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Trump to Meet Travel CEOs After World Cup Tourism Boost

“President Donald Trump will meet Wednesday with executives from some of the country’s largest airlines, hotel chains and travel companies as the White House looks to build on a summer tourism boost fueled in part by the men’s FIFA World Cup,” CNBC reports.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Trump Backs OpenAI In Copyright Fight

“The Trump administration is backing OpenAI in its copyright battle with The New York Times, arguing that using copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models can be protected by fair use,” The Wrap reports.

The Texas Observer
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ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations

Inside a cluster of windowless tents, detainees describe losing their sense of time as they spend weeks and even months beneath the flicker of industrial lightbulbs.  Camp East Montana—the largest immigrant detention facility in the country—has quickly become a symbol of the second Trump administration’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement. Located on the Fort Bliss […]

The post ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations appeared first on The Texas Observer.

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Fox: 47% of the country says the cost of living is too high. What can you do as Treasury Secretary?

Bessent: We're going through an energy shock right now because of the war in Ukraine

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Trump pitches renaming the Strait of Hormuz to the "Trump Strait"

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Over 400 school districts across New York have added free pre-K seats.

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The U.S. Mint has officially rolled out 250,000 new $1 coins featuring Trump’s face.
https://www.usmint.gov/campaigns/donald-trump-coin

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

German Business Leaders Raise Concerns About Far-Right

“Just days before the far-right AfD clinches a possible election triumph, German executives are warning of the economic damage that its extremism might wreak,” Bloomberg reports. “The party is on track to win the vote in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, and could even potentially achieve an absolute majority. Such an outcome in the eastern German state […]

Waxy.org
Text • Andy Baio

Unusual Suspects

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Neal.fun’s latest is a sketch artist game where you draw famous characters from witness testimony

via @mrgan.com #

TPM – Talking Points Memo
Text • Josh Marshall

The Backstory on the Big AI Backlash in Independence, Missouri

As you can see in my most recent post, yesterday evening TPM Reader BC flagged this news out of Independence,...

ProPublica
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Hurricane Helene Killed His Wife and Destroyed His Mobile Home. New Tenants Are Now Renting the Same Flood-Prone Land.
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Residents of a riverfront trailer park in the Appalachian Mountains have lost homes and loved ones in multiple storms. A policy gap puts mobile home residents in harm’s way again and again.
https://www.propublica.org/article/western-north-carolina-helene-mobile-home-fema-recovery?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NorthCarolina #Asheville #Hurricane #Housing #Home #Flood

Electrek
Text • Micah Toll

Zero will soon add the main feature its electric motorcycles have always lacked

Zero Motorcycles just announced that coming in 2027 is a much requested feature that the company has yet to include on its electric motorcycles: DC fast charging.

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Micro.blog News Supports Webmention
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Fixed the right side of timeline text cut off at some screen sizes, especially on iPad.

i.webthings hub Supports Webmention
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oh ☆ navi ☆ clematis → Daily H.O.T. → Fries and Ice cream → pure delicate angelic..♡ → nixiebunnie's home Nev.nya.je → Catch you Catch me → welcome to spongelita!

Remarkable People
Text • Guy Kawasaki

The Leader Who Isn’t the Bottleneck

The Leader Who Isn’t the Bottleneck

Most people measure leadership by personal output: the hardest problem solved, the toughest call made, the moment someone stepped in, the brilliant “manifesto.” It can work, for a while, but it also builds a dependency — the organization succeeds because of the glorious leader, not because the leader is building an organization beyond themselves.

John Battelle's Search Blog
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Comparing OpenAI’s Ad Platform to Early Google and Facebook Growth

Watching OpenAI promote its ads business puts me in something of a nostalgic mood. When I saw OpenAI’s thirsty announcement this week proclaiming a billion-dollar revenue run rate in its advertising business, I had myself something of a chuckle. We’ve seen this movie before – I wrote an early script for it in The Search, which … Continue reading "Comparing OpenAI’s Ad Platform to Early Google and Facebook Growth"

News – The White House
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Ten Times Extreme Liberal Democrats in Congress Put Their Dangerous Agenda Ahead of the American People

President Trump and Republicans have passed legislation that has put more money in hardworking American’s pockets and made communities safer nationwide. At every turn, Extreme Liberal Democrats continue to attempt to obstruct commonsense policies in pursuit of their dangerous radical agenda— and their voting record proves it. In fact, last night 192 Democrats voted AGAINST […]

The post Ten Times Extreme Liberal Democrats in Congress Put Their Dangerous Agenda Ahead of the American People appeared first on The White House.

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid
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Deploying a range of optimizations today, across the Micro.blog servers and Mac app. A couple things are dramatically faster. A couple things a tiny bit faster.

Ars Technica - All content
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Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84

Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84

He reported from space that only "fat" Japanese tree frogs enjoyed weightlessness.

Ars Technica - All content
Text • Fernanda González, wired.com

The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones

The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones

The Army says its laser system can track and destroy hostile drones.