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Trump Warns Alaskans Not to Vote for ‘Imposter’ Candidate

“President Donald Trump issued an Election Day warning to voters in Alaska on Tuesday, urging them to make sure they vote for the ‘real’ Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and not the primary challenger with the same name who will also appear on the ballot,” Mediaite reports.

Political Wire
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People Really Don’t Like Trump

Jonathan Bernstein: “I’m not so concerned with the various crosstabs about which people still support him and which do not – it’s sufficient for most things to just know that most people think he’s doing a bad job, and then for specific situations it all depends on who the key groups are. What I do […]

Paul Krugman
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A New Level of Trumpian Evil

A New Level of Trumpian Evil

North Korea is the worst government on Earth; Trump prefers it to the prosperous democracy next door

WIRED
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Exclusive: You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone—a Sustainable, Repairable Smartphone—in the US

More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).

WIRED
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Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To

Proton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?

WIRED
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The Cop Who Took On Flock

After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Primary Races to Watch Today

“The star of Tuesday’s primaries is President Donald Trump’s adopted home state, where outgoing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis moved to redraw congressional maps,” Semafor reports. “With that, DeSantis fired the starting gun for ambitious Republicans to seek new safe-looking seats, simultaneously retiring Tampa- and Orlando-area Democrats who are now competing for Trump-won districts. The remapping […]

Ars Technica
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As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers

As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers

Research shows heat amplifies the dangers of pesticides.

Poynter
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More than 200 AI-generated ‘local news’ sites just went dark

Prism News has suspended its network of more than 200 AI-generated “local news” sites following investigations from multiple outlets that exposed plagiarism and falsehoods. Over the last few weeks, I […]

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Open Channels FM Podcast Network
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How AI is Transforming Open Source Communities and Digital Innovation

In this episode of Open Web Conversations, Adam Weeks chats with Nate Stewart on AI's transformative impact on open source. They explore challenges, opportunities, and the evolving role of agencies as digital experiences shift in the AI era.

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Reza Satchu

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Reza Satchu is a business leader, serial founder, and educator whose work sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, leadership, and decision-making under uncertainty. As a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Management Unit at Harvard Business School, he teaches The Founder Mindset and Founder Launch—courses he created to help founders navigate ambiguity, make high-stakes commitments, and […]

PRINT Magazine
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The Daily Heller: Seymour Chwast, 95, Still Making Things!

Please take a few minutes today to wish Seymour Chwast good wishes on his 95th birthday. Below is a sampler…

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Political Wire
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Political Dirty Tricks Upend Midterm Races

“The 2026 midterms are becoming a watershed election for primary meddling, mysterious super PACs, alleged straw candidates and all other manner of political shenanigans,” Axios reports. “Why it matters: With the number of battleground House districts diminished by redistricting and the fight for the Senate extremely tight, each one of these schemes could have an […]

Poynter
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Stop showing up to job interviews without a plan

There was the time I addressed a cover letter to a hiring editor with “Dear Matt.” His name was Mark. In another interview, I spent 10 minutes answering the “tell […]

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Stripe Clinches Over $7 Billion Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter (bloomberg.com)

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Why Is It So Hard to Build a Transformer? (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Ukraine vs Wildberries: how Kyiv’s drone strikes deep into Russia are redefining critical… (medium.com)

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🎁 Media krijgen boete ‘wegens reclame’ in Ozempic-berichten (fd.nl)

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I Taught A Scorekeeping Class And Everybody Came | Defector (defector.com)

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Es geht um 50 Millionen Franken: Klimaforscher werfen Rösti «Trump-Methoden» vor (tagesanzeiger.ch)

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