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Silicon Valley-based journalist covering AI and tech. Formerly CNET, Bloomberg, Forbes,Wired. I believe in facts, science, democracy. Every day, an adventure.

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techledes @techledes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Built a mini curriculum for the Center for Ethical Leadership in Media on what every student/journalists should know about the business of media w/my colleague Ian Sherr. Presentations, worksheets & glossary are up for free, with more to come. Check it out. ethicalmedialeadership.org/build-your-c...
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Build Your Career | Center for Ethical Leadership in Media
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/02/2026
The government has dramatically lowered its estimates for how many jobs the economy generated over the past two years.
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Job Growth Last Year Was Far Worse Than We Thought. Here’s Why
Revised data Wednesday showed the U.S. economy generated far fewer jobs in 2024 and 2025 than was initially estimated.
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NPR @npr.org · 08/02/2026
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account. n.pr/4bHoZDU
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Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 08/02/2026
Washington Post Chief Executive Officer Will Lewis resigned, days after the newspaper laid off several hundred staffers in a move that triggered a backlash against billionaire owner Jeff Bezos
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Washington Post CEO Quits After Cuts That Led to Bezos Backlash
Washington Post Chief Executive Officer Will Lewis resigned, days after the newspaper laid off several hundred staffers in a move that triggered a backlash against billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 28/01/2026
"What she's done in Minnesota should be disqualifying. She should be out of a job," said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. to.pbs.org/4q8vT8P
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Homeland Security's Kristi Noem faces rising calls for her firing or impeachment
A groundswell of voices have come to the same conclusion: Noem must go.
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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 28/01/2026
The notifications state that employees will receive full pay and benefits for 90 days.
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Read the email Amazon is sending to laid-off employees as it cuts 16,000 corporate roles
The notifications state that employees will receive full pay and benefits for 90 days.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 28/01/2026
The Ecuadorian Foreign Affairs Ministry says an ICE agent tried to enter the country’s consulate in Minneapolis on but was blocked by its staff.
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The Economist @economist.com · 28/01/2026
“The more brazen Trump’s threats become, the greater a political liability he could be.” Sophie Pedder tells “The Intelligence” why Europe’s populists are souring on him
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We’ll be right over here: Europe’s populists sour on Trump
Also on the daily podcast: India’s homegrown dating apps and ecological insights that are worth their salt
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CNN @cnn.com · 27/01/2026
"On Saturday, hours after federal agents killed [Alex] Pretti, a group of CEOs opted to spend Saturday night at a private White House screening of the Amazon MGM Studios-produced “Melania” documentary about the first lady," writes Allison Morrow. | Analysis cnn.it/4qJfNDC
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 26/01/2026
Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after ICE killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/01/2026
Hours after the Minneapolis shooting, Tim Cook was schmoozing with Trump at the White House—showing that the titans of Silicon Valley are still not distancing themselves from the president, argues Lila Shroff.
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A Reckoning for the Tech Right
Silicon Valley’s top CEOs have been noticeably silent after the Minneapolis shooting.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In response to the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a note to his staff praising Trump for “his openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all”
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 25/01/2026
In an era of smartphones, Americans don't have to believe federal officials or journalists. They can watch what happened for themselves.
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'Your eyes don't lie.' Trump, ICE, a death and a turning point
In an era of smartphones, Americans don't have to believe federal officials or journalists. They can watch what happened for themselves.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 26/01/2026
How residents of Minneapolis are closing ranks to protect one another from Donald Trump’s retribution after a second fatal ICE shooting. www.newyorker.com/news/dispatc...
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The Battle for Minneapolis
As Donald Trump brings his retribution to a liberal city, citizens, protesters, and civic leaders try to protect one another.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/01/2026
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how Rx Inspector has helped patients, doctors and researchers so far.
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“A Godsend”: ProPublica’s Rx Inspector Tool Is Helping People Find Critical Safety Information on Generic Drugs
Health care workers are changing how they counsel patients. Experts are using our database to support their research. And some consumers report they’ve discovered troubling records at the factories wh...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 26/01/2026
Exclusive: In an interview, Trump said his administration is “reviewing everything” about the Minneapolis shooting.
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Trump Says Administration Is ‘Reviewing Everything’ About Minneapolis Shooting
In an interview, the president says immigration-enforcement officers will “at some point” leave the area.
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techledes @techledes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Agree. Hard no.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
In 2015, Rep. Tom Tiffany voted for unlimited amounts of money to flow through parties and committees into individual campaigns. Now, he's criticizing Big Money spending in Wisconsin elections. A reminder for Rep. Tiffany: actions speak louder than words. #wigov
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10/12/2025
I just read this out loud to my wife. If you have a spouse or partner, try it, especially if they don’t know what’s coming. Hearing it out loud makes the bonkers-ness sink in. Reading this to unsuspecting people should be a TikTok meme.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/11/2025
ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
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ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself The maker of ChatGPT has said the suicide of a 16-year-old was down to his “misuse” of its system and was “not caused” by the chatbot. The comments came in OpenAI’s response to a lawsuit filed against the San Francisco company and its chief executive, Sam Altman, by the family of California teenager Adam Raine. Continue reading...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/11/2025
Trump and lawmakers haven't yet decided whether to extend Obamacare subsidies or risk angering millions of Americans, some of whom will see their premiums rise starting Jan. 1.
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Trump, GOP Head Into Thanksgiving Without Obamacare Premium Fix
President Donald Trump decamped to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida late Tuesday for the Thanksgiving holiday with any effort to control spiking health care premiums — a key issue for Republicans whose economic appeal to voters has waned since last year’s election — still very much in flux.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/11/2025
President Trump failed to sway a US appeals court to revive his civil lawsuit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to tarnish his 2016 campaign with bogus claims of collusion with Russia.
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Trump Loses Appeal to Revive Conspiracy Suit Against Clinton
President Donald Trump failed to sway a US appeals court to revive his civil lawsuit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to tarnish his 2016 campaign with bogus claims of collusion with Russia.
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NPR @npr.org · 26/11/2025
The 66-page ruling Tuesday by Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson of Colorado is a comprehensive rejection of a tactic regularly used by ICE to meet quotas set by the Trump administration. (via @cprnews.bsky.social)
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Court demands end to unjustified warrantless arrests, restricting a tool ICE frequently uses to detain immigrants
Unless reversed on appeal, it is likely to place a severe restriction on ICE’s operations in Colorado.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Whether it’s pro-Republican X accounts based in Eastern Europe and Bangladesh or pro-Democrat X accounts based in Maryland and Massachusetts, both parties have too few accounts based in Real America.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New Justice Department filings reveal that it was Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem who chose to defy a federal court order by transferring more than 100 Venezuelan men into Salvadoran custody to be imprisoned.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/11/2025
A year after making a public pledge to do so, President Trump disclosed a list of donors who helped pay for his presidential transition. The 46-person list includes billionaires and people he went on to appoint to positions of power.
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Donors to Trump’s Transition Revealed a Year Later
A 46-person list includes billionaires and people he went on to appoint to positions of power.
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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New: As the Trump administration eliminates incentives for energy-efficient appliances, California is joining New York and Boston to spur a market for affordable electric window heat pumps and battery-equipped induction stoves to decarbonize housing. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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As Federal Support Withers, California Invests in Cheap Heat Pumps
The state is allocating more than $100 million to create demand for energy-efficient technologies that renters and low-income residents can afford.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/10/2025
President Donald Trump said that he has called off plans to send a “surge” of federal personnel into San Francisco this weekend to target crime, an announcement that came after he had a private conversation with Mayor Daniel Lurie.
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Trump says he has called off federal ‘surge’ in San Francisco amid pushback
The president made the announcement after he said he spoke with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and with leaders of major technology companies.
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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/10/2025
NEWS: Trump will NOT deploy the National Guard to San Francisco following a conversation with Mayor Daniel Lurie. Trump says "friends of mine" convinced him not to go forward with the military surge, including "Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/10/2025
Reproductive rights advocates are working to shore up access to abortion pills nationwide — and to strengthen their defense against efforts to prosecute doctors and pharmacies supplying the medication to states where it is banned.
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As red states target abortion pills, this group aims to boost protections
The “Reproductive Futures” group is aiming to bolster and expand legal protections for clinicians who remotely prescribe and mail abortion pills across the country.
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
It Takes Only 250 Documents to Poison Any AI Model - www.darkreading.com/application-...
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It Takes Only 250 Documents to Poison Any AI Model
Researchers find it takes far less to manipulate a large language model's (LLM) behavior than anyone previously assumed.
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Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Border patrol agents are heading today to the Bay Area for an immigration enforcement operation. They will stage at the coast guard base in Alameda. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
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Border Patrol Plans Crackdown in the San Francisco Bay Area
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 23/10/2025
“Circularity” has become a buzzword in artificial-intelligence deals. Some investors have drawn comparisons between the megadeals of today and some excesses of the original dot-com bubble. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4ho5i4P
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 23/10/2025
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, spent the end of Tesla’s earnings call pleading with investors to ratify his upcoming $1 trillion pay package and blasting the shareholder advisory firms that have come out against the plan. bloom.bg/42SlqW8 📷: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Whether it’s conservatives complaining about a redesign of Cracker Barrel’s across the country, or liberals complaining about President Trump bulldozing the East Wing of the White House, it’s clear both sides are engaged in a new political battleground over architecture and design
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techledes @techledes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Medill Local News Initiative: 213 counties are now "news deserts," with "zero locally-based news sources." 1,524 counties have just 1 local source. "One in 7 Americans, almost 50 million people, live w/limited or no access to local news." localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/sta...
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The State of Local News 2025
The latest insights and trends on the local news landscape across the country. Through data and graphics, explore the state of local news outlets and learn about news deserts, network sites and pathwa...
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CNN @cnn.com · 18/09/2025
The Oscar-winning star of “Oppenheimer” Cillian Murphy, Grammy-winning artist Billie Eilish, and award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix are among the dozens of celebrities who have called for a ceasefire in Gaza in a new video released ahead of a benefit concert in London.
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Billie Eilish, Cillian Murphy among dozens of celebrities calling for Gaza ceasefire ahead of benefit concert in London | CNN
The Oscar-winning star of “Oppenheimer” Cillian Murphy, Grammy-winning artist Billie Eilish, and award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix are among the dozens of celebrities who have called for a ceasefire...
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Vox @vox.com · 18/09/2025
Let’s be clear about what just happened: Jimmy Kimmel, a prominent late-night comedian, was just taken off the airwaves because the Trump administration didn’t like what he had to say — and threatened his employer until they shut him up. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/fryLLE
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 18/09/2025
The administration is putting together plans to take action against left-wing groups that Trump and his allies accuse of fomenting political violence, according to three people familiar with discussions.
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White House plans to take action targeting left-wing groups as early as this month
The response to Charlie Kirk's assassination is expected to include investigations into certain liberal organizations' tax-exempt status. Prosecutors haven't indicated the suspect was part of a group.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 18/09/2025
State health officials issued their own vaccination guidelines on Wednesday, recommending that all Californians 6 months and older who want protection from the COVID-19 virus get this season’s updated vaccine. cal.news/46ajB91 📸 Alisha Jucevic
Amaya Palestino, 6, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at one of St. John’s Well Child and Family Center mobile health clinics in Los Angeles on March 16, 2022. Photo by Alisha Jucevic for CalMatters

Hed: California releases its own vaccine recommendations as RFK shifts federal policy
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techledes @techledes.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The skinny budget is…deficient. It itemizes only annually appropriated fund, less than 1/3 of federal spending, & for just 1 year. This leaves out 2/3 of the budget, inc Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid benefits, as well as deficit and debt projections. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...
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Opinion | What Is Trump Hiding in His Secret Budget?
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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🎙️ ON AIR: We're talking to @us.theguardian.com columnist @sulliview.bsky.social about how major media outlets are responding to Trump’s intensifying attacks. ❓ Have you noticed a change in the way that the media is handling Trump during his second administration? 📻 Listen: buff.ly/iLxMVrM
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Is the American Media Caving to Trump? | KQED
We talk with columnist Margaret Sullivan about how major media outlets are responding to Trump’s intensifying attacks and how it could hasten a march to autocracy.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/07/2025
During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants from Latin America and deported them to the U.S. where they lived in camps.
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Inside the U.S. plan to detain immigrants in Latin America as bargaining chips in WWII
During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants from Latin America and deported them to the U.S. where they lived in camps.
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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.me · 30/06/2025
NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 29/06/2025
Companies that promote the use of AI in their products and services could actually be hurting their sales, research finds.
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Here’s a Tip to Companies: Beware of Promoting AI in Products
Consumers have less trust in offerings labeled as being powered by artificial intelligence, which reduces their interest in buying them, researchers say.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/06/2025
Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry.
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G.O.P. Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power
Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 29/06/2025
Senate Republicans stunned the power industry over the weekend with a proposed new tax on wind and solar projects, part of a broader push to unravel incentives for renewable energy.
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Senate Megabill Stuns the Clean Energy Industry With a New Excise Tax
Elon Musk calls the Senate’s latest version of the spending bill ‘utterly insane and destructive.’
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