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A mother-daughter newsroom writing from Oregon to the wider world about power, cruelty, courage, and the fight for a livable future.
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The Wrong Story Went Viral (opens the original)
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By Wednesday morning, Jack Smith’s Senate testimony had made it across the Atlantic.On LBC, the British talk radio station, the host and Washington commentator Simon Marks spent several minutes on the hearing. They savored Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt’s failed attempt to catch Smith in a lie, played the exchange for listeners, and laughed at the reveal. Marks called it a blunder so crass it deserved a wider audience. Not one sentence of Smith’s opening statement made the trip. Even the joke arr
The Honor System (opens the original)
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Good morning! A reporter asked the president yesterday why the world shouldn’t worry about artificial intelligence, and why the technology needs no guardrails.“Because we have people that love our country and love the world,” Donald Trump replied.“It requires more than love, doesn’t it, sir?”“No, it requires this. And they’re the smartest people in the world.”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1hmQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/h
The Homefront Report: Kennedy Calls It a Gatekeeper. I Called It My Job. (opens the original)
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On Monday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued that researchers should have wider access to Americans’ health data. Speaking at a MAHA Open Data Summit, he described linking medical records, insurance claims, vaccination histories, and other information so AI could search for patterns in chronic illness. A qualified researcher with a legitimate hypothesis, he said, shouldn’t need permission from a “gatekeeper.”For five years, I worked in health care quality and compliance. Part of my j
Trust Us, Says the President (opens the original)
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Good morning!Britain spent yesterday asking everyone to stop speculating about what happened outside RAF Fairford. Washington apparently heard that as a challenge.Three white vans in a Gloucestershire lane have now been examined by a bomb disposal robot, the British Army, and counterterrorism detectives. From an ocean away, the President of the United States alone seems to have reached a verdict.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5rcg!,f_au
The Homefront Report: TikTok Gets a Timer, Trump Gets a Dinner (opens the original)
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Alabama was supposed to put TikTok on trial today over allegations that it designed addictive features for children and misled the public about their safety. Instead, the state announced a settlement Friday: at least $100 million and a set of protections for young users in Alabama, including a two-hour daily limit and interruptions to the endless scroll. Whether those measures work will depend on how TikTok puts them into practice, but for once, the people who built the app have been given some
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