Hard Pass

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, met privately in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the meeting.

Jeffries and Kushner discussed an array of topics, including possible areas of common ground, the sources said. Although Kushner does not have an official role in the current administration, he has remained deeply involved, especially on issues related to foreign policy, and continues to serve as an outside adviser to the president.

The timing of the talks is striking. The midterms are less than 75 days away and Republicans are facing headwinds in recent polls. Democrats feel cautiously optimistic about their chances of taking the House and Jeffries would be in line to be the next speaker.

The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley.

“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

Her husband owns this company.

https://nauticalbeachproperties.com/

Her family owns Leavitt Auto and Truck in Plaistow, New Hampshire:

https://leavittauto.com/

The CEO is Bob Leavitt. The general manager is Michael Leavitt, her brother.

Make sure to give them horrible reviews.

The gloves are off

On July 13, 2026, the Trump Administrationannounced that it would be cutting a cumulative 3.23 million acres from Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monument, reducing the former to a mere 181,500 acres and the latter to approximately 121,000 acres. Under theumbrella of "common sense land use," which aims to prioritize the resources on or beneath the land, over its cultural or natural significance, the White House wants to open these sacred sites to massive logging, mining, and of c...

Ireland’s government website, gov.ie, has a quite comprehensive robots.txt file, which by excludes almost all crawlers associated with AI training from scraping the site. One missing however is Mistral.

(source: random internets photo)

Cross posted from https://lemmy.ml/post/51778470

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