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“Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) will have at least one Pennsylvania Democrat he doesn’t have to worry about should he run for a second term in the Senate,” the Washington Examiner reports. “Sen. John Fetterman, his home state colleague, told the Washington Examiner he won’t campaign against McCormick in 2030, an unusual promise from a member […]

Hollywood Reporter: “When Michele Tafoya became the Republican nominee for Senate from Minnesota Tuesday night, the longtime Sunday Night Football reporter made a resounding entrance onto the political stage. Tafoya collected more than twice as many votes as her nearest opponent, a former Navy SEAL…” “But Tafoya also sent a different signal with her win: […]

Associated Press: “Democrats remain mixed over what ideological direction the party should take. But across a series of closely watched primaries, they are sending a clearer message about the party’s path forward: They want change…” “The results so far this month deliver no clear ideological mandate. Instead, they add to mounting evidence from this year’s […]

“The Trump administration is dispatching top officials to help campaign for Iowa Republican candidates over the coming days, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker,” CBS News reports.

Jonathan Last: “For all the carping about polls, they’re usually correct. Even in the big surprise elections, like 2016, the polling was mostly accurate: Trump’s results were within the margin of error in almost every state.” “But sometimes there are misses. It’s useful to look at the polling in Wisconsin to understand what happened last […]

Just out: Voicing Our Values: A Message Guide for Policymakers, 2026 Edition by Bernie Horn and Gloria Totten. The book offers research-based language that addresses a wide range of domestic issues.

Kenny Chesney thought he knew how his new album, 'Silver Sands Marina,' was going to end. Then he heard a song that changed everything. Continue reading…

Cal says the century-old villa at the center of Kensington’s Blake Garden has fallen into disrepair and is too costly to fix.

Enter to win a pair of tickets to see Hudson Westbrook at the Toyota Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford on November 6th! Continue reading…

One person's AI-fueled productivity causes extra work for everyone else. It's time to stop the delusional thinking about AI.

New Jersey has banned surveillance pricing in grocery stores, barring retailers from using personal data to set individualized prices.

Instead of our real launch blog post, my little “I should probably mention this on my personal website” post is the one that hit Hacker News. Nevertheless, people got the message. What I loved about CodePen was just being able to try out something really quick and simple. But the new interface makes me feel […]

Ben Thompson goes philosophical about the Claude watermarking:

What the E.U. is doing is stealing the last thing humans have — creation — and demanding it be bundled with substantiation, effectively giving AI the credit. That the human gave AI the text to proofread — or even the prompt to generate writing — doesn’t matter to the bureaucrats.

Apologies to blog readers who are sick of all the AI-related posts! New Micro.blog stuff coming later today.

The U.S. military killed 153 civilians and wounded 250 others in attacks on Yemen last year.

California has permanently banned the use of a deadly, Parkinson's-linked pesticide known as Paraquat.

It’s easy to laugh at this latest childishness from President Cry Baby. But there’s nothing funny about how much power he and his lickspittles are willing to exert to satisfy his petty whims. As we have previously reported, Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum after Trump DO...

Flock cameras are spreading across New York. Here's a list of the communities where Flock Safety cameras have been confirmed. Continue reading…

Seven people were arrested at a popular bar in the Hudson Valley, and a woman was hit by a car by an alleged drunk driver. Continue reading…

AI has made building software cheaper and faster. Twenty years after Getting Real, the harder problem is deciding what deserves to exist and whether its complexity is worth carrying.

'Alt-text' is short for alternative text, and is used to convey the substance of visual content as text. It is important for people with visual disabilities, though is beneficial for a wide range of people. It is useful for low-speed connections where an image might not load, for searching for an image, for SEO/AIO/GEO, for cases where a link to an image is broken, for understanding context, and for a variety of other gains.