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1. New York Mag fires Mamdani-loving writer Ross Barkan for 67 instances of ripping off other authors
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
New York Magazine has fired lefty political writer Ross Barkan, one of the biggest boosters of Mayor Zohran Mamdani in NYC journalism, for ripping off other authors’ work a shocking 67 times.
2. AI data center boom minting new class of 6-figure jobs — how it affects housing
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post
Blue-collar trades are booming, with tech giants like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang predicting six-figure jobs building data centers. Data center construction is creating high-paying jobs, with workers seeing 25% to 30% pay jumps, but it’s straining the housing industry.
3. Trump shrugs off concerns about dismal conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Axios
✍️ **Author Reference:** Donica Phifer
The aircraft carrier has been deployed for nine months, with reports indicating crew members' families were concerned about their well-being.
4. 'Completely unacceptable': UK slams Netanyahu for calling it an ‘Islamic republic’ | The Times of Israel
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5. The idea that Earth is the Solar System's ultimate water world is misleading: Europa likely holds more than twice our ocean's volume beneath a crust of ice, while Enceladus is continuously venting material from its hidden ocean directly into space.
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily
Europa may contain about 3 billion cubic kilometres of liquid water, while Enceladus offers spacecraft direct access to material from a hidden ocean.
6. Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao on X: “Statement from Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao:” / X
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7. Sean Parnell on X: “I deployed for 485 days in Afghanistan with an 80 percent-plus casualty rate. We came under fire nearly every day. Combat deployments bring real hardship. That is simply the truth. We endured it. We held together. We finished the mission. The media treatment of the USS Abraham” / X
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8. Never Trump, Still a Republican - The Atlantic
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9. The Atlantic on X: “Some progressive Democrats are attempting to distance themselves from their most excessive past stances—but Republicans have no intention of letting voters forget, @imkahloon argues. https://t.co/fluRoaopIB” / X
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10. Evan Barker on X: “Looks like the mainstream media is reading my book and it’s inspiring them but they still won’t write about Nothing Left! Weird. https://t.co/ezyCV10XVO” / X
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11. Nolan's Odyssey reminds us of America's $40 trillion national debt crisis | Fox News
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12. Jason Arday Was the Author of His Own Downfall | National Review
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13. Live updates: DNC approves 2028 primary calendar; Iran responds to Trump’s Strait of Hormuz comments
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14. Massimo on X: “Which is the rotation sense? This phenomenon is called bistable perception, and you can actually control the rotation direction with your will. https://t.co/DmDonImdaZ” / X
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15. Rock Chartrand on X: “So because AI might produce catastrophic results, Bernie’s solution is to hand control to politicians with a centuries-long record of producing catastrophic results. Meanwhile, apparently China and every other country will politely pause development too. Nothing says “AI” / X
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16. Eva Vlaardingerbroek on X: “Beautiful. Whatever those authoritarian actors try to censor will from now on become highlighted instead. Elon just checkmated all of you.” / X
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17. Rothmus 🏴 on X: “The answer to the water-diamond paradox falsified Marx’s assumption that value is derived from labor. Adam Smith in 1776 couldn’t answer why diamonds cost a bundle whereas water costs almost nothing in comparison although it’s necessary for survival. Carl Menger figured out https://t.co/hcNv2dxNfV” / X
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18. Mr Producer on X: “🔥 @StephenM : This is a struggle for the SURVIVAL of America “It’s that serious, it’s that real. What you talked about—abolishing police, abolishing borders, abolishing ICE… These actions collectively would bring America to its knees.” “Everything that makes your life better, https://t.co/zM3fFVarhX“ / X
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19. Wall Street Apes on X: “Former Far-Left liberals says the Democratic Socialists of America is lying to all of us She exposes the truth, the DSA is not about bettering life for working people - The DSA’s own membership is 85% white - The average age is 33 - 80% of them have college degrees “We’re not https://t.co/JJquOU8kMt” / X
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20. Stephen Miller Warns DSA Rise Threatens America’s Survival / X
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21. Stu Smith on X: “🚨 New DSA Talking Point Just Dropped! Communists Inside DSA Are Apparently Just “Highly Obscure Historical Strains” Paola Ramos of The Moment podcast point-blank asked DSA’s national co-chairs whether they consider themselves communists and what separates communism from DSA. https://t.co/s3GC9NODLF” / X
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22. RedWave Press on X: “NAILED IT: Andrew Cuomo: “You have these [Democrat] moderates who are just AFRAID of the EXTREME LEFT. They’re just AFRAID.” Bill Maher: “They are.” Andrew Cuomo: “And when they start with this, ‘well, we’re just a big tent party.’ That is a lot of CRAP!… [Big tent] didn’t https://t.co/HfIKuW6VhC” / X
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23. Keith Coleman 🌱😀🙌 on X: “OK let’s try this: ———————- Pretend you’re 5 and the algorithm is a smart robot that picks which toys (posts) to show you in your toy box (For You feed). The robot doesn’t just count how many times people already played with a toy (likes, reports, etc.). Instead, it looks at” / X
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24. Elon Musk on X: “😂” / X
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25. Michael Shellenberger on X: “Police found Jason Arday dead yesterday afternoon, nine days after he resigned his Cambridge professorship in disgrace. The Metropolitan Police said his death “is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious.” His family strongly implied his death was a https://t.co/xYOfeMA1Fw” / X
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26. Michael Shellenberger on X: “The @BBCNews says Jason Arday’s death will send shockwaves through universities. It should send shockwaves through the media and the BBC. They promoted him, spread his misinformation, and are to blame for his rise and fall. They must be held accountable. https://t.co/WEqnovEQdH” / X
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27. Richard Dawkins on X: “Extracts from a further Spectator article (Aug 15) by Andrew Gilligan: An academic project hosted by Cambridge University platforms creationism, the belief that the world was created by God in seven days. It promotes an academic paper demanding that schoolchildren be taught to” / X
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28. Author Eric Metaxas: The American Left is satanic - YouTube
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Author and radio host Eric Metaxas tells Miranda Devine the morally bankrupt Left represents an existential threat to the America of our founding fathers.Ple…
29. SHE GOT EXPOSED - YouTube
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SUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/GET OUR MERCH - https://merch.timcast.com/Join - https://timcast.com/discordHosts: Phil @Phi…
30. Greta Thunberg FOUND Her Next Cause.. You WON'T Believe What It Is! - YouTube
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Greta Thunberg has moved from climate activism to pro-Palestinian campaigning — and now she’s throwing her enormous platform behind another international cau…
31. Jessica S. Tisch on X: “Earlier this evening, an individual disrupted Shabbat services at Central Synagogue in Manhattan. As synagogue security was escorting him out, he struck a member of the congregation, damaged synagogue property, and then spit at and headbutted a member of the security team. An” / X
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32. Ben Shapiro Admits His Biggest Blind Spot | PBD Podcast #842 - YouTube
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Few figures have shaped modern conservative media like Ben Shapiro. After more than 20 years in politics and a decade building The Daily Wire, Shapiro sits d…
33. The Qataris are not the diplomatic firefighters; they are the arsonists | The Jerusalem Post
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Behind Doha’s image as a neutral mediator lies a regime accused of empowering Iran, exporting extremist narratives, and undermining religious freedom at home and abroad.
34. Elon Musk on X: “Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible” / X
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35. DOJ finds three NFS STEM programs unconstitutional
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Washington Examiner
✍️ **Author Reference:** Kaelan Deese
DOJ found three National Science Foundation STEM programs unconstitutional, but the agency declined to discuss its next steps.
36. 8 Modern Linux Commands I Use Instead of the Old-School Alternatives - Virtualization Howto
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Virtualization Howto
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.facebook.com/people/VirtualizationHowto/100092747277326/
Discover 8 modern Linux commands I use instead of old-school alternatives, with practical tools for files, search, monitoring, disk space, and networking.
37. How to Build a Simple AI Web Scraper with Python - KDnuggets
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✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.facebook.com/kdnuggets
Turn any webpage into a lightweight LLM-powered QA engine by cleaning HTML, converting content to Markdown, and returning focused answers while reducing token usage.
38. Grok 4.6 matched Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. Downloadable models set that price. - The New Stack
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** The New Stack
✍️ **Author Reference:** Matthew Burns
The frontier isn't converging on intelligence. It's converging on pricing power.
39. 'Islamic Republic of Britain': Netanyahu calls UK 'first Islamic Republic' to get nuclear weapon
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40. IDF says tank in Gaza hit by explosive device in 'grave' truce violation; no soldiers injured | The Times of Israel
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41. Gemini 3.7 Flash is here — and this prompt proves why it’s known as Google’s ‘workhorse’ | Tom’s Guide
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Tom
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.tomsguide.com/author/amanda-caswell
Google calls Gemini 3.7 Flash a workhorse, so I created one epic prompt to test its planning, Workspace and agentic abilities.
42. Gad Saad on X: “This scene from White Lotus is very poignant. It perfectly captures every progressive person that I know especially academics. It is unthinkable to them that a person might not share their political orientations. https://t.co/cDRXC2Tn3J” / X
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43. Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X: “The DEI regime killed Jason Arday. Cambridge liberals were so desperate for a racial fairy tale, they elevated a man who could only meet the standards through fraud, then abandoned him when they started feeling embarrassed. Sad, predictable end to a story with only villains. RIP.” / X
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44. Pluto's sky is blue, chunks of its water-ice mountains float like icebergs across glaciers of frozen nitrogen, and its moon is so large that the two worlds orbit a point in empty space between them — yet Pluto still hasn't completed a single trip around the Sun since humans discovered it in 1930.
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily
New Horizons revealed blue atmospheric haze, floating water-ice hills, nitrogen glaciers and Pluto's unusual orbital dance with Charon.
45. Abdul El-Sayed blog likened Trump to Osama bin Laden after Jan. 6 | Fox News
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46. Sweet Karoline - POLITICO
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47. Karoline Leavitt, the Press Secretary Who Perfected the Art of Defending Trump - WSJ
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48. Bakari Sellers: Democrats 'afraid' of Scott Jennings replacing Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary
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49. LinkedIn user hides AI prompt injection in bio to force recruitment spam to be sent in Olde English prose — bots also manipulated to address user as ‘My Lord’ | Tom’s Hardware
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🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Tom
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.tomshardware.com/author/mark-tyson
This tale is also a warning that your AI agents can be manipulated in wholly unintended ways.