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Techdirt 2d ago

Republicans Stumble In Bid To Flood Midterm Airwaves With Discounted Ads

by Karl Bode

Back in June, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission that federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political…

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TruthOut 1d ago

Texas Prosecutor Will Take Houston ICE Killing Case to Grand Jury

by Lomi Kriel

Federal officials are still not cooperating with the investigation of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's fatal shooting.

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404 Media 2d ago

Behind the Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flamin' Hot Slop

by Jason Koebler

This week, we discuss cool old books, new toys for ICE, and a boardwalk slop invasion.

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Tangle 3d ago

President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.

by Isaac Saul

The executive order directs the Department of the Interior to update the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) to change Lake Ontario to “Lake

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Less Wrong 19h ago

How do I know whether my work is worth it?

by Philip Harker

I am working on a fairly large (or large-seeming to me) project in the AI space. I've been soft launching it for a little bit but I've been working on a hard announcement post for…

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TruthOut 2d ago

Dilley ICE Jail Is “Commodification of Child Imprisonment,” says Joaquin Castro

by Amy Goodman

Calls to shut down the facility grow following the detention and deportation of a 5-year-old and his father.

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Ars Technica 1d ago

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

by Cyrus Farivar

Cancellations have accelerated.

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Aaron Parnas 2d ago

Important Update: Trump ‘Renames’ Lake Ontario, DeSantis Misappropriate Millions, USPS Implements Election Order, Major AI Hack

by Aaron Parnas

Good evening.

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ProPublica 3d ago

These Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days.

by Mario Ariza

The post These Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days. appeared first on ProPublica .

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Kottke 3d ago

Emptying the Tabs…

by Jason Kottke

Ok, we’re gonna go a little old school today. I’m talking the late 1990s and early 2000s, back before permalinks (sorry), RSS, and social media turned blog posts & tweets into…

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Less Wrong 23h ago

Is there only one FairBot?

by transhumanist_atom_understander

The FairBot from the MIRI prisoner's dilemma tournament is defined by a theorem of Peano arithmetic (PA) that holds for each opponent: mjx-container[jax="CHTML"] { line-height: 0;…

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Slashdot 1d ago

New York City 911 System Missed 1,700 Calls Due To Software Update

by BeauHD

Longtime Slashdot reader belmolis writes: Part of New York City's 911 emergency system was offline from about 3:13 a.m. to 10 a.m. on August 18th due to a software update,…

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Tangle 1d ago

Will Midterm Campaigns Return to Decency?

by Isaac Saul

Is Iowa gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand (D) practicing a different kind of politics? The candidate recently said "keep in mind this is a debate between

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The Intercept 3d ago

A New Tree-Sit Movement to Block Trump’s Border Wall

by Natasha Lennard

A single tree sit grew into a cross-border continuous protest to defend the Arizona borderland ecology. So far, activists are succeeding. The post A New Tree-Sit Movement to Block…

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Techdirt 2d ago

Pete Hegseth And His Department Of Unconstitutional Revenge Lose Again In California

by Cathy Gellis

When Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a national security risk because it wouldn’t agree to his dangerously unethical demands for what Claude should be able to do, Anthropic sued…

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Heather Cox Richardson 2d ago

August 27, 2026

by Heather Cox Richardson

This morning, a headline in the Guardian read: “RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate.” The story by Michelle R.

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