This summer’s World Cup will be unlike any other in the 96-year history of the world’s most popular sporting event. Never before have players on the field and spectators in the stands faced the intensity of heat expected to confront them at the matches taking place over the next 39 days, starting with today’s opener between Mexico and South Africa. The extra heat is due, in no small part, to…
This week, more than 100 former federal prosecutors in Illinois sounded the alarm about the current leaders of the office where they all once served. “Regrettably,” their statement reads, “there is little doubt that actions taken by leadership in the last year have tarnished the reputation of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.” They list some serious…
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On the above May 25, 2026 video at Delaney Hall, Newark NJ @ approximately 0:43 Mins. Kason Little identifies himself as a Community Organizer and Activist. Here's some information about Kason Little, found on CANARY MISSION:
Last updated: Dec. 7, 2025
Kason Little
Status: Unknown
State: New Jersey
Organizations: BDS, BLM
Kason Little
Kason…
For more than two weeks, around 300 immigrants locked up at Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention camp in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a hunger and labor strike, refusing to eat and refusing to work maintaining the prison for its operators, the GEO Group. They are not alone: Outside the camp’s chain-link fence, in an industrial area, their family members, loved ones, and a broader community of…
President Trump on 3 June 2026 signed an executive order converting roughly 8,000 senior career federal jobs into Schedule Policy/Career, stripping the incumbents of civil service protections and making them effectively at-will employees, Government Executive reported. About 97 percent are GS-15s or senior leaders—office and division heads, chief information officers, regulation writers and…
Bigger threat, this time from space, the author writes
The internet is giving us more information and images of the new Google Pixel Watch 5. Google's new smartwatch model will no longer feature a Snapdragon chipset, according to the report. What can we expect from the new smartwatch?
Let’s acknowledge this up front: It’s good to see that Senate Republicans have—for the time being, anyway—forced Donald Trump to back off plans for a $1.8 billion slush fund for allies and insurrectionists. Trump suspended the idea after Republicans made it clear that they won’t pass funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement without legislative language starkly limiting the fund or…
Many governors across the country, Democrats and Republicans alike, are
making a point of mentioning childcare these days. In fact, nearly half of them mentioned it in their 2026 State of the State addresses, according to a tally released this week by the Center for American Progress. And it stands to reason. Childcare is
less affordable than ever, even for middle-0class families, and voters want…
Tiny fossils found in 1.7 billion-year-old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life.
The creationist Ken Ham’s website, Answers in Genesis (AiG), is notorious for the way it exploits the ignorance of its target readership and their eagerness for spurious “scientific” validation of evidence-free superstition. For example, AiG recently posted on X, formerly Twitter, asserting that the…
From The New York Times article “Wordle Is a Love Story”, it began as a sweet love story of Josh Wardle building a game for his partner. It became super popular and now has its own Wikipedia page.
I first saw it on my Twitter timeline when people keep posting their Wordle results. I was honestly annoyed because they were just bragging and the results didn’t really tell much. At that time, I…
Donald Trump just wants to let the kids vape.
Eight days after Reynolds American, an American tobacco company with a history of government lobbying, threw $5 million at a Trump-backed super PAC, the Food and Drug Administration moved to ease restrictions on flavored vapes, allowing companies like Reynolds to roll out flavors previously banned because they were too marketable to minors.
The…
The country’s poultry and swine processing plants, already incredibly dangerous workplaces, are poised to get a green light from the Trump administration to vastly speed up the work. In February, the Department of Agriculture released two proposed regulations to increase evisceration line speeds for hogs, chickens, and turkeys. The swine plant proposal removes the current maximum of 1,106 hogs an…
One of the first of Donald Trump’s many presidential scandals was in 2016, when he refused to release his tax returns as previous presidents and presidential candidates had done for 40 years.
On Tuesday, Trump’s Department of Justice essentially ensured his taxes would never be properly audited again.
As part of a settlement between the president and the IRS, the DOJ “forever barred and…
A CSPAN caller who identified himself as a three-time Donald Trump voter compared the president to Adolf Hitler.
In a damning pulse-check on Trump’s second term, a caller, who identified himself as “Thomas from Hawaii,” told CSPAN’s _Washington Journal_ Saturday that he regrets supporting Trump after realizing he was “the worst president we’ve ever had.”
“It’s hard for me to say this, but I…
The Trump administration is hoping to trick Americans into thinking that prices are going down—while the actual numbers indicate the opposite.
The U.S. Department of Labor posted a graphic on X Friday claiming that the prices of “many” goods were falling year-over-year, touting “THE TRUMP EFFECT!”
Independent journalist Justin Wolfers cross-referenced the chart with data from the Consumer Price…
Macworld
The MacBook Neo has certainly created a lot of attention for Apple and the Mac. But if you’re on the outside (a.k.a. a dedicated Windows PC user) looking in, you probably shrugged it all off as the usual Apple hype.
But Microsoft seems to be convinced that the hype is real, because it recently “commissioned” a report by Signal65 to convince everyone that Windows PCs are the better…
Plus, are journalists properly investigating the official hantavirus narrative?
Last month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in software that the company would not release it to the general public. Instead, it would only be available to a select group of companies to scan and fix their own software.
The announcement requires context—but it contained an essential…
Vice President JD Vance blatantly lied Wednesday when asked about Donald Trump’s callous remarks on Americans’ worsening financial situation.
At a press conference, Vance was asked whether he agreed with Trump’s position that Americans’ worsening financial situations should not be a consideration in the decision-making process on Iran.
“Well, I don’t think the president said that,” Vance said.…
The UK’s AI Security Institute evaluated GPT-5.5’s ability to find security vulnerabilities, and found that it is comparable to Claude Mythos. Note that the OpenAI model is generally available.
Here is the Institute’s evaluation of Mythos.
And here is an analysis of a smaller, cheaper model. It requires more scaffolding from the prompter, but it is also just as good.
You are right, it’s a credit reporting bureau (TransUnion). A Reddit user reverse engineered their mobile apps and found they are using TransUnion’s TLOxp private “invite only” API as the back-end for their free scan.
Their data removal feature has stuck at 120 data broker coverage for quite a while. This plus using TransUnion API for scans instead of using their own stack means they are…
Evidence of them has been found by analyzing DNA in the seawater.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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NEW YORK: A federal judge on Wednesday released a document described as a suicide note purportedly written by the late Jeffrey Epstein and including the line: “It is a treat to be able to choose ones time to say goodbye.”
Epstein, the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 in what was ruled a suicide. The handwritten note was said…
Google announced that “you can now choose to share your approximate location with websites, instead of sharing precise location” on Chrome for Android.
A New York judge has released a handwritten note allegedly written by the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The note was reportedly found in a graphic novel of Epstein’s cellmate in late July 2019, several weeks before Epstein was found dead in his cell.
The note is unsigned and has not been verified as Epstein’s. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas ordered the note to be unsealed on…
Plus, Meta starts using AI for age verification.
President Donald Trump delivered a meandering, campaign-style speech on Friday in The Villages, a popular retirement community in central Florida, blending economic promises aimed at seniors with sharp attacks on transgender Americans and a renewed embrace of the disco hit “Y.M.C.A.”
The event, held before a largely retired audience, was billed as a push to eliminate taxes on Social Security…
Sometimes, life just sucks. Wars plague the earth, grandparents get sick, love is lost and so on. Often, everything seems to go wrong simultaneously. My family says hardship rolls in like the tide: three big waves at a time.
It’s easy to think, “I’d be happy if this never happened,” or “I’d be a happy person if bad things stopped happening to me.”
Though common, this thinking is inherently…