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“A new White House task force reviewing thousands of pages of classified intelligence and law enforcement documents for evidence of irregularities in U.S. elections is expected to begin releasing documents within weeks,” MS NOW reports. “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, whose acting chief, Bill Pulte, has been accused by Democrats of politically […]

From XKCD, a tour of some of the Earth’s deepest and most notable holes, including mines, caves, boreholes, subway stations, lakes, tunnels, neutrino detectors, and, of course, the Mariana Trench.

I was surprised to learn that a pair of boreholes, the Kola Superdeep Borehole and the Deepwater Horizon Borehole, are actually deeper than the Mariana Trench. Explain XKCD has more info on each of the various holes, including the truly bonkers Cave of Crystals in Mexico.

Tags: geology · infoviz · Randall Munroe · xkcd

We finally got Minnie eating again over the weekend. At first, 90% of her diet was sandwich turkey. It’s pretty good sandwich turkey — Julie and I eat it ourselves. But it’s a lousy diet for a dog. Still, the priority was to to get her to eat anything. Since Minnie’s health ...

As an elder millennial who still mourns the death of Google Reader (13 years ago this month, sigh) and uses the Feedly daily, I was intrigued by TechCrunch’s post: “A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed.” HyperTexting, launched on iOS June 29, describes itself like this: Allow us...

AG: Deal will bring "higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and TV."

Update: ICE agents involved in killing of a Biddeford man were not wearing body cameras.

A win! A federal judge ruled that Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was an improper exercise in self-dealing and rejected his claim that the extraordinary tax protections he received were part of a legitimate settlement agreement.

Less than a month ago, Trump secured himself a $400 million plane for free — something he certainly couldn’t have accomplished if he weren’t the president of the United States. It’s no longer a mere appearance of corruption: it’s a 250-foot long luxury plane with 2,500 square feet of tangible corruption. Here are some details […]

In one of the latest PJP Learning+ assignments, we asked students to write a profile using strong reporting, interviewing and narrative writing skills. https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/07/09/lives-worthy-of-a-narrative/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PJP-Bluesky

There are four players in MLB with a higher bWAR than Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler, but nobody can hope to top him in PAR (pettiness above replacement). Last week, after he was left off of the All-Star Game roster, Wheeler struck out 14 batters to tie his career-best perfor...

The new film, ‘The Invite,’ directed by Olivia Wilde, offers a portrait of a marriage in middle age, told over the course of one dinner party that spirals out of control. Screenwriters Rashida Jones and Will McCormack have been mining this territory together for decades, whil...

I use an old Pixel 4 for testing Android. I really like the buttons: only a power button and up/down volume. All the buttons are on one side. Not sure how I would redesign the iPhone buttons, but I don’t think they’re quite right.