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What the Midterms Meant for Working-Class Candidates
Senator-elect Troy Jackson in Portland, Maine on Nov. 4, 2026. —ophie Park/Bloomberg—Getty Images We counted, and this midterm election cycle, there were just seven major-party candidates for Congress who had working-class jobs when they first got into politics. The last ballots are still being totaled, but many of the politicians from working-class backgrounds who ran…
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‘Blade Runner 2099’ Shows the ‘Silver Linings’ of a Replicant Takeover
Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner casts a long shadow. In some ways, literally. It defined what noir sci-fi would look like for years to come: the rain, the dramatic lighting, the trenchcoats. Denis Villeneuve delivered a worthy sequel in 2017 with Blade Runner 2049, but for some fans nothing will ever touch the original.…
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Panicked Sam Altman Reverses Position as Walls Close In, Says People Should Be Able to Own RAM
During a recent podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made some baffling comments that really hit a nerve on social media. The billionaire said that it didn’t make sense for individual people to run their own AI models at home and that all of their RAM chips were far better off being used inside the…
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‘Child’s Play’ Creator Slams Nicki Minaj for Using AI to Make Chucky a Republican
Don Mancini, the creator of horror icon Chucky, went after Nicki Minaj for making the doll look like a Republican in her call to vote on Election Day. Minaj, who has been seen more and more with President Donald Trump as of late, posted an AI photo of the “Child’s Play” doll wearing a pink…
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Abortion rights weren’t the story of the midterms. They still won.
On Tuesday night, voters cast their ballots in favor of abortion access in Virginia, Missouri, and Nevada, reflecting the continued popularity of the issue across red, blue, and purple states, even as it fell out of the political conversation compared to other topics this cycle. All told, the abortion rights victories in this latest election…
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Trumpworld ‘cockroaches’ served warning by GOP operatives after hitting ‘rock bottom’
Republican operatives are tearing into President Donald Trump’s inner circle after Tuesday’s historic midterm losses, and some are saying out loud that the people responsible deserve to be cast out. “In any civilized society, we would set them on an ice floe and push it out into the middle passage,” a Republican pollster told New…
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Creatorverse: How IShowSpeed and the Obamas Partnered on a Critically Praised Doc
Hey Creatorverse readers, In the coming weeks and months, there will be countless thinkpieces about how creators and social media impacted the 2026 American midterms. But while that’s all being sorted out, it’s worth shining a light on one of the coolest creator collaborations of this year: how mega-streamer IShowSpeed partnered with Barack and Michelle…
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Google Is Forcing AI Overviews in Classrooms. Schools Are Searching for a Way Out
Two weeks ago, an IT administrator for an elementary-middle school took to Google’s support forums requesting a way to block students from seeing AI Overviews—the chatbot-generated answers at the top of search results. “This seems counterproductive to what we’re trying to teach,” the administrator wrote. “Students need opportunities to navigate search results, examine sources, and…
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‘Lawyer up’: Democrats seize Congress, plot ways to rein in Trump
WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress gained the power Tuesday night to more forcefully investigate President Trump and rein in his agenda, setting up confrontations that are likely to define the final two years of his presidency. As party leaders on Wednesday celebrated retaking the House and Senate, they vowed to put Trump and his administration on the…
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Five lessons from the blue tsunami
Welcome to The Midterms, Actually. Every week I’ll be writing about two things: one big idea or trend I see forming, and one thing I’m hearing from a voice on the ground. Let’s get into it. One big idea Last night, in a midterm election for the ages, Democrats notched sweeping victories across the country.…