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The stakes in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary extend far beyond the state.
The winner will face Republican Mike Rogers in one of the country’s marquee general election contests,
and Democrats need to win races like Michigan if they hope to take control of the Senate.
But first, Democratic voters are deciding a different question:
whether the party’s future lies with its establishment, represented by Stevens,
or with an ascendant progressive movement embodie…

“If I prove that you can win statewide, taking on AIPAC, that is catastrophic”
Abdul El-Sayed says Tuesday’s Senate primary in Michigan is a referendum on the future of the Democratic Party. 

Finally, a politician willing to say YES to racist slop.
For too long, SF has said no to obviously terrible ideas like this. Vote for change. Vote for Slopp Wiener. #sfpol

Microsoft will start disclosing Azure quarterly revenue as part of a shift in its reporting structure, under which Azure revenue grew 42% YoY to $29.42B in Q4 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/02/microsoft-to-disclose-azure-r…

Microsoft to start disclosing Azure quarterly revenue as company consolidates business units
Microsoft will begin reporting quarterly Azure revenue in dollars for the first time, providing more clarity about its business that competes with AWS.

i'm finna sneak into the fourth of july parade in the a.m., which has become sort of an annual tradition
in recent years i've been forced to walk alone, as the local politicos found my sign (DOWN WITH CARS on one side, UPZONE EVERYTHING on the other) off-key
new sign this year: POWER TO THE PEOPLE on one side, HANDS OFF CUBA & IRAN on the other. i'm guessing i'll be marching alone again #alas

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer turned doctoral student, is the latest candidate to rise from the party's left flank and boot establishment-backed candidates.
That includes two self-described democratic socialists and a progressive who won their Democratic primaries in New York last week.
Kiros' victory adds to a nascent but clear uprising, stirred by frustration among some voters, that has vexed party leadership.
Colorado's 1st Congressional District covers t…

Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeats longtime House incumbent in Colorado primary
Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer turned doctoral student, is the latest candidate to rise from the party's left flank and boot establishment-backed candidates.

Uber launches London's first commercial robotaxi service; the vehicles use Wayve's autonomous driving tech and will initially have human safety drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/988415/uber-wayve-robotaxi-london-launch…

Uber beats Waymo as first to launch robotaxis in London
Uber beat Waymo to launching robotaxis in London. The ridehail company is working with UK startup Wayve to bring cars powered by AI, cameras, and radar to the foggy streets of England’s capital.

New York City, which has the largest Jewish population of any city outside Israel,
recorded 205 anti-Jewish hate crimes in the first seven months of 2026,
up from 189 during the same period in 2025.
More than half of all hate crimes in the city were anti-Jewish,
despite Jewish New Yorkers comprising 10% of the city’s population, according to the NYPD

El Bosque Petrificado Piedra Chamana
(The Petrified Forest Piedra Chamana)
has been recognized as a significant paleontological site by the Peruvian government since 1997.
The forest, situated near the remote village of Sexi in the Andes Mountains, contains a diverse array of fossilized woods and leaves buried by a volcanic eruption 39 million years ago.
As part of its mission, the National Park Service (NPS) strives to promote conservation of cultural and natural r…

El Bosque Petrificado Piedra Chamana - Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
fossils

A pair of stars spiralling around each other.
That’s the origin of a new source of repeating radio bursts we’ve detected, called ASKAP J1745.
In recent years, astronomers have been puzzling over mysterious bursts of radio signals, known as
"long-period transients" because of how slowly they repeat.
They were first discovered by chance with telescopes scanning large chunks of the sky.
To date, astronomers have only found a dozen of these weird sources, …

ASKAP J1745 and the mysterious signals coming from space
A pair of stars spiralling around each other. That’s the origin of a new source of repeating radio bursts just detected, called ASKAP J1745.

When the United States ratified the 13th amendment in 1865, federal lawmakers very nearly outlawed slavery for good
— but not entirely.
Tucked within arguably the most important corner of the US constitution is a massive caveat:
“neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States”
In the 160-some years since that amendment, a quieter type of forced servitu…

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.