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House Republicans have advanced a bill prohibiting requirements for employers to provide access to rest, shade, and water in extreme heat.

GOP Rep. Randy Fine is caught snooping through a constituent's mailbox while canvassing

A 72-year-old-woman is suing ICE for pepper spraying her while she peacefully recorded agents.

I was overheard to have said Exhumed this from a Facebook comment to repost here: About advertising, there have been two state changes in the business. One I unpacked eleven years ago, here: https://dsearls.medium.com/separating-advertisings-wheat… The most quoted line from that one is "Madison Avenue fell asleep, direct response marketing ate its brain, and it woke […]

“The U.S. national debt is likely to surpass $40 trillion this week, months earlier than forecasters previously expected in part because of billions of dollars in lost revenue from President Donald Trump’s invalidated tariffs,” the Washington Post reports.

The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.

Gigi and I have signed the Statement on Superintelligence, which calls for a pause on the development of superintelligence. This blog post lays out our rationale for doing so now after having previously held off on supporting other “pause AI” appeals. We have a broad set of initiatives in the Hudson Valley and beyond aimed at securing human thriving in the AI age. These include a basic income pilot, various steward ownership projects, and a community learning center. Two preconditions appear,...

After years of feckless capitulation, ABC is clearly developing something vaguely resembling a backbone. The company has filed a new lawsuit against Brendan Carr and the FCC (pdf), (correctly) claiming that the agency has been engaged in a coordinated campaign of harassment that violates the First Amendment and tramples the company’s free speech rights. The […]

The Trump administration has halted bulldozing inside Big Bend National Park after a wave of bipartisan opposition over construction in one of Texas's most celebrated wilderness areas. CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott announced the pause Monday, saying he had flown to Tex...

The vanishing of Mitch McConnell.

And also a trailer for season 2 of Star Wars: Ahsoka. Huh. Lots of Anakin, but where are the space whales?

Some people are fans of the Carolina Panthers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Carolina Panthers. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your Team: The Carolina Panthers

Your 2025 record: 8-9, but not just any old 8-9. This the best 8-9 in the whole NFC South, making the Panthers division champs despite having a losing record—the bad smell that comes with its own deodorizer. Only five teams have ever achieved such a feat, and the Panthers are two of them. They also had the third-worst point difference of any division winner ever (minus-69), so the only luck they could claim as their own was their location.

Segel returns to talk with Terry Gross about his Emmy-nominated series Shrinking, in which he plays a therapist who suffered a nervous breakdown in the wake of his wife’s death. Segel opens up about his own therapy, acting opposite Harrison Ford, and overcoming writer's block...

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A paper tiger cares about appearances more than anything else.

Make it make sense.

Donald Trump keeps trying to restrict mail-in voting — but just voted by mail for the SECOND time this year.

Clearly, the “problem” isn’t election integrity. It’s who gets to vote.

FCC demands "total capitulation" in Trump censorship campaign, Disney suit says.

We've learned there's now an easy way to check if law enforcement has searched for your license plate. Continue reading…

We’ve got an even more EV-packed edition of Green Deals than we saw yesterday, filled with first-time deals from three of our favorite brands. First, there’s the backorder bundle deal on Lectric’s XPress2 Long-Range Step-Thru Cruiser e-bike with $723 in FREE gear, including...