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Alex Jones Calls for Trump Impeachment

“Alex Jones, formerly of InfoWars, on Tuesday said President Trump must be impeached over the Iran conflict, describing the situation as ‘absolutely out of control’ and warning that the administration is preparing for a national draft,” NewsNation reports.

Defector
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Kyle Shanahan And The 49ers Are Not Entitled To Anyone’s Trust

Kyle Shanahan And The 49ers Are Not Entitled To Anyone’s Trust
Well, that mystery has been solved. Kyle Shanahan was fishing around for his dropped phone while driving at 20 miles per hour when he crossed into the other lane and hit a car. There. Everyone satisfied? Great. Show yourselves out, and have a nice day. Well, no. Of course n...

Electrek
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The 2027 Cadillac Lyriq gains a key upgrade for $200 more

The 2027 Cadillac Lyriq is now available to order. It’s only $200 more than last year’s model, but one key upgrade may make it worth the extra cost.

The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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Lindsey’s rotten legacy

Lindsey Graham’s funeral was as disgraceful as he was.

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The Trump administration has announced an emergency recall of 12,000 pounds of bacon.

The Overlook
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Flash Flooding Closes Roads Across the Catskills

The town of Hunter declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, July 29, after flash floods left multiple roads impassable and forced some residents to boil their water. The emergency, in effect for at least one day, followed rainfall that caused “significant flooding, hazardous roadway conditions, road closures, and damage to public infrastructure throughout portions […]

The post Flash Flooding Closes Roads Across the Catskills appeared first on The Overlook.

WIRED
Text • Will Knight

It’s Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models

I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Trump Hits Another All-Time Low in Approval

A new Quinnipiac poll finds just 32% of voters approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president, while 58% disapprove, with 10% not offering an opinion. And this is brutal: “Twenty-nine percent of voters think Donald Trump is focused enough on addressing the problems most Americans are facing, while 68 percent […]

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Hannity Imagines Heaven; It Has A Ballroom Named After Trump

Fox News's Sean Hannity's bizarre eulogy-turned-Trump-tribute for Lindsey Graham is something to behold, as he licked the President's boots while describing heaven for the late South Carolina Senator. Hannity, mid-eulogy, mused that Graham's heaven is probably a bigger, ga...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Opus 5 vs Fable 5: What does half the price buy?

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 last week, with this pitch: It comes “close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable

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Defector
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Gianni Infantino Is Putting The World Cup Up For Sale

Gianni Infantino Is Putting The World Cup Up For Sale
The recently concluded World Cup was the shining example of FIFA president Gianni Infantino's particular brand of evil. It was nakedly greedy, nakedly corrupt, nakedly ugly, and also totally awesome. Infantino's bet was that he could openly screw everyone—fans, teams, refere...

Silver Bulletin
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Goodbye, Iowa. Hello, Michigan. Which Democratic primaries will matter most in 2028?

Goodbye, Iowa. Hello, Michigan. Which Democratic primaries will matter most in 2028?

South Carolina will vote first, which could help moderates. But Michigan and Virginia may hold the real power.

Ars Technica
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Google begins global rollout of age verification API in Google Play

Google begins global rollout of age verification API in Google Play

Google's new API relies on parents to set age ranges in Family Link.

Ars Technica
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Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning

Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning

Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.

TPM – Talking Points Memo
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Sen. Cornyn Cancels Meeting With Blanche as Confirmation Vote Hangs in Balance

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s confirmation is stalled. A meeting that was scheduled to take place between Sen. John Cornyn...

Political Wire
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Fed Holds Rates Steady but Three Voted for Increase

“Federal Reserve officials held interest rates steady Wednesday over the objections of three bank presidents who wanted an increase, underscoring how pressure is building inside the central bank to act on inflation that has run above its target for five years,” the Wall Street Journal reports. CNBC: Warsh’s plan for a more opaque Fed will […]

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“ Zugunruhe is a German term describing the...

Zugunruhe is a German term describing the restless, twitching urge migratory birds feel when caged — and the same primal restlessness humans feel when trapped.”

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The Trump administration has spent $892,192 cleaning the facade of the Justice Department and installing "celebratory banners" of Trump's face.

Gift Articles
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Why Republicans Aren’t Funding the Texas Senate Race Yet (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Gift Articles
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Femme Fatale (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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