6 billion into the 2026 elections (wapo.st)

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Dan Moren reviews the Xteink X3 at Six Colors:

…it’s well positioned as an impulse buy. And while I don’t want to dissuade you, I have to note the biggest caveat of all: the world.

Amazon still dominates e-books too much. If Kindle was DRM-free, I would’ve ordered an X3 already.

Techdirt
Text • Mike Masnick

DOJ Now Citing Fake AI-Generated Cases To Keep ICE Detainees Locked Up

You’d think that watching multiple lawyers get caught red-handed using AI to file briefs full of made-up citations would cause everyone in the legal profession — especially prosecutors — to double-check their own. You would, of course, be wrong. And the latest offender is not just some random lawyer. It’s the DOJ itself, which cited […]

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What Happened When Flock Came to My Town

What Happened When Flock Came to My Town

My small town in South Carolina will soon have more Flock cameras than police officers.

Electrek
Text • Fred Lambert

France won’t approve Tesla ‘FSD’ yet, wants EU-wide sign-off first

France’s Transport Minister, Philippe Tabarot, says the country won’t authorize Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” (Supervised) “as it currently stands,” pointing to two safety problems: the system lets drivers speed, and it doesn’t keep them attentive enough in cities.

But this isn’t France slamming the door on Tesla. It’s France refusing to rubber-stamp the Netherlands’ national approval and holding out for a proper EU-wide sign-off.

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There is nothing more I love in this world right now than...

There is nothing more I love in this world right now than these two lunch ladies performing Firestarter by The Prodigy.

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TPM – Talking Points Memo
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Cornyn Threatens to Block Trump Noms Over Unreleased PEPFAR Funds — And Quickly Relents

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday threatened to vote against President Donald Trump’s ambassador nominees for Jamaica and Slovakia unless...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
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5 Points on Trump’s Loyal Labor Secretary Nominee

Keith Sonderling has been acting Secretary of Labor since ex-secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned amid a flurry of misconduct allegations ranging...

Ars Technica
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Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers

Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers

Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.

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Red wolves, once nearly wiped out, had a spring baby boom in North Carolina (wapo.st)

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Report: Biden suspected Israeli war crimes in Gaza early but dragged out probes (haaretz.com)

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Minnesota’s on the World’s Largest Lake—Why Don’t We Eat More Lake Superior Fish?

Minnesota’s on the World’s Largest Lake—Why Don’t We Eat More Lake Superior Fish?

We posed that verbatim question to fishermen, regulators, fishmongers, historians, documentarians, restaurateurs, and biologists.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Massive Great White Shark Swimming Towards New York

The largest male great white shark ever detected on Atlantic coast just emerged at a spot that many New Yorkers live or travel to. Continue reading…

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If I understand correctly, it's RSS-in, RSS-out, small pieces designed to be loosely joined, and all meant to be locked open . . . yes, please.

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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of UC research grants

The Trump administration cancelled $2 billion of research grants to University of California professors. Their legal team says it has proof that those terminations were unconstitutional.

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Opinion | Department of War games (wapo.st)

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