The Trump administration is allowing commercial fishing in 3 protected marine national monuments, jeopardizing the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.
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Open Culture
• Colin Marshall
The History of Glam Rock and How It Put an End to the Hippie Era
Cast your mind back to the distant year 2021 and recall, if you will, its music, its fashions, the obsessions of its youth. This probably won’t be a difficult task, since in most respects — the dampening effects of the pandemic notwithstanding — none of those aspects of popular culture seem any different today. Yet […]
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Fly larvae found in detainee’s water sample from Adelanto ICE facility as contamination claims grow (dailynews.com)
Trump must halt ballroom construction, appeals court says (wapo.st)
Bill Cassidy Will Back Todd Blanche as Attorney General, Salvaging His Confirmation (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
After Trump’s order, West Point curbed faculty speech. One professor said no. (wapo.st)
Inside DOJ’s Trump Banner and ‘Beautification’ Project (bloomberg.com)
Appeals Court Upholds Block on Trump Ballroom Construction (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Jobs Report Poses New Test for Warsh and the Fed (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Prosecutor Sues Justice Dept. Over Dismissal After Right-Wing Influencer’s Claim (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
The Risks of a Chatbot Childhood (theatlantic.com)
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Iranians Say Trump’s Promises Never Came True
“In the weeks leading up to the U.S. war with Iran, President Trump cheered on the Iranian protesters rising up against their government, telling them that they should ‘save the names of the killers and abusers’ and that he would come to their aid,” the New York Times reports. He promised: “HELP IS ON ITS […]
Electrek
• Jameson Dow
Details of new Smart car leaked in regulatory filing… but you can’t have it
A regulatory filing with the Chinese government has revealed specs of Smart #2, the upcoming successor to the Smart ForTwo. A full reveal is expected in October, with the car later coming to global markets… except the US.
Flock planned to use dashcams in hundreds of thousands of Ubers and Lyfts to add to their surveillance network of 122,000 cameras.
Defector
• Ray Ratto
Mike Krukow, One Of Baseball’s Greatest Hangs, Is Ready To Go
The San Francisco Giants don't get to announce anything fun these days, but it would be too cheap even by the prevailing clearance-sale standards to lump the latest bit of ill news relating to the team in with all the others, so we won't. Mike Krukow, the former Gi...
Defector
• MH Rowe
CarJitsu Is Precisely As Dumb As It Sounds
I discovered CarJitsu this past April at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where a bout was broadcast on a wall-mounted television above a display of Doritos. There is, truthfully, not much to explain about this newfangled sport. CarJitsu is an athletic contest...
Defector
• Tom Ley
Chelsea Gray Punished Caitlin Clark’s Mistakes
It is a funny twist of fate that the Indiana Fever have become such an engine for maddening WNBA storylines that have little or nothing to do with their actual on-court performances, because those performances are crazy-making enough on their own. Are the Fever a great team ...
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
D.C. Wins Fight Against Trump Over Voter Rolls
“A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice seeking a full, unredacted copy of D.C.’s voter registration data, marking another defeat for the Trump administration in its aggressive attempts to scour states’ voter rolls over claims of fraud and undocumented immigrants casting ballots,” NOTUS reports.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Supreme Court Will Likely Decide Fate of Trump’s Ballroom
“President Trump cannot continue building the ballroom he planned as a replacement to the East Wing of the White House without explicit approval from Congress, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday,” the New York Times reports. “The ruling, by judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, dealt […]