2026-08-17 20:45:36
Q&A with Semafor EIC Ben Smith about building an "anti-scale business", including not chasing traffic, having tech CEOs as advisors, news influencers, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/980759/be
Q&A with Semafor EIC Ben Smith about building an "anti-scale business", including not chasing traffic, having tech CEOs as advisors, news influencers, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/980759/be
How Dario Amodei's essays on AI safety and ethics help explain some AI fears; his regulatory stance evolved from wariness in January to embracing safety reviews (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…
Abstracts from 'Digital Heritage and the Global South: Ethics, Politics, Futures' in July 2025. A focus on AI and 'digital colonialism, algorithmic bias, infrastructural dependency on Big Tech, and the erasure of local agency, while foregrounding community-led and decolonial approaches to digital heritage'
Despite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount.
Conflict of Interest:
Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts,
FCC commissioners are compromising the agency’s impartiality
and should avoid acting on Paramount’s pending merger.
Mixing Business and Pleasure:
After voting for a Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took …
Consistent irresponsibility: in May 2024, OpenAI disbanded its Superalignment team and subsequently its AGI Readiness team as well. Now it is the turn of the Preparedness team. Other senior staff from the security and ethics departments have also left the company.
#OpenAI #ITSecurity
Kushner predicts Hamas disarmament progress in about 30 days
Trump approval falls to 33%, lowest of his presidency, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Texas parents ask US supreme court to hear Ten Commandments in classrooms case
House ethics committee investigating Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations
Trump says Kim Jong-un has responded to his overtures but doesn't offer details
Trump blames 'vandals' for damaged grass in the spot where he held his…
Tuesday 21 July, Durham-Raleigh #Accessibility MeetUp (online or IRL in Millersville) will talk about the book, “Digital Accessibility Ethics: #Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech” with @…
Ethics disclosures show 7 out of 10 FCC commissioners since 2016 have accepted Kennedy Center tickets worth thousands courtesy of CBS or its parent company (Corey G. Johnson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/paramount-mergers-fcc-kennedy-center-gala
House Ethics Chair Violates the STOCK Act (Dave Levinthal/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/money/house-ethics-committee-chair-michael-guest-stock-act
http://www.memeorandum.com/260817/p85#a260817p85
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116924874418802342
This.
I'm so tired of seeing the back-and-forth on open source projects where people pointing out that GenAI is unethical are "rebutted" by others ignoring the ethics and saying it&…
Federal Communications Commissioner Olivia Trusty
cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media.
Now, the commissioner and a guest enjoyed the star-studded celebration thanks to tickets gifted to her by Paramount worth more than $12,000, according to ethics disclosure records obtained by ProPublica.
The other commissioner who approved the merger watched from a prized perch.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr and his wife sat in a privat…
I would like to train a group tigers to eat politicians on command, but ethics holds me back.
I couldn't possibly risk giving those sweet tigers a tummy ache!
FCC officials took luxury gifts from Paramount
https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-paramount-gifts-brendan-carr-ethics-complaint-warner-bros-merger
https://huggingface.co/spaces/society-ethics/annotated-encyclical
Meg Mitchell, aka Shmargaret Shmitchell, with whom I am proud to be acquainted, has provided an annotation of an AI paper by none other than the Pope
The world is a strange and mysterious pla…
"Here's the thing though. As a 25-year consumer protection reporter, I regret to inform you that corporations are not capable of meaningfully self-auditing themselves on ethics. History is pretty clear on this. You need functional, well-staffed, well-funded, legally supported independent government regulators with the threat of very real fiscal and reputational penalties for that. "
#regulation
Towards a practice of knowledge commoning: academics’ ethical duties to defend Wikipedia in the age of generative AI
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-026-01373-z?status=info&saved-doi=10.1007/s43681-026-…
(Insert your own snarky comment about integrity in politics)
SF election money is growing. City ethics watchdogs are waning.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/07/big-money-in-san-francisco-elections-is-growing-but-city-wat…
(Insert your own snarky comment about integrity in politics)
SF election money is growing. City ethics watchdogs are waning.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/07/big-money-in-san-francisco-elections-is-growing-but-city-wat…
SPJ releases a draft of its revised ethics code, its first update since 2014, including removing a line that journalism should "give voice to the voiceless" (Liz Skalka/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature…
House Ethics investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/ethics-investigating-jimmy-gomez-sexual-misconduct
http://www.memeorandum.com/260817/p81#a260817p81
Donald Trump’s use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune
has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues
by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefitting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more,
while federal oversight of his actions has waned.
Trump last year raked in at least
$1.4bn from his crypto ventures according to financia…
#BenAndJerrys has a concern over corporate interference when their ethics get in the way of profit. So they're suing parent company, #Magnum #IceCream.
✅ What Big Food Did to Ice Cream - …
"Think of a small town where people don’t lock their doors or windows because of the unwritten rule that no one steals. Under these circumstances, the first thief to commit robberies operates at a huge advantage. He can effortlessly get into anyone’s house.
This first-mover advantage disappears as soon as people catch on and start locking their doors and windows. But the thief doesn’t bear the costs of the locks or the hassle of locking all the doors and windows."
The executive branch plays no role in making election policy or regulating election administration
—the Constitution explicitly leaves those responsibilities to the states and Congress.
The “Proposed Rule: Ballot Mail for Federal Elections” therefore conflicts with the Constitution.
Beyond that, it is bad policy that will make it harder for election administrators to do their jobs,
runs the risk of potentially disenfranchising voters
and increases the chance of …
Lodge: Plato’s Theory of Ethics | McLuhan's New Sciences
https://mcluhansnewsciences.com/mcluhan/2026/09/lodge-platos-theory-of-ethics/
Source: OpenAI head of ethics Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and a former head of mission alignment (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0
Trump’s second term has been characterized by unprecedented corruption,
including corporate capitulation to Trump’s style of pay-to-play politics.
Even more than during his first term, the president has rewarded corporations supporting him with access, influence and even support and promotion,
while directly targeting companies he views as adversaries through his Justice Department and on social media.
At the same time, Trump has enabled corporations to seek influe…
FBI had evidence Swalwell got illegal donations from suspected Chinese spy, bombshell memos show (JusttheNews.com)
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/6amfbi-had-evidence-swalwell-got-illegal-donations-suspected
http://www.memeorandum.com/260817/p74#a260817p74
Your regular reminder:
Autistics do not have an "inflexible ethical system."
Most of you normies have "disturbingly malliable, easily-compromised ethics."
#Autism #AutismSpectrumDisorder
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC),
a nonprofit whose stated aim is to defend democracy,
has filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
regarding monetary “gifts” from Donald Trump to a handful of White House staffers.
Trump made payments of $45,000 each to Natalie Harp, his doting executive assistant who rarely leaves his side;
Chamberlain Harris,
his deputy director of Oval Office operations;
and Margo Martin,
a Wh…
Two watchdog groups seek federal investigations into whether two FCC members broke ethics rules by accepting free Kennedy Center tickets from Paramount (Corey G. Johnson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-paramount-gifts…
What do you get when you cross a cow with an octopus?
A visit from the ethics committee and immediate withdrawal of your funding.
from my link log —
ChatGPT is bullshit.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
saved 2024-06-29 https://
Rep. Chuck Edwards files complaint against House Ethics (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/15/chuck-edwards-ethics-complaint-sexual-harassment
http://www.memeorandum.com/260915/p179#a260915p179
The Politics and Ethics of Literature in French Thought
https://ift.tt/Fjzsi8W
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“In my world, it matters far less who owns the newspaper than whether there is a solid line between reporting and editorializing”
https://jeffbarker8.substack.com/p/i-resigned-because-of-the-journalism
Wow, every time I hear Peter Griffin on RNZ's Thurs Tech segment, I think - whoa, what koolaid has he been drinking?! He's completely credulous - boosts 'AI', 'Incubators', and 'Startups'. Big Tech=Good, no questions. None. Ethics? What're they? I haven't got time for that. He's got this platform and uses it to spout utter rubbish policy recommendations. I wish he knew what he was talking about. Find myself fuming every time he's on.
I am reminded of the time AudioEye filed a SLAPP against me and its attorneys used untagged PDFs to do so.
IMO [added the ‘IMO’ because AudioEye are litigious bastards and might claim I’m implying a legal ruling happened and that I’m more of a filthy liar than they are], an indictment of AudioEye’s accessibility capability and both its and its attorney’s ethics.
Anyway, useful nuggets are littered throughout the book, in case you don’t have it:
Lawyers referred to the local bar for possible ethics violations...
U.S. judge voids Trump's settlement with IRS | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-voids-trumps-settlement-with-irs-2026-07-13/
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways
when filing recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities,
creating confusion about his net worth and holdings,
a review by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found.
Among them: Paxton,
the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate,
reported owning seven homes
but said he earned no income from any.
Yet all but one was listed for rent during the reporti…
"Ethics aside..." *knocks your favorite mug on the floor while maintaining eye contact*
I've been thinking a lot about design lately -- next spring I'm teaching a course in the ethics of software design -- and I realized that even something like an iPad cover / stand can be right-handed, in a way.
When the iPad is propped up using the cover in the photo, the home button has to be on the right. But I'm left-handed, so whenever I want to use the home button for the Touch ID, I have to reach across the tablet. It's not hard, but it's slightly awkward.
From the ethics policy of a journal:
It is not permitted to share manuscripts under review with AI tools in any form, [...] as this compromises the confidentiality and copyright of material provided by the author during the peer review process.
I think the policy is valid but the reason 'compromises confidentiality' is moot because the papers are on the arXiv with names and all that and thus already part of training data and available to agents. Also local models.
#academicchatter
The Politics and Ethics of Literature in French Thought
https://ift.tt/Fjzsi8W
updated: Monday, July 6, 2026 - 2:38pmfull name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language…
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It has belatedly emerged that a 6-year-old girl in China who had a rare genetic disease
died a week after receiving the world's first brain gene-editing treatment.
The researchers released animal test results in the international journal Nature this year ahead of the treatment,
but did not disclose the already conducted clinical trial and the patient's death in the paper.
The international journal Science and the research-ethics outlet Retraction Watch reported…
Ethics Probe Into Farage Finances Resumes After UK Election Win (Teddy Stoddart/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-14/farage-retains-seat-in-uk-election-meant-to-counter-ethics-probe
http://www.memeorandum.com/260814/p6#a260814p6
Trump agrees to new bipartisan ethics provision in massive crypto bill, Republican senators say (MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-agrees-to-new-bipartisan-ethics-provision-in-massive-crypto-bill-republican-senators-say
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p1#a260914p1
Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-senate-financial-disclosures-ethics-law
Beyond headcount and human capital: The Effective Cognitive Population as a decomposable capacity unit for AI-era planning
Kwan Soo Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.09642
arXiv:2608.09642v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: National planning counts population, human capital, and artificial-intelligence preparedness in separate ledgers. Demographic accounting has advanced from headcount to skills-adjusted stocks and still debates how much age structure retains once skills are modeled, yet no existing unit carries the conditions under which preparedness becomes productive capacity. This study introduces the Effective Cognitive Population (ECP), a decomposable unit that weights population by capability and by the conditions under which capability is deployed, anchored to the World Bank Human Capital Index Plus (HCI ) and the non-overlapping dimensions of the IMF AI Preparedness Index. The architecture is portable in principle; the case tested here is artificial intelligence, which has a published preparedness index. For 144 countries, HCI becomes a productivity level, AI opportunity uses digital infrastructure and innovation integration, conversion governance uses regulation and ethics, and the benchmark is ECP = N H(1 AC). Against 2024 total output on identical population bases, ECP raises criterion R-squared from 0.849 for the HCI -adjusted stock to 0.882 and lowers leave-one-country-out RMSE from 0.723 to 0.641, with the working-age comparison identical and bootstrap intervals excluding zero. Eighty-nine of 144 countries move at least ten rank positions from headcount, mostly through the human-capital adjustment itself. Results are stable across denominators, vintages, aggregation forms, and a 27-rule multiverse. The direct A by C interaction is not statistically supported, so the conjunction is a planning rule rather than causal complementarity. ECP is a diagnostic ledger whose scope excludes forecasts of population decline and estimates of AI's causal productivity effect.
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And to name one thing that I think is completely innocent and actually helpful that I do with my local model (in violation of the ethics policy!):
agent, go read this paper. Check my local pdf library (see here for how it's organized) for which pdfs of references I already have, download all that I don't have and symlink all references with the corresponding numbers to this directory here.
PhantomSeal: Proactive Deepfakes Defense with Identity/Context Protection and Forensic Tracing
Liangqin Ren, Zeyan Liu, Ye Wang, Yuxin Chen, Fengjun Li, Bo Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20564 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20564 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20564
arXiv:2607.20564v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deepfakes, especially face-swapping attacks, pose significant challenges to authenticity, security, and ethics across science, engineering, and society. While most existing detection/tracing approaches operate post hoc, proactive defenses that aim to intervene before deepfake generation remain limited in terms of real-world effectiveness. In this paper, we present PhantomSeal, the first proactive defense to simultaneously protect both the identity and the context of users' images from being used in face-swapping attacks, while supporting forensic tracing. We present a novel cloaking technique that embeds a selected identity as a stealthy identifier. This mechanism steers the deepfake generation process toward producing content that resembles the chosen cloak identity, thereby preventing successful face-swapping while enabling effective feature-based forensic analysis. The effectiveness and robustness of PhantomSeal is demonstrated in extensive experiments across different face-swapping architectures and models. For example, it reduces the attack success rate of SimSwap, an advanced deepfake model, to 0.30%, and correctly identifies 97.97% of manipulated content. Codes can be found at https://github.com/LiangqinRen/PhantomSeal
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Honestly it kinda sucks how in Home Assistant your two options for having voice controls are either a super "dumb" literal word mode that will never understand what you mean or running an entire fucking LLM in your device. There has do exist a better option right? It's not like no-LLM Siri is as bad as the literal word mode!
Even if one were to ignore the ethics about the model training and stuff, without a GPU in my NAS (that would be expensive and otherwise useless) that'd be slow af)!
I think it is very important that we make arguments that actually make sense and take the existing technology into account, even if that develops quickly.
On the other hand, it's also a cat-and-mouse game because when that ethics policy was written, there were no local models capable of helping with reviews and it takes long to make such policies (design by committee!). The arXiv argument was there all the way, though.
Financial firms, their lawyers, and ethics experts say there could be legal risks in paying Trump Media for fast access to Truth Social posts via an API (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/019ce313-00c5-4d7d-a26c-acd7250de84a
According to a 927-page document released on Tuesday by the US Office of Government Ethics,
in all, the US president made more than $2.2 billion last year.
He benefited from a vast global network of investments and businesses that range from real estate and golf courses to royalty deals and Trump-branded products such as cologne.
He also took tens of millions of dollars in court settlements.
In his second term, the president and his family have invested heavily in dig…
Statement of the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics Regarding Representative Chuck Edwards (House Committee on Ethics)
https://ethics.house.gov/press-releases/statement-of-the-chairman-and-ranking-member-of-the-committee-on-ethics-regarding-representative-chuck-edwards-2/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p119#a260803p119
Virtual Conference | Consuming US Popular Culture: Media Aesthetics, Ethics and Literacy
https://ift.tt/1zMOtwh
full name / name of organization: PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studiescontact…
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A proposal from Mexico's government would require ombudsmen for broadcasters, ethics codes, and more, under threat of sanctions; public comments close Friday (Silvia Higuera/LatAm Journalism Review)
https://latamjournalismreview.org/arti
Donald Trump secured a massive loan from Charles Schwab Bank last year,
leaving his debt profile murkier than it has been in ages.
The principal on the new loan amounts to more than $50 million and its interest rate is 3.9%,
according to a newly released ethics filing, which does not specify the exact size of the liability, when it is due or against which assets it is pledged.
That lack of detail makes it an anomaly on the president’s balance sheet.
Trump owes m…
Clarence Thomas Appears On Cruz's Podcast, Thanks Cruz For Defending Him Against Ethics Complaints - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/08/clarence-thomas-appears-on-cruzs-podcast-thanks-cruz-for-defending-him-against-ethics-complaints/
Crypto bill ethics counteroffer includes divestment requirement for Trump (Jasper Goodman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/08/06/congress/crypto-bill-ethics-counteroffer-divestment-requirement-trump-01028418
http://www.memeorandum.com/260807/p33#a260807p33
Just wrote a 350 word draft outline on LLM ethics because I've been thinking a lot about this lately—hope to have the brain juice to make this into a longer blog post.
Max Miller wants House Ethics to probe allegations against him (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/08/04/congress/max-miller-ethics-investigation-01023666
http://www.memeorandum.com/260804/p62#a260804p62
Embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller requests an Ethics investigation into himself (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/embattled-gop-rep-max-miller-requests-ethics-investigation-rcna590796
http://www.memeorandum.com/260804/p76#a260804p76
After months of scandal, Republican Representative Cory Mills is finally under investigation.
MS NOW, citing two anonymous sources, reports that the Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into the Florida man, who is accused of sexual misconduct, campaign finance violations, financial disclosure violations, accepting inappropriate gifts, and multiple ethics violations.
A third source told MS NOW that the FBI has spoken to at least one person about Mills’s finances an…
Senate aide's lobbying side gig raises ethics questions (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2026/09/04/senate-aides-lobbying-side-gig-raises-ethics-questions-01065613
http://www.memeorandum.com/260904/p115#a260904p115
Ethics panel recommends censure for GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards for 'inappropriate conduct' (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ethics-panel-recommends-censure-gop-rep-chuck-edwards-inappropriate-co-rcna590649
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p109#a260803p109
Ethics panel urges censure of Rep. Chuck Edwards over sexual harassment violation (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/03/chuck-edwards-house-ethics-sexual-harassment
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p94#a260803p94
House Ethics Panel Recommends Censure of Rep. Chuck Edwards (Jack Morphet/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/house-ethics-panel-recommends-censure-of-rep-chuck-edwards-0200a5fd
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p115#a260803p115
I really think for “AI” coding that local models are the future.
It’s basically free to run them on hardware you might already have, doesn’t have the environmental issues that data centers have and you don’t have to share your code or project details with anyone.
I’m a bit ambivalent about the ethics of the training data—for coding stuff that data is mostly open source code. I don’t have an issue with my MIT-licensed stuff used for this, but I know other authors do and their preferences should be honored.
I’m hoping that we get “clean” models for this in the future.
Generally I don’t think LLM-assisted programming is universally applicable to all software development but it can be a useful tool.
I also don’t think LLMs are useful for much else (coding is like a one in a million special case). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The code is here, if you're interested: https://github.com/madrobby/png-to-scad/
People are hunting for attorneys, and "The White House counsel's office began briefing political appointees privately as far back as this spring, according to Politico. The office urged appointees to keep financial disclosures and ethics filings airtight and to think twice before committing anything to writing."
Trump aides quietly prepping untested tactics as Dem clash nears 'uncharted territory' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-aides-democratic-investigations/
Cory Mills hopes Trump boost will overcome Ethics headlines in Florida primary (Gary Fineout/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/12/florida-mills-republican-primary-trump-01035412
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p12#a260813p12
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount (Corey G. Johnson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-paramount-gifts-brendan-carr-ethics-complaint-warner-bros-merger
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p55#a260803p55
#CFP: Faith, Ethics, and Digital Transformation
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House Ethics says it doesn't have information to share on lawmaker sexual misconduct settlements (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/02/congress/new-house-ethics-statement-00985864
http://www.memeorandum.com/260702/p50#a260702p50
#CFP: Faith, Ethics, and Digital Transformation
https://ift.tt/epJ7THz
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Edwards Sends Letter Refuting Ethics Censure: 'A Compliment Is Not Sexual Misconduct' (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/edwards-sends-letter-refuting-ethics-censure-a-compliment-is-not-sexual-misconduct
http://www.memeorandum.com/260827/p37#a260827p37
Pressure mounts on Ethics Committee to speed up misconduct probes as midterms loom (Sudiksha Kochi/NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/pressure-mounts-on-ethics-committee-to-speed-up-misconduct-probes-as-midterms-loom/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260823/p45#a260823p45
Trump's Pick for Ethics Czar Is a Political Operative (Eric Katz/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/agencies/trump-ethics-czar-nominee-michael-chamberlain
http://www.memeorandum.com/260629/p97#a260629p97
Johnson's unavoidable, uncomfortable September problem (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/31/republicans-house-ethics-chuck-edwards
http://www.memeorandum.com/260831/p138#a260831p138
Dem Rep. Jimmy Gomez accused of sex harassment, assault by House Ethics Committee witness (Steven Nelson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/08/19/us-news/dem-rep-jimmy-gomez-accused-of-sex-harassment-assault-by-house-ethics-committee-witness/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260819/p83#a260819p83
Chuck Edwards recommended for censure by House Ethics Committee (Chris Marquette/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/03/chuck-edwards-censure-sexual-harassment-01022753
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p122#a260803p122
House censures Rep. Chuck Edwards for conduct toward former female staffers (Kevin Freking/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/congress-ethics-chuck-edwards-censure-inappropriate-conduct-7cd5aa1f9d249d2c59b5ae7a149c0e7d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260901/p156#a260901p156
Trump-endorsed Mills loses primary in Florida amid House Ethics probe (Sophia Vento/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6027569-mills-loses-florida-house-primary/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260818/p138#a260818p138