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A Conservative Out-of-State PAC Is Backing Sara Nelson 

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Nathalie Graham
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A little more than a week before Seattle’s primary election, the National Association of Realtors, a Chicago-based political action committee, spent nearly $70,000 on mailers for Council President Sara Nelson’s bid to stay on the Seattle City Council.

In mailers sponsored by the interest group that only issued an apology in 2020 for its racist funding of the opposition to housing inclusion including the Fair Housing Act of 1968, the NAR calls Nelson a politician with “progressive values.” Progressive? Her?

This influx of money and influence is meant to counter Nelson’s extreme unpopularity. Polling in May found that 34 percent of voters disapproved of her job performance. And when

What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can’t Stop Listening to, According to the ‘Panama Playlists’

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Reece Rogers
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From JD Vance’s dinnertime Bieber to Sam Altman’s Shazaming of incredibly popular hit songs, a website claiming to have published the Spotify listening habits of members of the Trump administration, tech leaders, and journalists is making the rounds.

“We’ve been scraping their accounts since summer 2024. Playlists, live listening feed, everything. We know what songs they played, when, and how many times,” the Panama Playlists site reads, alleging, “With a little sleuthing, I could say with near-certainty: Yep, this is them.”

Are all of the accounts real? At this point, it’s hard to tell. The accounts listed have not been independently verified by

Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages

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Zeyi Yang
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US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs Trump announced in the spring. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order widening the impact of those tariffs and making it more expensive for Americans to buy foreign products on sites like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon.

The order eliminates the so-called “de minimis” provision, a long-standing policy that allowed people in the US to import packages valued at less than $800 from anywhere in the world duty-free. Those packages will now be subject to the same country-specific tariffs as larger shipments, according to a fact sheet

Shannon Sharpe reportedly out at ESPN after settlement of sexual assault suit

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Guardian sport
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Shannon Sharpe will not return to ESPN, ending the Pro Football Hall of Famer’s brief but high-profile run as a commentator on the network’s First Take sports-talk program. The decision comes less than two weeks after Sharpe settled a lawsuit filed by a former girlfriend who accused him of rape, allegations he forcefully denied.

The Athletic was first to report the move on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. ESPN declined to comment publicly, and no formal announcement has been made.

Sharpe, 57, had not appeared on ESPN since late April, shortly after the suit was filed in Nevada. At the time, he called the accusations “false and disruptive” and

Shannon Sharpe reportedly out at ESPN after settlement of sexual assault suit

By
Guardian sport
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Shannon Sharpe will not return to ESPN, ending the Pro Football Hall of Famer’s brief but high-profile run as a commentator on the network’s First Take sports-talk program. The decision comes less than two weeks after Sharpe settled a lawsuit filed by a former girlfriend who accused him of rape, allegations he forcefully denied.

The Athletic was first to report the move on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. ESPN declined to comment publicly, and no formal announcement has been made.

Sharpe, 57, had not appeared on ESPN since late April, shortly after the suit was filed in Nevada. At the time, he called the accusations “false and disruptive” and

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work

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Molly Taft
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A new report released yesterday by the Department of Energy purports to provide “a critical assessment of the conventional narrative on climate change.” But nine scientists across several different disciplines told WIRED that the report mishandled citations of their work by cherry-picking data, misrepresenting findings, drawing erroneous conclusions, or leaving out relevant context.

This report was introduced on the same day that the EPA announced it would seek to roll back the endangerment finding, a crucial 2009 ruling that provides the scientific and legal basis for the agency to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. In its draft reconsideration of

Bellevue Moves Closer to Building Grand Connection Pedestrian Bridge Over I-405

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Kara
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The image shows early landscaping concept and benches.

At a July 30 meeting, the Bellevue City Council received an update on the Grand Connection project, highlighting next steps for a planned pedestrian and bicycle bridge that would cross Interstate 405 and link Downtown Bellevue with the Wilburton neighborhood.

City staff shared that Bellevue plans to request state approval to use a construction approach called general contractor/construction management (GC/CM) for the bridge. This delivery method brings construction expertise into the design process early, helping to keep the project on track and within budget.

To gain approval, the city must also demonstrate it has the financial capacity to complete the

Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas charged over high-stakes illegal poker ring in Los Angeles

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Bryan Armen Graham
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Former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas has been indicted on federal charges stemming from an illegal high-stakes gambling ring that operated out of a Los Angeles mansion he owned, US authorities announced on Tuesday.

Arenas, 43, who starred for the Washington Wizards and was known as Agent Zero during his playing career, was arrested alongside five other defendants, including a man federal officials describe as a suspected high-level member of an Israeli organized crime group.

The indictment, unsealed in Los Angeles, accuses the six men of running an illicit gambling operation from September 2021 to July 2022 in the wealthy suburb of Encino. According to prosecutors, Arenas rented out the mansion for

Google’s Newest AI Model Acts Like a Satellite to Track Climate Change

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Boone Ashworth
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Google’s newest AI model is going to scour the Earth and, ideally, help it out. That’s the plan, anyway. The mission is to find out once and for all, in fine detail, what we are doing to our planet. Crucially, once the model has supposedly done this it will also, apparently, explain where we might be able to best put things in place to help our world.

AlphaEarth Foundations, an offshoot of Google’s DeepMind AI model, aims to leverage machine learning and all the gobs and gobs of data that Google has absorbed about our planet over the last two decades, in

Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back

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Megan Farokhmanesh
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Trade organizations across the games industry and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns taking place across Steam and Itch.io in an effort to help developers who have been unfairly impacted. The push against adult content is being driven by Australian conservative group Collective Shout, whose pressuring of payment processors has forced platforms to mass de-index NSFW content. In the wake of these delistings, which remove games from search, developers are scrambling to understand whether their games have been impacted and why.

On platforms like Bluesky, users are compiling lists of “censored artists” with NSFW pieces and unsearchable Itch pages, whether it’s

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