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Plus remembering Sue Zelickson, Trump's disdain for U visas, and Hennepin County libraries propose hour cuts in today's Flyover news roundup.

For years now I have been aghast at the terribly impolite behavior of some bots who spider my site. It is extremely common to see many successive requests to the...

The Barb is trimming festivalgoers’ hair all weekend. A few performers already have appointments, too.

Hans Holbein the Younger, Lev. VIII, 16th century #hansholbeintheyounger

“Two scandal-scarred former congressmen from other states. A pair of candidates who once competed against each other in Illinois. An adviser to an Indiana lawmaker and an ex-underwear model imprisoned for his role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol,” CNN reports. “They are among the Republicans who have descended on Southwest Florida […]

“The U.S. Army is expanding access to its test ranges and proving grounds in an effort to get new munitions, drones, and other types of weapons to the battlefield more quickly,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Florida police are quietly using Meta smart glasses.

At Idaho State Correctional Institution, the recreation department was once the center of life. Then came its fall. https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/08/04/why-is-recreation-important-in-prison/

This is all he does now, run to the Supreme Court whenever he doesn’t get his way. It feels like every day there’s another “emergency” request. Now the Trump administration says it will appeal the federal court ruling blocking construction of the White House ballroom project to the US Supreme Court.

It feels like the AT Proto tooling has gotten much more mature in the last year. I was able to create a new PDS account on my own server, sign in from Bluesky, and it “just works”. 🪄

Planning a major expansion to how AT Proto works in Micro.blog. Just as every account gets a fediverse handle by default, I’d like to host a PDS for new users. People could keep it or bring their Bluesky-hosted account instead (which is how it already works).

For years, John Deere had actively made repairing their tractors near-impossible for anyone but itself and the few “authorized” repair shops—regardless of the ability of its customers to actually visit such shops. Now, in a major win for farmers and right to repair advocates, John Deere must soon provide farmers with not just the tools […]

“The Trump administration has been looking for a current or former Cuban official who could be persuaded to take over the government in Havana as the United States ratchets up its pressure campaign, according to current and former U.S. officials,” the New York Times reports. “The plan is more regime alteration than regime change.” “The […]

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The Senate is the real uphill battle in the 2026 Pie Fight. Every senate race matters, and frankly Texas keeps breaking our hearts.

I think James Talarico might be one of those once-in-a-generation talents. This is a Master Class in positioning and framing, and he does it with Texas charm:

“The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall” positions economics in perfect context for the generation that grew up on the internet.

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