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Rob Pegoraro Jul 14, 2025

Weekly output: Android and Wear OS updates, Gmail’s Manage Subscriptions tool, Grok coming to Teslas, clean-energy rebates and tax credits

This week saw the return of one of Washington’s most treasured rites of summer: the free outdoor concerts at Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown. Unfortunately, I let myself get spooked by the weather forecast for Monday’s show and then had a schedule conflict for Thursday’s show–and now I see that the forecast calls for rain tomorrow evening.

7/9/2025: Google Unpacks Another Round of AI Features, Starting With Gemini On Wear OS, PCMag

SamsI contributed a tiny bit of PCMag’s coverage of Samsung’s latest Unpacked product-announcement event with this writeup of some new features Google announced for some of Samsung’s new hardware.

7/9/2025: Gmail’s New ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Feature Is Here, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough, PCMag

If I had written about this new Gmail feature only from Google’s announcement of it, this might have been a much more positive piece. But what they rolled out doesn’t come close to helping Gmail users cope with their overflowing inboxes.

7/10/2025: After Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Teslas, the Jokes Drive Themselves, PCMag

Writing this short post took longer than I expected because it represented my belated introduction to the content-embedding feature in PCMag’s CMS.

7/11/2025: Interested in Clean-Energy Tax Credits? The Clock Is Ticking Thanks to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, PCMag

Researching this piece felt like doing my taxes, with the added annoyance factor of my knowing that we were never eligible for some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives anyway.

#android #cleanEnergy #ElonMusk #gmail #greenEnergy #Grok #heatPump #InflationReductionAct #IRA #ManageSubscriptions #OneBigBeautifulBill #reconciliationBill #Samsung #SamsungUnpacked #Tesla #WearOS

A D.C. summer isn’t complete without a Fort Reno concert

I don’t get out to concerts much these days, but Monday allowed me to check out a couple of indie-rock bands for free. The Northwest D.C. venue I attended lacked such typical amenities as a b…

Rob Pegoraro

The USA Potato Jul 11, 2025

Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.

Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.

https://murica.website/2025/07/decades-of-neoliberalism-entrenched-us-inequality-trumps-budget-made-it-worse/

Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse. – The USA Potato

Meg 💖Jul 2, 2025

call your rep, not your ex #ReconciliationBill #BigShittyBill

Meg 💖Jun 29, 2025

Trump and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad bill #ReconciliationBill

The USA Potato Jun 25, 2025

Voters Will “Get Over It,” McConnell Tells GOP Colleagues About Medicaid Cuts

Polling consistently shows that voters strongly object to the Medicaid cuts proposed in the GOP reconciliation package.

https://voices.murica.website/?p=25040

Voters Will “Get Over It,” McConnell Tells GOP Colleagues About Medicaid Cuts – The USA Potato

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Jun 13, 2025

Walz and Johnson Make #MisleadingClaims About Bill’s Impact on #SNAP

#Republican and #Democratic leaders have either downplayed or overstated the estimated impact of the House #reconciliationbill on the #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram, formerly known as #foodstamps.

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/06/walz-and-johnson-make-misleading-claims-about-bills-impact-on-snap/

Walz and Johnson Make Misleading Claims About Bill’s Impact on SNAP - FactCheck.org

Republican and Democratic leaders have either downplayed or overstated the estimated impact of the House reconciliation bill on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that due to work requirements in the bill, 3.2 million people would lose all of their SNAP benefits, which provide financial help to low-income people for groceries.

FactCheck.org