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• A new media ecosystem is taking root on the left, reshaping Democratic politics

  The rise of independent media has been part of a digital transformation that transcends politics, as chronically online Americans are turning toward news from social media and content creators. But it’s not just the popularity of smartphones driving that change.

• Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning ‘nudification’ technology

  Elon Musk’s company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law that bans “nudification” technology on websites and apps, potentially providing a test for how far states can go in constitutionally regulating the use of artificial intelligence. Musk’s company sued Monday in federal court, days before the law is set to take effect Saturday and make Minnesota the first state to try to outlaw the increasingly proliferating technology that lets people use AI to to create fake nu...

• Republicans have ‘nothing to run on’ in midterms after Trump failures, Jeffries says

  “Republicans … have failed to actually deliver on making life more affordable for the American people,” Jeffries said to Dana Bash, the State of the Union host. “It was Donald Trump who promised to lower costs on day one. But we know that costs haven’t gone down in this country. Costs have gone up. “It was Donald Trump … who said that he was elected not to start wars, endless wars in the Middle East, but to stop them – and then turned around and has gotten us involved in this reckless war of c...

• Keystone pipeline operator agrees to pay $26.9m penalty over Kansas oil spill

  A proposed legal settlement with the US government would require the Keystone pipeline system’s operator to pay a $26.9m civil penalty over a large oil spill in Kansas in December 2022 and spend about $40m more to prevent future accidents. The agreement would resolve allegations from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Kansas that South Bow, based in Canada, violated US and state clean water laws. The rupture dumped nearly 13,000 barrels of heavy crude oil into a creek running thr...

• Lindsey Graham Having Fun During The 2025 Government Shutdown

  Reposting this in case anyone out there honestly thinks they should have any measure of sympathy for this monster, who apart from celebrating dead schoolkids, partied at the White House while 10,000,000 Americans were kicked off food stamps during the 2025 government shutdown.

• 'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

  A software developer made a Chrome and Firefox extension called Knockoff that automatically hides, grays out, or filters products from sketchy brands on Amazon, which highlights just how many shady brands are on the platform and how commonly they show up on searches for basic items.

• Samsung, SK hynix, Micron Sued in US Over Memory Price Fixing

  The lawsuit is small in scale so far, but if the court accepts the plaintiffs’ claims and formally approves it as a class action, it could expand. Bathaee Dunne, the antitrust law firm representing the plaintiffs, is aiming for a class action representing all general consumers and businesses that purchased products containing D-RAM. The firm previously won a case alleging collusion in Google’s digital advertising. If the plaintiffs ultimately prevail in the class action, the defendant companies...

• Judge extends block on Trump’s $1.8 billion ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’

  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge agreed on Friday to extend a court-ordered block on the Trump administration’s creation and operation of a $1.8 billion settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government. Earlier this month, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress that the government is scrapping its plans for the fund in the face of a fierce bipartisan backlash. Government attorneys have argued that lawsuits challenging the fund are now...

• Post #3320205

  Yes, and that difference is presentation. One side buries the knife in your back. The other makes excuses as to why they won’t (not can’t) give you treatment. Just two gears in the same fascist machine.

• Post #3251524

  Even if any of this is true, he’s still better than basically every other Democrat, who are killing off the poor and middle class through accepted and civilized means like deliberate impoverishment, private imprisonment, and supporting wars that only poor people are sent to fight. Platner’s anti-billionaire, which is the most important issue right now.

• Cancer jab can eradicate entire tumours in patients, trial shows

  Doctors have hailed “unprecedented” trial results that show a triple-action cancer jab can eradicate entire tumours in patients. In an international trial spanning 11 countries, the injection was offered to patients whose cancer had spread or come back and whose disease had failed to respond to other treatments. The jab, called amivantamab, shrank the tumours of more than a third of patients, with dramatic changes seen within weeks. In 15 of them, doctors found the drug had melted away their...

• It's The Best Day Of The Year - Not A Fathers Day

• NYC exhibit displays millions of Epstein files to spotlight US corruption (VIDEO)

  A New York pop‑up exhibit by the ‘Institute of Primary Facts’ is displaying 3.5 million pages of Jeffrey Epstein files, along with a Trump–Epstein timeline and a memorial to victims. Organisers say they want to educate the public about corruption and threats to democracy.

• Crypto industry scores win as Clarity Act regulation bill clears Senate hurdle

  The cryptocurrency industry notched a key win after a Senate panel on Thursday approved the Clarity Act, the first wide-ranging piece of legislation pertaining to the new industry. The Senate banking committee largely voted along party lines, 15-9, with Democratic Sens. Ruben Gallego, of Arizona, and Angela Alsobrooks, of Maryland, joining all Republicans on the panel to vote for the bill. The measure has a long way to go before becoming law, given both powerful opposition and the fact that...

• TIL about Hoopla Digital, an app that lets you access all the digital content in your local library for free: Movies, Music, TV Shows, E-Books, Audiobooks, and even Comic Books

  It’s basically Libby on steroids. So cool. I had no idea this existed before doing research for my next YT video.

• US warns shipping firms they could face sanctions over paying Iranian tolls in the Strait of Hormuz

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States is warning shipping companies that they could face sanctions for making payments to Iran to safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The alert posted Friday by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control adds another layer of pressure in the standoff between the U.S. and Iran over control of the Strait of Hormuz. About a fifth of the world’s trade in oil and natural gas typically passes through the strait at the mouth of the Persian Gulf in...

• US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid

  WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday. Gannon Ken Van Dyke was part of the operation to capture Maduro in January and used his access to classified information to make money on the prediction market site Polymarket, the federal prosecutor’s offi...

• California’s jet fuel supply drops to three-year low as Middle East turmoil squeezes global oil market

  California’s jet fuel supply has dropped to a level not seen since 2023, as turmoil in the Middle East continues to squeeze the global oil market. As of 17 April, the state’s jet fuel stock was just over 2.6m barrels, in comparison to 3.2m barrels two years prior, according to the California energy commission (CEC), which publishes a refinery stocks data dashboard. California received 61.1% of its oil supply from foreign sources in 2025, according to the CEC – a majority of whom are Asian re...

• Louisiana judge in abuse case belatedly recuses himself after ruling in favor of church on whose finance panel he sits

  Only one judge in Louisiana has ruled in favor of the Catholic church’s ongoing attempts to strike down a law there which allowed old abuse claims their day in court – even after a state supreme court decision upheld the constitutionality of that so-called “lookback window”. But now, that judge – Kendrick J Guidry of Lake Charles – is being forced to acknowledge that his ruling benefited a specific church on whose finance committee he sits, giving him a direct financial interest that required...

• U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material

  The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday ⁠to take up the issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning away ​a case involving a computer ​scientist from Missouri who was ​denied a copyright for a piece of visual art made by his AI system. Plaintiff Stephen Thaler had appealed to the justices after lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office decision that the AI-crafted visual ⁠art ‌at issue in the case was ineligible for copyright protecti...

• Post #529350

  I’m sure that switch disables it and isn’t just a presentation. Cheers.

• Post #235095

  The Federal Communications Commission seems eager to let SpaceX experiment with massive data centers in space. On Wednesday, Chairman Brendan Carr tweeted, “The FCC welcomes and now seeks comment on the SpaceX application for Orbital Data Centers.” SpaceX’s application to launch up to one million satellites has been accepted by the agency, kicking off a public comment period. The announcement is surprising because the company only submitted its proposal on Friday. Usually, the FCC takes weeks...

• Post #34884

  There are older models you can get that work that way. They’re just less convenient in that you have to clean them out yourself. I had one for a long time, but I wanted one that is self-emptying.