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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the news media over the weekend, following a blistering address at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner by posting an edited image mocking CNN’s Kaitlan Collins — a personal jab later amplified by an official White House social media account,” the Washington Post reports. “Trump’s broadsides against […]
The San Francisco Standard
• Kevin Truong
Gil Duran’s new book traces a through-line from SF school board recalls to Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and JD Vance.
The San Francisco Standard
• Madeline Taub
Chef Danny Im, who grew up in Korea and trained in Japanese cooking, has opened a fusion restaurant called Anju on Valencia Street.
The San Francisco Standard
• Jessica Blough
Permits filed with the city indicate streetwear brand Kith will expand to San Francisco for its first Bay Area location.
The San Francisco Standard
• Kevin V. Nguyen
Building owners who were wiped out financially by the pandemic are being kept on as a front, while investors call the real shots.
Well, this isn’t good. The Trump administration has filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court blocked key parts of its executive order restricting mail-in voting.
Electrek
• Fred Lambert

Tesla is asking a federal judge for emergency access to a supplier’s plant in Troy, Texas, so it can haul out the tooling it needs to keep building the Cybertruck.
The supplier, Angstrom Automotive Group, is closing the plant and won’t let Tesla in. Tesla says that without those dies, several thousand Cybertrucks already committed to customers don’t get built.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• CJ McIntyre
What started as a routine traffic stop on Interstate 84 in the Hudson Valley turned into a major drug bust after deputies discovered more than 50 pounds of marijuana inside an SUV. Continue reading…
Berkeleyside
• Joanne Furio

Angelic Landscape, 1977 #surrealism #dali
Diotalevi Madonna, 1503 #raphael #highrenaissance
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
“Moranis gets lost and found, Mel Brooks stays mint-in-the-box, and Josh Gad IS Ebenezer.”
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• Conover Kennard
Radar
• Eric Freeman
For as long as we’ve taught programming, the student’s code has provided a window into the students’ thinking. Errors, the code structure, the awkward working solution—all of it showed how someone reasoned and where they got stuck. It was never a clean window. Students have always copied, crammed, and borrowed, sometimes turning in work they […]
I wrote a piece summarizing where we are and how we got here.
http://scripting.com/2026/07/28/115945.html
All of you have been essential to this process.
Thanks!
daveverse
• Dave Winer
Yesterday’s Scripting News was one of the most news-full days in a long time, maybe going back to the rollout of RSS 2.0 in Sept 2002. If you look at what’s there, a post about re-opening the Frontier object database format would be considered the top item on any other day, but it’s the last […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“President Donald Trump again put off his threats of a major military escalation with Iran in favor of diplomatic efforts to open the Strait of Hormuz after senior advisers, including the vice president, voiced concerns,” ABC News reports.
A weakening Atlantic current could supercharge California’s atmospheric rivers while leaving Greenland with fewer snow-producing storms. The changes could raise flood risks, strain infrastructure, and reshape water supplies far beyond the Atlantic.