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SCOOP: After pardoning hundreds of allies over the course of his 1st 18 months back in the White House, Trump this month quietly rejected clemency applications from nearly 6,000 people who mostly lacked connections & had been waiting in a queue at the Justice Department.

Nikhil Suresh has a new essay up. He is a long-time software engineering consultant, which has exposed him to lots of companies, the thinking of their management, and the fear among the workers about speaking up. He despairs, beautifully. h/t @taggart-tech.com ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...

Trump is going after the National Academy of Sciences. Gift link.

A year from now when you’re kicking it in the Caribbean, you’re gonna say <strike>Marcellus Wallace</strike>Ed Zitron was right. What? "... OpenAI is on pace to undershoot its own five-year ad revenue projections by a whopping 90 percent." h/t @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

This inadvertently reveals a level of ultra-rich people anxiety that is so divorced from the lived experience of most human beings it is staggering.

Hey, more winning! So much winning! (Gas back over $4/gal.) Thanks, Dear Leader!

Trump Quietly Deleted the Government’s Official Guide to Cutting Your Energy Bills gizmodo.com/trump-quietl...

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Michigan! Today, July 20th, is the last day you can register to vote online or by mail. After today, you can still register to vote in person.

He’d rather mourn the dead ICE agents in his imagination than show an ounce of sympathy for the people his agents have killed. Also, if an ICE agent ever needs to be buried, I’d give it even odds that it will be because they were mistakenly shot by another agent.

If you are a writer who likes a program that provides a distraction-free environment, you might like this:

Pretty cool new feature on Google Lens: offers to select all the text in an image and work with it, as text. BTW, that arrow next to "Search" leads to a fourth choice: "Open in translate".

Come on. Jamaican assassin. Everybody knows that.

<3 <3 <3 h/t @juliaangwin.com

There is no such thing as a @lizdye.bsky.social lawsplainer that you do not want to read. www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trump-bit-...

"(And, of course, people who use Excel to do statistics are perhaps to be pitied, but not to be taken seriously.)" cc @kjhealy.co

@ecoverdant.bsky.social Your posts seem good, but as far as following back goes, you had me at beets. Mmmm. Beets.

Instead of following those engagement bait alt gov accounts, follow and support @climate.us instead.

. @dsquareddigest.bsky.social Thought of you when I read this. bsky.app/profile/csha...

A good essay. Amazing that with all of those languages learned, Cosma missed out on one of the best. Another proof that grad students always make things better.

There is no such thing as a @rayratto.bsky.social article that you do not want to read. Here is a gift link: defector.com/a-haters-cod...

Still reading, but this cracked me up and I wanted to share before I forgot: (links in comments)

:D :D :D

asking famous people "can i get a selfie?" and then acting annoyed with them for trying to be in the shot

Never heard of this one!

Snarky headline? Or ... snarkiest headline ever?

Let's start this week off right, with a feel-good story! "Furnari...had hoped the statue...would raise 'millions' ...Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture." h/t impro.social/profile/dyla... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Starting to wonder if Musk came across this newsletter, "Mars For The Rest of Us", and that's why he suddenly switched to "Occupy The Moon! Yea, yeah, that's it!" Anyway, this is fascinating. Humans in space, long term, is a really really hard problem. mceglowski.substack.com/p/laffaire-s...

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And note also: gift article link. Congrats and thanks, Dustin.

You can tell it's a long essay when you encounter the second instance of a paragraph beginning, "In short, then, ..."

Magazine length interview of the mayor by Lulu Garcia-Navarro. h/t @zachweinersmith.bsky.social and @amandalitman.bsky.social Gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/m...

Believe me!

This, from Paul Campos, building on Tim Kreider's essay, is quite good. Many, if not most, of us kinda feel the way that's being described by Paul and Tim, so it's nice to see it spelled out so adroitly.

If anyone knows the name of the model on the right, tell her she's about to cash in big time.

The other companies selling this lettuce: "If US Foods, Performance Food Group, Markon, Walmart, Subway or Jack in the Box are reading this — say so."

Fun Saturday night trying to clean up a computer takeover/banking scam my 82-year old mother in law fell for. If you have no yet had the talk with older people in your life please do. She fell for the classic "your computer is compromised call this number" trap. The steps were comically standard:

BUT IF I GO OUTSIDE THERE'S WILDFIRES AND DIARRHEA LETTUCE

They are simply stupid people. They believe they did everything by themselves, and they didn't do anything.

Following up from prev, checking her Tw feed to see if there are any other instances of her faking being smart ... Oh dear.

Palate cleanser! www.newsweek.com/e-jean-carro...

Another small victory. Count it.

Never thought about this. Very smart point. (Whoever thought that Andrew Tate could be the source of a teaching moment?) bsky.app/profile/alsw...

Thanks to @dandrezner.bsky.social's latest, #TIL that @theunpopulist.net is part of ismaglobal.org. TBF, #TIL about ISMA. Seems worth a longer look.

You people who shun Twitter just don't know what you're missing.

For our next cultural experiment, let's make a version of "Othello" with a white man playing the lead and see how many MAGAts flip out over that.