So they tried to destroy his good name. That's the story.
The Editorial Board
• John Stoehr
Heroes like Anthony Fauci make Republicans look like criminals
The Editorial Board
• John Stoehr
So they tried to destroy his good name. That's the story.
Electrek
• Peter Johnson

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
• Kaitlyn Schwanemann

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 […]
The post A Beginner’s Guide to Birding in New York City appeared first on The City Reporter.
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• Conover Kennard
TorrentFreak
• Ernesto Van der Sar
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.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• NewsHound Ellen
theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/apple-lease-upgrade-program/688106/
Defector
• Giri Nathan
Andrew Shell's Weblog
• Andrew Shell
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 […]
emptywheel
• emptywheel
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.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
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
• Taegan Goddard
“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 […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
“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 […]

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
Six Colors
• Jason Snell
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.…
Andrew Shell's Weblog
• Andrew Shell
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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