Right-wing news outlet Alpha News reports it was in talks with Star Tribune about purchasing the paper

Panicans got real quiet. 👀

February 10: Trump buys up to $5 million in Dell stock. Nine days later he’s telling a rally crowd to “go out and buy a Dell computer.” All spring, he praises the company at public events. This week: The Pentagon hands Dell a $9.7 billion contract. Dell’s stock surges. The President of the United States profits. This is not a coincidence. This is not a gray area. A president used the bully pulpit to pump a stock he personally owned, then his administration steered nearly ten billion taxpayer dollars to that same company. He did the same with Microsoft and Amazon, buying in months before the Pentagon announced deals to deploy their tech. His assets sit in a trust run by his own children, who know exactly what he holds. Presidents are exempt from the conflict-of-interest laws that bind every other federal employee. That has to change. We rely on a president’s integrity instead of the law, and this president has shown us exactly what that’s worth. We’ve got to ban this. The American people deserve a government that works for them, not one man’s portfolio. wapo.st/4u0tmPK

In the @nytopinion today with @sandeepvaheesan making the case for genuine antitrust action in the food system, not just rhetoric. nytimes.com/2026/05/29/opini…

California could hand over $200 million meant to cool kids' classrooms to utilities. That money was promised to schools through CalSHAPE — a program Gov. Newsom helped create. With heat waves in winter, kids need cool classrooms. My latest in @latimes. latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box. The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year. A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease. Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk." One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks. If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you. The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

Massive fight by incumbent utilities to block competition in building interstate transmission, basically really long high-tech extension cords. eenews.net/articles/state-of…

SKILLS THAT PAY OFF.

Here's what's happening in Virginia right now: dozens of Dominion employees w/ titles like "Community Relations Manager" are fanning out across the state to ask every non-profit, every politician, everyone they've ever given a dollar to, to support the merger. 1/5

“We spotted nine Polymarket accounts, all connected, who made, collectively,$2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. military operations,” says Nicolas Vaiman, co-founder of the small data analytics firm Bubblemaps. “And now here's the crazy part: 98% win rate.” cbsn.ws/4wwp0T7