Semafor • Sep 5, 2025
How San Jose’s mayor is using AI to speed up transportation, government
Mayor Matt Mahan says applying AI to move buses ahead of schedule was just one of many ways the new technology can help advance municipalities.
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Semafor • Sep 5, 2025
Dismal US jobs report raises likelihood of Fed cut
US employers added just 22,000 jobs in August, far fewer than expected, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3%
Semafor • Sep 5, 2025
Argentina lawmakers overturn Milei’s veto
The libertarian leader had sought to halt a pensions increase he said threatened to derail his austerity agenda.
Semafor • Sep 5, 2025
Stock ban backers lobby House leaders
'We’re going to get it to the floor one way or another,' Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., said.
Lever News • Sep 4, 2025
Ticketmaster Just Locked You In A New Legal Prison
The entertainment giant’s new user terms block class action suits and steer complaints into corporate-friendly arbitration, potentially defying a judge’s orders.
Lever News • Sep 4, 2025
Trump Clears Path For Plastic Industry’s Fake Recycling Fix
The EPA just paved the way for a nationwide buildout of chemical recycling facilities that boost fossil fuels, spew emissions, and don’t appear to work.
Current Affairs • Sep 4, 2025
Texas Turns Men, Women, and Children into Bounty Hunters
The Texas legislature is in the process of passing a law that would allow anyone in the state to sue abortion pill manufacturers and doctors who send abortion pills into Texas. People with no connection to someone seeking an abortion can collect at least $100,000 in damages, according to the New York Times. Abortion is already strictly criminalized in the state, but this is a measure meant to rally citizens as vigilantes, surveilling the activity of doctors out of state. And that’s what makes this law, like a similar one passed in Louisiana, so insidious.
Infinite Jaz • Sep 4, 2025
Israel might annex the West Bank—what would that actually mean?
A brief explainer.
Zeteo • Sep 4, 2025
My Plea to Democrats: Stop Being Polite, Go Nuclear
A former Republican strategist lays out what the Dems must do if they win back the House next year, including defunding the entire executive branch and nationalizing SpaceX.
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400 headlinesMichigan Lawsuit Calls Big Oil a “Cartel” That’s Driving High Energy Bills
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ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − accused of violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendment rights − are testing whether the Constitution can survive
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Congress has exercised minimal oversight over ICE, but that might change
The Conversation •
Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care
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Kristi Noem’s Throttling of FEMA Funds Constitutes a Preventable Disaster
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American Reich: Kristi Noem’s DHS is the Department of Homeland Subjugation
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Federal power meets local resistance in Minneapolis – a case study in how federalism staves off authoritarianism
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Report: Education Department’s “Efficiency” Layoffs Cost At Least $28 Million
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Trump Goes Public With Plan to “Take Over” Elections
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Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms
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