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Who won the redistricting fight? GOP with +8 to +10 seats

https://www.bespacific.com/who-won-the-redistricting-fight-gop/

Published: June 12, 2026 02:20

Data is Beautiful: “The GOP is forecasted to pick up +8 to +10 U.S. House seats via legislative redistricting as new congressional maps are finalized. Legal challenges may still overturn some maps. Geographically, most projected GOP gains are concentrated…

Tech Influence Watch as AI follows crypto into politics

https://www.bespacific.com/tech-influence-watch-as-ai-follows-crypto-into-politics/

Published: June 12, 2026 02:16

Molly White – citation needed: “I’ve been running my website Follow the Crypto since 2024, tracking the cryptocurrency industry’s influence on our democracy. The industry spent more than $130 million buying the 2024 elections, and the strategy worked.…

The DOJ Prosecutors Who Think They’re Trump’s Personal Lawyers

https://www.bespacific.com/the-doj-prosecutors-who-think-theyre-trumps-personal-lawyers/

Published: June 12, 2026 02:08

The New Republic: “This week, more than 100 former federal prosecutors in Illinois sounded the alarm about the current leaders of the office where they all once served. “Regrettably,” their statement reads, “there is little doubt that actions taken by…

The Feather Atlas

https://www.bespacific.com/the-feather-atlas/

Published: June 12, 2026 02:05

The Feather Atlas is an image database dedicated to the identification and study of the flight feathers of North American birds. The feathers illustrated are from the curated collection of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory. TOTAL SPECIES…

Reuters Climate Monitor

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Published: June 11, 2026 02:20

Data Dashboard – Reuters Climate Monitor – How today’s temperatures compare to the historic average – Updates daily – The Reuters Climate Monitor shows where temperatures are unusually hot or cold in real time by comparing today’s conditions with what was…

Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized

https://www.bespacific.com/your-search-results-are-getting-sloptimized/

Published: June 11, 2026 02:14

The Atlantic – How companies are gaming the chatbot internet [Gift Article]: “…For the quarter century that Google has been the de facto front door to the web, businesses have tried to find ways to get their pages at the top of search results. You’ve…

Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files

https://www.bespacific.com/inside-the-white-house-freakout-over-the-epstein-files/

Published: June 11, 2026 02:13

CNN Reliable Sources: “Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files” is the title of Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s explosive excerpt from their forthcoming book “Regime Change.” Now comes the freakout over the “freakout” article. The New…

Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology

https://www.bespacific.com/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/

Published: June 11, 2026 02:10

Pew Research: Nine groups show the conflicting values underlying today’s polarized politics. American politics is deeply divided along partisan lines – and for many Americans, the choice between the two parties feels stark, even existential. But beneath…

Anthropic’s Ambitious Claims Versus Reality: What Fable Really Can’t Do

https://www.bespacific.com/anthropics-ambitious-claims-versus-reality/

Published: June 11, 2026 02:03

Byte-Pulse: “Anthropic has rolled out Claude Fable 5, positioning it as their most potent AI model yet. They claim that Fable excels in areas like cybersecurity and scientific research, making it a versatile tool for businesses and researchers alike.…

House Votes to Advance $70 Billion GOP Immigration Bill

https://www.bespacific.com/house-votes-to-advance-70-billion-gop-immigration-bill/

Published: June 11, 2026 02:01

The New York Times [no paywall]: “The House on Tuesday narrowly voted to take up Republicans’s $70 billion immigration enforcement bill, clearing a key hurdle to enacting the measure to fund President Trump’s deportation crackdown through the end of his…

How to help knowledge workers who lose their jobs to AI

https://www.bespacific.com/how-to-help-knowledge-workers-who-lose-their-jobs-to-ai/

Published: June 10, 2026 02:22

Platformer: “Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she’s leaving her job to create solution for AI’s “messy middle.” Molly Kinder has spent the past three years at the Brookings Institution leading a multiyear project on how generative AI is…

Social Security – funds at critical low in 2032

https://www.bespacific.com/social-security-funds-at-critical-low-in-2032/

Published: June 10, 2026 02:07

Washington Post [no paywall]: “Social Security’s trust fund is now due to run low on money beginning in 2032. And in announcing that new date Tuesday, the government acknowledged that the Trump administration’s immigration policies and tax cuts are…

Just about everyone is mad at the media

https://www.bespacific.com/just-about-everyone-is-mad-at-the-media/

Published: June 10, 2026 02:07

“Welcome to Season 8: The News. This 8-part series will explore the deep challenges facing American journalism, and the nation’s news and information crisis. It seems everyone’s mad at the media, but we’ll ask, what’s really wrong with the news? Is it what…

The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center

https://www.bespacific.com/shelbyville-indiana-mayor-shitty-houses-data-center/

Published: June 10, 2026 02:07

The Verge: “A proposed $2 billion data center has become a political flashpoint in the small city of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the controversy has only grown more intense after the mayor, Scott Furgeson, was caught on camera saying of the “No Data Center”…

The Arab Gulf States, the Iran Conflict, and U.S. Relations

https://www.bespacific.com/the-arab-gulf-states-the-iran-conflict-and-u-s-relations/

Published: June 10, 2026 02:04

CRS Report Since The Arab Gulf States, the Iran Conflict, and U.S. Relations. R48971. June 3, 2026. February 2026, U.S./Israel-Iran conflict in the Persian Gulf region and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz to most shipping have presented…

How I interviewed a Facebook whistleblower who wasn’t allowed to speak

https://www.bespacific.com/facebook-whistleblower-who-wasnt-allowed-to-speak/

Published: June 10, 2026 02:03

The Nerve’s Carole Cadwalladr was all set to talk to Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of the explosive memoir Careless People, at the Hay festival when Meta’s lawyers intervened … and turned the event into ‘absurdist theatre’.

How AI Agents Reshape Knowledge Work

https://www.bespacific.com/how-ai-agents-reshape-knowledge-work/

Published: June 10, 2026 02:03

Perplexity – Frontier AI systems are closing the gap between model intelligence and real-world utility. New models, compute architectures, and orchestration patterns are enabling these systems to accomplish tasks deemed impossible just a few months ago.…

Fewer Americans say democracy is central to country’s identity

https://www.bespacific.com/fewer-americans-say-democracy-is-central-to-countrys-identity/

Published: June 9, 2026 02:22

AP: “As the U.S. prepares for an extravagant celebration of its founding principles, fewer Americans see their country as exceptional, a new poll finds. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research highlights many Americans’…

My Students Can’t Read

https://www.bespacific.com/my-students-cant-read/

Published: June 9, 2026 02:16

The Chronical of Higher Education- no paywall: “The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse…Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. The lament is usually overblown, but…

The Grocery Industrial Complex

https://www.bespacific.com/the-grocery-industrial-complex/

Published: June 9, 2026 02:11

rxansmithmedia: “You’re not paying for food. You’re paying for a system engineered to extract from you at every step—while calling it a free market. The conversation about grocery prices in America gets framed as economics. Supply and demand. Inflation.…

DOJ Hasn’t Taken Its Usual Steps to Protect 2026 Election

https://www.bespacific.com/doj-hasnt-taken-its-usual-steps-to-protect-2026-election/

Published: June 9, 2026 02:11

NOTUS: “President Donald Trump says “if you don’t have honest voting, you can’t really have a nation.” But five months out from the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress, his Justice Department has canceled election-integrity training…

Employees’ Religious Objection to Using AI at Work

https://www.bespacific.com/employees-religious-objection-to-using-ai-at-work/

Published: June 9, 2026 02:10

Employees’ Religious Objection to Using AI at Work: “Pope Leo XIV’s lengthy encyclical on AI sparked a larger public debate on AI regulation. But it also raised a fundamental question about what role religion and religious views should play in this debate…

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate

https://www.bespacific.com/supreme-court-has-invented-a-right-to-discriminate/

Published: June 9, 2026 02:01

The Atlantic Gift Article: “…Alabama willfully drew a map that flouted the District Court’s preliminary injunction and hoped that this Court would eventually see things its way,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, which was joined by Justices…

Dismantling and Destroying Biomedical Research in America

https://www.bespacific.com/dismantling-and-destroying-biomedical-research-in-america/

Published: June 8, 2026 02:17

Washington Post [no paywall] Diabetes researchers ejected from conference after criticizing White House Five diabetes researchers, including the editor of a leading journal, were removed from the field’s premier conference in New Orleans on Friday morning,…

Google Pinpoint Explained

https://www.bespacific.com/google-pinpoint-explained/

Published: June 8, 2026 02:12

Wondertools: “Google’s Pinpoint is now open to everyone. It’s a surprisingly powerful free tool for making sense of giant piles of digital stuff. (Before June 3, it was restricted to journalists and academics). Read on to learn more about creative ways to…

Inside Trump’s takeover of the American regulatory machine

https://www.bespacific.com/inside-trumps-takeover-of-the-american-regulatory-machine/

Published: June 8, 2026 02:08

WSJ via MSN: “Trump has gotten involved in regulatory decisions big and small that once were made by independent agencies, according to interviews with business executives, lobbyists and administration officials, dramatically shifting the balance of power…

2025 State of the Nation Report

https://www.bespacific.com/2025-state-of-the-nation-report/

Published: June 8, 2026 02:08

Summary of Results from the 2025 State of the Nation Report – Americans share the same struggles despite deep political divides, new bipartisan report finds – The purpose of the State of the Nation Project is to provide an overall assessment of how the…

We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract

https://www.bespacific.com/we-sued-ice-to-get-its-spyware-contract/

Published: June 8, 2026 02:06

404 Media: The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything – “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracted with a spyware company that tells customers it ensures they can use the tool without the agency being caught doing so, according to documents…