Defector
• Abigail Segel
Spain Reminds The USWNT Where They Stand
Defector
• Abigail Segel
TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Emine Yücel
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Ranking Member Alex Padilla (D-CA) announced Senate...
ICE is planning a $100 million domestic spy program. The US is pumping up our unaccountable masked secret police force loyal to Donald Trump personally. This is fine.
Someday all the pieces will be interchangeable. Then there won't be different brands of social networks, just different brands of the software. All parts replaceable. It won't have all the chaos of the web. And that will be a good thing.
EV Grieve
• Unknown
Ars Technica
• Jennifer Ouellette
"Have you ever seen a world born?"
Ars Technica
• John Timmer
AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years.
Ars Technica
• Ashley Belanger
OpenAI engineer faces 5 years and $250K fine as FBI lobs foreign spy charges.
Ars Technica
• Kyle Orland
Tributes pour in for the man behind iconic Duke Nukem 3D levels and much more.
News – The White House
• The White House
Today, President Donald J. Trump returns to the Grand Canyon State for a visit to Bullhead City. He arrives with a clear record of America First results that put Arizona workers, families, seniors, and communities first — delivering tax relief, unleashing major private investment, ending the Biden-era border crisis, driving down violent crime, and securing […]
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daveverse
• Dave Winer
Thread: “Imagine rock and roll without the Beatles.”
daveverse
• Dave Winer
Someday all the pieces will be interchangeable. Then there won’t be different brands of social networks, just different brands of the software. All parts replaceable. It won’t have all the chaos of the web. And that will be a good thing.
daveverse
• Dave Winer
Occam’s News reports that Trump et al are selling out the US. Putin can get the US to do what he wants by giving Trump money. Total win-win. And the US is flushed down the toilet. That’s all that’s going on there. All of the journalistic feigned bafflement is make-believe. It’s totally obvious what’s going […]
Whatever
• John Scalzi
There’s much to discuss with Pressure Magic, but what’s really the big sell (at least up front) is a very large magical animal. It’s not just me who thinks so: author William C. Tracy is super-excited to tell you all about it too! WILLIAM C. TRACY: This is a story about a giant sea otter. […]
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Errol Louis, political anchor of Spectrum NY1 News, host of Inside City Hall and The Big Deal with Errol Louis, New York Magazine columnist and host of the podcast You Decide, offers analysis of the issues in New York's governor's race, and in the debate that he moderated.
Photo: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul debates in the race for governor at the studios of WNBC4-TV June 16, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Ruttle-Pool/Getty Images)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, former State Department official and the author of The End of History and the Last Man (Free Press, 1992) and his latest, In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026), tells his story and how it intersected with events and his political beliefs.
Photo: Francis Fukuyama, author and political scientist, poses for a portrait during an interview at the Javeriana University of Colombia. (Photo by Ovidio Gonzalez/Getty Images)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
After ICE shot and arrested a 28-year-old man in Marble Hill last week, some DSA members are accusing the NYPD of collaborating with ICE and calling on Mayor Mamdani to fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Ben Feuerherd, Gothamist/WNYC reporter covering public safety and policing, unpacks Mamdani's relationship with Tisch and digs into the Mayor's evolving approach to public safety more broadly.
Photo: Federal agents walk near the scene where a man was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer during an operation in the Bronx borough of New York. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images)
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Inspired by a Washington Post piece on grandmothers picking names like “Gigi,” “Mimi” and “Glam-Ma” instead of “Grandma,” listeners call in to share what their grandkids call them and how they landed on the name.
Photo: Grandmother and grandaughter sharing quality time together. (Photo by John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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