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Analysis: OpenAI and Anthropic employees are donating to campaigns more heavily and cohesively than Google, Meta, and Airbnb employees did post-IPO (Alexandra Lindsay/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/07/18/ai-s-…

AI’s new political donor class is already outspending Big Tech’s last one
Campaign filings show AI employees donating faster, more heavily, and more in sync than three prior tech-IPO donor classes. Here’s where the money is going.

Since China offered a truce in the trade war last October following its threat to deprive the United States of rare-earth magnets,
the Trump administration has been happy to stop escalating.
After all, imports from China have been falling, down by 40% in the year to June, compared with the same period in 2024.
Best to declare victory and call it a day.
But the US hasn’t won this battle
– and there’s strong evidence to show it’s afraid to really try.
Last …

Is the US actually too chicken to take on China for trade?
A weak yuan guarantees Beijing massive trade surplus even as the White House tries tamp down on Chinese imports

"Tori Tsui, stood alongside Andy Burnham last year on World Environment Day when the then Greater Manchester Mayor endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty proposal, calling it a “lifeline” to end coal, oil and gas. Today [Friday], her petition was sent to the Prime Minister urging him to stand by that commitment and reject Rosebank."
Stop fanning the flames of the #ClimateCrisis

Stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis, Mr PM!
11,000 campaigners call on the PM to “stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis” in petition stunt outside No. 10 North

Cowboys’ CeeDee Lamb Expressed His Blunt 4-Word Feelings Before Commanders Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/ceedee-lamb-4-word-feelings-commanders/

Last minute best bets for NFL Week 2: Patriots bounce back vs. Steelers, Eagles cover as road favorites

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-2-best-bets-picks/

If anyone is curious, I spliced together some of the ads to show how Tougher Than Tom is using AI to falsely imply efficacy. E.g., showing large numbers of mosquitoes in the trap. The mosquitoes often appear to "fly" around in the liquid. It's poorly done but I bet they are fooling the type of person who doesn't know mosquitoes don't fly underwater. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ipb5v3rwsbttnnjobs38/tougher-than-tom-video-ads.mp4?rlkey=6di92fbqp0f7r7wo148xm02hb&st=qvcvfzgv&dl=0

404 Sleep not found.
But at least the air is still cool
#oncallduty #pikett

Statements of interest allow the government to declare an official position on a legal matter in private lawsuits.
While not binding, they can hold significant weight and help persuade cases.
The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft argues AI firms illegally stole their copyrighted works to train their large language models,
and that AI-generated outputs unlawfully produced market substitutions.
The DOJ's SOI argues copyrighted works to train mo…

First came the blackmail and death threats to secure cooperation,
then came a series of tasks,
each more sinister than the last:
to inform on fellow activists,
to elicit personal information from protest-minded artists and
– eventually – to help with a plot to kidnap and murder a Kremlin enemy.
That is how Rita Flores,
a 29-year-old Russian artist, activist and former member of the Pussy Riot collective,
described her recruitment and three-yea…

‘My fear was too great’: the Pussy Riot member recruited by Russian spies to inform on fellow activists
Exclusive: In her first media interview since fleeing Russia, Rita Flores describes her three years of being run by the FSB

National parks are deteriorating. There’s a fix Congress isn’t making.
The national park system faces a maintenance backlog of $24 billion in crumbling roads, aging water systems, washed-out trails and dilapidated visitor facilities.
That is more than seven times the National Park Service’s annual budget.

Last month, committees in both the House and Senate advanced bipartisan bills to dedicate roughly $1.3 billion annually for park maintenance over the next five years. …

America’s national parks are falling apart. Congress can fix them.
Legislators should fund routine maintenance to prevent bigger problems.