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As if "hot, hazy, and humid" wasn't bad enough for the New Yorkers, now you can add smoky to the mix. Continue reading…

A longtime faculty member at Dutchess Community College has died after a plane crash in the Adirondacks over the weekend. Continue reading…

Gidi Littwin's new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as a blood test.

“Cuba’s national power grid collapsed on Tuesday, the energy ministry said, ​marking the third major blackout in nine days on the ‌island of about 10 million people,” Reuters reports.

“Having choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is now signaling it could play its most dangerous card yet: using Yemen’s Houthi allies to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, opening a new front against Washington and putting two of the world’s most vital energy arteries at risk,” Reuters reports. “As […]

“Legislation making daylight saving time permanent will face turbulence in the Senate after sailing through the House,” Semafor reports. “Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)has previously opposed the bill, citing potential harms to schoolchildren commuting in the dark and people working outdoors in the early morning without sunlight. He ‘has the same concerns he’s had for years […]

Nate Cohn: “With Graham Platner officially out of the Maine Senate race after a series of scandals reached a breaking point last week, it’s natural to look for lessons in his campaign’s collapse.” “But as disastrous as his candidacy was for Democrats, the more important lessons may come from his successes. His failings were mostly […]

Diane Ravitch’s Blog - federal judge rules against Trump/DOJ self-dealing;

emptywheel - Trump fired Bondi the day after DOJ agreed to share Epstein Files with New Mexico;

Pharyngula - larval creationist crawls out of corpse of dead creationist;

The Rude Pundit - the white-working-class voter lie;

You Might Notice a Trend - the legacy of a man desperate for relevance.

Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with ‘for MBRU' in the subject line). Steve in Manhattan is on Bluesky.

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They are lying to your face about Mitch McConnell—and they are betting you will not trust your own eyes. In a livestream that ran an hour and a half and never once dragged, Cliff sat down with Kait Justice and Ellie Leonard to take apart the AI-polished story that McConnell...

The Beggars, 1568 #northernrenaissance #bruegel

There's a new sub-menu for all pages on the GitHub repo.

The first two we're linking to are the worknotes files for the client and server.

We've just turned this over to Claude, previously I was taking the notes in my code, and they were spotty. Now Claude can add things to the worknotes files without my supervision. 

Basically everything on the repo site that doesn't say otherwise was written by Claude.