politicsWednesday, July 29, 2026
Today's politics coverage is split between local fallout from Nigel Farage's resignation and a new front in digital propaganda: Israel paying to train AI chatbots on Gaza. A feature from Clacton captures voter ambivalence, while an investigation reveals Brad Parscale's operation to flood the internet with pro-Israel content. Meanwhile, judges handed Trump a procedural win on mail voting but with a sharp warning.
The byelection triggered by Nigel Farage's resignation is the day's biggest domestic story, and a Guardian feature captures the mood on the ground.
A Guardian feature goes to Clacton beach to ask voters what they think of Nigel Farage after his resignation as MP. The picture is mixed: some admire his disruption, others feel abandoned. It's a textured look at a constituency that may soon send someone else to Westminster.
A Dropsite News investigation reveals a coordinated effort to shape how AI chatbots talk about Gaza, run by a former Trump campaign manager.
An investigation reveals that Brad Parscale is running an operation to post hundreds of blog posts, both AI-generated and human-written, to influence how AI chatbots discuss the Gaza conflict. The goal is to flood the training data with pro-Israel content.
Trump got a procedural win on his mail voting order, but the court's warning signals trouble ahead.
A federal appeals court ruled in Trump's favor on his mail voting order, but warned the order may be impossible to carry out and could be swiftly blocked if he tries to enforce it. It's a procedural win with a serious asterisk.
Donald Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke — but global warming is loading the wildfire dicetheconversation.com
Opinion: Drought is here. Why aren’t we acting like it?vancouversun.com
Noah Kahan Slams White House for Using His Song in Trump Promo Videowww.rollingstone.com
Pro-data center industry group behind ad campaign in Oregon, six other statesoregoncapitalchronicle.com
How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activistswww.eff.org
How a Bin Laden Quote Explains MAGA’s Sudden Love for Ukrainewww.newsweek.comDaniel DePetris: Nicaragua slides further into dictatorshipwww.chicagotribune.com
Daniel DePetris argues that Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has become one of the most repressive regimes in the Western Hemisphere, with Ortega's recent cancellation of elections marking the culmination of years of democratic backsliding. The article examines h
Second Towson ‘Peeping Tom’ case ends with deal ordering man to stay away from victimswww.thebanner.com
A Baltimore County man, Daniel Sell (56), accepted a stet docket deal for a "Peeping Tom" misdemeanor, indefinitely postponing his case for three years after agreeing to stay away from the victims. The victims, Devin Kaestner and Chloe White, who had caught Sell and two other men
Queensland and NT reject Labor’s push to ensure that power-hungry AI datacentres use renewable energywww.theguardian.com
Queensland and the Northern Territory have rejected the federal Labor government's proposal to mandate that AI datacentres use renewable energy, criticizing the plans as overreach that hands more power to Canberra. The dispute comes as S&P Global warns that datacentre power consu
Polanski says guillotine re-post was mistake but refuses to apologisewww.bbc.co.uk
Green Party of England and Wales leader Zack Polanski has refused to apologise to Nigel Farage after re-posting a photo of a man wearing a t-shirt featuring a guillotine image and the lyrics "we're only making plans for Nigel" — a reference to the XTC song. Reform UK's home affai
Can Burnham's vision for Manchester's schools work for the rest of England?www.bbc.co.uk
The article discusses Andy Burnham's Manchester Baccalaureate (MBacc) vision for transforming technical education in Greater Manchester, and his plans as prime minister to expand this model nationally across England. It describes the initial rollout of the MBacc concept and Burnh
Rising operational costs, payment delays sink 1.2 lakh MSMEs: Shiv Sena(UBT) in ‘Saamana’www.socialnews.xyz
The Shiv Sena (UBT) party, in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana', has criticized the central government by citing Lok Sabha data showing that over 1.25 lakh MSMEs and factories have shut down in the last three years, leading to massive job losses. The party claims this cont
DOE highlights Genesis mission expansion and announces 278 awards totaling over $250 millioncitizenportal.ai
The Department of Energy's Genesis plenary announced the expansion of the Genesis Mission Consortium to 20 federal agencies, along with an expanded portfolio of 33 national challenges and 278 awards totaling over $250 million distributed to 342 institutions across all 50 states.
Sex, blood and Communist Party virtueswww.economist.com
A brief news blurb about Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" compilation "The Whole Bloody Affair" being set to air in China in August 2026, despite the country's strict censorship of violence, cursing, and sexual content in entertainment. The piece highlights the tension between the
Tell MaineHealth: Violence-enabling tech corporations have no place in our hospitalsact.medicare4all.org
A critical opinion piece arguing that Palantir, a major AI surveillance company with U.S. government contracts (Pentagon, DoD, ICE), should not be partnered with MaineHealth, Maine's largest hospital system. The author criticizes MaineHealth for refusing to disclose contract deta
Ex-bank executive: OVP’s P125-M single transaction ‘unusual’newsinfo.inquirer.net
MANILA, Philippines — The former manager of the Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) branch on Shaw Boulevard — where the Office of the Vice President (OVP) got its P125 million confidential funds (CF) — has admitted that withdrawing a huge amount in one transaction is unusual
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