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News Items is distributed 6x weekly (not Sundays), covering finance, political disruption, scientific and technological advance. Test drive by clicking on this link: newsitems.substack.com/7e69f…
A List of Things Democrats Might Do If They Retake Power nationalreview.com/corner/a-…
Milestone. The interpretability problem. Favio on the lam. by @EllisItems open.substack.com/pub/newsit…
Risk Factors. Anthropic. China tech stocks wipeout. Remembering Alex Sanders. open.substack.com/pub/newsit…
October Surprise.. Lula found 10 million new voters. Serbia's strongman swept away. Moonshot AI's new model has 3 trillion parameters. by @EllisItems open.substack.com/pub/newsit…
The Hackening: PHP, AI and the consequences... by @EllisItems open.substack.com/pub/newsit…
The White House must have some wild numbers. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Rewriting DNA. A mathematical dopamine hit. Martian dawn. open.substack.com/pub/newsit…
I've consulted with the Great Swami and he says: Dems win the House with ease, GOP holds the Senate by 51-49. We will visit with the Great One next Friday for his by then clairvoyant forecast.
No. It's the Ellis Ocean. newsweek.com/trump-asked-goo…
The war criminal humanitarian. AGI. More than 100 detection channels and Bob Rubin on November 3rd. by @EllisItems open.substack.com/pub/newsit…
You can't imagine anything like this, ever, in prior administrations. It's beyond beyond the pale: Calling Putin a ‘Humanitarian,’ Witkoff Thanks Him for Releasing an American nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/po…
News Items today covers a lot of ground. Final Signs of Agony., by @EllisItems open.substack.com/pub/newsit…
News Items. Getting older and growing younger. by @EllisItems open.substack.com/pub/newsit…
News Items is up on the internets. Warming Ties., by @EllisItems open.substack.com/pub/newsit…
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Read more, including more about Memphis, in this extensive @wapo series published last year: washingtonpost.com/business/…
Increasingly, people are hit by cars on roads designed like Union Avenue in Memphis, Tenn.—one of the most dangerous roads in America. All while this type of roadway continues to spread across the country. on.wsj.com/4zDI9TE
~70% of rural voters voted for Trump in 2024. Today: polls put Trump’s approval among rural voters at about ~47%-48%, When Charlie Cook talks about the Trump undertow, that's a big part of what he's talking about.
I am the law. Donald Trump exempts Russia from further sanctions mandated by new law. ft.com/content/836eddd7-3adc… via @ft
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Whoever thought Carney would just be a technocratic prime minister should watch this. Perfect timing…
