Tootfinder

How creators are pushing the limits of safety and good taste as algorithms reward extreme content over routine videos, including one who staged a plane crash (Mark Walker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/us/inf…

Risks for Clicks: Why Online Influencers Push Shock Content
A growing number of social media creators are pushing the boundaries of safety and good taste to feed algorithms and win followers.

Anyone else encountering internal server errors when pushing to @…?

git push
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Antarctica’s melting ice is pushing marine animals beyond their limits https://www.earth.com/environment/antarcticas-melting-ice-is-pushing-marine-animals-beyond-their-limits/

Antarctica’s melting ice is pushing marine animals beyond their limits
Melting ice is adding freshwater to Antarctic coastal waters, where lower salt levels can disrupt marine animals and even damage their gills.

Red scaremonger wanted.
Third Way, the corporate-backed “centrist” think tank pushing Democrats to the right,
is hiring a new
Director for “Anti-Extremism.”
That person will be responsible for overseeing a takedown of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
by “assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements,”
including a “repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions.”

Corporate Democrats Are Hiring A Socialist Hunter
Third Way’s director for “anti-extremism" will conduct opposition research against the Democratic Socialists of America and launch a guerrilla media campaign against their ideas.

"My partner Anne and I had a very strange experience on 10 September 2005. We had gone shopping at Tesco in Prestwich, Manchester, and parked the car next to one of the glass shelters they keep the shopping-trolleys in. It was near closing time and the car park was virtually empty when we were putting the shopping in the back of the car. At this point, our attention was caught by a middle-aged woman pushing an empty trolley to the shelter we were next to.
What struck us about her …

How Raiders' Klint Kubiak Pushing All the Right Buttons https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-klint-kubiak-pushing-all-right-buttons

Me and all my homies hate AI. But I think one thing that keeps pushing it's apparent "usefulness" is how unusable the world wide web has gotten, and it's important for power users who hate AI to be aware of that.
For casual users, AI summaries at the top of google search is the path of least resistance. Like, for all of us warning about UI dark patterns, the biggest dark pattern is built on the thing that we've relied on for decades. "Just google it" has…

The US Federal Reserve's September meeting shows officials are increasingly citing surging AI investments, not tariffs, as the driver of rising goods inflation (Steve Thompson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Data center boom is pushing prices higher, according to Fed officials
Federal Reserve officials are increasingly pointing to the artificial intelligence buildout, rather than tariffs, to explain why the prices of goods keep rising.

William Gibson mentioned this Bowie song in his stream today, and how it had risen up in his mind. I was not familiar with it, but now I see the lyrics I understand why it feels topical.
Five Years, by David Bowie:

Der August 2026 war mit einer globalen Durchschnitts-Temperatur von 16,96 Grad Celsius der wärmste August seit Beginn des ERA5-Datensatzes. Auch die Meeresoberflächen-Temperaturen außerhalb der Polarregionen erreichten einen August-Rekord. West-Europa verzeichnete seinen bislang wärmsten Sommer. Besonders hohe Meeres-Temperaturen traten an Europas Atlantik-Küste und im westlichen Mittelmeer auf.

The @… people are hard at work and keep pushing updates. Great work!
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/release-notes-finlayson-5-…

[Release notes] Finlayson 5.2.0.20 - Jolla Phone first
This is a bugfix release mainly addressing some of the issues found in the previous .18 release. Due to those issues we did not publish that release yet to the other devices like originally planned. Besides the fixes for the regressions in the previous release, there are also some other nice improvements. 5.2.0.20 release highlights AppSupport Improved handling of Android apps call UI microG updated to v0.3.17.252432 DNS handling fixed Video seeking fixed Android app covers showing wrong…

How Raiders' Klint Kubiak Pushing All the Right Buttons https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-klint-kubiak-pushing-all-right-buttons

Letter: activist investor Anson Funds is pushing Lionsgate to redefine itself for the "AI era" or seek a sale, citing its film library's licensing potential (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/11/2026/…

Exclusive: Lionsgate faces activist pressure to sell itself in ‘AI era’
Anson Funds is pushing the movie studio to avoid becoming an “AI casualty.”

This project, when fully running from scratch, can queue several million in one of the queues. So the real OTEL adventure for me, as always, is pushing limits. And part of that was getting OTEL working on ZTS with fibers. And I succeeded 🎉 . With this being the first full production run 😎 .
#php #otel

What would it look like to cancel Thanksgiving...
No Black Friday sales where people are obsessed with Capitalism and Consumerism? Good!
No celebrating the colonization of Indigenous People? Good!
You can still gather with friends and family and have a meal. Call it whatever you want! Thanksgiving, Fall Harvest, whatever.
Don't fall for the bullshit the establishment is pushing.

One of those days:
A 504 error repeatedly when pushing my sundries to Codeberg. The success makes it increasingly slow or unreachable in the last months.
A Slackware update that makes my mouse go off screen in the down left corner. Even a cabled USB mouse. Generic kernel, nothing new or changed.
My wifi adapters have atrociously slow speeds on FreeBSD. We are talking Kb's. The same adapters on Linux hover just below 8Mb/s.
I'm not gonna spend any time on troubles…

Raiders Get Exposed by Patriots in Brutal Reality Check https://raiderramble.com/2026/10/15/raiders-get-exposed-by-patriots-in-brutal-reality-check/

The cost of crude has risen 40 percent since the start of the war in Iran,
pushing up the price of gasoline, diesel and other refined fuels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/business/brent-oil-100-barrel-iran-war.html?smid=nytcor…

Oil Hits $100 a Barrel as Turmoil Intensifies in Middle East
The cost of crude has risen 40 percent since the start of the war in Iran, pushing up the price of gasoline, diesel and other refined fuels.

‘A God-almighty punch-up’: rare footage shows Battle of Hastings (the 1966 one) | English Heritage | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/06/rare-footage-first-battle-of-hastings-re-enactment

‘A God-almighty punch-up’: rare footage shows Battle of Hastings (the 1966 one)
English Heritage acquires film of first re-enactment, ‘a lot of pushing and shoving’ between Kent and Sussex students

Ex-Biden officials deny Marc Andreessen's claims that they discussed secret plans to ban AI startups at a May 2024 White House meeting, pushing him toward Trump (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/10/marc-andreessen-…

Analysts discuss consumer frustration over streaming price hikes and Netflix having the lowest risk of cancellations due to its "deep bench of content" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/streaming-price-…

Streaming Price Increases 2026: Is 'Streamflation' at Breaking Point?
Premium streamers like Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV and Peacock have steadily cranked up prices. 'Streamflation' maybe pushing consumers to their limit.

Pelosi's Potential Successor Is Pushing the Limits of Super PAC Coordination (Mark Alfred/The Washington Sun)
https://www.washingtonsun.com/influence/scott-wiener-super-pac-california-congress-election
http://www.memeorandum.com/261015/p7#a261015p7

... i was hoping to get pictures of hikers but it seemed everyone had an ill-behaved dog Sunday, but I got this mushroom instead...
#photo #photography #fungus

Look for a reason you would choose without guilt, habit, pressure, or someone else’s expectations pushing you.
When that reason feels weak, look at what keeps you involved. A duty may need an end date.

A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/202

Los Angeles’ José FM’s Spanish-language morning show features an AI co-host
AI killed the radio star: DJ chatbots are already chatting up airwaves, humans are pushing back.

I can't 😂 I just can't
Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda
https://www.404media.co/smear-campaign-says-anti-flock-movement-is-chinese-propaganda/

Just closed out the last release blocking bug and tagged ngscopeclient v0.2-rc1. Planning to release v0.2 in the next couple of days unless there's any major issues.
Please test and let me know how it works for you! Official (unsigned) release binaries are building now and I'll be pushing to github later in the morning.

Even if getting up from your chair isn’t an issue for you now,
lots of older adults have difficulty rising without pushing off from the armrests, said Liu-Ambrose.
Working the sit-to-stand
— one of the top moves both Liu-Ambrose and Na recommend to older clients and a good measure of overall fitness
— into your daily routine can help preserve that functional motion.

The move strengthens your quads, hamstrings and glutes,
and it trains the mobility of mult…

5 movements physical therapists say every adult over 50 should do daily
These simple moves can help you maintain mobility and independence as you age.

Stars and Stripes: "West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching #climate change, lawsuit says"
https://www.stripes.com/branc…

West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.

Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda https://www.404media.co/smear-campaign-says-anti-flock-movement-is-chinese-propaganda/

Getting the Viking prep work done in Valheim today! 🛡️⚔️ Counting down to the 1.0 release & the Deep North while pushing through our current grind on Linux! Pull up a chair and come hang out! 🐧❄️ 🔴 Live now: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus#Valheim

The Deep Resilience Podcast
This podcast explores resilience as more than coping or pushing through. It's about learning how to live from the deepest intelligence within the human spirit...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mental

If I was a vet's office located on #AustinSt in #ForestHills, I'd be pushing to get cars removed from the street because my customers' pets get even more scared of going to the vet due to the constant honking car horns from idiots who don't know how to drive (hey guys th…

Human activity is pushing lakes beyond their natural carbon limits #lakes

Human activity is pushing lakes beyond their natural carbon limits
Lakes play an important role in capturing and storing carbon, which accumulates in their sediments. But the amounts they can absorb have varied considerably over time. Jean-François Lapierre, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Université de Montréal, is part of a research team sorting out natural variations from human-influenced changes.

Violent threats have become normal among public officials,
reshaping private lives,
costing millions in security
and pushing people out of office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/us/politics/elections-pol…

Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.

When you are WTF-ing why the mouse scroll thingie zooms in instead of scrolling, then you realize the #cat started pushing Control…

US military academy students are not allowed to learn basic facts about climate change anymore.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2026-08-26/west-point-professor-fired-lawsuit-climate-change-22666987.html

West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.

NFL training camp battles 2026: Son of ex-NFL linebacker among rookies competing for starting spots

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-training-camp-battles-2…

A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/202

Los Angeles’ José FM’s Spanish-language morning show features an AI co-host
AI killed the radio star: DJ chatbots are already chatting up airwaves, humans are pushing back.

Wait, this happened already one month ago? High time to share these pictures then:
Please enjoy these views taken during the Gänseliesel ceremony in Göttingen on July 24, when IMPRS graduates Prithwitosh Dey, Ilse de Langen, Neelanchal Joshi and Sanghita Chandra went to kiss the goose girl statue atop the fountain on Göttingen's central market square.
A Gänseliesel ceremony afternoon begins with a highly official part in the university's classical Aula building. Upon ex…

This post is correct. Also…those people Katelyn's talking about are sweeping under the rug what actually happened:
Obama supported gay marriage in the mid-90S.
When that became an electoral liability in larger races, he took the position of supporting same-sex civil unions instead of same-sex marriage (which would still have been a big win in 2008 if legalized nationally, and was still a risky position to take).
Then he switched back to favoring gay marriage in a hot second as soon as it seemed like public support was behind it and his opposition might become a barrier.
• • •
Say what you will about him being deceptive or opportunistic or incrementalist or scheming or you just hate Obama or whatever, fine, I don't really care. Katelyn’s point is the important one: Obama consistently staked out positions in the direction of •increased• civil rights for queer folks, and moved his position to keep pushing in that direction relative to whatever the political conditions were.
I would be perfectly frigging delighted if Democrats now would consistently do the same for trans folks. Come on, y’all.
P.S. Replies of the form “you mentioned Obama so here’s some other thing I don’t like about him” are tiresome and will be an instant mute.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3gxyh4elwykcdnpci7gmqrvh/post/3mvg7jpxjq22i

I broke up with 1Password a little over 3 years ago.
It was clear to me that I should no longer trust them with the most intimate of my personal data. I was with them from 2008 to 2023 (15 years).
They got a LOT of investment very quickly, and started pushing their hosted service—HARD. I need to have agency over my own credentials data, not trust a service to stay up.
To me, this was the start of them showing us who they really are (and I even tolerated it for a bit).

So here's #Greenpeace, responding to a data release by the Chinese government with...nothing but praise.
Zero mention of any issues related to #labor or #humanrights issues in

Greenpeace East Asia comment on Chinese government report showing China’s 80% impact on global electrification - Greenpeace East Asia
China Electricity Council on September 22 released the “China's Electrical Development Annual Report 2026”, finding that China has been a primary global driver of electrification accounting for 80% of the global increase in electrification rates since 2015, and that China’s electrification rate reached around 29.5% in 2025. Electrification targets will be a major outcome of climate negotiations at COP31, where some governments are pushing for a 35% electrification by 2035 target. 

US data center bans top 500, up from 300 in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development (Shane Burke/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/data-center-bans-top-500-new…

Data Center Bans Top 500 as New York, Texas Join Pushback
Local government resistance to data center development accelerated this summer, a warning sign for big AI companies such as Anthropic, Google and OpenAI that are pinning their compute ambitions on data center expansion. In July alone, more than 150 towns and counties passed temporary or ...

Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner!
Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back – and so far, they’ve been successful. We need YOUR help to #KillTheCookieBanner!
🍪

Been using Qwant.com (EU's search engine) in place of Google or any of the various 'Bing-also-rans' as my default for a month or so... works very well. Not pushing 'AI' on me, though it seems they're trying to offer it as well. It'll be crucial to me that I can configure my use to avoid it.

➡️ Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)

Nice gravel on parcours 2a. 😅 #tcrno12cap37 #tcrno12

Heads up.
I will be pushing an update to #LeftWordle tomorrow, 8/27 at about noon EDT (16:00 UTC).
This will include the ability to save history / stats / preferences online and play on different devices with a shared history.
There will be a nag to login - The login is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL. If you don't care to login, you can play as you always have.There is a link towards t…

There's some entire industries that should just be banned: https://www.propublica.org/article/draftkings-sports-gambling-problem-vip-fanduel?utm_source=bluesky&amp…

I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and product design pushing me to keep going.

Airbus & the cloud.
"European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control."

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
Which way to the Land of the Free again?

Has anyone explicitly compared the deliberate restucturing of the legislative and built environment that supported #motornormativity and the present day efforts to enforce the use of LLMs? I suspect those pushing LLMs are well aware of opium and tobacco as business models (state sponsored dependency) but the enforced transformation of work and public spaces (and the erasure of competing soluti…

It’s me, I’m Small Fringe Group #BillyBishop #Toronto
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/…

Ontario accuses Ottawa of bowing to ‘small fringe group’ on island airport expansion
Province is pushing to allow commercial jets at Billy Bishop despite vocal opposition from Torontonians

walkonthewildside

"Use the website not the app" is probably the most important thing you can do on this list.
There is a reason why everyone is pushing you to use apps. Its not because they're better (heck, a lot of the time they're buggier than just using the website!) It's because using the app provides them more personal data, locks you into a restrictive and extractive ecosystem (apple or google play), and conditions you to assume their ownership of your experience.

Become worthless (to tech companies) • Cory Dransfeldt - programming.dev
Lemmy

After Supreme Court Losses, Trump Keeps Pushing (Adam Liptak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/the-docket-supreme-court-trump-losses.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p80#a260813p80

Vladimir Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff,
pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest.
The connections between Witkoff and Kushner to players in the Lukoil deal illustrate why Trump’s friends and family members should not be top foreign policy advisers.
“This is an alarming and very concerning set of entanglements,”
said Ms. Chen, who has worked as a corporate compliance law…

U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest.

The Clarity Act faces uncertainty after Senate Republicans delayed a vote until after their August recess, pushing it to September, just weeks before midterms (Jasper Goodman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/07/delays-imperil-senate-crypto-b…

How Young Raiders CBs Pushing Each Other in Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-young-pushing-each-other-training-camp

Is Notre Dame QB CJ Carr already ahead of schedule as an NFL Draft prospect? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7647014/2026/10/01/cj-carr-nfl-draft-2027-notre-dame/

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz doubled down Monday on pushing through unpopular reforms to Europe’s largest economy
after a far-right party surged to a landslide victory in a regional election, with a very good chance of forming the first far-right state government since the Nazi era.
Merz said his center-right Christian Democratic Union was “deeply shocked”
by what he called “the most serious election defeat that the CDU has had for years, for decades.”
But he indi…

German chancellor under pressure after AfD win in state polls
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under pressure after the far-right Alternative Germany (AfD) party achieved a significant victory in a regional election. AfD nearly secured a majority in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, marking a potential shift for Germany, which has avoided far-right leadership since the Nazi era. Merz, who leads the center-right Christian Democrats, had promised to weaken AfD but failed. The victory complicates Germany's political landscape amid challenges like Russia's aggressi…

How Young Raiders CBs Pushing Each Other in Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-young-pushing-each-other-training-camp

Donald Trump is pushing the longtime vaccine opponent and current health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be more aggressive on cutting vaccines in the US, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal.
Trump has a long record of anti-vaccine statements,
but the White House recently put a hold on vaccine changes after polling indicated they were a losing issue in the midterm elections.
Kennedy, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, recently…

Trump reportedly pushing RFK Jr to cut vaccines more aggressively
White House has halted changing vaccine schedule as it is unpopular, but anti-vaxx Trump set on ‘alleviating autism’

Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.8B, Premium Subscribers up 9% YoY to 300M, MAUs up 12% YoY to 777M, below 778M guidance, and a €545M net income (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/spotify-300-million-subscri…

Spotify Hits 300 Million Premium Subscribers in Q2 2026
Spotify gained 7 million paying subscribers in Q2 2026, over its previous guidance and pushing the base of Premium customers to 300 million.

Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.8B, Premium Subscribers up 9% YoY to 300M, MAUs up 12% YoY to 777M, below 778M guidance, and a €545M net income (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/spotify-300-million-subscri…

Spotify Hits 300 Million Premium Subscribers in Q2 2026
Spotify gained 7 million paying subscribers in Q2 2026, over its previous guidance and pushing the base of Premium customers to 300 million.

I constantly forget to bring up what I work on here. These are some teaser cropped screenshots of my website (main project rn) to prove I been doing something besides posting

Equinix, whose stock is up 33% YTD, pushing its market cap to $100B, inks a deal with Nvidia to let customers run their AI models on the Together AI platform (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/02/equinix-partners-with-nvidia-carves-niche…

How Equinix has found a niche in the multitrillion-dollar AI data center boom
Nvidia announced a new data center deal with Equinix and Together AI on Wednesday to help enterprise customers with open-model inference.

On Aug. 14, Edith Golub turned 106.
A little over a year ago, Edith and her daughter Sharon joined The Beacon,
a democracy advocacy project launched in 2025 by people concerned about the rise of authoritarianism.
The group proposes pushing back through community connections and “keeping joy alive.”
“The world is not in good condition,” Edith said.
“I never spoke out for anybody or anything, but now if I can, I would like to do everything I could to help them…

‘Be good. Be well. Be kind.’ At 106, Edith Golub found a reason to take a stand
At 106, Edith Golub joins the Beacon in Century Village, Florida, protesting weekly with her daughter to promote democracy, kindness and community connection.

Heavy rain and floods in northern Vietnam submerge homes and disrupt economy https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/09/heavy-rain-and-floods-in-northern-vietnam-submerge-homes-and-disrupt-economy/
…

Heavy rain and floods in northern Vietnam submerge homes and disrupt economy
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Heavy rain caused flooding across parts of northern Vietnam on Thursday, disrupting travel, inundating homes and pushing several rivers above dangerous levels, authorities and state media said. Rain has fallen across northern and north-central Vietnam this week, with some areas receiving more than 50 centimeters (19.7 inches), according to the disaster […]

Thyme Care, which focuses on filling gaps in cancer treatment through a virtual navigation platform, raised a $125M Series E at a $2B valuation (Ian Thomas/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/02/thyme-care-raises-125-million-cancer-star…

Thyme Care raises $125 million, pushing cancer care startup's valuation above $2 billion
Thyme Care has raised $125 million from investors in a deal doubling the cancer startup's valuation as it tackles critical disease treatment gaps.

A former White House aide turned Newsmaxhost abruptly cut short a live segment
after a Democratic guest warned that Donald Trump's outside advisers were pushing martial law.
Kelly Sadler was hosting a Newsmax 2 panel on noncitizen voting on Friday when Democratic strategist Mike Nellis made the remark.
Nellis, who was a senior adviser to former Vice President Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign, appeared alongside Newsmax contributor Mary Walter
"Th…

Ex-Trump assistant orders network to 'cut from this segment' after martial law warning
A former White House aide turned Newsmax host abruptly cut short a live segment after a Democratic guest warned that President Donald Trump's outside advisers were pushing martial law.Kelly Sadler was hosting a Newsmax 2 panel on noncitizen voting on Friday when Democratic strategist Mike Nellis mad...

‘National Security’ has become Trump’s crutch for getting his way in Washington
Congress sees through Trump’s ‘idiotic’ justification for fortifying every inch of Washington, D.C.,
but the president is pushing ahead with it anyway
Trump even used a variation of this explanation on Monday when he gave his supposed reasoning for banning MS Now, CNN, and Politico from the White House,
calling them a “threat to democracy.”
Northern Virginia Rep. Don Beyer condemned …

How ‘national security’ has become Trump’s crutch for getting his way in Washington
Congress sees through Trump’s ‘idiotic’ justification for fortifying every inch of Washington, D.C., but the president is pushing ahead with it anyway, writes John Bowden

The global sell-off in government bonds that has recently been gathering steam has pushed borrowing costs to their highest levels in decades.
Many analysts think the jump is not a blip but a lasting return to the elevated interest rates that were once common.
This shift is uncomfortable,
making it more expensive for governments, households and businesses to get loans.
It also shows the market is sending signals to central bankers that the short-term rates they contro…

The Bond Markets Are Pushing Up Rates. Will Central Banks Follow?
Around the world, rising bond yields reflect shifting expectations on how fast policymakers will raise interest rates.

Sources: six independent advisory board experts resigned from the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, as Meta and others push for structural changes (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/independent-advisers-resign-en-ma…

Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers
Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consortium.

California is pushing back against the Trump Administration’s efforts to
kill offshore wind energy projects along the Central Coast. 
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) paid Golden State Wind $120 million
— the cost of its offshore lease
— to abandon plans for a wind farm in federal waters off Morro Bay.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the DOI used “federal taxpayer dollars”
to buy out the lease and cancel the project. …

China's Bilibili relaunches its international app and plans an English-language site; it has been pushing MrBeast and others to post on its Chinese site (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/19/2026/chi…

Exclusive: China’s YouTube, Bilibili, plans global expansion, English-language site
The company is courting influencers to connect with “Gen Z Coded” users, and staffing up in cities around the world.

This week China released the third iteration of its AI safety governance framework
– a document that functions as a “mapping of the AI risk landscape and roughly what one should do about it”,
said Gabriel Wagner, a researcher at Concordia, a Beijing-based AI safety consultancy.
Included in the updates are the risks posed by agents,
the cybersecurity threats from frontier models
and the issue of recursive self-improvement
– an as-yet hypothetical scenario w…

Why China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI development
Beijing believes slowdown calls aim to lock in US advantage, and is pursuing a different balance between safety and pace

Cybersecurity stocks surge, with Okta up 20% and CrowdStrike up 15% , after earnings showed that AI adoption is driving attacks and spending on security tools (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/okta-skyro…

Okta skyrockets 20%, CrowdStrike surges 15% as rising AI threat boosts earnings
AI adoption is pushing customers to spend more on cybersecurity tools from companies such as CrowdStrike and Okta

A global sell-off in government bonds intensified on Tuesday,
pushing up borrowing costs in some of the world’s largest economies to their highest in decades.
The rise in bond yields squeezes government budgets and raises interest rates on a wide range of debt,
including mortgages and business loans.
The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes,
perhaps the world’s most influential interest rate,
reached its highest since January 2025,
and the 30-year y…

Bond Sell-Off Threatens to Squeeze Borrowers Around the World
Government bond yields are hitting multi-decade highs, reflecting anxiety about debt levels, deficits and inflation. The effects will extend to mortgages, business loans and other types of credit.

Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron, and other Western leaders are pushing to establish a global supervisory regime and "technology stability" body to govern AI (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-…

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico
is pushing for one of Texas’ most important swing counties to
drop plans to close nearly a third of its polling places before November’s midterms.
Amid public outcry, the Commissioners Court for Tarrant County
— which contains Fort Worth and borders Dallas
— plans to hold a vote on Tuesday on whether to shutter 92 of the polling places used in the 2022 election,
many of which serve the city’s poorer and minori…

Talarico Protests as Texas Swing County Plans to Close 92 Polling Places | Common Dreams
​“The most powerful people in this county, the most powerful people in this country, don’t want us to be able to vote easily."

Global central banks are pushing CBDCs to defend monetary sovereignty against USD stablecoins, but are struggling to find demand for the digital currencies (Jonathan Levin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

The Trump administration broke the law when it pushed through a last-minute change to the form overseas citizens use to register and request absentee ballots,
the Democratic National Committee (DNC) said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday.
Until recently, the form, the Federal Post Card Application (FPCA), gave overseas voters four options to choose from when describing their geographic location.
Voters could say they needed an overseas ballot because they were on active milita…

DNC sues Trump administration over last-minute changes to overseas voting form
DNC accuses Pentagon of pushing through changes to how voters abroad request absentee ballots ahead of midterms

Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23…

Opinion | Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, does not want you to be afraid of A.I.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio
and top White House adviser Stephen Miller
are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations.
The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit
“on the resurgence of political terrorism,”
where Miller described the LEFT as
“enemies of civilization”
and described efforts to
“disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.”
Rubio …

“Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute”: Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House adviser Stephen Miller are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations. The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit “on the resurgence of political terrorism,” where Miller described the left as “enemies of civilization” and described efforts to “disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.” Rubio announced the U.S. would soon designate more l…

Sources: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic plan to launch an AI safety standards body without government oversight in late 2026 or 2027, and are considering CEOs (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-openai-anthropic-ai-safet…

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic AI Safety Group Takes Shape
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing forward with a plan to create a new AI safety-focused standards body on their own, without government oversight, in hopes of launching it by the end of the year or early in 2027, according to people familiar with the matter. The three companies ...

Governor Andy Beshear seems to know what he’s doing, in any case.
In an appearance on Bloomberg TV, he shot down the idea of his calling a special election,
saying that those who
“are really pushing I think are under the impression that a Democrat in Kentucky might be able to win that election.
It’s been since 1992 that we had a Democratic senator in Kentucky.”
He also noted that McConnell missing votes while the seat goes unoccupied “might not be a bad thing…

How the Democrats Can Benefit From Missing Mitch
Amid the former Senate majority leader’s mysterious hospitalization, some are placing unreasonable demands on Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. Let’s sort this out.

China's Bilibili relaunches its international app and plans an English-language site; it has been pushing MrBeast and others to post on its Chinese site (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/19/2026/chi…

Exclusive: China’s YouTube, Bilibili, plans global expansion, English-language site
The company is courting influencers to connect with “Gen Z Coded” users, and staffing up in cities around the world.

“The story for me is the high-level
– including White House-directed
– attention on these programs,”
With hours left before the funding expires,
the Trump administrationis pushing to direct more than $175m of the state department’s flagship human rights fund to a slate of awards that includes
a massive $40m grant for an anti-communism fund,
support for a group advancing white Afrikaner rights in South Africa,
a campaign against Brazil’s supreme court…

Top Trump figures push to direct human rights funding to rightwing causes
Support for white Afrikaners, anti-communism and others reveals how US redefining what qualifies as human rights

A profile of Peter Beck, the New Zealand billionaire whose Rocket Lab is pushing to compete with the satellite internet ambitions of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)

Trump administration officials are claiming that talks between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Venezuelan government
regarding control of the country’s oilfields
will ultimately secure “America’s energy future for generations to come”
— but analysts on Friday called on lawmakers to halt Donald Trump’s “colonial” push to take over the reserves.
As Axios reported, officials including Rubio and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller
have been in…

'Yet Another Trump Grift': Congress Called to Stop US Takeover of Venezuelan Oil Fields | Common Dreams
Trump administration officials are pushing for control of Venezuela's oil fields, claiming it will secure America's energy future. But analysts warn of a colonial takeover and urge lawmakers to intervene.

Trump is pushing for ending the filibuster in the Senate
Right now, Republicans have 53 votes.
That’s not close to what they’d need to pass Trump’s controversial
"Save America Act", which would mandate strict ID laws for voting and proof of citizenship to register to vote or after a name change.
All Democrats oppose this legislation.
So even though it passed the Republican-controlled House, it’s stuck in the Republican-controlled Senate because of t…

Analysis | The debate over ending the filibuster in the Senate
It’s the Republicans’ turn to seriously consider this.

Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot "teammates", and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Develops Features to Counter Grok Bot, Mulls Response to Meta’s Muse
OpenAI pioneered AI that can take over web browsers and other applications on people’s behalf, and its ChatGPT app brought generative AI to consumers. Now that rivals like SpaceX and Meta are pushing the boundaries by launching personal AI agents that handle multistep tasks, OpenAI is playing ...

Treating adversaries better than allies is a recipe for isolation
America’s adversaries, especially those with nuclear weapons, sometimes seem to be treated more kindly by Donald Trump than the country’s oldest friends.
Such U.S. unreliability risks encouraging nuclear proliferation by pushing countries to look out for themselves.

Last week underscored the dynamic:
Trump rolled out the red carpet in Washington for Chinese President Xi Jinping
while continuing …

Treating adversaries better than allies is a recipe for isolation
Taiwan, Canada, South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the Europeans are all asking questions about American reliability.

As Trump continues to test the extent of his power,
systematically going after the most vulnerable population in our country, and those who defend them,
he is now pushing the limits to attorney ethics.
This flippant abuse of power and attacks to decades of precedent is putting bar licenses
and more importantly the lives of children at risk.
Unaccompanied migrant children arrive at our border alone, fleeing dangerous situations,
and remain one of the most…

HHS is Making it Impossible for Lawyers to Protect Immigrant Children (Or Their Own Bar Licenses)
The Trump administration’s attacks threaten children’s safety – and legal ethics.

A fast-moving Nevada wildfire exploded to more than 13,000 acres early on Sunday,
pushing from the Sierra foothills toward the center of Reno
and forcing nearly 42,000 residents to evacuate as flames threatened neighborhoods and reached the edge of the University of Nevada campus.
The Hawk fire’s “GO NOW” evacuation zone had expanded to the edge of the university campus
as strong, gusty winds, low humidity and dry vegetation fueled the blaze, according to Truckee Mead…

Fast-moving wildfire in Reno, Nevada, forces tens of thousands to evacuate homes
Human-caused Hawk fire covers more than 13,000 acres as blaze approaches University of Nevada campus in Reno

When history teacher Chris Dier sued Louisiana two years ago for mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms,
he said it was not about taking a stand against Christianity.
“It’s a defense of many different types of values, including civil liberties and religious freedoms,” Dier said,
who teaches at a New Orleans high school.
“I spent over 16 years teaching students that the constitution protects everyone of every faith – students of no faith too.”…

Not set in stone: teachers are defying mandates to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms
Some educators are pushing back in class and in court against the display of the religious code in public schools

David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI
– putting the White House out of step with its own party
As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle call for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligence models,
one of the few vocal naysayers has been Donald Trump.
He’s called the perceived dangers of the technology a “hoax” and a “scam”,
arguing that the government already has “tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies”.
…

‘An out-of-touch Silicon Valley radical’: meet Trump’s AI whisperer pushing for limited regulation
David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI – putting the White House out of step with its own party

At a liquor store, bar, or casino, getting carded is part of the cost of entry.
Now the internet is carding people, too
—and the companies doing the carding are cashing in.
New laws and platform rules are pushing games, social platforms, AIproducts, and adult sites to replace birthday boxes
(the fields where you enter your DOB)
with identity checks.
What was once a compliance tool for sellers in age-restricted industries is becoming infrastructure for the i…

The Internet Is Starting to Card Everyone. These Startups Are Making Millions From It
Age-verification systems are increasingly sophisticated. They're lucrative for the businesses creating them, too.

Democratic lawmakers are pushing a bill to disapprove of a nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia
in a bid to strike down the proposal during a three-month period of congressional review.
Democratic Reps. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
along with Brad Sherman, John Garamendi and Don Beyer
introduced a Joint Resolution of Disapproval on Wednesday,
shortly before lawmakers left Washington to…

Democrats propose bill to strike down controversial Saudi nuclear deal
Congress has 90 days to review the agreement on nuclear energy projects.