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The Anti-Data-Center Movement Is Reshaping Michigan Politics

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Climate activist Will Lawrence cofounded the Sunrise Movement. Now, he has shifted his focus in his attempt to compete for a swing-district seat by calling for a data center moratorium.

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All of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolen

valleynewslive.com/2026/08/04/every-flock-camera-winona-minnesota-cut-down-stolen-coordinated-theft/

Lost cameras valued at about $24,000

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Surprise! Trump Endorsement Derailed by MAGA Racism

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Donald Trump’s fans are not happy he backed Amir Hassan.

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With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook

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Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals.

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The Ellison Credibility Crisis

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The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at CBS News.

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The Coffee Industry Is Unequal. A Marxist Economic Theory Explains How.

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Demand for coffee is growing, and climate change threatens supply—yet consumers don’t want to pay more. In an intensified and unequal industry, however, someone always pays.

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Recommended but not forced segregation: New guidance could push Trans+ people out of public life

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The long-awaiting Code of Practice may have been watered down, but it could roll back trans inclusion laws by more than two decades.

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The inevitable weakness of metrics

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Quantifying our lives is easier than it’s ever been. But a philosopher of games warns that external metrics and data can never capture what’s truly important.

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EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

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The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.

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TRUMP BECOMES THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT TO LOSE A WAR! - 8.6.26

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SEASON 5 EPISODE 1: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN  A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Hey look, we're back. A special edition to test new equipment (both internal and mechanical), and to talk about the amazing reality that Trump has lost his war in Iran, and the only resu...

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Dirty air may trigger painful rheumatoid arthritis flares

Tiny pollution particles from smoke, soot, and dust may worsen rheumatoid arthritis and raise the risk of painful flares, particularly after prolonged exposure. The findings suggest that avoiding poor air quality could become an important part of managing the disease.

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THC medication made PTSD nightmares disappear for more than a third of patients

A prescription form of THC helped many people with PTSD escape recurring trauma-related nightmares, with more than one-third reporting that the nightmares disappeared completely after ten weeks. The results could point toward a long-awaited treatment for one of PTSD’s most distressing and stubborn symptoms.

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567-million-year-old fossils rewrite the dawn of animal life

A spectacular fossil site in Canada contains 567-million-year-old creatures that may represent some of the earliest animals to move, reproduce sexually, and develop recognizable body plans. The discovery pushes key evolutionary milestones back by up to 10 million years and suggests complex animal life may have first flourished in the deep ocean.

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Claude Fable 5 AI finds a tiny formula that topples an 87-year-old math conjecture

A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famous problem that has resisted mathematicians for more than a century. The result shows that the conjecture is false in three dimensions and above, although the original two-dimensional version remains unsolved.

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Budget Cuts, Apathy Lead To Trump Administration Being Slow Acknowledging Two Cyclosporiasis Deaths

A couple of weeks ago we discussed how the cuts made to HHS and specifically the CDC’s FoodNet tracking platform were making it much harder to track and back trace the source of the country’s current cyclosporiasis outbreak. You’ll have heard about this outbreak in the news by now. It’s the one where you begin […]