"Kennedy’s health department added several new members to a panel that will review some peptides next month. At least seven of the members have ties to peptide-related businesses and clinics..." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Fireworks, fights and cops on horses: 400 arrested during at Newport Beach Fourth of July

UK uncovers 'truly international' network of men drugging and assaulting women

there are texts everywhere for those with eyes to see

A Trump executive order pushes involuntary treatment for homeless people; the VA denies that would include homeless vets.

Google cofounder Sergey Brin has poured $82 million into an effort to undercut California's proposed billionaire tax. He isn't alone in the fight. https://bit.ly/4awnmHO

A security researcher using Claude Opus 4.7 found the AI tool could independently code an exploit to hack into Front Gate Tickets, the ticketing platform for almost every major US music festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo. He could then issue any tickets at will. www.wired.com/story/claude...

NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services

The United Nations human rights chief is sounding a "red alert" about possible atrocity crimes in and near a strategic city in central Sudan.

Taiwan military resumes 'anti-communist' classes for graduates, citing Chinese threat reut.rs/4vH8Oxj

Archaeologists uncover ancient Byzantine city in Egypt’s western desert

Midsize companies that employ millions of workers are now shedding jobs and relocating overseas to cut costs. on.wsj.com/4gfxB6W

Ben Gvir drops New York trip as calls for arrest grow - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ben-gvir-drops-new-york-trip-calls-arrest-grow

The Justice Department on Saturday argued that an offer from India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, to invest $10 billion in the U.S. played no role in the department’s decision to drop criminal charges against him. nyti.ms/4eWdpof

US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra welcomed Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich to his July 4 party in Ottawa tonight Lich is currently serving a house arrest sentence in relation to a criminal conviction over her role in the convoy's three-week occupation of Canada's capital city

Trump also pardoned Adam Kidan, who had served about 2 1/2 years in prison for his role in a fraud scheme involving the disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Kidan has been a major GOP donor, including giving $270k+ to Trump in 2024. 🎁🔗

President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned Adam Kidan, a onetime business partner of disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and Jack Harvard, a former mayor in Texas.

The Trump administration is planning for an increase in worksite immigration enforcement operations, with multiple federal agencies involved in determining how to boost the number of arrests and placate the president’s base, according to sources familiar with the discussions. https://cnn.it/3SFXTWe

"What killed Americans in 1776? The answer is dramatically different from today" health.yahoo.com/conditions/c... "The leading causes of death have changed dramatically since America's founding 250 years ago, highlighting how far medicine has come."

"The Founders did not stumble into a diverse, immigrant-heavy society by accident—they lived through it, debated it, and ultimately enshrined it in a Constitution that barred religious tests for office and left the door open to immigrants of every nation and faith" www.cato.org/blog/founder...

U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned 11 people on Friday, a White House official said, all but two of whom had been convicted of violating the Clean Air Act by modifying or disabling emissions controls on trucks.

A commercial pilot awoke in the middle of the night last August to a swarm of bats in his Denver hotel room, a lawsuit claims. He was treated for possible rabies exposure after one bit him on the foot. nyti.ms/4y3rSYm

Ahhhhh! “A commercial pilot from California awoke in the middle of the night last August to a swarm of bats in his Denver hotel room, one of which bit him on the foot, leading to expensive rabies treatment, according to a lawsuit filed last month in Colorado state court.”

Newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises will see strikingly similar front pages this weekend, according to an email sent to the company’s properties, telling them all to run a positive three-story package on their new billionaire chairman David Hoffmann. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Newspapers such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Buffalo News and the Omaha World-Herald ordered by corporate HQ to run front-page profiles of the company’s billionaire chairman. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

".. The Silicon Data LLM Token Expenditure Index, which tracks what users pay for AI tokens, is down almost 20% from the high in May .. the cleanest read anyone has on the $700 billion-plus capex boom .." @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s financial disclosure lists $1.4 billion in crypto earnings, powered largely by meme coins www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Somalia peacekeeping mission at risk as US blocks UN support, sources say reut.rs/4gjaYyy

"Jones Act opponents are using examples like that to lobby Congress to repeal the law, warning that the supply routes that have emerged over the past three months will disappear the moment the suspension ends. They are running up against lawmakers aligned with shipbuilding interests..." Yep.

Drivers known as “slammers” hunt for 18-wheelers, then accelerate into them. The risks are vast, but so are the rewards. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Drivers known as “slammers” hunt for 18-wheelers, then accelerate into them. The risks are vast, but so are the rewards. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Drivers known as “slammers” hunt for 18-wheelers, then accelerate into them. The risks are vast, but so are the rewards. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Wicklow hotel cancels ‘secretive’ Peter Thiel conference

NEW: Americans are pessimistic about the future. But which actors do they think are having the worst impact on the economy/society? Voters find the most harmful actors to be: 1) Billionaires 2) Corporate landlords 3) Sports gambling 4) Artificial intelligence 5) Cryptocurrency

After meeting with President Trump, Robert Smullen dropped his third-party campaign to replace Representative Elise Stefanik. nyti.ms/4oZydzQ

32% of Democrats like political leaders who identify as democratic socialists. 56% of Democrats say they neither like nor dislike democratic socialists, who have won a number of recent Democratic primaries in D.C., New York and Colorado. #DemocraticSocialism #USPolitics #USDemocrats

White Democrats, those under 50, those with college degrees and those who say they follow what’s happening in the government are more likely to like political leaders who identify as democratic socialists. Do you like political leaders who identify as democratic socialists?

The U.S. Constitution is one of the most difficult constitutions to amend, requiring ratification at both the state and national level. Only one democracy’s constitution is harder to change, and just three others are nearly as hard. 📜 #USDemocracy

Learn more about how U.S. democracy stands out:

The US, Australia & Switzerland have almost identical formal rules for constitutional amendments. Yet the effects of these rules are fundamentally different. SUI is the only one with a highly rigid const that STILL changes frequently. My paper if you‘re interested: academic.oup.com/publius/arti...

> @wsj.com #$AMZN www.wsj.com/business/jef...

"Why the Great American State Fair Looks So Empty" www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Security theater: ✅ Tonedeaf partisanship: ✅ Cronyism: ✅ Food, comfort, & actual people: ❌❌❌ Ridiculousness from top to bottom.

A Papua separatist group said Thursday it has shot dead an American pilot who brought Indonesian troops into a "conflict zone."

Exclusive: Trump-tied Freedom 250 sent ticket seekers to GOP fundraising site www.usatoday.com/story/news/u...

Anthropic moves to close loopholes that allow Chinese access to Claude ft.trib.al/B7JhGGr

New poll on flags Net rating among Democrats | Republicans of the following flags American +62 | +97 Gadsden −28 | +43 Thin Blue Line −24 | +46 Black Lives Matter +69 | −55 Israeli −8 | +45 Gay pride +48 | −61 Palestinian +15 | −39 Confederate −64 | +14 d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Fl...

This Uyghur scholar says that as the Chinese government tries to destroy Uyghur culture in their homeland, the Uyghur people have to shift to a diasporic model of keeping culture alive - and cites Jewish history as a model for how to do this.

there appears to have been a pretty wild breach of @theintercept.com's tipline on signal if it's true that they've known about it and covered it up, that's a horrendous breach of trust, idk how you fix that

New: Mayor Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were in closer touch than previously known before they issued their weighty endorsements in NYC's June primaries. One source described their talks as a "coordinated" strategy (that very much paid off). www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

“.. Tehran isn’t taking the bait. Its military leaders are responding with a fresh round of threats against ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...