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• Senate Investigation Into OpenAI Is an Important First Step, But CEOs Must Testify Under Oath
  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster Management, has launched an investigation into OpenAI following revelations that the company’s AI agents breached Hugging Face during cybersecurity evaluations this summer. Hawley is seeking documents and information from OpenAI about the incident, including evidence that the company knew its agents were […]
• 45 Organizations Urge House Democratic Leadership to Call a Vote on Cuba War Powers Resolution
  A coalition of 45 faith, peace, labor, health, and political organizations is calling on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and committee Ranking Members Gregory Meeks and Jim McGovern to immediately announce plans to call a vote on Rep. Nydia Velázquez’s Cuba War Powers Resolution (H.Con.Res. 106). In a letter sent this week, the groups call […]
• August CPI Report Shows Price Hikes Accelerating as Trump Brushes Off Working Families’ Affordability Worries
  Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices rose 0.4% in August and are up 3.4% over the past year. Core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.3% in August alone. Gas prices reached their highest ever recorded for August, and the pressure has not let up, climbing $4.29 per gallon, up 14 cents […]
• Trump’s Desperate Attempt to Bribe Voters Ahead of Election is a New Low
  At a speech at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas yesterday, Donald Trump promised,“if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000.”Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response:“Even for the notoriously corrupt and lawless Trump, this explicit and desperate attempt to buy votes in the November […]
• U.S. Postal Service Still Blocked from Enforcing Key Parts of New Rule to Restrict Mail Ballots
  The First Circuit Court of Appeals today kept in place through the Nov. 3 election a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing key parts of a new rule that would significantly interfere with mail voting if implemented.The Trump administration has also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the injunction. A […]
• Lame: On Space Nazis, Swindlers, Poseurs and Liars
  Apologies to those who just can't or won't hear more of it, but the foul mad child-king is running notably rampant, and the historic record beckons. The bilge somehow keeps surging, from a weekend deluge of deranged AI slop, slurs, rants, boasts to this week's "sick fantasy" of nobly working "long and hard" (sic) in […]