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In this edition: in a pickle; gut feeling; king of pain; life (or something like it); for those about to rock.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), 1515 #hieronymusbosch #northernrenaissance

Paul Klee, Portrait (Porträt) (plate, page 143) from the periodical Münchner Blätter für Dichtung und Graphik, vol. 1, no. 9 (September 1919), 1919 #museumofmodernart #paulklee

“Just months before the midterm elections, Democrats hope to convince voters that lawlessness under President Donald Trump’s administration is the biggest threat to their rights and pocketbooks. But the party’s past debates over crime and safety threaten to undermine that pitch,” the Associated Press reports. “Across the country, Democratic candidates are grappling with their previous […]

“President Donald Trump has a choice: allow changes to a controversial court settlement and secure the confirmation of his former personal lawyer as attorney general, or thumb his nose at a pair of his few remaining Republican critics in Congress.True to form, he is giving no ground — so far,” Politico reports.

“President Donald Trump hasn’t ruled out deploying troops or federal agents to polling places in November. Democrats are preparing for how to respond in case that happens,” NOTUS reports. “Democratic lawmakers, wary of various potential disruptions to the midterm elections, conducted closed-door tabletop exercises last week that included the possibility of armed federal personnel dispatched […]

“Democratic socialists look like they’re about to rack up a stunning new victory: Their candidate in Michigan’s Senate Democratic primary has the momentum heading into Tuesday’s primary,” Axios reports. “A win by Abdul El-Sayed in the swing state would turbocharge the party’s left flank and validate establishment fears about the party’s direction.” ”Establishment Democrats have watched […]

New York Times: “The shifts add to a growing body of evidence that suggests the audience for pro-Trump content has fallen from its heights and, for some creators, has reached new lows. Views are dropping for many of Mr. Trump’s greatest allies, while some figures on the right who have taken to criticizing Mr. Trump […]

“The Trump administration is in the middle of finding out that it’s very hard — maybe even impossible — to regulate perceived ‘wokeness’ in artificial intelligence,” NOTUS reports. “The government’s main procurement agency is a year into trying to translate President Donald Trump’s ban on ‘woke’ AI into contracting language, and technology companies are pouring […]

The increasingly acrimonious Senate primary between Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) and public health official Abdul El-Sayed draws to a close...

For years, a debate has been simmering in Silicon Valley over the right way to build artificial intelligence. Should it be open and free for anyone to use, or should we tightly control how it’s made and who can access it? Mike Isaac, who covers technology for The New York Ti...

Throughout the summer, inside a small, fluorescent-lit courtroom in Lower Manhattan, hundreds of migrant children, some as young as three, faced deportation hearings. Most appeared virtually. Some sat around desks in a classroom, while others bounced on bunk beds or rocked in chairs inside small offices or storage closets.  Detained in nearby shelters for unaccompanied […]

The post Inside the NYC Courtroom Where Detained Children Face Deportation Without Attorneys appeared first on The City Reporter.

I was curious whether WordPress Site Editor is something a complete beginner could realistically pick up, so I asked Claude to review the experience through the eyes of someone completely new to WordPress. The prompt was simple: forget everything you know about WordPress, start with a blank site, and document every point of confusion, every […]