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🍖 Food insecurity

Letters from an American

This weekend, Dan Frosch, Patrick Thomas, and Andrea Peterson of the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is ending its annual report on household food security. Those reports began in the 1990s to help state and local officials distribute food assistance. Last year’s report found that 18 million U.S. households experienced food insecurity during 2023. In a statement, the Department of Agriculture said: “These redundant, costly, politicized and extraneous studies do nothing more than fearmonger.”

Not sure there’s a better sign that this administration doesn’t care at all about people struggling than this. Cut the reporting, cut the assistance, and no one is the wiser—except, you know, the people going hungry. You can’t fix what you don’t measure, and this administration has no interest in doing either.

🩅 Colbert's The Word

Daddy's home!

Someone seriously needs to scoop him up and let him do this kind of stuff again once he's loose from CBS. Hopefully Paramount doesn't own all of the IP related to The Colbert Report...

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đŸ—Żïž In Charlie Kirk’s name: Trump officials signal move to limit free speech

FT

“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” he added. “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”

In honor of the “bastion of free speech” and the debater who was so skilled he only ever debated with college students, we are going to
 ensure no one can ever speak a negative word about Trump, Kirk, or any of their allies ever again. Thanks, Stephen Miller!

Client Challenge

đŸ€– Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

Semafor

Anthropic recently declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement agencies because the company refuses to make an exception allowing its AI tools to be used for some tasks, including surveillance of US citizens, said the officials, who spoke to Semafor on the condition of anonymity.

Apparently, a tech company has at least a couple of vertebrae left in its spine. I’m sure those will be gone soon, though—cause they already essentially offer their services to the government for free.

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use
The AI firm declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement that could see its tools being used for surveillance.

đŸ“ș ABC suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ “indefinitely” over Charlie Kirk comments

THR

Kimmel’s original comments were as follows: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

This literally can’t be all he said, can it? That’s enough to suspend him? That’s more tame than anything the people on the right have said, accusing democrats and the trans community of Kirk’s death. So much for free speech and being against cancel culture. What a joke.

ABC Suspends ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ “Indefinitely” Over Charlie Kirk Comments
The network’s decision comes after affiliate group Nexstar said it would pull the late night show, and the chairman of the FCC suggested he might take action against ABC.