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“Kamala Harris will keynote a Fulton County Democrats dinner and stump with Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff at the end of October, capping off a spate of appearances on the trail for a select group of candidates on the midterms ballot this year,” CNN reports. “That positions Harris as a closer in one of the key […]

“Senate Majority Leader John Thune declined to answer a question on whether the Republican-controlled Senate would pass President Donald Trump’s proposal to give each U.S. adult a $5,000 payment,” Bloomberg reports. Said Thune: “Well, that’s a good question. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.” New York Times: Trump wants to give out […]

Rental prices have surged in San Francisco more than anywhere else in the country in the last year.

NEW: Evidence that became public only in the last two years raises new questions about a Saudi man who assisted two 9/11 hijackers.

“Somebody needs to explain to the American people why we didn’t see this information before,” a former FBI agent said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-911-saudi-bayoumi-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Journalists at Lee Enterprises — the chain that owns such titles as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Omaha World-Herald — are well accustomed to cuts at the end of […]

The post Seven months after its new chairman called layoffs a ‘bad’ word, Lee Enterprises cuts staff appeared first on Poynter.

Election Interference Happening Now News that the Trump DOJ is escalating its attack on state election officials first emerged, I...

More than a dozen local TV news channels ran an identical segment claiming anti-Flock camera activism is led by pro-China leftists.

The segment was produced and aired by Sinclair, a corporation which operates nearly 300 "local" news stations.

And what is the Villa Albertine, you may ask? It is the French Institute for Culture and Education, and is a division of the French Embassy in the United States. I will be taking part of the Villa Albertine’s two-day international literary festival bringing together authors, translators, critics, and publishers from France and the United […]

Industry Standard Tools: A list of tools of various trades that are “so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses,” compiled “by the people who use them.”

“That sounds like a ‘you’ problem,” is so very often the appropriate response when communicating with a business.

Quick video demo of the new photos picker in Micro.blog for Mac. Much faster to grab a photo from your library in Photos.app.

Ben Thompson in today’s daily update about AI on the Apple Watch:

It does appear that Apple has taken care with this feature, including not making raw transcripts available, even to the Apple Watch owner, but this is an area where I wish the company wasn’t early.

Good perspective from Dave Winer about the news that Matt Mullenweg is on leave from Automattic:

I didn’t want to be the CEO of a tech company, and I expect that being the CEO wasn’t really a good fit for Matt either. A CEO’s job is very different from being a developer and idea guy which Matt clearly sees himself as. Something has got to give, either you’re a good CEO and the product languishes, or you focus on the product, and the company is unmanaged.

This applies to Micro.blog too. I’m not a good CEO and not a good boss. I try to make the web a little better by helping people blog.

As President Donald Trump desperately tries to convince the American people that his war of choice with Iran will conveniently, finally come to an end right after the midterm elections -- as the Republican Party faces the prospect of a brutally humiliating loss in both bran...

Bob from finance built a scheduling tool last month. He described it to an AI assistant on a Sunday afternoon,

The post We found that 1 in 5 MCP access policies came back broken or missing appeared first on The New Stack.

When Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 this month, it centered the announcement around one benchmark result: its Terminal-Bench-Science score. In

The post Fable 5.1 vs. Fable 5: Results on a real-world budget, not the spec sheet appeared first on The New Stack.

On a Thursday in late August, Republican Speaker of the U.S. House Mike Johnson was on a campaign swing through a handful of key congressional districts in South Texas that will be critical to whether he keeps his job next year. One of those stops was an early-afternoon rally for Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina […]

The post In Laredo, a County Judge and MAGA Convert Seeks to Topple Henry Cuellar appeared first on The Texas Observer.

It’s an ungainly word for English speakers, which is maybe why we do not hear it often: Gleichschaltung. Yet the concept remains central for a clear view of what happened to Germany in the 1930s. In 1933, the nation completely transformed, seemingly overnight, through “a concerted policy of ‘coordination’ (Gleichschaltung),” the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum […]

Today, we’re surrounded by technologies we could justifiably describe as time thieves. In ancient Greece, those who wanted to know where their time was going consulted a device they called a “water thief.” The roots of the clepsydra, or water clock, go back as far as the sixteenth century BC, with evidence of such devices […]

When the historian Timothy Snyder left Yale for the University of Toronto in 2024, he took with him the practice of occasionally putting his course lectures online, making them available to anyone who cares to learn from them. Above, you can watch ten lectures from his recent course Hitler and Stalin Today. In this course: […]