Politico

Agencies across the federal government are explicitly blaming Democrats for the government shutdown—from banners on top of public websites to suggested out-of-office messages for federal employees—in an unusually overt show of partisan messaging that some ethics experts say may violate federal law.

It often feels like AI is changing everything about the tech business—rewriting the rules of coding, swamping social media with deepfakes, even changing how companies are born. It’s happening so fast that even the most powerful tech firms are pleading helplessness.

The recent blowup over Jimmy Kimmel is driven by a lot of powerful currents in American life—grief, politics, business, freedom of speech.