A win for voting rights in Ohio! A federal judge just blocked Ohio from enforcing a new rule requiring people to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote at a motor vehicle bureau.
RFK Jr: Trump and I are restoring faith in public health. People will take our advice.
RFK Jr: We're doing a better job than any country in the world at controlling the measles outbreak
(2 people in Pennsylvania just died from measles)
Trump reposts a tweet saying, "I don't think the GOP fully grasp how badly they are fucking up right now."
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Court Allows Assault Charges Against Lawmaker to Proceed
“A federal appeals court is allowing two federal assault charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) stemming from an oversight visit to Delaney Hall Detention Facility to move forward, finding she does not have legislative immunity from the charges,” MS NOW reports.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
How Trump Folded the Graham Dynasty Into His Own
“When President Trump stormed into American politics, he sought to tear down the hawkish Republican establishment represented by the likes of Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. His project was a smashing success,” the New York Times reports. “Ten years later, in a quick effort that culminated last night, he pulled out all the stops […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Poetic Justice for Donald Trump
Just published: Poetic Justice for Donald Trump: The Only Kind We’re Going to Get by Buck Banks. A compilation of satirical limericks ripped from the headlines during the Trump era.
Iowa voters' messages to Trump:
"Fuck you... Stop the bullshit... I hope at some point he meets the God that he professes to know and gets in touch with the people that he professes to serve."
Racket
• Natalie Marlin
My Chemical Romance Carry on Carrying on Their Black Parade at Target Field
With Monday night's theatrical extravaganza, the '00s glam-emo art-rockers demonstrated that othing ages as well as sincerity.
Techdirt
• Tim Cushing
As Flock Vandalism Goes Mainstream, One Grand Jury Says Alleged Flock Vandal Did Nothing Wrong
Flock Safety has been on the wrong side of the press cycle — if not the wrong side of history — for most of the last couple of years. Flock’s automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are more comprehensive than many of those previously deployed by law enforcement agencies. Not only do they capture plate/location data, […]
Billionaire CEO of Coinbase's message to young people: "You're not oppressed"
Cattle farmer: We're struggling with Trump's tariffs. We're struggling with fuel costs from the Iran war. It is a national insult to America's producers and cattlemen.
CNN: Beef prices are nearing record highs, surging more than 20% in the last 2 years
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Janakiram MSV
Perplexity just separated reasoning from authority. Here’s why it matters for enterprises.

Perplexity shipped Portable Computer this week, the local-first version of its Computer agent running on an Nvidia DGX Spark workstation,
The post Perplexity just separated reasoning from authority. Here’s why it matters for enterprises. appeared first on The New Stack.
John Voorhees tried the new ChatGPT Work sign-in feature and blogged the details at MacStories:
If you can get logged in, having an agent collect and analyze things like analytics data is fantastic. However, getting past the initial login screen is still too frustrating.
It is remarkable this works at all. OpenAI has all the pieces in place… But I hope they can consolidate Codex, Work, and Chat in a way that isn’t so confusing between local AI and the cloud.
Reading about the Meta settlement. I’m surprised that the changes are actually pretty significant. Nighttime block, muted notifications during school, and no like counts. Of course they could do more, but it’s good progress.
All Things Distributed
• Dr. Werner Vogels
DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics
In this post, Andy Warfield explains how databases like DuckDB are enabling a new way to build with data, why they matter right now, and how they complement the work we’ve been doing in S3 (e.g., S3 Files, S3 Tables, S3 Vectors). And most importantly, why DuckLabs, the team behind DuckDB, is joining AWS
Radar
• Adam Jones and Tadas Antanavicius
Effective Patterns for Advanced MCP Usage
The following article originally appeared on PulseMCP’s blog and is being republished here with the authors’ permission. Most MCP demos feature a single server connecting to a single client. For example, you might wire up a Gmail MCP server to Claude Code. It works! It triages your inbox, drafts replies, finds that thing from three […]
A federal judge has ruled a Texas ban on drag shows is unconstitutional:
"The solution is relatively simple ... just don’t go."
Ars Technica - All content
• Jon Brodkin
Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads
Republicans demanded that parties and fundraising committees be given lowest ad rates.