Michael Blanding

We’re hiring for a major role in the US, an investigative journalist to cover what’s happening with science in the US and beyond. This is extremely important territory for us. 🧪

workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795 The Guardian :: Senior Science Investigative Reporter

Talarico and Texas Dems break quorum to Halt Gerrymandering Vote.

I had heard the phrase “history repeats itself” from a young age but somehow I always thought that would look like “80s fashion coming back” and not “hungry children with measles watch an autocrat drain their nation’s coffers to build a big tacky palace”

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

plums in icebox

just snacking on some of these little guys. suppose i should leave a note of some sort

One has to wonder if stories like these are why Trump is acting so weird and unhinged (even by his standards) around the Epstein stuff.

It’s basically what he’s been doing in ways large and small his whole life

YouTube video by MIT Sloan Management Review Nobel Laureate Busts the AI Hype

In this video, Nobel laureate Daron Acemoğlu offers rich and provocative skepticism of the most drastic claims that AI will quickly automate much of the economy

The paper he's summarizing: doi.org/10.1093/epol...

Emil Bove Consulted With Far-Right Legal Group After Trump Nominated Him The president’s court pick had discussions with Alliance Defending Freedom, which is also involved in a case that could come before Bove if he’s confirmed.

ICYMI: Emil Bove, easily Trump's most dangerous judicial nominee, consulted with a far-right legal group after Trump nominated him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ― the same court currently overseeing a case this group is actively involved in. www.huffpost.com/entry/emil-b...

The Christian Left's battle for the Bible — and the country In Pennsylvania's Bible Belt, a congregation refuses to cede religion to Christian Nationalists

www.salon.com/2025/07/21/t...

a man in a suit and sweater stands in front of a sign that says ' the ' Alt: Zooming in on Larry David from Curb Your Enthusiasm looking stressed

Cue the Curb credits music

Gives new definition to imaginary numbers

Then they came for Cracker Barrel, and I said nothing because I was listening to Trump's statements on Epstein which sounded like John Gotti leaving Yelp reviews of Sizzler.

Real question: why isn’t anyone investigating Stephen Miller? Got to be some skeletons in that guys closet.

Budapest

Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Show Was The Highest-Grossing Charity Concert Of All Time On July 5, Ozzy Osbourne put on a farewell concert, performing as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath for the last time in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, UK. Billed as the “Back To The Beginning”...

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

They are certainly trying hard to change the conversation!

WSJ Removed From Scotland Press Pool Over Epstein Article

If the White House's aim is to keep Epstein in the headlines and make Trump look guiltier, they are doing a heckuva job.

“You Feel Like Your Life is Over” The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Proc...

A new report by Human Rights Watch and partner nonprofits released today confirms that migrants at the downtown Miami ICE facility were indeed shackled with hands tied behind their backs, forced to kneel, and made to eat from styrofoam plates “like dogs.”

I can't believe that a Southern Baptist is trying to cover for a President accused of sex crimes. *taps ear piece* One moment, I'm getting more information about Southern Baptists that may explain things.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

EXCLUSIVE: Not only does an Excel spreadsheet of Trump mentions in the Epstein files exist, but so do training videos explaining how to flag the files for Trump mentions. Plus, the number of people who had access is larger than previously known. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...

Lots of new details here about the review of Epstein files by the FBI/DOJ

These kids and their newfangled technology for monitoring hurricane events. Back in my day, all we needed is to know whether or not homosexual activity was going on to ascertain the likelihood of hurricanes striking.

The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing.

Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.

WaPo: We've killed our independence and objectivity, please like our owner

NYT: Trump Making Amazing Deals, White House Says; Mamdani Late 4 Times in 6th Grade

CBS: We'll censor things you dislike, here's millions of dollars, please let our parent do a merger

WSJ: BREAKING: TRUMP-EPSTEIN LETTER!

Just listen to how Stephen Colbert answered this question off the cuff.

What does a civil resistance movement do for a country sliding into authoritarianism?

A LOT.

#OneMillionRising #Indivisible #NWSOFA

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

The defunding of public media, the gutting of the Washington Post and LA Times, and the cancelation of Stephen Colbert by Paramount is all connected. It's part of a hostile takeover of our entire information space by the oligarchs.

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

The world's most liveable cities for 2025 - and what it's really like to live there Copenhagen has overtaken Vienna as the world's most liveable city in 2025. But what makes these places tick? Locals in five top-ranking cities share what life is really like there.

Vienna has been dethroned. The new "world's most livable city" is [drum roll] Copenhagen, which was also, in a separate survey, recently ranked the world's happiest city.

US cities basically do everything exactly the opposite of Copenhagen, which is why not a single US city is in the top ten.