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6.5 million Americans face landslide risks—a new database shows where they live #America

6.5 million Americans face landslide risks—a new database shows where they live
Landslides cause an estimated $3 billion to $6 billion in damage and multiple fatalities annually in the United States. Those numbers could easily increase as housing needs spur development in landslide-prone areas and climate change increases the severity and frequency of heavy rains, which often trigger landslides. Despite the threat, there has never been a systematic, nationwide accounting of who is most at risk from landslides.

Frontier AI Goes Federal: How the Great American AI Act Compares to State Laws
https://fpf.org/blog/frontier-ai-goes-federal-how-the-great-american-ai-act-compares-to-state-laws/
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Europe is Done with American Big Tech.
-- Well, sort of.
Since the start of Donald Trump’s chaotic second administration, concerned governments and companies across the continent have accelerated plans to end their near-total reliance on technology from US firms.
https://www.w…

All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.

America's Sweethearts Season 3 among Emmy nominated Netflix shows https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/09/netflix-americas-sweethearts-season-3-earns-emmy-nomination/90851…

How America Gave Up on Its Own History (Yoni Appelbaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/american-history-common-narrative/687301/?gift=Xg2N2HYq4co-2-uQvP_P53USscDlFiEJ2PpvkcBoZt4
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p19#a260608p19

The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is
“deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out Donald Trump’s plans for
restricting mail-in voting. 
Calling it an “unconstitutional attack on the millions of Americans who vote by mail,”
the APWU said in a press statement that it “rejects the premise” that the USPS needed to comply with Trump’s order. 
“The Executive Order also ignores the fundamental purpose of …

Postal workers lash out against new USPS rule that helps Trump’s attack on mail-in voting
The American Postal Workers Union says it “rejects the premise” that the USPS needed to comply with Trump’s anti-mail voting order. 

Trump's SAVE America Act shows signs of life in the Senate despite Republican revolt (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-save-america-act-shows-signs-life-senate-despite-republican-revolt
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p51#a260609p51

As the country’s population rapidly ages
— with adults over 65 set to outnumber children by 2034
— more Americans will find themselves in need of care.
Many families remain wholly unprepared to shoulder the weight of this demographic shift,
even if they must
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Opinion | This Is One of the Hardest Jobs in America. Millions Are Doing It Alone.
Behind closed doors, millions of Americans are stepping into one of the hardest roles they’ll ever take on: caring for their aging parents.

All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/all-the-ways-europe-is-ditching-american-technology/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p13#a260608p13

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke,
whose company commands a market capitalization near $154 billion,
told his social media followers this week that a tax-tiered voting system
—one that would strip voting rights from anyone who pays no income tax
—would be a “good system.”
That two-word endorsement,
dropped into a viral thread,
has reignited a debate over wealth, power,
and democracy that most Americans thought was settled more than a century ago.
Th…

Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century?
Should how much you pay in taxes determine how much your vote counts? Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke seems to think so.