Source archive
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Steam · the official Subnautica 2 store page, with the May 14 2026 Early Access launch, the $29.99 price, the four-player co-op feature, and the developer-publisher credit now reading Unknown Worlds Entertainment after Krafton’s removal
Cited in Subnautica 2 is the stress test Early Access has been waiting for
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CODE-CWA · the Communications Workers of America’s games-industry organising project, including the 4,000-worker roster and the precedent units at ZeniMax, Activision QA Albany, Blizzard, Sega of America, and Bethesda Game Studios
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The Escapist · reporting on the return-to-office mandate, AI-use concerns, and crunch-culture incidents that the workers cite as proximate causes of the drive
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Kotaku · reporting on the specific demand text — layoff protection, remote-work policy, generative-AI guardrails, crunch limits, and the IP-assignment clause workers want removed
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Aftermath · contextual reporting on the studio environment leading up to the drive, including detail on the Renton, Washington location and the Magic Arena team’s position inside Wizards of the Coast
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Engadget · independent reporting on the 27 April announcement, the supermajority card-signing figure, and the relationship to the 2023 Hasbro layoffs that the workers cite as the trigger
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Game Developer · launch-day coverage of the unionisation drive, with detail on the generative-AI and layoff protections at the centre of the public demand list
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Game Developer · 4 May 2026 reporting on Hasbro letting the 1 May voluntary-recognition deadline pass, including the company spokesperson statement and the union’s plan to proceed through an NLRB election
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United Wizards of the Coast · the union’s own organising site, with the full text of the five demands and the petition for voluntary recognition addressed to Hasbro leadership
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Communications Workers of America · official 27 April 2026 announcement of United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, including the named demands, the supermajority claim, and on-record quotes from Damien Wilson, Xib Vaine, and Neil White
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Government Executive · November 2025 reporting on the broader executive-branch context of the USDA CIO transition.
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Federal News Network · September 2025 reporting on the USDA CIO succession, with Sam Berry installed as CIO and Gary Washington moving to a Chief Innovation Officer role before his subsequent departure from the Department.
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MeriTalk · November 2025 reporting on the departure of long-serving USDA Chief Information Officer Gary S. Washington and the leadership transition behind the audit fieldwork window.
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USDA Office of Inspector General · public landing page, source for the May 2026 press release record and the office’s standard practice on report publication.
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BABL AI · independent coverage of the USDA Fiscal Year 2025–2026 AI Strategy, including the five-objective framework, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework alignment, and the stakeholder-feedback process.
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data.gov · Department of Agriculture inventory of AI use cases, the federal open-data catalog entry for the Department’s public AI use-case list and CSV companion; the source of the “snapshot rather than a system” comparison in the audit.
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Office of Management and Budget · Memorandum M-25-21, “Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust,” February 2025. The source of the high-impact AI definition, the minimum risk-management practices, the September 22, 2026 reporting deadline, and the Chief AI Officer authorities.
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USDA Office of Inspector General · Report 50801-0018-12, “Cybersecurity of Artificial Intelligence Technology at USDA,” May 12, 2026. The source document for the key finding, the four open recommendations, and the Department’s concurrence.
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U.S. Department of the Treasury · “Treasury Warns of Sanctions Risks Linked to China-Based Independent ‘Teapot’ Oil Refineries,” April 30, 2026 — the standing OFAC alert on Chinese refinery exposure that frames the May 11 package
Cited in Treasury sanctions Hong Kong, UAE and Oman firms accused of moving IRGC oil to China
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MarineLink · “US Sanctions Companies Involved in Iran’s Oil Shipments to China,” May 11, 2026 — shipping-trade readout, including the five-tanker shadow-fleet reference
Cited in Treasury sanctions Hong Kong, UAE and Oman firms accused of moving IRGC oil to China
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KFGO (wire) · “US issues new sanctions over Iran’s oil shipments to China,” May 11, 2026 — country breakdown of the designated companies (Hong Kong, UAE, Oman) and pre-summit framing
Cited in Treasury sanctions Hong Kong, UAE and Oman firms accused of moving IRGC oil to China
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IranWire · “U.S. Sanctions Hong Kong, UAE & Oman Firms Over Iranian Oil Network,” May 11, 2026 — entity-by-entity readout of the designations
Cited in Treasury sanctions Hong Kong, UAE and Oman firms accused of moving IRGC oil to China
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Washington Examiner · “Treasury sanctions network accused of helping IRGC sell Iranian oil to China,” May 11, 2026 — coverage including the Bessent statement on the regime’s funding for weapons and proxies
Cited in Treasury sanctions Hong Kong, UAE and Oman firms accused of moving IRGC oil to China
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Office of Foreign Assets Control · Recent Actions register, May 11, 2026 — Iran-related and counter-terrorism designations of 12 individuals and entities
Cited in Treasury sanctions Hong Kong, UAE and Oman firms accused of moving IRGC oil to China
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U.S. Department of the Treasury press release · “Economic Fury Ramps Up Pressure on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Oil Operations,” May 11, 2026 — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent quoted; full list of designated entities and shipping intermediaries
Cited in Treasury sanctions Hong Kong, UAE and Oman firms accused of moving IRGC oil to China
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Game Developer · reporting on the French consumer-group lawsuit against Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown, which became one of the campaign’s reference cases
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PC Gamer · reporting on The Crew Unlimited fan server emulator and its 15 September 2025 launch, including the project FAQ on legitimate-copy detection
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GosuGamers · summary of the Entertainment Software Association’s opposition to the California bill, including the engineering-cost and security-risk arguments
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GamingOnLinux · reporting on California AB 1921 clearing the Assembly Budget Committee 11 to 2 on 14 May 2026, including the 1 January 2027 effective date and the 60-day shutdown notice requirement
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The Crew reference page · the 14 December 2023 delisting, the 31 March 2024 server shutdown, and the post-shutdown licence-revocation pattern that prompted the campaign
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Stop Killing Games reference page · campaign founding date, organisational structure, and the four-point policy ask (end-of-life patch, server escrow, minimum guaranteed service period, point-of-sale labelling)
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European Parliament · public hearing record before the IMCO, JURI, and PETI committees on 7 April 2026, with Ross Scott and Moritz Katzner appearing for the initiative organisers
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European Citizens’ Initiative · official Commission record of Stop Destroying Videogames, including the 1,294,188 verified statements of support and the 26 January 2026 submission date
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ClinicalTrials.gov · STEP HFpEF Diabetes (NCT05371496) — the follow-on Novo Nordisk trial in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, registered for outcomes relevant to the older-adult cardiometabolic question.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · NCHS Data Brief No. 508, “Obesity and Severe Obesity Prevalence in Adults: United States, August 2021–August 2023,” updated September 2024 — the age-stratified U.S. obesity prevalence figures.
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Wilding JPH et al. · “Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity” (STEP 1), New England Journal of Medicine, March 18, 2021 — the original STEP 1 trial publication used here as the full-trial-population benchmark for the 15.4 percent versus 5.1 percent comparison.
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Healio · Endocrine Today, “Semaglutide reduces weight, improves cardiometabolic parameters for older adults,” May 13, 2026 — congress reporting on the Busetto pooled analysis with author quotes and the headline efficacy and safety figures.
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European Association for the Study of Obesity · 33rd European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026), Istanbul, May 12–15, 2026 — official congress page, abstract 1681 (Busetto et al., “Efficacy and safety of once-weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg in adults aged ≥65 years with overweight or obesity: a pooled analysis of the STEP trials”).
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National Federation of Independent Business · Small Business Economic Trends, April 2026 (full report PDF). Source for the seasonally adjusted index components and the historical-average comparisons.
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National Federation of Independent Business · April 2026 Small Business Economic Trends release. Source for the net 30 percent of owners raising prices, the net 27 percent planning to raise prices, the 13 percent historical average for the price-raising series, and the 16 percent reporting inflation as their single most important problem.
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · BLS data series WPSFD4, Producer Price Index by Commodity: Final Demand, the canonical monthly series the article uses to verify the 12-month percent change.
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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco · working paper on the measurement of the U.S. labor share, source for the observation that the self-employed imputation can move the series by half a point or more.
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Indeed Hiring Lab · “Q1 2026 Productivity and Costs Release: Productive, for Now,” by An Nguyen and Sneha Puri, posted 7 May 2026. Source for the pull-quote summarizing the labor share reading and for the comparison to the early-1950s peak.
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · BLS data series PRS85006173, Nonfarm Business Sector: Labor Share for All Workers, the canonical source for the labor share figures mirrored to FRED. Quarterly, seasonally adjusted, beginning Q1 1947. Source for the historical comparison and the prior low reading of 54.2 percent in Q3 2014.
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U.S. Embassy & Consulate in the Republic of Korea · “The Spirit of Camp David: Joint Statement of Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the United States,” August 18, 2023 — source for the trilateral framework against which the May 2026 vice-ministerial dialogue is calibrated
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The Asia Business Daily · “South Korea and Japan Hold First Vice Ministerial Security Talks, Discuss Korean Peninsula and Middle East Affairs,” May 7, 2026 — source for the Foreign Ministry’s summary of the topics discussed and the agreement to sustain the channel
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Japan Today (Kyodo News) · “Japan, South Korea hold 1st vice-ministerial 2-plus-2 security talks,” May 7, 2026 — source for the upgrade from director-general level and Takaichi/Lee Jae Myung Nara meeting in January 2026 as the political authorisation for the new format
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Seoul Economic Daily · pre-meeting brief on the agenda, May 6, 2026 — source for the Yomiuri Shimbun framing of Chinese and Russian technical support to Pyongyang as background to the North Korea agenda
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Seoul Economic Daily · “Korea, Japan Hold First Vice-Ministerial 2+2 Diplomatic-Defense Talks,” May 7, 2026 — source for the agenda items, including the Strait of Hormuz blockade and joint drills
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The Korea Times · “S. Korea, Japan hold 1st vice ministerial-level ‘2+2’ security talks,” May 7, 2026 — source for the “strengthen bilateral and trilateral security cooperation involving the United States” framing and the November 2024 prior director-general meeting as the predecessor format
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The Korea Herald · “S. Korea, Japan hold upgraded bilateral security dialogue amid North Korea, Middle East concerns,” May 7, 2026 — source for the date, the named officials on both sides, and the agenda items (North Korea nuclear/missile development; Hormuz; maritime security; potential Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement)
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U.S. Supreme Court · Trump v. Wilcox, May 22, 2025 emergency order preserving for-cause removal protection for Federal Reserve governors.
Cited in Central-bank independence cannot be a habit. It has to be a rule.
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Federal Reserve History · The Treasury-Fed Accord of 1951 (the founding agreement Warsh has proposed reopening).
Cited in Central-bank independence cannot be a habit. It has to be a rule.
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Brookings · Who has to leave the Federal Reserve next? — primer on chair-to-governor precedent since 1948.
Cited in Central-bank independence cannot be a habit. It has to be a rule.
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NPR · Powell announces he will remain on the Fed board after stepping down as chair, citing concerns about independence.
Cited in Central-bank independence cannot be a habit. It has to be a rule.
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U.S. Senate · Roll call vote 120, 119th Congress: Warsh confirmation as Fed chair, 54-45.
Cited in Central-bank independence cannot be a habit. It has to be a rule.
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Federal Reserve Board · press release naming Jerome H. Powell chair pro tempore, May 15, 2026.
Cited in Central-bank independence cannot be a habit. It has to be a rule.
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Federal Reserve · Section 10 of the Federal Reserve Act (14-year governor terms, four-year chair terms).
Cited in Central-bank independence cannot be a habit. It has to be a rule.
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Office of Representative Thomas Massie · House passage announcement for the Massie–Khanna Epstein Files Transparency Act, with the 427–1 House vote tally.
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Democracy Docket · reporting on the joint request by Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna for an independent special master to oversee the Epstein Files release process, including the court’s denial of the motion.