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Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/08/18/f…

Francisco Partners to acquire Weave Communications for $650M
The deal comes less than five years after Weave went public at a $1.5 billion valuation.

Attention Star Wars Galactic StarCruiser alumni - coming to San Diego ComicCon:
✅Disney's Most Ambitious Failed Star Wars Attraction Is Coming to SDCC - Collider
https://collider.com/halcyon-daze-the-final-voyages…

Disney's Most Ambitious Failed Star Wars Attraction Is Coming to SDCC
Halcyon Daze, the fan documentary exploring Disney's ambitious Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser attraction, is officially coming to SDCC and Gen Con.

Cowboys Have Clear Free-Agent Solution to Fix Admitted Communication Problem https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-clear-free-agent-solution-fix-admitted-communication-problem

U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham communicated with someone posing as White House chief of staff Susie Wiles
before becoming suspicious that the contact was illegitimate, officials said.
One person briefed on the communications said
a “few messages” were exchanged after the PM entered No. 10
but insisted they were “of no significance.”
“We do not comment on national security matters,” Downing Street said

Burnham exchanged messages with impersonator of top Trump aide
The U.K. leader believed he was communicating with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

Disney signs a deal with Like Nastya, adding some of the YouTube brand's videos to Disney and including an animated preschool series for Disney Jr. and Disney (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne…

Disney Inks Content and Development Deal With Kids Creator Brand ‘Like Nastya’
An animated series for Disney Jr. and Disney+ and new live-action content are in the works.

Just arrived, the result of a rabbit hole I went down recently.
Harich 'Communism without Growth' (1975 Ge, 2034 Sp)
Not available in English ttbomk, but I can read this translation.
Really interesting engagement with the Meadows Limits to Growth report, from the GDR. Parallel to another from Zagreb at the same time.
The quality of the bits I've read is great.
Verso UK should bring it out.

Trump's "communist" panic isn't just senile ranting.
It's a strategy. It comes straight from a book Bannon and Vance endorsed,
a genocide-themed screed that calls for dehumanizing Democrats as demons who don't deserve rights.
The "Unhumans" playbook, exposed

'Unhumans' Playbook Explains Trump's 'Communist' Fixation
“It’s important to use ‘communist’ this way as a slur.”

Chambers has said that he has known since 2015 that he was on the US federal government’s radar,
due to activism against police in Atlanta.
A self-described communist and anti-imperialist, he is heir to one of the richest families in the US,
the owners of Atlanta-based Cox Communications.
He sold stock back to his family worth about $250m in mid-2023 and since then has been funding an estimated 100 projects in 20 countries, Schnabel said.
She said that includes,…

Wife of US heir and activist donor on fighting his extradition to US: ‘It’s incredible that this can happen’
Stella Schnabel says Trump administration is falsely accusing James ‘Fergie’ Chambers of contributing to Hamas

Here’s what you have to understand:
In Donald Trump’s America, all types of protest are unacceptable.
And if he gets his way, everyone involved in either of them could face the same fate.
Trump is currently at war with the left.
Antifa, communists, radical leftist agitators
— call them what you will, he’s coming for them.
But he’s also making plans to come for the center:
attacking nonprofit groups,
suing the press,
and making every ef…

How Trump’s War on the Left Will Come for the Center
The far-left activists catching charges set a dangerous precedent for mainstream liberals.