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Heroes like Anthony Fauci make Republicans look like criminals

Heroes like Anthony Fauci make Republicans look like criminals

So they tried to destroy his good name. That's the story.

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BMW opens i3 orders months early as buyers rush in

The new i3 is here sooner than expected. Although it wasn’t expected to go on sale until this fall, BMW has already opened orders in several markets after “high levels” of early interest.

The City Reporter
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A Beginner’s Guide to Birding in New York City

Bird watchers try to get pictures of a Mandarin duck in Central Park

This story is part of Summer & The City, our weekly newsletter made to help you enjoy — and survive — the hottest time in the five boroughs. Sign up here. New York City is home to nearly 500 species of birds, making it a destination for birders all over the world. For that, you can […]

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Weak Trump Lays Foundation For Withdrawing Blanche Nomination

Donald J. Trump unleashed a perfect example in saying, "I am in control" while doing the opposite on Truth Social. Trump opened by canonizing Blanche as a "STAR" and a potential all-time-great AG — for a job Blanche doesn't currently have and, per his very post, isn't getti...

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HBO’s Blocking Order Takes Out Popular Pirate Streaming Domains Including Streamzy.to

Popular pirate streaming sites, including Streamzy and Lordflix, are key targets in a new Indian site-blocking order obtained by HBO and other major studios. The order, which lists over 120 domain names, refines how India deals with new mirror domains that surface after the initial block. The order also demands action from domain registrars and, as a result, several domains, including Streamzy.to, were suspended within a day.

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Meta To Use Newsmax Propaganda As AI News Source

Thanks to the Meta/Newsmax deal your next Facebook, Threads or Insta search may bring you AI “answers” straight from the same Trump propagandist network that recently paid out $67 million for promoting 2020 election lies. That was a year after it reportedly paid out $40 mil...

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Looking for the Catch in Apple Upgrade

theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/apple-lease-upgrade-program/688106/

Damon Beres, writing for The Atlantic under the hed/subhed: “The New iPhone Underclass: Apple’s rental program is a trap”: The Klarna plan — “Apple Upgrade,” which replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program — is truly, legally, a lease. This is confusing! And it’s confusing in ...

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Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town

Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town
Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two decades. The resulting stench might haunt an entire community, as it has th...

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I ♥ RSS

Today, I launched I ♥ RSS, a directory for people who love RSS. I’ve already added the badge to my footer and submitted my site to the directory. It also shows a nice live blogroll on the homepage (powered by FeedLand). If you love RSS as much as I do, take a look and add your own […]

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Trump Decides He’d Rather Have Tax Crimes and Rewards for Terrorists Than a Todd Blanche Confirmation

Trump may have been unable to placate John Cornyn's demands for changes to the Terrorist Slush Fund for sound legal reasons. Or, maybe he just likes terrorists and tax crimes more than he likes Todd Blanche.

The post Trump Decides He’d Rather Have Tax Crimes and Rewards for Terrorists Than a Todd Blanche Confirmation appeared first on emptywheel.

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Washington's Changing Approach to AI Legislation

Following a recent cybersecurity breech by OpenAI, in which two of their in-progress models autonomously hacked into the AI company Hugging Face, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are pushing for an "AI Kill Switch" bill in Congress. Brendan Bordelon, AI and tech influe...

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The Case Against the SHSAT

After Stuyvesant high school admitted only 3 Black students for next year, Errol Louis, political anchor of Spectrum NY1 News, host of Inside City Hall and The Big Deal with Errol Louis, New York Magazine columnist and host of the podcast "You Decide," argues it's time to end the use of a single test for admission to NYC's specialized high schools.

Photo: New York, NY, USA - March 21, 2021: Main entrance to Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan


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Why to Save a Language

Sophia Smith Galer, UK-based journalist and the author of How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words (Crown, 2026), talks about what's lost when a language dies.

Photo: A person leads a finger on the lines in the book, but instead of letters only question marks on the page in the textbook.

 


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Defining "Middle Aged"

Julie Beck, a staff writer at The Atlantic and host of their podcast "'How to Touch Grass", talks about the difficulty of determining when being "middle aged" actually starts.

Photo: Portrait of smiling multi-generation family sitting in living room

 


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Political Wire
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Elon Musk Plans at Least $100 Million in Midterm Spending

“Elon Musk, a year after voicing deep frustration with the Republican Party and threatening to start a third party, appears to be back in the fold and prepared to spend big in the midterms to help GOP candidates,” the New York Times reports. “Mr. Musk, the world’s richest person, has authorized his super PAC to […]

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Trump Considers $100K Fee On Foreign Graduates

“The Trump administration is considering attaching a $100,000 price tag on international students’ ability to work in the U.S. after they graduate from an American university, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that would make it much less attractive for foreigners to study in the U.S,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “If […]

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The Hell Mouth

Volcanologist Laszlo Kestay took this photo of a lava skylight in 1996 while conducting field work at Kīlauea on Hawaiʻi. The hardened lava flows strongly resemble doomed souls being sucked into hell or the damned escaping the underworld.

Tags: geology · hawaii · hell · Laszlo Kestay · photography · volcanoes

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Apple to announce Q3 fiscal results later today

On Thursday afternoon, Apple will announce the results of its third fiscal quarter for 2026. It will presumably be the last appearance of Tim Cook on the post-release earnings calls, which he’s been doing for ages.…

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I ♥ RSS

Today, I launched I ♥ RSS, a directory for people who love RSS. I’ve already added the badge to my footer and submitted my site to the directory. It also shows a nice live blogroll on the homepage (powered by FeedLand). If you love RSS as much as I do, take a look and add your own […]

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