Reality Bites
Trump suggests in speech that ‘pretty soon I’ll be declaring’ Hormuz strait a U.S. territory | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-iran-strait-hormuz-us-territory-9.7307977
#DonaldTrump #speech #HormuzStraight #unitedstates #territory #iran
The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacks | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/policy/979734/trump-administration-cybercrime-private-firms
#DonaldTrump #unitedstates #private #international #cyberattacks
Trump Is Being Sued For Charging For Faster Access To Truth Social Posts
https://www.engadget.com/2235905/trump-is-being-sued-for-charging-for-faster-access-to-truth-social-posts/
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave job at month’s end, Trump says | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/karoline-leavitt-leaving-white-house-9.7305045
Peter Maher, longtime voice of Calgary Flames, dead at 79 | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/peter-maher-flames-radio-voice-9.7306356
Meta Faces A $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction
https://www.engadget.com/2237547/meta-faces-a-1-4-trillion-reckoning-in-latest-trial-over-social-media-addiction/
Trump’s Election Plot Is Taking Shape—Never Underestimate a Cornered Sewer Rat – Factkeepers.com
https://factkeepers.com/trumps-election-plot-is-taking-shape-never-underestimate-a-cornered-sewer-rat/
Trump Uses Deceptive Chart in False Inflation Boast – FactCheck.org
https://www.factcheck.org/2026/08/trump-uses-deceptive-chart-in-false-inflation-boast/
#DonaldTrump #factcheck #inflation #misinformation #unitedstates
Phoebe Gates Took Secret Stanford Course on Controlling Society, Used It to Recruit for Her Startup That’s Now Facing Accusations
https://futurism.com/future-society/phoebe-gates-secret-stanford-course
The Largest Battery-Electric Plane Ever Made Has Flown For The First Time
https://www.engadget.com/2236248/the-largest-battery-electric-plane-ever-made-has-flown-for-the-first-time/
U.K. sees its hottest day of the summer as western Europe suffers through another heat wave | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/heat-wave-fires-britain-uk-france-europe-climate-change-9.7305698
#UK #europe #weather #temperatures #heatwaves #climatechange
Study of Nearly 50 Million U.S. Residents Finds Undocumented Immigration Does Not Drive Crime
https://www.latintimes.com/study-nearly-50-million-us-residents-finds-undocumented-immigration-does-not-drive-crime-598533
Young Americans Don’t Trust Billionaire AI Leaders Like Musk, Zuckerberg and Altman, Poll Finds
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/08/13/young-americans-dont-trust-billionaire-ai-leaders-new-poll-finds/
Scientists Warn Carney’s Changes Will Bring ‘Wilful Extinction’ | The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/08/12/Experts-Warn-Carney-Ports-Pipelines-Bring-Wilful-Extinction/
#MarkCarney #canada #scientists #wilful #extinction #climatechange
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill | Greenland | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/08/greenland-iwarning-trump-linked-oil-firm-prepares-drill
Everything Google Announced Today: Pixel Tag, Pixel 11 Series And Pixel Watch 5
https://www.engadget.com/2235146/everything-announced-google-pixel-11-event-pixel-watch-5-pixel-tag/
Chris Carter on How the Real World Has Caught Up With ‘The X-Files’
https://gizmodo.com/chris-carter-on-how-the-real-world-has-caught-up-with-the-x-files-2000797394
This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/burning-summer-climate-denial-green-policies-sadiq-khan
July was the hottest month in the US since records began in 1895 | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/climate/hottest-month-record-july-noaa
