BREAKING: A judge has temporarily paused the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. Twelve state attorneys general requested a restraining order barring Paramount Skydance from closing their deal. And a judge has granted the request for two weeks to review the mega-merger. www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

The World Cup was the most lucrative sporting event in history, and FIFA is poised to announce $15 billion in revenue from the tournament.

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have in the first place with Palantir. First Medicaid officials shared data about millions of people with ICE. ICE then shared that data with Palantir, according to a new court filing reported on by @NPR. /1

The Pentagon withheld the fact that dozens of US soldiers were injured by Iran over the last ten days. In the week leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two U.S. soldiers, Iran carried out three other strikes that injured dozens of US service members, according to the NYT. /1

The biggest landlord in the US is being accused of civil rights violations. Greystar, the largest owner of apartments in the US, systematically breaks local laws designed to make housing affordable to the poor, according to civil rights complaints filed in six states and DC. /1

The noise from a plant powering Elon Musk's xAI data centers in Mississippi is keep residents awake and destroying their quality of life. Residents of Southaven, MI, have organized, gone to hearings, and talked to the media. But so far the mayor's advice is: "Consider selling."

Billionaire oligarchs are out to destroy cinema as we know it. Workers are sounding the alarm that the $110 billion Paramount-Warner megamerger will bring mass layoffs, cutbacks, and movie theater shutdowns across America. /1

The Trump administration scrapping CFPB limits on credit-card late fees and overdraft charges has cost Americans $22.5 billion so far, according to a report release by Senator Elizabeth Warren's office.

A Pennsylvania state senator and chair of the state’s GOP profited from the $30 million property sale to a data center developer. Republican Greg Rothman’s constituents are outraged he made money off the data center project they’ve been actively opposing. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/07... /1

Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense. /1 futurism.com/health-medic...

BREAKING: The FCC signaled it will repeal the cap on ownership of TV stations, abolishing a limit that keeps owners from controlling stations in more than 39% of markets. This move will allow Nexstar, one of the largest owners of TV stations, to buy rival Tegna in a massive deal.

Dua Lipa speaks out about the Albania protests: "I find it so inspiring to see how much people really care. You know, day after day they're hitting the streets, because the government has opened up this part of a beautiful nature reserve to a high-end beachfront development....

One of the most shocking data center developments in the country is families increasingly being pushed to sell their property for data center power lines, under threat of eminent domain.

Trump now says ICE traffic stops are back on. The pause lasted less than one dull day.

BREAKING: The Writers Guild of America has filed a lawsuit to block the Warner Bros-Paramount merger. This comes shortly after 12 states filed to block this $81 billion merger as well.

Elon Musk has quietly acquired a company providing power to AI data centers for an estimated $1 billion. Musk’s purchase of APR Energy adds a power generation company to his portfolio, alongside xAI and SpaceX. The FTC filings show no further antitrust review was required to close the deal.

Amazon has laid off over 30,000 workers since October. The company has also committed to about $200 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year.

BREAKING: The Daily Wire is now reporting that ICE has been ordered to stop conducting vehicle stops. The outlet says federal sources tell them immigration officers across the country have been told to stop pulling over vehicles after the recent killings in Maine and Texas.

NY Governor Kathy Hochul has just made New York the first state with a hyperscale data center moratorium. Hochul signed an executive order instituting a one-year ban on data centers over 50 megawatts rather than signing legislation passed by the legislature that also included a one-year ban.

Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, according to a new lawsuit. Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing, accusing the company of using AI that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or workers who took medical leave in selecting people ​for layoffs.

The Ohio EPA is drafting a new type of permit the would let Ohio data centers dump millions of gallons of wastewater into rivers and lakes and streams every day.

BREAKING: Donald Trump is now saying that the U.S. is engaged in a new war against Iran. Accepting this premise would give the administration another 60-day clock for military action before needing Congressional approval.

It has now been revealed that the CEO of StubHub also owns hedge fund that scalps millions of dollars worth tickets on StubHub.

The LAPD has stopped working with Flock. The police halted the use of Flock AI license plate surveillance cameras, as government officials cite concerns over data privacy. Organizers are demanding the LAPD not find a replacement for Flock, and instead permanently stop the use of these cameras.

CEO of Flock: "Unfortunately, there’s terrorist organizations like DeFlock whose primary motivation is chaos. They’re closer to Antifa than they are anything else."

An app co-founded by Phoebe Gates’, daughter of Bill Gates, is reportedly claiming commissions for sales it didn’t generate. Phia aims to help users find discounts across the web, but the app is now claiming sales it didn't actually drive, according to Bloomberg.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.

Delta says ticket prices aren’t coming down, despite the cost of jet fuel falling. Delta's revenue was up over $17 billion last quarter, with profits topping $1 billion. The airline has also raised ticket prices 10-20% on most routes this year, and hiked bag fees.

BREAKING: Netflix in talks to buy Letterboxd. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount and Alexis Ohanian also supposedly looking at a bid for the social media-movie platform, per Variety. variety.com/2026/digital...

A California social club hosted a discussion on surveillance states, debating how to balance civil liberties and public safety. Then, Flock sent them a cease and desist prohibiting any discussion that "describes...

Trump’s family and their various business have  gotten about $13 billion in investments from foreign governments, primarily from countries in the Middle East.

Meta is currently testing "super sensing" AI glasses that will continuously record surrounding audio while snapping pictures every few seconds. The new hardware also gets rid of the LED light that notifies bystanders when the glasses are recording. www.ft.com/content/ac28...

In 2023, the Supreme Court cut the amount of sensitive streams and wetlands it can protect. Under Trump's EPA, data center developers are breezing past federal regulations to build their projects immediately. Some are even withdrawing their permit requests, all without penalty.

In a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town? The majority of the township's officials refused to answer.

Four states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations that Meta designed Facebook ‌and Instagram to addict kids, and misled the public about their safety. www.engadget.com/2209332/meta...

Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.

The FCC is on the verge of letting internet service providers like Comcast hide the true price they charge you. The Federal Communications Commission is about to vote to eliminate a rule that requires Internet service providers to list all of their fees on an easily accessible price label. /1

Arizonans will be able to vote on the future of the state's school voucher system. A referendum organized by parents and teachers will be on the ballot this fall to ban purchasing luxury items with taxpayer dollars, bar the wealthy from subsidizing private education with public money, and more.

Over half a million Americans are now organizing against data centers — a stunning number. Check out the full report here: datacenteropposition.com.

Plans for the largest data center in the world have been abandoned. Blackstone-owned QTS has decided not to appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court, giving up on the world’s largest data center. Fierce opposition and organizing from residents of Price William County ultimately beat out Blackstone.

Kalshi saw more than $31 billion in betting during June, a more than 70% increase from May’s total of $18 billion. Polymarket saw a record monthly volume, with $10.8 billion in June. It looks like this World Cup is in fact becoming the biggest gambling event of all time.

BREAKING: Microsoft owned Xbox plans to eliminate 3,200 jobs. The company will also divest from five vide-game development studios.

Detainees at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in New Jersey are going without air conditioning during an extreme heat wave. Families say the AC is off in one of the housing units, potentially leaving hundreds of people trapped in sweltering heat over 100 degrees. www.nj.com/politics/202...

Trump announced his big two-week ceasefire with Iran on April 7. That same day he sold up to a million dollars in Exxon stock before the price decline from a near-record high.

New reporting reveals that executives from America’s three biggest egg producers began colluding to keep egg prices high in 2022. Executives from Cal-Maine Foods, Hickman’s, and Versova spoke of the phone phone and messaged to coordinate bids and trading on eggs. /1

Google now has to pay a a record $4.7 billion fine in Europe. In 2018 the EU slapped the tech giant with this major fine because of Google’s abuse of their monopoly powers. Google fought the fine, but Europe’s highest court ruled that they must pay, and there is no more ability to appeal.

Asylum seekers in the U.S. are suing ICE, accusing it of forcing them to wear “draconian” ankle monitors to enrich GEO Group. GEO Group charges twice as much for the physical monitors than they do for their app alternative. GEO Group made $250 million in profits last year.

The city of San Marcos has become the first city in Texas to effectively ban new data centers. The City Council voted 4-3 to make data centers ineligible for any part of the city in its zoning laws.

Home care workers in New York just won a $162 million settlement for wage theft. Nearly 200,000 home health aide workers of New York’s state-funded home care program could receive payouts of $700 each. It’s one of the largest wage-theft payouts in the state’s history.

New Jersey's newest law will charge fees to companies that have 50 or more workers on Medicaid. Instead of making taxpayers foot the healthcare bill for companies that refuse to cover workers, the corporations themselves will now have to pitch in.