SMU Athletics to launch Texas' first NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse program. ➡️: tinyurl.com/45hezzbh

On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we celebrate the endless and bountiful contributions of Native people. Let us continue to center their voices and wisdom, and staunchly advocate for their community and land prosperity, especially as it relates to climate change.

Faithkeeper, Artist, Advocate, and Lacrosse Player 🥍 This Indigenous Peoples' Day, take some time to learn more about Oren Lyons, one of the most impactful and influential people to play the sport of lacrosse.

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we’re honoring the communities and players whose contributions laid the foundation for professional lacrosse and continue to move the game forward.

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we celebrate the Indigenous peoples whose generations of tradition, culture, and stewardship continue to shape the game of lacrosse. 🥍

RT @IlhanMN: I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years,…

For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026. At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day. It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime. Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave dropsitenews.com/p/minab-sch… Please share this story with as many people as you can.

Dr. Richard D. Wolff on the urgent push from AI companies for government regulation "I do not trust any of these people, not Elon Musk, not Altman, none of them. They are businessmen, they are not held back by any moral qualms. They are realizing that the kind of technology they've developed is easily replicable all over the place by all kinds of people. They don't want that. They want to monopolize what they have. So they want to have a whole lot of regulations. You know what that reminds me of? 100 years ago, when we discovered that the profit-driven race to mass produce food was leading Upton Sinclair and other great writers to tell us about the horrible conditions in the slaughterhouses, or the horrible dangers to our health in the way food is arranged. So what did we get? Led by the handful of bigger companies, we got legislators, who knew what they were doing, establishing all kinds of expensive rules for the saftey of all of our food. Well, all due respect, that was BS. They knew that by passing laws requiring a farmer to have this kind of machinery and these kind of inspections, they were driving everybody who was small and little right out of business. They couldn't afford it, only the big guys. I smell that here. But today we have an additional problem, the People's Republic of China, which is right behind us working on AI. They want to control it here so they can deal with the Chinese as a unit. Together they might have leverage over the Chinese." (via @TheSocProgram 'What AI CEOs Are Really Thinking')

Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point @FTC emphasized repeatedly during my tenure. 1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity. 2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same. As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed." 3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…). Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead. 4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my @FTC tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible. this.weekinsecurity.com/doze… ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre… 5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.

Trump has illegally been conducting military strikes in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific for over a year, killing over 225 people. These extrajudicial killings will go down as a moral stain on our nation's history. The Trump administration must be held accountable.

CJ Kirst scored 3.2% of all goals across the PLL in '26.

What’s better than one BTB? TWO BTB’s 🤯 Finn Thomson’s BTB assist to Dylan Molloy’s BTB goal made #1 on SportsCenter Top 10!

Finn Thomson and Dylan Molloy really did 'em as dirty as possible 😮‍💨🐻 (via @PremierLacrosse, ESPN+)

RYDER EEEEEEEYUUUUCK 🤢🤢🤢

NEW: Who's funding the dark money Third Way, dug up in most recent tax filings: - Republican-run insurance industry front group - Health insurance giant - Big Pharma - More insurance lobbyists ...as it fights the Democratic left and Medicare for All: readsludge.com/2026/08/11/he…

“If Oliver Larkin had his way, there would be: Medicare for All, no more Electoral College, automatic same-day voter registration, and an immediate shift away from fossil fuels.” -Scott Hannity I’m Oliver Larkin and I approve this message.

Hillary Clinton reemerging from obscurity to amplify and validate GOP talking points against populist Dems as America heads into the general election against Trump’s party — what an incredibly on-brand commitment to the bit

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

This year for Throwback, we're honoring the ones who paved the way in Pro Lacrosse. Happy MLL Week 📼💿

During primaries, the Democratic Party establishment touts corporate candidates by pretending to care about swing-state electability...all while the same party establishment is now deliberately front-loading its presidential primary with South Carolina, a decidedly non-swing state that the party's presidential candidates haven't won in 50 years. Democratic elites pretending to care about electability could front-load their 2028 presidential primary with a swing state — Georgia? North Carolina? Michigan? — to test the swing-state viability of prospective nominees. They instead choose to front-load an ultraconservative state that won’t even be contested in the 2028 general election. Whether or not you agree with this decision, it’s obvious that it is a deliberately ideological choice.