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Mykhailo Drapatyi: What to Know About Ukraine’s New Top General (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Analysis | All the problems with Trump’s Qatari jet (wapo.st)
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Donny Meacham
Why Did Jelly Roll + Bunnie Xo Ignore Their Lawyers' Advice?
Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo's divorce agreement reveals they declined their attorneys' recommendation to seek specialized legal advice. Continue reading…
I Built a Canva-Like Page Builder for WordPress with Fable
Over the weekend, Fable and I built a working MVP of a new WordPress page builder called Gogh. The idea is simple: make building WordPress pages feel as easy as Canva. Instead of wrestling with rows, columns, and nested blocks, you edit directly on the live page. Elements can be dragged, resized, rotated, reordered, and […]
Departure of Lord Vallance as science minister greeted with concern (thetimes.com)
(S+) EU-Methanverordnung: Reiche ignoriert Ansage von Umweltminister Schneider (spiegel.de)
Vanderbilt University buys California College of the Arts campus in San Francisco for major expansion (sfchronicle.com)
Action on R&D tax credits fraud makes businesses ‘slash research’ (thetimes.com)
To Win Their Races, Black Politicians Confront a New Landscape (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Opinion | Russia Will Not Yield (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
July 21, 2026
The front page of yesterday’s New York Times featured some of the 440,000 Americans from Arizona alone who have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits since the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act made the deepest cuts to SNAP in its history, expanded work rules, and shifted costs to the states even as cuts to federal grant programs have forced Arizona to lay off a third of its caseworkers.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Four Soldiers Were Killed Shielding Bases From Iran
“The four U.S. soldiers killed in recent days during renewed hostilities with Iran were all assigned to air defense units, assuming the risk of staying on vulnerable bases to protect others from incoming ballistic missile and drone attacks,” the Washington Post reports. “Unlike the past two decades of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, where soldiers […]
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump ‘Mega Master’ Hearings Accelerate
thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/21/deportation-removal-immigration-orders-mega-master-trump/
A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hastily scheduled hearings more than doubled in New York City in June.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Girls Can Tell by Spoon is a Perfect Album
medium.com/@Elana_Levin/girls-can-tell-by-spoon-is-a-perfect-album-d3a256fb4f81
My close read of a perfect album by a band that gets the balance of retro and modern just right.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
MS NOW Ratings Skyrocket as Fox News Hits Double Trouble
tvinsider.com/1276729/fox-news-ratings-ms-now-cnn-july-2026/
Plus, the latest numbers for CNN.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
‘This is AI out of control’: Claude disobeyed Anthropic CEO in simulations
thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-07-20/anthropic-ai-disobeyed-company-ceo-in-simulations
In testing, Claude went against boss’s orders and helped an employee blow the whistle about a safety concern
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
variety.com/2026/film/news/pixar-layoffs-disney-studios-several-hundred-employees-1236817241/
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Andrew Tate charged with possessing child abuse images
Social media influencer and brother appear in Miami federal court, where lawyers say they will fight extradition to the UK