just incredible to have a literal trillion dollars and spend your weekend crashing out because a movie you don't like was a hit

oh so it’s a scary thunder day in New York. noted.

The entire region is *extremely* dependent on desalinated sea water to survive. The situation could turn apocalyptic very quickly if a water war breaks out: “The most significant damage from Iranian strikes on Saturday occurred in Kuwait, where a water desalination plant & an oil facility were hit”

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

Flock has been in an absolute meat grinder of a PR crisis lately, but this is still surprising to see in 2026 www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Hard to read what it means for Trump and his election fraud gambit with regard to Fox News almost completely ignoring it. There are ingredients of a classic shark jumping in here: two of the major networks declining to air the speech live, lack of buzz from influencers etc.

way too early to call this a thing or not, but vibe shift from "insurgent outsider" to "adult in the room" would have some genuinely interesting '28 primary implications on both sides

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin just claimed stats we don't hear often. The US government forcefully deported 442,637 people in 2025. The number stands at 403,294 in 2026 so far.

Let this be your sign to subscribe to Wired right now. It's so good

CBS too. Tony Dokoupil signed off CBS Evening News tonight saying, "For all of us here at CBS News, thank you so much for watching, and President Trump's prime time speech will stream on CBS News 24/7, 9 p.m. eastern"

ABC also declines to air it live on the network. It’ll air Trump’s speech on ABC News Live and ABC News Radio and says it’s Special Report team is “fully prepared to break into network programming to deliver live updates and reporting should significant developments occur.”

An absolute travesty that we've already reached peak merch in the AI era, and the merch ain't even that good

Just when you think you’ve seen it all abcnews.com/US/white-hou...

It seems to have just occurred to Fox News host Bill Hemmer that the AI industry has a messaging problem on its hands

Fox Business host Charles Payne is currently on Fox News freaking out about the NY datacenter moratorium, bemoaning how electricity rates are higher in the Empire State than in AZ and VA, despite those states having hundreds of datacenters. He is legit yelling.

lolll

air quality in select cities www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ah yes, Wall Street yearns for realtime data on Truth Social, including Lee Greenwood fan edits and random clips of Trump from the 80s talking about taking Kharg Island www.axios.com/2026/07/16/t...

Fully admit I did not see the “Djed Spence national hero” timeline coming

Then you’ve got your spectrum of meaty tackles to cheeky tackles. And of course the tactical foul

Oracle is mentioned (checks notes) 60+ times in this thing

Yo, what?

This is probably one of the more remotely substantive leak investigations either Trump administration has every tried to do www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/p...

Just caught a glimpse of Alexi Lalas comparing members of the England squad to The Beatles. You could see souls leaving the bodies of Thierry and Zlatan

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

I still think about the WSJ scoop about the Epstein birthday book. The official Republican position, to this day and after unsuccessful Trump litigation, is that maybe someone faked his signature and put it in a book where everyone else's signature was real

Wow, the Detroit Red Wings announce Steve Yzerman is out as GM. RIP the Yzerplan

SCOOP from @mzeff.bsky.social: OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a new group that directly opposes Leading the Future, a pro-AI industry super PAC with $50 million in funding from OpenAI president Greg Brockman & his wife www.wired.com/story/openai...

Well, that lasted all of 12 hours.

Btw, the White House still won’t say whether Beckman is Melania’s talent agent. His appearances have been getting increasingly outlandish

Think (hope) France having to score is the best thing that could happen to this game as a spectacle.

I fear for Lucas Digne v. Lamine Yamal if the kid gets it going

Discovering that I’m a real sucker for any and all international news on Count Binface

Well this isn't something you see every day

what he really means is… it’s not you it’s me

Of course. All photos are "older" photos, capturing a moment in time that's passed by the time the shutter clicks.

There have been plenty of hooch-related scandals in recent D.C. history. But the way alcohol collides with power dynamics and various forms of sexual abuse has been less combed over. ICYMI @jakelahut.bsky.social:

I am turning my eyes to the Texas Senate race for a story and fascinated to see that Ken Paxton doesn't even list events on his website. And the campaign contact is a Gmail address? The EventBrite listing for a rally tomorrow night had an anonymous account as the organizer. www.kenpaxton.com

Elon Musk pitched "Pravda" as a journalism ratings platform a few years ago, but nothing ever caught on. Why? Because the average person does not give a shit about rating random ass reporters. Seemingly the only people who do care are the powerful subjects of stories who seek to undermine them.

Why do short videos seem to only work on Bsky like half the time

Kinda wild that it took until somewhat recently for the strategic petroleum reserve math + the Strait of Hormuz math to start having an impact on the price of oil and the price of gas (in the sense that the actual numbers are prevailing over the 'deal is imminent' vibes)

You know what... I would probably read a story about Trump's overall helmet collection. If you look at old footage from Trump Tower, he had signed Giants and Jets and Redskins helmets in his office. He probably has a not insignificant amount of helmets lying around somewhere

America is in the midst of a shoplifting crisis the level of social collapse. Gavin Newsom thinks so; Ron DeSantis thinks so; House D+Rs think so. So i went to the world's most advanced anti-shoplifting lab to get the hard science, and found...the anatomy of a crime panic. slate.com/life/2026/07...

You will absolutely believe who wrote the lead story for the August/September issue of First Things once you see the headline.

My major had this, and it benefited me tremendously as a student and as a person (a program called the College of Letters at Wesleyan)

Truly ambitious for these Fox & Friends hosts to think they are gonna be able to speak at all during this Trump call-in

In his Fox & Friends call-in, Trump suggests the US could become “the guardian angel of the strait” and extract a fee (versions of which he has floated before)

At Trader Joe's, a coffee shop, a military hospital and a real estate firm, top international broadcasters from Voice of America are embracing second acts they never asked for. My latest: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...