A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Maya Wiley | American Conversations
Speaking of RSS, Marc Weidenbaum is using FeedLand and GitHub to curate an OPML file of electronic music feeds: https://disquiet.com/2026/07/31/electronic-music-rss-starter-kit/
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• John Amato
Friday Night Funnies: Scrubs
I didn't watch Scrubs when it initially ran, but when I finally checked it out on Hulu, it grabbed me.
It's hysterical.
Bill Lawrence is an amazing showrunner who went on to create another one of my favorites, Cougar Town, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and many others.
The Scrubs revival wasn't too bad either.
Open thread.
emptywheel
• Ed Walker
SCOTUS Majority Says Racism Is All Gone
The SCOTUS majority stripped Congress of its power to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments. That's a crime against democracy.
The post SCOTUS Majority Says Racism Is All Gone appeared first on emptywheel.
Why Mitch McConnell Isn’t Giving Up His Senate Seat (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Todd Blanche’s Loyalty to Trump Is Putting His Attorney General Confirmation at Risk (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Astros move struggling starter Tatsuya Imai to the bullpen (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
(S+) The New Axis of Evil: DER SPIEGEL Investigation Reveals Deep Military Cooperation between Russia and China (spiegel.de)
Trump’s Saudi Nuclear Deal Is Diplomatic Malpractice (foreignpolicy.com)
You Didn’t Fall in Love. You Filled in the Blanks
thewayitfelt.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/you-didnt-fall-in-love-you-filled-in-the-blanks/
Okay so, weird theory incoming. I don’t think we fall in love with people. I think we fall in love with the idea of them that we build in our own heads. I know how that sounds. A little cold, maybe even a little insulting. I thought so too when this first occurred to me. […]
Electrek
• Micah Toll
Lectric eBikes hits $1 billion in sales, surpasses 750,000 e-bikes
The largest electric bicycle company in the US, Lectric eBikes, has just hit a pair of dizzying milestones. The much-vaunted e-bike maker just hit its 1-billionth dollar in sales on its e-commerce platform and sold its 750,000th electric bicycle. And perhaps even more stunning, it landed those two feats on the same day.
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1963 #naveart #marcchagall
WIRED
• Nathaniel Janowitz
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon—and It Could Be Visible From Earth
The impact will kick up a plume of debris so high, it’ll likely be visible through some telescopes. Astronomers will be watching.
Claude, we need to fix the default markdown style sheet for pagepark.
https://news.rss.chat/blogroll/readme.md
This can be quickly fixed with one of the public domain style sheets.
Warsh Floats Fewer Fed Meetings (wsj.com)
See what it’s like to use a North Korean smartphone under Kim Jong Un (wapo.st)
Mom says 4-year-old son shot himself in frantic call to 911 | Listen (sun-sentinel.com)
「政治的中立」が主権者教育にもたらすもの さらなる「萎縮」懸念も：朝日新聞 (digital.asahi.com)
digital.asahi.com/articles/ASV7R2PQ6V7RUTIL026M.html?ptoken=01KYX74SWYYBR9VWG19N0QFN17