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A Penn State cocaine investigation has a surprising New York connection, and prosecutors say the alleged operation reached well beyond campus. How deep did it go? Continue reading…

Plans are in motion to relocate 93 residents as a local care center shuts its doors. Continue reading…

“North Korea says a U.S. decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea doesn’t change anything,” the Associated Press reports. “The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made the comments Wednesday night in her country’s first reaction to President Donald Trump’s moves to drastically cut back the annual U.S.-South Korean military […]

Angie Nixon’s upset victory in Florida’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary surprised almost everyone. Almost everyone except, apparently, Angie Nixon. Join now to continue reading. Members get exclusive analysis, bonus features and no advertising. Learn more. If you’re already a member, sign in to your account.

Micro.blog book pages are looking pretty good.

Seems like we might be settling in for a 5% Apple tax across the board, globally, based on the US court and EU compromise. I don’t love it. Linking to external payments should give Apple 0% and nothing more.

Related, I saw this scare sheet yesterday while managing my account in Disney+.

Host: In Trump's home state of Florida, Republican voters rejected 2 of his candidates for the House. His pick for Wyoming governor lost as well

Darline Graham: I'm just gonna be honest here. I'm not that informed on national security

She opposes abortion, is wary of peptides, supports limiting vaccines, vexes MAHA.

Roge Karma: “The driverless future is here—but, to borrow from William Gibson, it’s not evenly distributed. Waymo’s self-driving robotaxis are available in cities in California, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. Aside from California, where the technology originated, those are all red or purple states. In every other blue state, meanwhile, driverless taxis are still […]

Jeremy Lent describes the consequences of a society stretched to its limits and what can replace it. Also: “Reckonings” by Thomas Farber, and a posthumous memoir of LSD and erotic encounters at Esalen by Cal professor Clare Cooper Marcus.

Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted the Florida Senate race to “safely Republican” following an unexpected Tuesday win for a democratic socialist in the primary.

For most women who play baseball in the United States, playing America's pastime in a professional league has been little more than a dream. Yet for a select group of women, that dream is becoming a reality. 

The Women's Pro Baseball League began its inaugural season on Aug. 1, with the four-team league playing all of its games in Springfield, Ill., where dozens of the 120 women who were selected in the league's draft play pro ball. It is the most anticipated women's pro baseball league since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League disbanded in 1954. 

But for many players who were selected in the draft, which took place in November, the dream of getting paid to play baseball in the United States remains deferred.

Tuileries Garden #postimpressionism #edouardcortes

The audience relying on broadcast TV news media may have not a clue who Natalie is. Relying on the front pages of the US' major newspapers isn't much better.

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The thing about being a gatekeeper to the most powerful man in the world is no one would know what information you were channeling to whom.

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Alaska’s Senate race suddenly looks a lot more interesting. With roughly 80% of the ballots counted, Mary Peltola (D) was running more than five points — and nearly 8,000 votes — ahead of Sen. Dan Sullivan (R). Join now to continue reading. Members get exclusive analysis, bonus features and no advertising. Learn more. If you’re […]

Mark Liebovich: “Here it is, August on Martha’s Vineyard, and Alan Dershowitz has barely been heard from.” “Well, that’s not exactly true. He has been heard from on many topics—because Dershowitz is who he is, and pretty much anyone can join Substack, and TV bookers can be hard to resist. Still, he has said little […]

John Harris: “It is an argument without end in part because the positive and negative elements of Clinton’s character, the light and the shadows, seemingly flow from the same source: an intense need to win, to matter, to seduce, to prove himself in the world…” “He’s been out of political office for more than a […]

Multimillionaire Fox News frat boy Jesse Watters sh*t on the health and safety of the working class by claiming he refuses to pay for those big babies who run to the doctor for bumps and bruises, refuse to work, and should use the internet to self-diagnose themselves, as he...