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Legal and election experts said the latest move from the Justice Department to block certification in Alaska’s Senate race would likely not pass muster in the courts.

The Classic Learning Test is trying to replace the SAT and ACT, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. She reports on why red states are adopting the CLT at an astonishing rate—and why the test may be lowering standards for students:

A letter sent to Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles by several House members, incl. Ro Khanna, demanded “an immediate, govt-wide investigation into the decision to restrict SpaceX's Starshield satellite-based intelligence & military support services in Ukraine.” www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

“Any high-profile criminal case brought by the Trump administration arrives with an air of suspicion,” @qjurecic.bsky.social argues after charges were announced today against two former FBI officials:

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Important! 👇

Young men were really stupid when they voted for Trump in 2024. Looks like some of them are coming to their senses. 👇

Duh. 👇

MAGA voters can read this and weep. The Trump economy sucks!👇

The iPhone Duo, Apple's first-generation foldable, may feel awkward, but it’s an intriguing step toward merging phones and tablets into one, writes the tech columnist Brian X. Chen. Read his full review. nyti.ms/4ke4p1W

Last year, Anna Paulina Luna was a huge proponent of banning members of Congress and their family members from buying or trading public stock. Guess whose family members have a stake in a private drone company that has received more than $30 million in government contracts over the past year?

These MAHA moms were dumb to think RFK Jr. a/o Trump would give them any power or influence over the MAHA agenda. MAGA Bros are chauvinistic. MAGA favors male dominance. These men don’t care about anything but their erections.👇

The birth of modern AI may turn out to be the biggest wealth-creation event in human history—and what tech billionaires decide to do with this money could have profound consequences for how Americans live, @willgottsegen.com argues.

Pay attention. The USA is abandoning our western ally. 🇺🇦 Ukraine is our ally, not Russia and not Putin!! 👇

So with faking and manipulating polls in the news again can we talk about this huge campaign by the Rs that has now thrown 73 polls into the Senate battlegrounds in the last 6 weeks? We think this is all on the up and up? 1/

What can a month-long break from alcohol really do for your health? Doctors say the changes can be significant. Here’s what the science says about what you can expect to happen when you stop drinking alcohol for a few weeks:

Following a dramatic C-suite reshuffle and its largest round of layoffs in years, Netflix’s top executives reassure investors that they have a plan to keep audiences hooked.

Can your diet affect your brain? Experts at McLean Hospital are aiming to answer that question with a new clinical and research center focused on understanding the connection between nutrition, metabolism, and mental health.

Republicans are preparing for the midterm results to favor Dems by putting together a plan... about who to blame! From @hugolowell.bsky.social for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/its-th...

“Calling Putin a humanitarian is like calling Hannibal Lecter a humanitarian, although there is more of a case to be made for Hannibal because he does, at least, subsist on people.” @petridishes.bsky.social on Steve Witkoff’s recent remarks to the Russian president:

This is the #Truth These young French kids are opportunistic and many are behaving like “entitled criminals”. I hope all the punks (not the legitimate protesters) who got arrested for vandalism & violent mayhem spend some time in prison to reflect to reflect on their actions. 👇

"With a seeming flick of a switch, Musk has the power to alter the course of a deadly conflict. " Nobody should have that kind of power www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

The surprising conservative backlash against Justice Alito www.vox.com/politics/506...

The Republican justice’s new book has convinced many of his political allies that he’s not entirely on the level. www.vox.com/politics/506...

The Supreme Court has, over the course of decades, legalized behavior that is poisonous to a functioning democracy, Leo J. Wise, a former Justice Department prosecutor, argues:

Sandy beaches gone. Boardwalks demolished. Homes flooded. Southern California’s dreamscape is being devastated, and the worst of El Niño is still months away.

“In recent years, many Americans have decided that their country’s problem was that it had too many police officers, when in fact its problem was that it had too few,” Malcolm Gladwell writes:

Some facts about the 28 people charged today: - Every one was a lawful permanent resident. - 4 of the 28 are accused only of registering, and not voting, and only 22 are accused of voting in 2024. - The median and average age is 50 - 22 noncitizen voters = 0.0001% of the California 2024 electorate.

I’ve thought about how the industrialists in the early 20th century were so philanthropic…I mean maybe it was for status or ither self-serving reasons, but they did donate to universities and libraries and the arts. The tech bros do none of that. “Miserly” (and miserable) is exactly the word

"A federal judge raked President Donald Trump’s administration over the coals on Monday in a case involving his plans to renovate a public golf course in Washington, DC.," writes CNN's Aaron Blake. | Analysis

"Trump administration officials are lawyering up. From cabinet secretaries to midlevel staffers, people who work for Trump are calling law firms as they brace for an avalanche of investigations next year if Democrats take one or both houses of Congress in the midterms." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

yep. "... also an influx in corporate clients looking for advice on how to prepare for potential investigations... companies that donated to Trump’s projects or did business with the government or the Trump family could be swept up in the probes..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Liberalism doesn’t offer a vision of a perfect world—“Instead, it is rooted in a justified fear of the real world, where people with power often use it to oppress, torture, and kill,” Adam Kirsch argues.

In Maine, fury at President Trump is endangering Susan Collins, the only Republican senator in a blue state.

“You Can See Everything” just saw the biggest box office opening for a documentary in more than 20 years. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s genre-bending film about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes made more than $15 million in ticket sales. https://cnn.it/47rzcRA

Looming Medicaid cuts mean that US hospitals must prepare for a perfect storm | Letters

If Elizabeth Holmes had peaked today, perhaps she could have escaped prosecution altogether, Idrees Kahloon argues: “Amid all the chicanery of the second Trump administration, another Holmes-level deception wouldn’t register as anything remarkable.”

Courts declared his tariffs illegal and yet Trump kept finding new ways to raise prices on everyone. Why was it so important for him to keep the tariffs? They raised prices, slowed the economy, hurt him. Why didn't he just let them expire, or roll them back? finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

All voters can thank Trump for soaring prices.

A growing number of Democrats with a potential eye on the White House are seizing on Americans’ fear of job-killing AI as a possible signature issue for the party.

Grifting off of cancer patients and survivors. There is no bottom

A major retrospective argues that the New Yorker predicted today’s image-obsessed culture while it also emphasizes his radical approach to art-making in the 1960s. on.wsj.com/4s7h8Wp

Repairing Brexit economic damage should be Burnham’s top priority, business chief says

The balance of power in the Senate is on the line in the 2026 elections. Our tracker digs into the most competitive and emerging Senate battlegrounds. on.wsj.com/4jqeys7

The college-admissions process has broken America, David Brooks argued in 2024. Students are taught that their worth is found in test scores rather than in interpersonal relationships, innovation, and passion, he wrote. He examined how to fix it:

Terrible news. 👇

Trump’s policies kill Ukrainians who are trying to get gas and raise prices for Americans who are trying to get gas. And he wants the Americans to blame the Ukrainians. This is wrong and despicable. snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...

Coming up on #KTLA: California is the world's fourth-largest wine producer, bottling about 80% of all U.S. vino. But now the industry is struggling as young people increasingly opt for other alcoholic beverages

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com If A.I. executives and researchers “think that we’re in a situation where we’re less than a year away from automating A.I. research and radically speeding it up, they should make this evidence public,” the tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel says on “Interesting Times.”