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Jacob Kastrenakes

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    RFK Jr. is ending his campaign and endorsing Trump.

    Kennedy said he was worried he would become “a spoiler” and throw the race to Vice President Kamala Harris.

    Trump’s campaign is reportedly hoping to get Kennedy onto Joe Rogan’s show to sell listeners on his endorsement. Kennedy suggested he’ll be offered a role in the next administration if Trump wins and vowed to install “honest scientists.”

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    It takes a lot of guesswork to be a great cybersquatter.

    NPR spoke to the guy who owned HarrisWalz.com until yesterday. He’s made a habit of buying up political domains and sitting on them for years, waiting for a payoff:

    In August 2020, anticipating Harris might run again in the future, he snapped up 15 Harris-related domain names, combined with “every sort of folksy white man I could think of who was big at the time.” Those include Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and, of course, Walz.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Trump plans to sit for an interview with Elon Musk.

    The former president continues down the young male conservative influencer circuit, lining up a conversation with the reported megadonor and CEO of Tesla. No details yet beyond it happening “Monday night,” but the bar for a Musk political interview is low.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Jensen Huang has a big afternoon ahead.

    At 4:30PM ET, Nvidia’s CEO will sit down with Wired’s Lauren Goode to talk generative AI. Then at 6PM ET, Huang is scheduled to chat with Mark Zuckerberg — also about AI. You can watch both conversations on YouTube.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    The classified documents case against Trump has been dismissed.

    Judge Aileen Cannon bucked precedent and found that the special counsel leading the prosecution had been illegally appointed. The ruling can be appealed, but it puts another huge blockade in the case over whether Trump improperly held onto caches of classified documents and carelessly stored them at his Florida resort.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Tech leaders are condemning the shooting.

    The CEOs of Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta have all posted comments over the past hour wishing for Trump’s recovery and criticizing the use of violence.

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    Conspiracies have immediately started trending on X.

    The platform is promoting trending topics including “staged” and “#falseflag” — the kinds of conspiracy theories that other major social networks might moderate away.

    “#falseflag” is listed with 1,211 posts and “staged” is listed with 213k psots.
    Trending topics on X right now.
    Screenshot: The Verge