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One State Under Whose God?

If Texas is, as its pledge of allegiance states, “one state under God,” this begs a question. What God? Whose God? For many Texans, it’s undoubtedly the Christian God, because (so they say) we’re a Christian nation. They can point, for instance, to the 190-foot-tall “Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ” near the Panhandle town […]

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Latest articles from Crooks and Liars Valid
Text • John Amato

Morally Bankrupt Fox News Claims Dems 'Have No Moral Compass'

Sometimes I am almost left speechless listening to craven Republicans on Fox News make the most ridiculous arguments to defend Trump's immorality, lies and crimes along with the entire GOP. Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell - if you can call him that - used one awf...

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Audio • Nathan Wrigley

#224 – David Snead on Building Trust and Collaboration in the Hosting Industry With the Secure Hosting Alliance

Today on the podcast, the conversation focused on cross-industry collaboration to improve security and abuse response in the hosting industry. We talk about the Internet Infrastructure Forum (IIF), a platform-agnostic initiative aiming to facilitate real-time intelligence sharing among hosts, registrars, and others. We also get into the importance of sharing actionable data to combat issues like fake shops, and how smaller hosts especially benefit. We explored challenges around legalities, trust, and scaling participation, as well as the role of trust seals for hosts demonstrating commitment to secure practices.

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One of the minor disappointments with getting piled on a year ago is that I now tend to second-guess many of my blog posts. Will someone run with the worst interpretation, ready to repost without context? This leads to watering down drafts, sometimes editing them into vague pointlessness.

Longreads
Text • Krista Stevens

The True Story of Laura Ingalls Is Wilder than Little House on the Prairie

"Netflix’s new adaptation of the beloved book series will probably leave out some of the most fascinating details from the author’s life—from Pa Ingalls’s ineptitude to the serial killers that stalked Kansas during her childhood."

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Text • Six Colors Podcasts

(Podcast) The Rebound 606: Kick ‘Em When They’re Up

This week Lex has audio issues, Dan wants to unload some old hardware and Moltz is tired of fireworks.…

SCOTUSblog
Text • Eric McKee

Revisiting which Supreme Court cases are actually the most important

This photo taken on June 30, 2026 shows the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
This photo taken on June 30, 2026 shows the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

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Text • Jason Kottke

City’s Beautification Initiative Hamstrung By Commitment...

City’s Beautification Initiative Hamstrung By Commitment To Local Artists. “I’m pretty sure when the mayor promised residents a revitalized arts district, he didn’t mean a couple of wonky fish sculptures haphazardly nailed to a tree…” Bwhahaha.

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'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

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"Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXYL, LU&MN, JOYIN, TOMY, GODONLIF, YOOJEE, LINGTENG, LANEIGE, VISCOO, BIODANCE, COOFANDY, BALENNZ, TOSY, and LUENX."

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J6er Cries About Being A Domestic Terrorist Looking For Love

John Cameron, a J6 insurrectionist who had been convicted and sentenced to a handful of days in jail and three years of probation, took to Xitter to bemoan the difficulties one has being a domestic terrorist looking for love. I became single for the first time in twenty y...

McSweeney’s
Text • Nina Semczuk

Let’s Drive This Friend Group Right Into the Abyss

Did someone say group trip? Yes please, Abilene paradox. We should absolutely go to an undisclosed location for an undisclosed price to sleep in various uncomfortable configurations and spend unmitigated time together with unexpressed needs simmering and expressed needs expl...

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • Carena Liptak

Nicole Kidman Marks Daughter’s 18th Birthday With Rare Throwback Baby Pics [Photos]

Keith Urban + Nicole Kidman's daughter Sunday Rose is 18! Here's how both her parents celebrated her birthday on social media. Continue reading…

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Ken Paxton vowed to crack down on 'illegal voting.' He may have violated Texas election law.

expressnews.com/politics/article/paxton-illegal-voting-law-texas-22336437.php?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=9e669fb1-dc4b-43dc-b6f1-7bfb6876ffc1

Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton voted six times from a Collin County home he moved out of two years ago, potentially violating the very election laws his office enforces.

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NEW: Washington Law Says to Alert the Public When Doctors Are Accused of Misconduct. It Can Take Months.

In the case of OB-GYN Mark Mulholland, who was repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct, Washington’s medical board waited six weeks to announce it had filed charges. He kept seeing patients during that time, and one alleges he abused her in the interim.
https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-doctor-misconduct-failed-disclosure?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Washington #Medicine #Health #Doctors #Law #Transparency #SexualAssault

SCOTUSblog
Text • Christopher A. Coons, David Beier, Ray Brescia

The Supreme Court’s quiet coup

The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen on July 2, 2026 in Washington, DC.
The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen on July 2, 2026 in Washington, DC.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
Text • Evan Paul

Ronnie Dunn Has Message for Fans After Hospital Visit

Ronnie Dunn sought medical help ahead of Brooks & Dunn's gig opening for Morgan Wallen in South Carolina. Continue reading…

Ars Technica
Text • Camilla Hodgson in London

US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge

US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge

Miners backed by Trump admin sell to Japan, South Korea despite push to develop domestic supply chain.

Electrek Valid
Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla launches ‘Tesla Home’ with Opticaster AI to cut power bills

Tesla has launched Tesla Home, a home energy management platform powered by an AI engine called Opticaster that it says makes “hundreds of decisions” a day about when to store and use electricity to lower your bill.

However, it’s not an entirely new product as Electrek has been reporting on Tesla’s Opticaster for 5 years.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Frederic Lardinois

Entire is building a Git network for agents

Thomas Dohmke, who stepped down as GitHub’s CEO last year to become a founder again, is opening a preview of

The post Entire is building a Git network for agents appeared first on The New Stack.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
Text • Adrian Bridgwater

“Nature is the most computationally efficient system we know”: How Refiant used swarm optimization to build a 10-million-token AI model

While the household-name frontier models race forward with version numbers and context windows of at least a million tokens, a

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