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Voters in Festus, Missouri, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection last week, days after the council's approval of a $6B data center (Jeff Tomich/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-ce…

Feds cancel conservation group's Montana bison grazing leases • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/05/13/repub/feds-cancel-conservation-groups-montana-bison-grazing-leases/

The Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE ) 
tagged Jewish themes as “#DEI” (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in ChatGPT
when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year,
according to a class-action lawsuit. 
The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for t…

Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed humanities grants as ‘DEI’ before cancelling them
JTA – The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) tagged Jewish themes as “DEI” (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in ChatGPT when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year, according to a class-action lawsuit.  The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants to study violence against women during the Holocaust, postwar Soviet Jewish literature, and hundreds […]

Pentagon Abruptly Cancels Deployment to Europe as Part of Trump's Drawdown (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-abruptly-cancels-deployment-to-europe-as-part-of-trumps-drawdown-7365b3b5?st=PGgnm2&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p28#a260514p28

NBCUniversal will no longer produce first-run syndicated TV programming, ending shows including Access Hollywood, which has been in production for 30 years (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

‘Access Hollywood’ Canceled Along With ‘Karamo’ and ‘Steve Wilkos’ as NBCU Ends Syndicated Production
The company will continue to distribute library content, but will end production of first-run syndicated programming in a strategic shift.

⚰️ The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
#games

The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
A eulogy for the console soul.

Formula 1 cancels races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia amid Middle East conflict (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/14/formula-1-cancels-races-middle-east-00829213
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p72#a260314p72

L.A. mayoral forum canceled after leading candidates pull out
Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Councilmember Nithya Raman dropped out,
which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.
Mayor Karen Bass originally committed to the forum but dropped out last week,
saying she would instead travel to Sacramento to lobby state officials for funding on a variety of issues including homelessness a…

L.A. mayoral forum canceled after leading candidates pull out
Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Councilmember Nithya Raman dropped out, which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.

The gaming industry is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage (Helen Vogelsong-Donahue/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-ai-nightmares-are-coming-true/

Gamers’ Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True
From the global RAM shortage driving up console prices to job loss in the industry, gaming is shaping up to be one of the AI boom's biggest casualties.