Iconic anti-war poster, originally by Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #WomensArt #PosterAndBannerWeek

All nine tribes in South Dakota have put out a unified call to Congress to return public, federal lands in the Black Hills to tribal entities. nativenews.net/

Trump’s lies are designed to wear you down. But here's what they don't understand — weariness is not surrender. We can be tired and still show up. “We’re not going to let him win by losing faith in our ability to fight back,” @marceelias says.

A cartoon by Natalie Horberg.

Several women said they’d be willing to give up their right to vote if it meant creating a more conservative country at the Turning Point USA Women’s Leadership Summit recently held in San Antonio, Texas. democracydocket.com/news-ale…

Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan have funded a platform called Objection.ai that allows anyone to file a complaint against a journalist's story for a starting price of $2,000. A team of human investigators examines the story, then submits findings to a "jury" of AI models - OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, Google - which publish a "verdict" on the story's truthfulness and rank individual journalists on metrics including truth-telling and corrections. If the journalist doesn't respond to defend their reporting, the verdict is issued and published online anyway. The platform is being sold as "letting anyone fight the press like a billionaire." The creator is Aron D'Souza, who led the Thiel-funded lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker in 2016. The design choices tell you what this is. The system treats anonymous sources as less trustworthy and ranks anonymous whistleblower claims near the bottom. Anonymous sources are how most significant accountability journalism happens - they're how the Pentagon Papers got out, how the CIA's black site program got exposed, how the HHS stories we've covered this week were reported. The people who most need protection from powerful interests are specifically deprioritized by Objection's scoring system. The creator calls it "the same as Community Notes." A civil rights and defamation attorney calls it "a high-tech protection racket for the rich and powerful." One of those descriptions is accurate. The AI models being used as the "tribunal" were trained on journalists' work without consent or compensation. They hallucinate. They amplify bias. They are being deployed here specifically to issue verdicts on the work of the people whose labor built them. Thiel killed Gawker with a lawsuit. This is faster and cheaper.

You have noticed that too. Google Search is getting worse. The results look professional but say nothing. The answers are longer but less useful. Every page reads like it was written by the same voice. You thought Google was broken. It is not broken. It is being replaced. Researchers published a paper at the ACM Web Conference 2026 proving what is happening. They call it Retrieval Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI-generated content is flooding the internet so fast that search engines are now showing you mostly AI-written pages. And the search engine cannot tell the difference. They ran a controlled experiment. They started with a pool of real, human-written web pages. Then they gradually added AI-generated content until it made up 67% of the pool. By that point, over 80% of the top search results were AI-generated. Not 67%. Over 80%. The ranking algorithm did not just let AI content in. It preferred it. The AI-written pages were better optimized, more fluent, and more keyword-rich than the human pages. They outranked the originals. Here is the part that makes this invisible. Answer accuracy stayed the same. The search results still looked correct. The information was still technically right. If you measured quality by accuracy alone, nothing appeared wrong. But source diversity collapsed. Nearly every result came from the same type of content. AI-written. AI-optimized. AI-structured. The human-written pages, the ones with original reporting, personal experience, and genuine expertise, were buried. The researchers describe a two-stage collapse. Stage one is Dominance. High-quality AI content silently takes over the top results. Everything looks fine. Accuracy is stable. Nobody notices. Stage two is Corruption. Once AI dominates the pipeline, adversarial and low-quality content starts slipping through. By then, the system is too dependent on synthetic sources to course-correct. A separate analysis found that 74.2% of newly published web pages now contain AI-generated content. Organic click-through rates on pages with AI summaries have dropped 61%. The human internet is being outranked by the machine internet. Model Collapse described what happens when AI trains on AI. The models get dumber. Retrieval Collapse describes what happens when search engines index AI. The results get emptier. Both are happening right now. At the same time. And neither one looks broken from the outside. The search engine still returns ten blue links. The links still load. The pages still answer your question. But the thing that used to make those answers trustworthy, a human who actually knew something, is being quietly replaced by a machine that sounds like it does.

The hardest working person in the world likely lives in poverty. Hard work almost never translates to wealth. But exploitation of labor often does. The hard work myth needs to dıė

Shionogi expects Xocova (Ensitrelvir) to be in U.S. by mid July based on their supply chain. Industry analysts anticipate that out of pocket retail cost to be $400-500. No official commercial list price. Big q is how long for insurance companies add this to their formulary.

A very neat summary. Funny - Wired knew this in May 2020, and then, forgot? It's just not trendy to talk about this, nobody wants to hear it, so people don't.

– You seem awfully obsessed with that branch #longcovid #postcovid #ableism #accessibility #satire

“Reign.”

NEW: 5 states have now pulled out of the “Great American State Fair” celebrating America’s 250th — Connecticut, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, & Oregon.

You’re a fool if you believe that story. She sounds like a middle schooler ratting out her friends. RFK’s job is to dismantle the corruption. Americans health is not determined by the government.

Google says artists who upload music to YouTube have already agreed to let the company train AI on their content, according to a new lawsuit filing.

A German court ruled that Google is liable for false statements found in its AI search box