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The nonprofit National Trust for Local News is acquiring the Vermont Community Newspaper Group in a deal that will close this month, the Trust announced Thursday. The deal, which will add five weekly newspapers covering more than a dozen northern Vermont communities to the Trust’s portfolio, expands the nonprofit’s footprint to a fourth state, joining...

If Officer Trenton Garner had an ounce of integrity, he'd resign from the Cedartown Police Department instead of releasing this ludicrous statement in the incident report. On the other hand, though, Cedartown is about to get slapped with a lawsuit, and an admission of guilt...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is a font of disinformation and fever dreams. She never fails to disappoint. Rollins somehow touted the administration's record for farmers and ranchers while contrasting it with what a Kamala Harris presidency supposedly would have mean...

CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.

“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries could be on a collision course with progressives and grassroots activists who are demanding Congress pass legislation to pause the construction of new data centers. Jeffries, who is set to become speaker if his party wins the House majority in November, hasn’t weighed in on whether he will push a […]

BULLETIN: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN SEPTEMBER 3 2026 Trump's favorite Goebbels impersonator Maria Bartiromo has been fired by Fox - I believe directly by Rupert Murdoch - for telling Trump that Fox News had ordered her and others to not give credence to Trump's July spe...

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

Fixed video playback in the timeline to not cause the size to change. Also better support for poster frames coming from the fediverse.

IONNA is giving Labor Day road-trippers a pretty awesome charging deal: From Friday, September 4, through Monday, September 7, charging across its entire network will cost just $0.20 per kWh, plus tax.

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They will host their grand opening celebration this month in Liberty and they are inviting the community out to join them on this special day! Continue reading…

Bathers. Mont Sainte-Victoire in the Background, 1902 #cezanne #cubism

L'arrière chat - grand chat #victorbrauner #surrealism

Catching up on the foldable iPhone rumors ahead of next week’s announcement… Kind of bummed it’s called Ultra. Fold or Duo could’ve been great. Maybe at $2k, they needed a more serious name.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents

“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced new legislation Thursday calling for a permanent ban on superintelligence alongside a renewed demand for a pause on advanced AI development,” Axios reports. “Sanders is the first prominent American politician to call for an outright ban on superintelligence as Big Tech companies release increasingly powerful AI models that they themselves […]

Luke Bryan's dropping a new album September 18th, and his own kids basically couldn't care less about hearing it early. Continue reading…

Democrats are taking a convoluted, complex provision that was included in Republicans’ Big Beautiful bill to pin the blame for...

Through much of the course of the U.S.’s war in Iran, the Trump administration has tried to avoid calling the...

Plus the shooting in Loring Park, the patriarchal pastor behind Pete Hegseth, and one nice thing in today's Flyover news roundup.

In a livestreamed keynote on Thursday, OpenAI president Greg Brockman announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a new global initiative to

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