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Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Now’s not the time to wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October at San Francisco's Moscone West.

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Whistleblower Blows Lid Off DOGE Plot To Declare Millions Dead

The Trump administration came up with a dystopian idea (quelle surprise!), to reportedly cook up a plan to declare 2.7 million living people — among them U.S. citizens, legal residents, teenagers, and retirees — officially dead, The Washington Post reports.

The goal: weaponize Social Security's identity database to functionally delete people from the financial system, cutting them off from paychecks, bank accounts, and government benefits. You know, the kind of stuff living people tend to need to survive.

The scheme was exposed by Jeremiah Schofield, a 25-year Social Security veteran who actually had the audacity to look at the list. When he pulled a sample from the 2.7 million marked for fictional death, every single one of them was alive — including a widow receiving survivor benefits legally. At that point, agency lawyers gently noted that declaring living people dead might, technically, be against the law. Schofield agreed, refused to participate, and eventually left the agency in October.

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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO.

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Trump Loses His Sh*t After Learning War Powers Aren't A Personal Blank Check

On Wednesday, the House passed a measure to limit Donald J. Trump's military authority regarding Iran, with a growing number of Republicans breaking ranks to express dissatisfaction with how the administration has managed the ongoing conflict.

As NewHound Ellen reported, the four Republicans who voted with all the Democrats to end the war were Reps. Tom Barrett of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Warren Davidson of Ohio, and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Unsurprisingly, Trump's wrath is being directed at them and the "Dumocrats" in a childish Truth Social outburst.

"Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted, 4 bad Republicans and all of the Dumocrats, to limit my War Powers, right in the middle of my final negotiations to end the War with the Islamic Republic of Iran," he wrote. "Who would do such an unpatriotic thing."

"They know where the negotiations stand," he added. "The Democrats are fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome. They would rather have our Country fail than give me another, of many, victories. The four Republicans, that’s a whole other story - They’re GRANDSTANDERS! They should be ashamed of themselves. MAGA!!! President DJT"

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Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft

Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.

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Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated "stories" culled from the personal data in your Google account.

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MAGA Pastor Spins Trump’s $10B Loss As Win For Slush Fund

MAGA Pastor and Christian Nationalist Lance Wallnau was forced to lie to his audience to justify Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund that he absurdly grifted from the federal government.

Anyone with a working brain knows that Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion over the release of his tax returns, which every presidential candidate has done since the 70s.

The lawsuit was never litigated, never went to trial, and never made its way before a judge, and suddenly, Demented Donald announced a $1.8 billion settlement with the federal government. To support his MAGA cult, he was going to use the money to set up an "anti-weaponization fund" to pay these creeps cash if he felt they were wrongly prosecuted and investigated during his first term in office, and everything about the heinous insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th.

Obviously, there was an uproar from almost the entire country except for his sycophantic acolytes, including acting AG Todd Blanche, who agreed to the travesty perpetrated on the American people.

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