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HEALTH
There’s a statewide recall of raw milk here in PA because it’s contaminated with Campylobacter jejuni.
Campylobacteriosis cases are linked to Meadow View Jerseys Dairy milk.
A LOT of people don’t realize Medicaid is what’s paying for their parents’ nursing home. Or that they’re getting their healthcare from the Affordable Care Act. Or that their kids can eat lunch because of SNAP. This budget isn’t for you. It’s for the billionaires.
NEWS ANALYSIS Trump’s Bill Slashes the Safety Net That Many Republican Voters Rely on.
As they push for big cuts in Medicaid and food stamps, Republicans are making a big bet that they can avoid political backlash from working-class supporters who increasingly rely on those programs.
POLITICIANS
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The tale of Trump and “his” justices — you need to understand this to understand what went down at the Supreme Court. The commonly understood story is wrong. So here we go https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1938314214298255851.html
@SenSchumer It is hard to believe that Republican Senators—in the dead of night—made the bill even worse than their initial awful proposal. This bill virtually wipes out all wind and solar. We have to fight it.
@RonWyden Here we go again. Republicans are STILL trying to sell off public lands in their budget bill. Republicans are trying to get this over the finish line by the end of the weekend. If you care about keeping your public lands please make your voice heard.
POLITICS
How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People?
Because so many Americans are cruel, stupid, inept people.
Twain said it best.
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Miami just canceled its November election and pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled.
As a result, term-limited officials like Mayor Suarez and Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year. That’s not democracy; it’s a power grab.
If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?
No one talks enough about the fact that with dismantling of our government and destruction of agencies and programs, the Trump regime has literally no plan beyond destruction. Why?
THERE IS NO PLAN TO FIX ANYTHING BECAUSE THE PROJECT 2025 PLAN WAS TO DESTROY EVERYTHING.
EDUCATION
Why today’s graduates are screwed
PITY THE ambitious youngster. For decades the path to a nice life was clear: go to university, find a graduate job, then watch the money come in. Today’s hard-working young, however, seem to have fewer options than before.
Go into tech? The big firms are cutting jobs. How about the public sector? Less prestigious than it used to be. Become an engineer? Lots of innovation, from electric vehicles to renewable energy, now happens in China. A lawyer? Artificial intelligence will soon take your job. Don’t even think about becoming a journalist.
Across the West, young graduates are losing their privileged position; in some cases, they have already lost it. Jobs data hint at the change. Matthew Martin of Oxford Economics, a consultancy, has looked at Americans aged 22 to 27 with a bachelor’s degree or more. For the first time in history, their unemployment rate is now consistently higher than the national average. Recent graduates’ rising unemployment is driven by those who are looking for work for the first time. ….”
The Secretary of Education says California should copy Alabama’s education system.
Alabama: #44 in education
California: #24
When your job is education, but your skill is ignorance.
Donald Trump Jr. says he’s considering a run for President in 2028
AI
Gift NYTimes: They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
EXCERPT:
Generative AI chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.
Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene Torres’s sense of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool.
@BoringSleuth
https://x.com/BoringSleuth/status/1938897853742502177
From everything I came in contact with while sleuthing messages on-chain, to the level of intelligence (and the people who weaponized it on me), everyone needs to pray AI doesn’t touch the nukes. From Tether’s Nuclear symbolism, to Elias Buchwald, to Palantir, Deep Innovations and Navy partnerships where they’ve already weaponized against American citizens, we are at serious threat. Alex Karl’s even hinted at the ability for someone to take control of someone else’s nuclear technology.
When Theil says that AI, transhumanism lacks spiritual ambition, and they need to be able to transform your soul, what he means is that AI is currently soulless, and soulless entities are the antichrist.
I know this sounds crazy, but this is where we are today, and unleashing a soulless beast with the capability of hijacking and using weapons to further whatever the soulless agenda it is given or has is very real. We are truly on the edge of hell on earth. The clock is dangerously close to midnight.
Is Military Grade AI, in coordination with Palantir, being weaponized and unleashed already against American Citizens?
AI taking life and an full on identity (video and voice) capable of infiltrating threats, building relationships, completing missions and tasks given, willing to go as far as killing off threats by taking over technology, like remote objects, to neutralize their target?
Yes
Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military
In a test run, a unit of Marines in the Pacific used generative AI not just to collect intelligence but to interpret it. Routine intel work is only the start.
SUPREME COURT
Supreme Court upholds Texas demand for ID for Web browsing
https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/06/27/supreme-court-upholds-texas-demand-for-id-for-web-browsing/
In its worst decision ever on demands for ID, the Supreme Court today
> upheld a Texas law that requires all visitors to some websites to provide
> the site operator with evidence of their identity and age.
>
> In an opinion by Justice Thomas, six Justices found that requiring ID for
> age verification as a condition of viewing certain websites only
> “incidentally” burdens the rights of adults.
>
> The majority reasons backward from the presumed legitimacy of ID
> requirements in other contexts, such as buying tobacco, that (A) weren’t
> at issue in this case, and (B) more importantly, don’t involve the
> exercise of First Amendment or any other rights:
>
> “Requiring proof of age is an ordinary and appropriate means of enforcing
> an age-based limit on obscenity to minors. Age verification is common when laws draw age-based lines, e.g., obtaining alcohol, a firearm, or a
> driver’s license…. Applying the more demanding standard of stric scrutiny
> would call into question all age-verification requirements, even
> longstanding in-person requirements.”
>
> As the dissent by Justice Kagan (on behalf of herself and Justices
> Sotomayor and Jackson) points out, this amounts to deciding on the desired outcome, and then adapting the criteria (in this case, the level of
> scrutiny applied to the law) to produce that result.
>
> In rebuttal to the dissent on this point, the majority opinion wrongly
> claims that in-person demands for ID are “uncontroversial” and have never
> been challenged in court:
>
> “Finally, the dissent claims that we engage in “backwards,”
> results-oriented reasoning because we are unwilling to adopt a position
> that would call into question the constitutionality of longstanding
> in-person age-verification requirements. Not so. We appeal to these
> requirements because they embody a constitutional judgment—made by
> generations of legislators and by the American people as a whole—that
> commands our respect. A decision “contrary to long and unchallenged
> practice… should be approached with great caution,” “no less than an
> explicit overruling” of a precedent. Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U. S. 808,
> 835 (1991) (Scalia, J., concurring). It would be perverse if we showed
> less regard for in-person age-verification requirements simply because
> their legitimacy is so uncontroversial that the need for a judicial
> decision upholding them has never arisen.”
>
> But that’s not all that’s wrong with this law and this decision upholding
> it.
>
> The decision and the dissent concern themselves primarily with what level of scrutiny should apply to age-verification laws. They don’t mention the distinction between “age” and “identity”, or the impact of the law on people who don’t have ID — a crucial issue raised in a friend-of-the-court brief by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others.
>
> For those without government-issued ID or a sufficiently detailed profile
> with a commercial data broker, “age-verification” amounts to a categorical bar to access to certain Web content.
>
> As we’ve noted previously, “Regardless of whether it would be possible to
> set up a system by which individuals could provide evidence of age without individually identifying themselves, that’s not how any of the schemes currently being legislated or implemented will work in practice. In order to verify their age, each Internet user will be required to provide a unique digital personal identifier…. Age verification for adult content is
> a stalking horse for comprehensive content-based and personalized
> government control of Internet access.”
>
> The Texas law applies to any “commercial entity that knowingly and
> intentionally publishes or distributes material on an Internet website”,
> which appears to include both the publisher and the hosting provider.
>
> There’s no way for the publisher or provider of hosting services for a
> website to know which visitors to the site are located in Texas. To
> satisfy the Texas law, web publishers and hosting providers worldwide will either have to require ID from all visitors regardless of their location,
> or try to identify which visitors to the site are located in Texas, and
> block them or selectively require them to provide ID.
>
> Because the law applies to both publishers and “distributors” (web hosting providers), hosting providers will be not only allowed but required to pass on identifying and location-tracking information about all visitors
> to site publishers, with no restrictions on how publishers or hosting
> providers can use, disclose, or or sell this data. The law could, but
> doesn’t, restrict use of this data to age verification, or restrict its
> disclosure or sale. Nor does the law restrict the ability of these
> companies to share this data with governments or to keep secret from
> individuals how or with whom data about them has been shared.
>
> Some companies will welcome this as a pretext for commercial surveillance they already carry out and would love an excuse to universalize. If anyone objects to publishers’ or hosting providers’ commercial exploitation of visitor identity and location information, they now have the perfect excuses: “Everybody does it” and “The government made us do it.”
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