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Wall Street analyst on companies donating millions of dollars to Trump's vanity projects:

"We’re replacing the free market with the market for Trump’s affections."

2025–early 2026: Lockheed Martin donates over $10 million for Trump's ballroom and Freedom 250 events

June 2026: The Trump administration awards Lockheed a contract worth up to $35 billion

YouTube told ASMR artists including Bunnii, Slight Sounds, Rose, and others that their content broke the platform's sex and nudity policy. Creators say these bans are unfair and potentially life-altering.

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

Leanne is getting her groove back! Continue reading…

Larch Sapling, 1908 #franzmarc #postimpressionism

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul recently took it upon himself to publicly release Dr. Anthony Fauci's private diary, hailing from his COVID days under the Trump Administration and spanning upwards of 1,000 pages of his inside thoughts, as part of Paul's ongoing feud with and inv...

“Data centers are very good for towns, because they create so many jobs and bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses and stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn’t seen much in the last 30 years and put a data center there, there are gonna be a […]

CNN: “As pressure mounts from fellow Republicans to wind the war down, it actually appears to be expanding, with new fronts opening up and virtually every country in the region now drawn in. Efforts at diplomacy are halting at best; a senior U.S. official said resuming direct diplomacy with Iran does not appear imminent.” “Despite […]

If you run your own RSS.chat instance, you can now add a menu of commands to the menubar. Details in the worknotes for today. I added a DW menu to rss.chat or demo.rss.chat.

A validator and a way to add menus to the RSS.chat menubar, if you're running your own instance.

Links on today's Scripting home page.

“Spain was scrambling Friday to contain a sudden border crisis after tens of thousands of people rushed into its North African territory, with dozens killed and political shock waves spreading across Europe,” NBC News reports. “The dramatic events were ‘a violation of Spain’s territorial sovereignty,’ Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on a hurried visit to […]

Starting tomorrow, Aug. 1, the city's Department of Social Services (DSS) will begin operating its new intake center for single adult men at 8 E. Third St., officially relocating the service from the longtime Bellevue intake shelter on East 30th Street.  The move come...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  Residents of Haven Plaza, community advocacy groups and local elected officials gathered yesterday outside the East Village housing complex on Avenue C and 12th Street to demand more transparency and action from city officials follow...

Sometimes, we just don't have answers... photo on 10th between A and B today by Rainer Turim...

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Previously on EV Grieve: 

A validator and a way to add menus to the RSS.chat menubar, if you're running your own instance.

Links on today's Scripting home page.

When the headline is all most people read, leading with a lie spreads it. The Truth Melt: lead with the truth, name the lie only to correct it.

The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.