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Incumbent Democratic state Rep. Helena Scott, 66, of Detroit, just lost her primary to 26-year-old Democratic Socialist Chris Gilmer-Hill in the Detroit-based 8th House District. She was the only incumbent to lose, and she did so with an amazingly tone-deaf display by sabot...

Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm’s track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data. Researchers don't yet fully understand how it does this.

Flock Safety’s automatic license plate readers were first sold as upmarket add-ons for gated communities and HOA curtain-twitchers who wanted to keep tabs on what everyone was doing, whether they lived there or not. Flock soon realized that selling to rich people wasn’t as profitable as selling to governments. Law enforcement agencies have always been […]

Brain drain and workforce cuts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency have left the department high and dry.

Bunnie Xo says she's never getting married again. Continue reading…

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has cracked down on 42 corporations selling illegal high-speed e-bikes and e-scooters to New Yorkers. Emergency room visits from electric scooter accidents for children and adolescents have increased 671% since 2023.

I'm working on posting from Micro.blog to RSS.chat today, using the API. For completeness, I think support for the Micropub posting API or even MetaWeblog would be good. Then some existing clients could post to RSS.chat with minimal or no changes.

25 things that explain America, including personal injury lawyer advertisements, Crest Whitestrips, Costco rotisserie chicken, and the Pizza Hut lamp. “The T-shirt cannon merges three American obsessions: guns, sports and freebie giveaways.”

US Attorney Andrew Boutros goes to some lengths to claim it was reasonable for William Hogan not to have corrected Judge April Perry in her misunderstanding that the redactions in the Broadview 6 transcript were due to technical errors. But the effort raises more questions than answers.

The post Assault and [a Dead] Battery: Andrew Boutros’ Technical Bullshit appeared first on emptywheel.

Even though I ran a political media company for four years, I’ve largely avoided writing about politics, and I’m not about to make a habit of it now. But the politics around data centers has come to dominate coverage of AI, and how those politics play out over the next few months will likely determine … Continue reading "The Data Center Debate Rages. Will It Change the Course of History?"

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are waging war on the fraudsters and scammers who have looted hardworking Americans for far too long. Today, that war becomes fully transparent at fraud.gov — a new website where Americans can track every action, every takedown, and every dollar recovered as part of the unrelenting […]

The post Fraud.gov: Track the Trump Administration’s Relentless War on Fraud appeared first on The White House.

Fox: The biggest economic challenges we're facing is the cost of food. Ground beef up 12.4%, milk up 9%. When should Americans expect meaningful relief? Rollins: As soon as we get the job done in Iran

Trump's Agriculture Secretary claims the U.S. is "trending in the right direction" on food prices while Fox airs a graphic of spiking grocery costs

In the “Why don’t they sell that over here?” and “Why can’t we have nice things?” columns this morning, GM has announced range and pricing for its gorgeous new Electra L7 sedan in China, and it is a screaming deal.

Peasant Woman Watching the Geese, 1890 #danishart #pissarro

Cats, 1920 #ottodix #expressionism

Henri Matisse, Dahlias and Pomegranates, 1947 #museumarchive #museumofmodernart

Late last year, Department of Justice (DOJ) officials agreed to make a surprisingly damaging but until-recently little-noticed admission in court:...

The Trump Retribution Feedback Loop The targeting of Anthony Fauci stands as a textbook case of retribution by the Trump...

“The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first mRNA-based flu vaccine, paving the way for a new type of shot that will be available for adults 50 and over looking to get immunized against the respiratory illness,” the Washington Post reports.