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  Robert Reich 1.56M subscribers Premiered Jul 2, 2026 #america250 #USA #HappyBirthday What would the Founding Fathers think about Trump? The Declaration of Independence gives us an idea. Watch. #USA #250 #america250 #HappyBirthday How this was made Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. Learn more Ask Get answers, explore topics, and more Ask questions Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript

 FROM DAILY DOSE OF DEMOCRACYl  The AI industry is losing Ed Zitron, Where's Your Ed At : "In April of last year, I outlined how the failure of one model lab, OpenAI, would have seismic effects down its supply chain, delivering body blow after body blow to NVIDIA, Oracle, Microsoft, and the various Neoclouds that serve its compute. And Oracle, as I’ve noted previously, is a company that, even before the AI bubble, was massively indebted. It just so happens that, as a result of its tryst with OpenAI, Larry Ellison saw fit to twist the debt knob to eleven. Oracle’s spending has already pushed its free cash flow into negative territory — minus $23.7 billion, as of the end of FY 2026 — and at the end of May, it had $129.5 billion in outstanding debt. This doesn’t include its various lease commitments, which add up to nearly $38 billion , nor the additional $260 billion in lease commitments that have been signed, but haven’t actually started yet. All of this is to say that Oracle h...

  ❤️ Donate Monday, July 6, 2026 Cloudy, with a chance of showers and a high of 73 . Good Morning Boston, It's Monday. We're staring down the final stretch of the Massachusetts State House's two-year legislative session. The list of 2026 ballot questions is getting finalized. And the Sept. 1 state primary is already less than two months away. (For that matter, the Nov. 3 midterm elections are just 120 days away. But who's counting?) To help you navigate what will inevitably be a noisy political news cycle (and keep you up to speed through the dog days of summer), we're bringing back our weekly Mass. Politics newsletter next week! And we're excited to announce that our new senior state politics reporter Gintautas Dumcius will spearhead it, along with the rest of our politics team. Gin (pronounced like "be-GIN," not like the alcohol) joined WBUR last month after covering Boston and Massachusetts politics for more than two decades. He knows the historic ...