Trump store owner on plummeting sales:
"He's no longer a viable business model for entrepreneurs because he has peaked"
U.S. Postal Service cuts have caused mail-in ballot rejections to skyrocket, particularly in rural areas.
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Defector
• David Roth
Vivek Ramaswamy Is Going After The Abusive Parent Vote
This is not to discredit the existence of some underlying tactical or strategic calculations, and it is absolutely not extending credit to the shockingly vile creatures doing it, but when you see a reactionary candidate being disgusting it is safe to assume that they are doi...
Electrek
• Jo Borrás
Scania speeds up switch to silent semi trucks with Chinese production
Record fuel prices driven by the dumb oil war in Iran are fueling a faster-than-expected switch to electric trucks in the world’s biggest freight markets – and Swedish heavy truck brand Scania is scrambling to meet demand with a new factory in China.
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Electrek
• Fred Lambert
Tesla pushes Optimus deliveries to late 2027, says hands still a problem
Elon Musk now says Tesla will start delivering Optimus humanoid robots to outside customers around the end of 2027. On Tesla’s Q3 2026 earnings call, he said the hands, the robot’s durability and its AI all still need work before then.
Those are the same three problems every humanoid robot company is fighting. And despite Musk’s claim that nobody is close to Tesla, XPeng and Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics look at least as far along.
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Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
The Dominican Baseball Factory
"Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it."
168th street station.
NEW: A 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons site.
Eight years later, the DOE has spent nearly $12 million fighting to deny them benefits.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hanford-nuclear-workers-compensation-washington-doe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Washington #Nuclear #Energy #Labor #DepartmentOfEnergy #WorkersRights
Host: Journalist Andrew Feinberg received an unsigned email from the White House notifying him that he will not be allowed in the print pool. Meanwhile, the White House sent a letter to Politico demanding that they retract stories or "face the consequences."
Over 200 cases about schools' handling of sexual violence have been filed with the Department of Education.
The Trump administration has opened investigations into just 29 cases.
Fox host: What is dragging down your campaign? Is it Iran, gas, diesel, all of it?
Roger Marshall: It is the cost of gasoline and diesel, no doubt about it
The U.S. and Israel have developed specific plans to bomb Iran after the midterm elections.
GOP Ohio Governor Mike DeWine slams Vivek Ramaswamy's ad featuring Amy Acton's abusive mother:
"The ad is deeply troubling. But when you know the rest of the story, it just makes it more wrong. It's wrong to run this."
Sen. Klobuchar: I can tell you the fastest way to bring down your gas prices, and that is to stop this war in Iran. My opponent blamed gas prices on the Keystone Pipeline. Then she blamed the healthcare costs on Barack Obama. I don't know what will be next, maybe Thomas Jefferson.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Sterling Whitaker
John Anderson's Faith-Filled Final Album
Late country icon John Anderson revealed why his faith informed so many of the songs — and his wise words ring even truer in light of his unexpected death. Continue reading…
WIRED
• Les Shu
Save $150 on the Apple Mac Mini M4, but There’s a Catch
Apple’s Mac Mini M4 is one of the best mini computers you can buy, and it’s $150 off. While it’s a good deal on a new, older-generation model, it’s more expensive than it was at launch.
McSweeney’s
• Lauren McDowell
A Middle-Aged and World-Weary Emily Elizabeth Looks Back at Her Time with Clifford the Big, Red Dog
“Clifford? The big red dog? Yeah, I knew him.” “It says here you owned—” I said. “My parents owned him,” she said, cutting me off, ashing her cigarette over my beer. “But you could say that I raised him. Well, I tried.” She let out a huge wheeze that turned into a ragged cou...
Millions Headed to Hudson Valley From New York DEC Grant
The Hudson Valley will receive massive funding in a newly announced grant allocation from the New York State Department of Conservation. Continue reading…