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The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Flags Across America Are Being Lowered This Week to Honor Legend

Flags across the country have been ordered to half-staff all week to honor a true American icon. Continue reading…

Ars Technica
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IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs

IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs

The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment.

Ars Technica
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Xtracycle's Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes

Xtracycle's Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes

A steel frame cargo bike with a unique twist: You can let it choose your gear.

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
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Trump WH Bungles Map Of America While Trying To Troll Canada

Now that President “Deal Maker” has spectacularly failed to make what should have been an easy trade agreement with Canada, he is trying desperately to prove he still has some bullyboy mojo: by threatening to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America. But I’ll bet that Canada is ...

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
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FAFO: Two Unvaccinated Dead In PA From Measles

Alex Berenson continues to be the Wrongest Man...this time it is the measles. On June 11th he posted on Twitter: "Fun fact: NOT ONE PERSON IN THE US HAS DIED OF MEASLES IN 2026. Not one." WELP, guess what, ALEX? Two people have died. From MEASLES. In Lancaster County, Penns...

Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
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Mike's Blog Round Up

You Might Notice a Trend: Can't trust the food under trump and RFK Jr.

Crooked Timber: AI and the reshuffling of labor.

God's Spies: Lawrence Wilkerson, "Watching my country essentially commit suicide."

Just an Earth-Bound Misfit, I: Climate crisis.

The Conversation: How to Sell a Genocide removed from an Australian library.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

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Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
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It's August 2001 Again, And We're Watching Sharks

Julie Roginsky came on Tequila Talk with a story almost nobody in U.S. media would touch: for most of the week, NATO's been massing serious force near Kaliningrad, and no one will explain why. CIA Director Ratcliffe has suddenly flown to Moscow for an emergency meeting. What's going on? We may be the closest to a hot war with Russia we've been in a long time.

NATO just flew a U.S.-led air exercise on Russia's doorstep—AWACS, electronic warfare, dozens of aircraft over Poland and the Baltic—as Russian drones cross NATO lines and a frigate with hypersonic missiles prowls the Baltic Sea. Cliff and Joe Walsh pour one out and ask a question most are avoiding: what happens if testing stops being a test?

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PRINT Magazine
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The Daily Heller: The Legacy of Brad Holland, American Illustrator

Honoring one of the most copied and heralded editorial illustrators.

The post The Daily Heller: The Legacy of Brad Holland, American Illustrator appeared first on PRINT Magazine.

Political Wire
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Trump Now Underwater On Every Major Issue

G. Elliot Morris: “In our new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll, fielded Aug. 14–19, President Donald Trump’s net approval on border security — his best issue in this tracker for most of the past year and a half — fell to −5, the worst mark we’ve recorded on it and now squarely net-negative. Every one of […]

Political Wire
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Fired General Was Advised to Drop Kid Rock Investigation

“Days before the Army’s top officer was abruptly fired earlier this year, he was advised by a fellow general now vying to replace him to stop the military’s investigation into an unauthorized helicopter flyby of musician Kid Rock’s Tennessee estate,” the Washington Post reports. “Gen. Randy George, whom Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed as the […]

Longreads
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Dolphins and Other Lovers

"The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous."

EV Grieve
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For Ngon Vietnamese Kitchen, a family story comes to the East Village

Photos and interview by Stacie Joy  Ngon Vietnamese Kitchen recently debuted at 85 Second Ave. at Fifth Street, bringing owner Carol Nguyen's Dallas restaurant to the East Village — though opening a second location wasn't initially part of the plan. Nguyen's daughte...

EV Grieve
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Signs of the Bike Boulevard on Avenue B

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy A little more progress to note along the Avenue B Open Street corridor.  Yesterday, DOT crews installed new signage along Avenue B as part of the permanent redesign underway this summer.  Among the additions are signs designatin...

EV Grieve
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Mimi Cheng's wraps up 12 years in the East Village next month

Mimi Cheng's is closing its East Village quick-serve restaurant after 12 years.

Owners and sisters Marian and Hannah Cheng announced that Sept. 11 will be the last day at 179 Second Ave. between 11th and 12th streets, as the lease ends. 

"This 12-year story was built by you, and we're endlessly grateful," they wrote on Instagram. 

The closure doesn't mean the end of Mimi Cheng's. The sisters said they are shifting their focus to growing the company's frozen dumpling business, which is now sold in stores nationwide. 

"The dumplings aren't going anywhere," they wrote. "They're just getting a bigger home." 

The sisters opened the East Village location in July 2014 ... naming the business after their mother, Shirley, whose nickname was Mimi.

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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Is Your Hudson Valley Gas Station Breaking New York Law?

You may be surprised to learn that several Hudson Valley gas stations are currently breaking the law. Continue reading…

Whatever
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Proof Of Gift Closet Progress

There are a lot, and I mean a lot, of things that I say I would like to do and then I never do them. After I posted about my intentions on making a gift closet, I knew if I shared some of my progress, it would help hold me to my intentional choices! The first […]

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My "Artists of Mastodon" collection is finally ready to be shared. Please peruse if you want to fill your home feed with art.

https://mastodon.social/collections/116777306758391615

Paul Krugman
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Der Untergang

How badly will Trump punish America?

Political Wire
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Lawyers Gear Up as Trump Threatens Election Officials

“The Trump administration in recent weeks has warned states that it would withhold federal funding and even arrest and prosecute election officials if noncitizens cast ballots in federal elections,” the Washington Post reports. “Now, with high-stakes midterm elections only months away, private voting rights attorneys and some attorneys general in Democratic states are gearing up […]

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