WIRED
• Hugo Lowell
With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, the White House knows it has to go all in on Senate races—while virtually forfeiting the House.
Haymaking (June and July), 1565 #pieterbruegel #bruegel
Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
"This is great news for us. We're staffing up. We're accelerating."
The "little problem":
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Trump hits on Arizona congresspeople: "Handsome people. And a beautiful one"
Trump: Elon is 80% super genius. And 20% has a little problem.
Anthony Scaramucci: If Katie Zacharia was my family member, I would say it's not the right job for you. The universe is sending you a message.
Trump on the Qatari AF1: When you're given gifts, you take them. When you're given a 747, you say two words — thank you.
Trump: This is the biggest microphone I've ever seen. I'm going to do a little surgery on this sucker.
Defector
• Kelsey McKinney
Nieman Lab
• Hanaa' Tameez
On a September afternoon in Manhattan’s Union Square neighborhood, Shreyas Sinha is sitting on a toilet, wearing a blue suit. Looking into the camera, he asks, “Why is it that everything I’ve been eating this year is giving me diarrhea?” Sinha is about to link the 2026 cyclospora outbreaks to decades of problems at the...
Ars Technica
• Jon Brodkin
FCC chair threatens E-Rate fund, blames schools for kids' excessive screen time.
It’s time to de-privatize the US government. “The problem is not just that privatization is often inefficient because it adds a nontransparent layer of profiteering on top of government functions. The problem is that government loses basic capacity.”
Electrek
• Michelle Lewis
Revolution Wind is already sending electricity to New England, and all 65 turbines are installed. Now the Trump administration is challenging the federal approval that allowed the offshore wind farm to be built. Again. Yes, really.
more…
Electrek
• Jo Borrás
Your eyes do not deceive you, dear readers – the iconic, stainless-steel bodied and gullwing-doored sportscar brand DeLorean is not only somehow still alive, but they apparently have enough money to campaign a DeLorean-branded eVTOL in the new Airspeeder racing series.
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Q: What's one word you'd use to describe Zacharia's performance?
Scaramucci: Not prepared. Unfortunately, I have been there. I did one press conference in the 11 ill-fated days that I was there. My press conference lasted 40 minutes.
It’s sad that this is necessary, but we’re glad to see action being taken to protect our elections. More than 100 Democratic Senate staffers will head to key polling locations this November to observe the election process as part of a new, first-of-its-kind Senate Election Observer Program.
https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-schumer-announce-recruitment-of-100-senate-staff-and-plans-to-deploy-to-nine-states-ahead-of-midterms/
Hoosiers are fired up! Thank you to everybody who came out yesterday afternoon in Schererville. Together, we are going to send Rep. Frank Mrvan back to Congress and elect Scott Houldieson to Indiana's State Senate.
Hoosiers are fired up! Thank you to everybody who came out yesterday afternoon in Schererville. Together, we are going to send Rep. Frank Mrvan back to Congress and elect Scott Houldieson to Indiana's State Senate.
