Donald Trump's departure from the political scene will come. The most important question is: then what?
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
A Senate Fiscal Hawk Grabs a Critical Gavel
“Sen. Ron Johnson is jumping directly into a legislative train wreck,” Politico reports. ”The Wisconsin Republican cut his teeth as a fiscal hawk willing to irritate his own party in pursuit of his deficit-shrinking dreams. Now, following Lindsey Graham’s death, Johnson is poised to take over the Senate Budget Committee gavel — and assume an […]
The City Reporter
• FAQ NYC
The Tide Is Out and NY’s Old-Guard Dems Are Beached

Other than the extreme heat, smoky air, flash flooding and deaths from an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, it’s remained a lovely summer in New York City — including for night fishing. FAQ NYC hosts Christina Greer, Katie Honan and Harry Siegel discuss all that and much more, including “shark” Zohran Mamdani’s aggressive early plans for […]
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Ars Technica
• Kyle Orland
RIP bargain bin: The price impact of Sony's disc-free PlayStation plan
Used discs are often cheaper than even deep digital discounts.
Defector
• Israel Daramola
For Better Or Worse, ‘The Odyssey’ Is Peak Christopher Nolan
Techdirt
• Tim Cushing
Attempted Murder Charges Dropped After Bystander Recordings Expose ICE Officer’s Lies
Record law enforcement officers whenever you can. Sure, they’ll hate it, but it helps all the people they seek to do harm to. Last summer, recordings and other evidence undercut a lot of the administration’s attempts to convert First Amendment activity into criminal charges. Prosecutors who dropped cases after watching recordings or talking directly to […]
Federico Viticci blogs in detail about Open Minis. Looks like a really impressive app that combines frontier models with a Linux shell on iOS so it can run like an agent with tools. Sort of like putting a mini OS inside a sandbox, and it can still reach out with local APIs when it needs data.
The following diseases have surged as RFK Jr and Trump have cut public health and pushed vaccine disinformation: —Measles —Flu —Rotavirus —Whooping cough —Ebola —Hantavirus —Cyclosporiasis —E. coli —Campylobacteriosis —Listeria —Cryptosporidiosis —Infant botulism
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Nick Lucchesi
Claude Fable 5 vs. Kimi K3: Same results, one-third the cost, 4x slower

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 in mid-July, selling it as a serious professional coding tool that competes head-on with Claude
The post Claude Fable 5 vs. Kimi K3: Same results, one-third the cost, 4x slower appeared first on The New Stack.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Janakiram MSV
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are converging on the same enterprise agent architecture

Over the past nine months, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have each introduced or renamed an enterprise agent platform. And all
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell
Anthropic employees worked “literally around the clock” to keep Fable 5 from disappearing

After weeks of extending temporary access while bringing additional inference capacity online, Anthropic has finalized Claude Fable 5 subscriptions. In
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Electrek
• Reinette LeJeune
EGO 21-inch electric Select Cut and Touch Drive mower + 2x batteries new $527 low, Jackery power stations up to 50% off, more
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
Ford’s new EV pickup caught at a Tesla Supercharger

Ford’s upcoming midsize electric pickup will start at around $30,000 with a native NACS port to recharge at Tesla Superchargers.
links.daveverse.org
• Dave Winer
nytimes.com/2026/07/20/us/politics/maine-democrats-senate-jackson-platner.html
In Maine Senate Race, Democrats Go From Chaos to Coronation.
i.webthings hub
• joe jenett
twofer.diversions 07-20-26
OpenWeird ⇦ Indieseek.xyz Directory OpenWeird is a random website portal and directory for finding weird websites when you are bored. It collects strange internet toys, pointless pages, funny web experiences, odd browser experiments, and nostalgic corners of the web that feel hard to explain. → WAY TO GO Way to Go is an interactive experience for human beings between 5 and 105 years old. Maybe it lasts six minutes; maybe it lasts forever. 👏
Defector
• Leander Schaerlaeckens
FIFA Got What It Came For
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Zelensky Faces Pressure to Remove Ukraine’s Top General
“Pressure mounted on President Volodymyr Zelensky to dismiss Ukraine’s top commander on Monday, as a growing number of active-duty soldiers and veterans joined the chorus of protesters who have taken to the streets calling for a military overhaul,” the New York Times reports.
Harriet Clark spent 37 years visiting her mom in prison
Harry Enten: Trump is 19 points below water. That is the worst-ever net approval rating Donald Trump has ever had. Let's just say that Trump is underwater—I'll use one of my favorite phrases—like the Little Mermaid.
La Femme au Cheval, 1912 #analyticalcubism #metzinger