As the midterms approach, new polling shows two-thirds of US adults are worried politicians will “[pressure] election officials to change election outcomes.” / Gallup See also: “Elon Musk is firing up the vote-buying machine again.” / Gizmodo The Trump administration’s cuts to Medicare Part D, which subsidizes prescriptions for
ICE added new contract terms that “state laws shall not apply” to its detention centers a day after a federal judge ordered a facility be opened to state health inspectors. / WIRED “A larger question is whether the GOP should be explicitly Christianist or, as it did when it embraced the
It can take less than a year to build a new data center, but “building new energy generation to meet that data center's power needs could take a decade.” / 404 Media See also: Data centers are expected to comprise more than 10% of US electricity usage by 2030,
ICE is paying Thomson Reuters data brokers $25 million a year to screen individuals and entities for various offenses and identify those violating US laws. / The Week The US and China are in a race to outdo each other in providing drone support to Everest mountaineers. “The contest has geopolitical
The CDC is investigating a new cyclospora outbreak, adding to at least three other clusters currently active in the United States. / Yahoo! News Behind the scenes for how Taco Bell has responded to the outbreak. “You have one shot to get it right.” / The Wall Street Journal [$] Even as RFK
On Monday, the State Dept. issued a 100-page report denouncing Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, and several activists and organizations as “front groups and fellow travelers” for Cuba. / The Guardian So far this year, an unusually high number of gray whales have been found dead on North America’s Pacific
Taylor Farms’ cyclospora was a false positive, but the FDA still links the company to the outbreak. “Absence of evidence is never evidence of absence.” / The Washington Post [$] A new lawsuit alleges the Dept. of Homeland Security has been holding immigrant children in Texas for hundreds of days, well over
The House passes a bill to make daylight saving time permanent—at the behest of President Trump, whose golf courses stand to profit from later evenings. / The Washington Post [$] See also: A look at what permanent daylight saving time will do to the sunrise and sunset times in your area
To push Cuba toward regime change, the White House is pressuring other nations to curb their use of one of Cuba’s most valuable exports: medical personnel. / The Wall Street Journal [$] Refusing to normalize the pain of IUD insertions, a medical startup has created a suction-based device to replace
“As a geopolitical actor, the United States has become a kind of lumbering zombie—a beast that can be startled into reflexive actions but lacks higher functions.” / The New York Times [$] How Trump’s arch doesn’t fit the intent—architecturally or symbolically—of the bridge he cites that congress
