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The Trump administration’s pattern of granting sympathetic, right-wing influencers with large digital followings
special access to its mass deportation operation
is broad and involves dozens of people.
TPM chose to focus in depth on four influencers, each with different audiences, approaches, and backgrounds.
They are Ben #Bergquam,
his sometimes associate Josh

Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers
As DHS officers flooded into Minneapolis on an early December day, Mahamed...

How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

What the Iran Strikes Could Mean for U.S. Inflation (Harriet Torry/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/what-the-iran-strikes-could-mean-for-u-s-inflation-1198fcb3?st=pZzTxv&mod=flipboard&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p73#a260303p73

Javier Milei’s inflation ‘miracle’ in Argentina is a warning to the world, not a blueprint https://theconversation.com/javier-mileis-inflation-miracle-in-argentina-is-a-warning-to-the-world-not-a-blueprint-278840

Javier Milei’s inflation ‘miracle’ in Argentina is a warning to the world, not a blueprint
Inflation has fallen in Argentina, but at enormous cost.

"She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway"
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/kansas-revokes-license-no-gender-change

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned
A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

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Motif : incident affectant la voie Š ,Champ de Mars.
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An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-man-making-music-with-his-brain-implant/

Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant
Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful.

New Marquette Law School national survey finds Trump with declining approval but retaining strong influence on GOP primary voters (Kevin Conway/Marquette Today)
https://today.marquette.edu/2026/06/new-marquette-law-school-national-survey-finds-trump-with-declining-approval-but-retaining-strong-influence-on-gop-primary-voters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p52#a260603p52

Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/business/trump-foreign-disinformation-iran.ht…

Trump Officials Try to Fight Foreign Disinformation They Once Dismissed
The war in Iran has exposed the need to mount a defense against foreign influence campaigns, officials and experts say.