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Text • Ed Walker

Congress Controls Executive Power

The Constitution requires the President to take care that the laws are faithfully enforced. The Roberts Majority ignores that simple instruction.

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The San Francisco Standard
Text • George Kelly

Did AI crack the Zodiac case? A best-selling novelist thinks so

Crime author Michael Connelly is part of a podcast team that argues they have found the Zodiac Killer and linked him to a famous Los Angeles cold case.

WIRED
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Democrats Have a Plan to Force Trump’s Associates to Cooperate With Investigations

Donald Trump’s West Wing renovations and DC arch could be on the chopping block, should Democrats win the midterms—they could also be leverage.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Trump Praises Tiger Woods’ ‘Very Fair’ Plea Deal

“President Trump praised the no-jail plea deal for Tiger Woods — saying it was a ‘very fair’ outcome after the golfer allegedly drove under the influence of prescription drugs,” the New York Post reports. He added: “I think he’s going to have somebody drive him. I told him that a long time ago, ‘Why do […]

The GitHub Blog
Text • Cassidy Williams

Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!

From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations.

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Buttondown's blog
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Dashboard and Archives downtime

Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Postal Service Building Mail-In Ballot Screening System

“The U.S. Postal Service has been swiftly developing a complex screening system for mail-in ballots ahead of this year’s midterm elections, despite ongoing legal wranglings over President Trump’s executive order to restrict voting by mail,” the New York Times reports. “The new system, which requires states to tell the Postal Service which voters will be […]

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Pentagon Cuts Access to Classified Information

“The Pentagon has pulled decades of classified documents from a secret computer system commonly used by defense officials and U.S. troops, after The Washington Post published a story detailing senior military officers’ concerns about the Iran war,” the Washington Post reports. “It was not immediately clear if the documents remain otherwise available to U.S. personnel […]

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Bessent Blames High Energy Prices On Ukraine

“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian energy facilities were one reason for rising global energy prices, citing those attacks before mentioning the war against Iran when asked about the elevated cost of living in the U.S,” Bloomberg reports. Said Bessent: “We are going through an energy shock right now, due to […]

Racket
Text • Keith Harris

Operation Metro Surge Gets the New Yorker Treatment

Operation Metro Surge Gets the New Yorker Treatment

Plus a new OMS documentary, a corn supplier passes, and sketches from the fair in today's Flyover news roundup.

Nieman Lab
Text • Andrew Deck

Trump administration says a New York Times win in OpenAI lawsuit would “threaten national security” and hurt small newsrooms

On Wednesday, the Trump administration threw its support behind OpenAI, backing the AI giant in its ongoing litigation with The New York Times. The Department of Justice voiced its support through a statement of interest (SOI) filed with the Manhattan judge overseeing the case, which includes a dozen other plaintiffs, including daily papers owned by...

Techdirt
Text • Tim Cushing

ICE Finalizes Stun Glove Purchase, Claims There’s No Other Way To Handle ‘Violent’ Migrants

This was inevitable. ICE has billions of new money to spend, zero shame, and not a single adult in a leadership position capable (or willing!) to talk the agency off the ledge. ICE decided the neat new tool of cruelty it absolutely had to have were gloves that behave like stun guns or low-powered Tasers. […]

Ars Technica
Text • Dan Goodin

My driver's license is one of 153 million for sale on a new dark website

My driver's license is one of 153 million for sale on a new dark website

The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.

Poynter
Text • Lisa Geiger

Poynter’s 2027 leadership track offers training for journalists at every stage of leadership

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Sept. 2, 2026) — The Poynter Institute today announced its full lineup of leadership training programs for 2027, offering journalists and media professionals opportunities to develop their […]

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Amanda Caswell

Multiverse says its 438B model is fast enough for AI agents. The benchmarks tell a more complicated story.

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A 438-billion-parameter reasoning model isn’t an obvious choice when speed is a priority. Multiverse Computing is betting that compression can

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Electrek
Text • Peter Johnson

Kia launches the EV4 GT in Canada, bringing more power and attitude

Kia opened orders for the 2027 EV4 GT, its third “affordable” EV to receive the GT treatment in Canada.

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Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
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Dennis Quaid: 'Everybody Is A Socialist Until They Get A Job, Right?'

Fox's Jesse Watters and wingnut actor Dennis Quaid made the ridiculous assertion that the only people pushing for Medicare-for-all are a bunch of lazy "socialists" who don't want to work. Quaid made an appearance on this Tuesday's Jesse Watters Primetime. While discussing T...

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Billy Ray Cyrus Reacts to Miley Dropping Their Famous Last Name

Miley Cyrus is going by just "Miley" now, and her country music icon father Billy Ray Cyrus has a very personal reason for understanding the move. Continue reading…

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GOP Minnesota Senate candidate Michele Tafoya calls being from Minnesota "embarrassing"

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New photo of a custom gold Donald Trump phone in the Oval Office