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The Trump-appointed Kennedy Center board just voted to put Trump’s name back on the building’s facade and partially close the iconic arts center for up to two years for renovations.

“In the Supreme Court term that ended in June, President Trump suffered three stinging losses,” the New York Times reports. “Or were they merely temporary setbacks?” “Trump has said that none of the three rulings — on tariffs, the Federal Reserve and birthright citizenship — will stand in his way. Other paths exist, he said, […]

Vivek Ramaswamy says privatizing Social Security is "a reasonable conversation to have"

Wife of a sailor who jumped off the USS Lincoln says she was not contacted for 4 days after the incident: "It was handled very poorly because they didn’t inform me and they didn’t want me to know, and they’re just trying to cover this up."

In a press release Wednesday, Mayor Daniel Lurie and the police and fire unions came out against the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act.

TechCrunch on how Me.sh (née Clay) is now available on Android. Also, kudos to those other Clay folks for winning the Clay memetic namespace dominance.

If a news outlet announces a website launch, you might think it’s safe to assume it’s a news website that’s launching. But that’s not what Chicago Public Media has in mind for chicago.com. Chicago Public Media is already the parent nonprofit of two existing news sites, WBEZ and, since 2022, the Chicago Sun-Times. For chicago.com,...

Hey Siri, how much is the news worth to an AI assistant? The answer, according to a report by Alexandra Bruell in The Wall Street Journal, starts at $100 million. Apple has approached publishers to use their news and up-to-date information in the revamped Siri AI, sources told the Journal. The company has reportedly discussed...

New Yorkers can once again enjoy dining in restaurant roadside sheds year-round and enclosed sidewalk cafes during the coldest months of the year under a package of bills the City Council passed Thursday in a move to expand outdoor dining.  Many of the city’s streets were lined with curbside tables during a pandemic-era outdoor dining […]

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They seem prepared to wait for the next American president.

“The Trump administration is encouraging American companies to conduct their own cyberattacks against criminal hackers, a move that White House officials say will help address digital scourges like ransomware but that some former officials and security experts warn could lead to chaos,” the New York Times reports. “Under a national security memorandum that President Trump […]

Jamelle Bouie almost never misses. In this video that’s just shy of 10 minutes long, he chastises American political & cultural pundits for their lack of moral seriousness w/r/t their focus on “wokeness” instead of the real harms being done by the authoritarian Trump r...

OpenAI is launching a new feature for ChatGPT Work and Codex on macOS that sounds quite useful but may also

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I don't like seafood. But a visit to an Oakland crawfish boil may have changed my mind. Maybe.

Will it be the VSS... Horizon, Explorer, Ascend or Apeiron?

With the start of the general election, Wisconsin reporters are finally starting to ask Tom Tiffany questions that go beyond whether he likes Thanksgiving. Matt Smith of WISN-TV caught up with Tiffany and asked him a pointed question about whether he wanted Trump and his lo...

“The Social Ritual That Made Me a Better Man: Long live guys' night." “… the couple of evenings a month that I shared with Steve and the others became for me a safe and premeditated truancy from domestic commitments. The ceremony amounted to a pressure valve. Once released, it sent us home tired and inebriated but also kinder, happier, and more giving.” By Thomas Chatterton Williams at The Atlantic.

Sailors in the USS Lincoln and their families are suffering low morale and mental illness due to long deployment. Multiple sailors have tried to go overboard.

Colman Domingo is nominated for two Emmy Awards for two very different performances — in the Netflix comedy The Four Seasons and in HBO's Euphoria. "I can go very deep with my characters," he tells co-host Tonya Mosley. He talks about doing comedy with masters like Tina Fey, ...