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“The worst men have the best jobs, the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.”

- Charles Bukowski

WXNA Plans Salute to Jim Ridley A variety of shows on the community radio station will celebrate the late, great Scene editor’s 60th birthday

I’ll be on WXNA’s ‘Psychobabble’ with a bunch of great folks tomorrow at noon to talk about the @nashvillescene.com’s late, great Jim Ridley. Tune in! More details here.

Gov. DeWine 'concerned' about arrest of journalists during protest on Roebling Bridge Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said he is checking with Northern Kentucky authorities after over 13 people were arrested during protests on the Roebling Bridge Thursday — including two journalists.

Reporters Madeline Fening and Lucas Griffith of alt-weekly Cincinnati CityBeat were arrested Thursday while doing their jobs, covering a protest in Northern Kentucky.

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website WASHINGTON—In the latest of a series of escalations in President Donald Trump’s highly publicized war on “woke,” the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly removed all mentions of justice from its website Friday. The purge follows a directive from the DOJ last week to roll back pro-justice programs and delete thousands of webpages that contained banned […]

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Charlie English’s entertaining, inspiring THE CIA BOOK CLUB tells the story of the agents and resistance members who waged a literary campaign against totalitarianism in Cold War-era Poland.
@randomhouse.bsky.social

Thrilling! We went to Caracol several times in the early 2000s. Gorgeous, haunting site, the huge ceiba trees and roars of howler monkeys echoing in the deep green. Almost no visitors then, and we hung out with some of the archaeologists once. One of my favorite places on earth.

WTAF

The Wild Russian Plot to Burn a London Restaurant and Kidnap Its Owner

Bonkers story. Always amazing how many hardcore committed criminals use messaging acts with spectacular stupidity about exposing themselves.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/w...

We're partnering with The Porch on a summer writing contest for Vodka Yonic, the Scene's personal essay column for women and nonbinary writers. Submit an original essay by July 25 for a chance to win $200, a free Porch class, and publication in the Scene! Learn more: www.porchtn.org/vodkayonic.

I agree to your terms unconditionally

She went on and on about how ChatGPT had “loved” SLOW NOODLES. I had no idea what to say. Does she not know how AI works, that it cannot love a book?

And then I realized: she didn’t read SN. She asked AI for a summary. Do I understand this right? Is this where we are headed? Good lord.

That’s not something I would ever say to an author, especially when the book is a memoir of extreme trauma and loss, but ok. I’ll absorb that, so long as Chantha doesn’t have to hear it. But one book club comment really floored me: “ChatGPT really liked the book!” she said. I was so confused.

I’m happy to show up & bring Cambodian food to book clubs when folks want to read SLOW NOODLES & ask questions about how Chantha & I collaborated. I will admit that some people say/ask very weird things. I’m getting used to people telling me they “couldn’t get into it at first.”

Robert Kaiser--an innocent father who was wrongly convicted and imprisoned thanks to the flawed theory of shaken baby syndrome--has been added to the National Registry of Exonerations. Kaiser is the 41st person on the registry cleared of SBS accusations.

exonerationregistry.org/cases/14212

I loved all his work, but his aviation stories were unequalled. My favorite was “The Turn,” a 1993 piece on the physics of how an airplane banks & yaws. He explained it so elegantly that I began to see turning flight as extraordinarily beautiful. I would have loved to take a flight lesson with him.

Some argue that AI will be wildly powerful and dangerous; others say it will be a stupid waste.

My take is that it will be a wildly powerful and dangerous stupid waste.

Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...

@propublica.org is continuing to follow what has happened in the wake of the destruction of USAID. By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

I... oh my god.
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Zebra on the loose: The search for a pet zebra in Rutherford County continues The search for elusive pet zebra continues Monday after the animal escaped a Rutherford County home Saturday.

"The owner tried chasing the zebra through traffic Saturday, but it escaped in a wooded area." fox17.com/news/local/z...

Text reads: "She Survived Genital Cutting, Then Shared Her Reconstruction on TikTok." Photo by Nariman El-Mofty for The New York Times.

As a child, Shamsa Sharawe was brutally cut. As an adult, she underwent hours of reconstruction surgery. As a mother, she vowed to protect her daughter from female genital cutting. And now as a social media influencer, she is persuading others to do the same. trib.al/z8NU9U3

Yesterday my husband said we couldn’t get a handmaid because she would be called “Ofhal.”

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Notable Sandwich Special: Literary Heroes Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, where my editor David Swanson and I pull up a chair at the strange table that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches...

today, a special feature arranged for your delectation by @davidswanson.bsky.social: notable sandwiches of literature, from dickens to roth to morrison: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Rose, this is such a wonderful project! I’m thrilled you got to do it

the people here probably already know this but really spread this far and wide:

tell your normal offline friends and family to stop using ChatGPT for legal advice. it's happening constantly now. I'm always explaining to people why the advice this silly thing gave them is not real legal advice.

Am in favor

Really one of the best times of the year.

Also, rail against whatever you include in "MSM" if you want to, but if you're doing so without subscribing to/financially supporting an alternative even as you have the means to do so...

This is insane