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It turns out that the “civics education” non-profit run by Australian “Alpha Male” MAGA influencer Nick Adams is an enormous grift. This is my shocked face. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

California has the largest virtual power plant in the world, with 200,000 participants. At the exact moment when the grid is dirtiest and most expensive to run, this program surges in with the cheapest, cleanest power. Newsom's budget would kill it. That's just bad policy.

What’s wild is that only a few years ago, “prediction markets” had a whole different name and you used to have to go to Reno or Atlantic City to participate, otherwise it was a crime. Now we can’t even regulate them.

The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."

"The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated. And the world no longer listens to it" - French mission to the UN

Nearly 40 years after Italy abandoned nuclear power following the Chernobyl disaster, Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government is laying the groundwork for a return to atomic energy.

ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:

Text messages and videos obtained by the ACLU show that federal immigration agents who carried out last year’s raids in L.A. referred to Latinos with slurs such as “wet” (wetback) and “tonks,” reportedly derived from the sound a flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head.

Ugh. Just awful. Unclear what happened here but the implication I get from the article is that they’d fallen into deep debt and maybe owed money to some very bad people. And once they’d been deported, paying that money back was probably very very hard.

Yes. Despite everything, there will still probably be 800,000-1,000,000 people who get green cards this year. This is part because backlogs in many categories are so long that even if the Trump admin blocked 50% of applicants, there are enough people in line that total numbers wouldn’t drop.

It's not a disagreement about politics. Itr's a morality/decency thing.

NEWS: Trump’s $10B BBC lawsuit just forced his own trust to open the books. A federal magistrate judge has now filed her written order demanding the production of financial docs on the 400+ businesses the trust owns.

Fair points. I think the health issue is supreme, however. Also, rural children would wait in the dark for those school buses

NEW: DHS' top number-cruncher just left the department -- and blasted the administration's "war on immigrants" on the way out. He's one of the very few DHS officials to step down and speak out publicly against this White House. Me in @wired.com ... www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...

It is amazing that the 250th anniversary of America was pretty much just not a thing. You could tell all the companies thought it would be, they had 250th ketchup and ice cream and energy drinks but all we got was a shit ass fair that no one went to

The largest privately held company in the United States is refusing to concede to workers’ demands for more dignified workplace conditions, including protected bathroom breaks.

If we want to make homeownership more attainable in California, we have to start building condos again. Today, we barely do. Here's why that matters — and why I'm working on reforming California's construction defect laws. 🧵

Communities in the U.S., Mexico, and Chile are organizing against Big Tech and data centers. 📍Two ways to join on Monday, August 3: 📣 2 PM ET: Public virtual IACHR hearing. 📣 6 PM ET: In-person DC debrief & strategy session. Location shared upon RSVP. RSVP for the in-person event: bit.ly/rsvpaug3