Thursday, January 1, 2026

Instacart ends use of AI-powered pricing experiment on consumers

Instacart's Eversight pricing tool allowed retails on its platform to experiment with pricing using AI, which could cost the average household up to $1,200 every year in additional spending.

Inflatables, rainbow crosswalks, flooding snitch lines—creative action was off the charts in 2025

In the face of rising authoritarianism, creativity is an enduring movement superpower that helped us break through the stranglehold of fear this year.

CBS pulls report challenging Trump foreign policy

What’s behind the canceling of the 60 Minutes story on El Salvador?

Trump slashes U.S. humanitarian aid as global death toll mounts

A $2 billion pledge to the United Nations masks a historic collapse in U.S. humanitarian funding following the dismantling of USAID, as experts estimate more than 700,000 deaths linked to foreign aid cuts.

What defective “moral majority” thinks rewarding might-makes-right immoralists won’t make America immoral?

When unchecked power rules, wallowing in its abuse of “Radical Left Scum,” then unchecked immorality follows.

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Inflatables, rainbow crosswalks, flooding snitch lines—creative action was off the charts in 2025

In the face of rising authoritarianism, creativity is an enduring movement superpower that helped us break through the stranglehold of fear this year.

CBS pulls report challenging Trump foreign policy

What’s behind the canceling of the 60 Minutes story on El Salvador?

Trump slashes U.S. humanitarian aid as global death toll mounts

A $2 billion pledge to the United Nations masks a historic collapse in U.S. humanitarian funding following the dismantling of USAID, as experts estimate more than 700,000 deaths linked to foreign aid cuts.

Instacart ends use of AI-powered pricing experiment on consumers

Instacart's Eversight pricing tool allowed retails on its platform to experiment with pricing using AI, which could cost the average household up to $1,200 every year in additional spending.
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Over 20M Americans set to lose healthcare coverage Jan. 1 after Congress goes on...

Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double or even triple for some 20 million people, pricing many out of healthcare coverage entirely.

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Biden's approval plummets as key demographic support wavers: staffers voice concern over Gaza policy.
What’s behind the canceling of the 60 Minutes story on El Salvador?
AI data center proposals across Indiana are said to have utility companies profiting and raising costs for customers.