Starz reports a Q1 net loss of $164.9M on revenue of $306.9M, compared with $330.6M in Q1 2025, and forecasts positive YoY streaming revenue growth in FY 2026 (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Higher Gas Prices Are Hitting Lower-Income Americans the Hardest (Talmon Joseph Smith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/business/economy/gas-prices-inequality-lower-income-consumers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p39#a260507p39
Steve Bannon, the rightwing media host and ally of Donald Trump,
appears likely to have his criminal conviction dismissed.
The US supreme court filed a brief order on Monday that vacated a lower court ruling that had upheld Bannon’s conviction
and sent the case back to the US court of appeals for the DC circuit for “further consideration in light of the pending motion to dismiss the indictment”.
The Trump administration had moved to dismiss Bannon’s conviction
…
A man used AI to call 3,000 Irish bartenders to track the cost of Guinness. Now pubs are lowering their prices to compete
https://fortune.com/2026/03/30/guinness-beer-prices-ireland-anthropic-claude-ai/
Result:
From the comments: "A Hebrew University poll from June 2025 found that an overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis agree with the statement that there are "no innocents in Gaza. Studies in May 2025 suggested that 47% of Israeli Jews supported the claim that the Israeli army should act to kill all inhabitants in a conquered enemy city."
Lower-profile MAGA outlet airs the rage porn Fox News won't - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2026/05/07/lower-profile-maga-outlet-airs-the-rage-porn-fox-news-wont/
Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/bitcoin-dismal-week-price-below-all-time-high-crypto-in…
Very cool: a message that Jim Lowell recorded to the Artemis II crew before he died. "Welcome to my old neighborhood"!
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/06/artemis-ii-flight-day-6-crew-ready-for-lunar-flyby/
Morgan Stanley rolls out a crypto trading pilot on E*Trade, charging clients lower prices than Coinbase and Robinhood, ahead of a wider launch later in 2026 (Hannah Levitt/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Hungary does have the lowest household electricity prices in the European Union.
That, however, has little to do with the supplies of Russian fuels that Orbšn is seeking to preserve
— and more with big government spending and the transition to green energy,
two policies the U.S. administration Vance belongs to has sought to curb.
The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget for 2027 by $707M to help the agency refocus on its "core mission", not "weaponization and waste" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/cisa-bud…