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When towns, regions, countries tilt towards water deficit, how will AI Tech companies justify AI everything?

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

‘A monument to kindness’: the rise of Britain’s community cinemas With more than 1,600 screens, people share how local-run venues have taken them on a film-worthy adventure

“I think this is now where the heart and love of cinema really is,” Conlon says. “The multiplexes and the big chains do what they do – but I think, for the people working in it and for people going, the best experience today is with community cinemas.”

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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That's fantastic! Congrats!

The richest people in the country aren’t stressing that their health care costs could double.

No, they’re getting tax breaks. Thanks to Trump, the super wealthy have never had it this good.

Working people are suffering from Trump’s higher costs.

I returned to the site of the original "No Kings" protest A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.

Leave it to @billmckibben.bsky.social to inspire from the hallowed grounds of the original No Kings battle:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Go, Presque Isle! #NoKings for #Maine!

No Kings in Presque Isle, Maine. Over 370 protesters I this morning! Bagpipes Guy plays for the 2nd No Kings…

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

A sign that says THEY BLAME IMMIGRANTS AO YOU DON'T BLAME BILLIONAIRES Also behind them to the left is a sign that says NO TROOPS IN OUR STREETS

That's right

We the people are coming into the Boston Common

Happening now. Hundreds are gathered outside the US Embassy in London. #NoKings

From a small Maine town at 9 this morning! #NoKings for Wayne, Maine!

Sign game is strong here! #NoKings

A group of about 200 protests against Trump and tyranny in Placa Sant Jaume

A group of about 200 protests against Trump and tyranny in Placa Sant Jaume

A group of about 200 protests against Trump and tyranny in Placa Sant Jaume

A group of about 200 protests against Trump and tyranny in Placa Sant Jaume

Great turnout today - right now! - in Barcelona, protesting Trump’s dictator actions.
We will restore democracy.
I estimate we’ve had ~250 people here, though some more have stopped through. Barcelona has just over 7,000 residents who are from the U.S.
#notyrants

TODAY'S THE DAY #NoKings

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

In two days, be a part of the largest peaceful protest in modern American history.

Join No Kings this Saturday at an event near you to push back on Trump's power grabs and make it clear—we don't do monarchs here. nokings.org

Inside Bari Weiss’s First 10 Days as the Controversial Head of CBS News After a softball Netanyahu interview, newsroom sources tell Zeteo the start of Weiss's tenure at CBS has been chaotic and has underscored her own pro-Israel biases.

“Two sources say Weiss has said to others that she doesn’t own a television herself.”

Happy to hear you're ok but... so scary! xo

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

Say it!

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Bessent says bailout for Argentina will double to boost U.S. influence in region The Trump administration is working to arrange private sector financing for Argentina that would double the total U.S. financial lifeline for the embattled Latin nation.

20 billion dollars from the US Treasury **was not enough**. So now it's 40 billion dollars! And why stop there?

All while the US government is shut down.

"America First," amirite?

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol “It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

NEW: How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
New details here about how the Army’s top uniformed lawyer was fired just weeks after raising concerns about the use of the military domestically and mass firings of DoD employees www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

Hope you’re feeling better soon!

‘Bored aliens’: has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth? Astrophysicist proposes a ‘radically mundane’ theory for why humans have yet to encounter extraterrestrials

‘Bored aliens’: has intelligent life stopped bothering trying to contact Earth?

Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies