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Europe Is Burning

This summer, wildfires have been raging across Europe. France and Spain have been hit particularly badly, with hundreds of thousands of acres incinerated and entire communities devastated. Chico Harlan, the global climate correspondent for The New York Times, and Mark Landle...

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Simone Forti, Movement Artist Inspired by the Everyday, Dies at 91 (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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How to Make Any Diesel Freight Truck Electric? Use This Plug-In Device (bloomberg.com)

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Political Wire
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Trump Encounters a More Determined Iran in Widened War

New York Times: “The Iranian and U.S. moves come as the war has widened quickly, with Saudi Arabia joining U.S. forces in striking Iranian proxies in Iraq, an American tanker in Egypt set ablaze from an apparent drone strike and tensions rising between Ukraine and Iran.” ”The war, which Mr. Trump has been trying to […]

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Secretive Terrorist Removal Court Set for First Hearing

“The Trump administration is testing a secretive, never-before-used deportation court for alleged alien terrorists with a case concerning the Afghan mother of a convicted terrorist, with the Justice Department accusing the Texas-based woman of having ISIS sympathies,” CNN reports. “The Alien Terrorist Removal Court will have its first ever hearing Thursday at 11 a.m.ET, court […]

Political Wire
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How Thune Is Trying to Manage Trump’s Summer Squeeze

“John Thune is eager to let GOP senators out of the Capitol and onto the campaign trail as Republicans fight to hold the Senate majority in November. First, he has to get through the next eight days,” Politico reports. ”The majority leader is hoping to fund the government, confirm dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees […]

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Organizations that need you

“How few people can we get away with?” That’s a question many bosses think hard about. Automate. Streamline. Improve productivity and take humans out of as many tasks as possible. It’s a time-tested way to create profits and to increase a certain kind of reliability. Claude Code is popular with many organizations for precisely this […]

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
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Trump Humiliated by Iran, Comey Flops as Aides Leak: He’s “Frustrated”

Donald Trump is suddenly bumping up against limits in many areas at once. Top aides just leaked to The Atlantic that he’s “frustrated” with his inability to force Iran’s hand with his increasingly deranged threats. In the case of Trump’s bogus efforts to ...

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Three of Summer’s Best Thrillers.

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Why middle-aged men like us have swapped the pub for the spa (thetimes.com)

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European Wildfires Amplified by Emptying Countryside and Fewer Farms (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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‘The Odyssey’ Isn’t a Fashion Movie. But It Has One Great Outfit. (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Matthias Jaissle is set to be Newcastle’s new coach: Meet the Rangnick disciple working in Saudi Arabia (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Eddie Howe turned Newcastle’s dreams into reality. In the end, he had nothing left to give (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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A Once Outlawed Māori Art Form Is Alive and in the Flesh (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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地震の夜に政治資金パーティー 自民党の福岡県議団「想像できず」:朝日新聞 (digital.asahi.com)

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Hunting down the 1966 World Cup medals: Those sold, those kept — and the inheritance tax ‘disgrace’ (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots

A German startup sent a camera-wearing chef to my apartment. In exchange for a free lunch, I let them record every chop and stir to train future humanoids.

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