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Sorority cites Trump while slamming trans sister in discriminatory court filing - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/sorority-cites-while-slamming-trans-sister-in-discriminatory-court-filing/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

The GAO launches a probe into USAGM for potential overreach; sources say congressional staffers warned Kari Lake that she illegally used appropriated funds (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/14/kari-lake-voa-cuts-lawsu…

Kari Lake defends VOA cuts in court after warnings from Capitol Hill
As Trump lieutenant tells a federal judge she is following the law in dismantling the VOA, emails obtained by The Washington Post show staff on Capitol Hill warned her about overstepping.

Sen. Josh Hawley launches a probe of Meta following a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids, tells Zuckerberg to produce docs by September 19 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/meta-ai-bot-child-investigation.html

Sen. Hawley to probe Meta AI bot policies for children following damning report
Sen. Josh Hawley called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to preserve relevant materials, including emails.

PBS leaders meet in Amarillo to discuss future funding following federal funding cuts : Amarillo Tribune https://amarillotribune.org/2025/08/06/pbs-leaders-meet-in-amarillo-to-discuss-future-funding-following-federal-fun…

PBS leaders meet in Amarillo to discuss future funding following federal funding cuts
Leaders from all 10 Texas Public Broadcasting Stations from across the state met at Amarillo College on Wednesday as Panhandle PBS began its annual two-day meeting, which will run through Thursday.

Lovely piece, and why I often take small hotel rooms in cities: so I'm forced out to go explore. I especially love this line: "I understood how a metropolis allows you to be solitary without being lonely." People who don't live in cities don't get this.
https://www.nytim…

Opinion | The Paris Métro Smell That Transports Me
A whiff of the Paris Métro flings me back to a summer I spent in France.

Cats don't grow from trees.
That's silly.
They grow from stumps!

Calls coming in are reports of homeless encampments, mental health crises and people sleeping on sidewalks.
Those calls will now be directed to Los Angeles County’s Emergency Centralized Response Center,
a new department designed to consolidate over 150 outreach teams across 88 cities, all under one roof.
The department soft-launched in January of this year following a motion that was introduced by LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath back in September 2024
Officials…

A look inside LA County's new emergency dispatch center for homelessness
The department hopes to increase accountability and deliver results

I have no fucking idea what’s going on in Dresden Codak but I can’t stop following it because the art is soooo goood
Maybe I need to start reading from the beginning again.

Hundreds of CDC staff rehired by HHS after earlier layoffs from DOGE | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hhs-brings-back-hundreds-staff-following-force-reduction-latest-rehiring-move

Filing: in its ChatGPT lawsuit, the NYT asked OpenAI to produce 120M user chats to analyze how often ChatGPT regurgitates its articles, after OpenAI offered 20M (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.
OpenAI asks judge to drastically limit NYT access to ChatGPT logs.