ABC News - Donald Trump's longtime teleprompter operator placed prediction market bets on the president’s speeches, CTFC investigators found. abcnews.com/US/white-hou...

Oh my.

This is not a picture. It is a video.

He died at Irwin, the detention center made notorious by allegations of unwanted gynecological procedures, and that Biden had shut down. Trump reopened it. Now it’s the site of yet another death in ICE detention following claims of medical neglect.

🇨🇳 China is preparing for a Russia without Putin and establishing ties with future centers of influence, - WSJ. Chinese espionage and recruitment of officials are increasingly being uncovered in Russia, but the authorities are trying to keep this under wraps to avoid damaging relations with Beijing.

This will set back American math and science advancement for decades. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries and self-tanners. Scientists are itching to know how sugars form because they’re a key ingredient for life as we know it.

Google's biggest solar and battery project stands in sharp contrast with xAI's nearby unpermitted power plant.

next up from Fidelity: groceries aren't getting more expensive!** ** if you denominate their price in World of Warcraft gold

fascinating economic discovery from Fidelity: houses actually are cheaper now than in 2020!* * if you denominate them in an arbitrary asset that has appreciated over that time frame

Also a song by the Scottish curators of unusual words and phrases: www.youtube.com/watch?v=szvz...

in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors

Pete Hegseth just blocked the promotions of seven senior Navy officers — five of whom are women or people of color — to two-star admiral rank. For the first time in more than a decade, no female active-duty naval officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.

#ELB: “FBI analysts fired after refusing to join Georgia 2020 election probe” https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157301

Wingnut welfare in academia. $8k to $12k for writing about vaccine injuries. Bonkers.

We’re living through the dissolution of the American system of government and it’s essentially gone unnoticed by the entire elite class, because everything Trump says takes on a patina of ridiculousness and unseriousness

Gift link. It’s as bad as we can imagine. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...

It took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties, & the hack law professors who debase themselves enabling them

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

Geologists have a higher death rate in movies than Sean Bean 💀 Of the 202 geologists in 141 movies released between 1919 and 2023, 69 die or are found dead, resulting in mortality rate of about a third. Movie geologists were mainly male, white and in khaki. 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Truth in advertising.

don’t be like Charlie Brown, incessantly fooled by Lucy who is always going to yoink the illusory football bait you’re never going to be allowed to put your foot on. be like his creator 🥹

Come get yo clock and yo parade,!! people.com/see-everythi...

so now they put chatbot in autocomplete search results 😭

#ELB: “Wisconsin Elections Commission finds probable cause Musk broke election law with $1M post” https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157347

Marco Rubio oversaw the closure of USAID with no input from Congress, and this is how they are using taxpayer money

Whoa whoa whoa … Do you mean to tell me that striking a deal with Donald J. Trump does *not* buy you everlasting peace?? Surely no one could have foreseen this! Certainly not lawyers who get paid millions to make deals for a living!

13.2-ounce cans of Pedigree Can High Protein Chopped Chicken & Duck Flavor with lot codes 613C3KKCFC and 613C1KKCFC

while we talk about the RFK's Diarrhea 2026 stuff, don't overlook the fact that there's a dog food recall going on too. unfortunately we don't have a good spokesvehicle for the FDA anymore, so Good Housekeeping will have to do.

In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.

*I have discovered the full text of an unusual cookbook once owned by Robert Louis Stevenson *It was written by "The Old Bohemian" for the London-based "Savage Club" of gentleman bohemians *It seems to be period Victorian hipster food archive.org/details/b281...

Hi everyone, I'm hiring a post-doc to work on my FLF project on plant IP. Please spread the word! Queries about the nature of the role and working at Queen's should please be directed to my colleague, Dr Ethan Shattock. hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

None of this is new. DeepMind's governance record: 2014: independent ethics board — reportedly a condition of the sale 2015: one informal meeting; then effectively abandoned 2018: AI Principles exclude weapons & surveillance 2025: exclusions dropped 2026: Pentagon contract

We now get near-daily reports of insane new corruption that would have brought down previous administrations www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

In other Delaware ROI news. (The spend from these oligarchs’ pet law firms is on *Democratic* incumbents, note. That’s who makes their draft legislation into law. Those same law firms also employ a roster of former DE judges; and they have v close ties to Delaware’s entire Cong delegation, too.)

Among Leading the Future’s first political efforts was an attempt to sink the congressional campaign of Alex Bores, the author of New York’s landmark AI safety law, who ultimately lost in a primary election last month.

A group of rank-and-file OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a super PAC which opposes Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.

Protests against Big Tech and corruption Where oligarchs are now falling out of favor – or are being directly disempowered In many parts of the world, powerful entrepreneurs promoted the decline of democracy and the rise of autocrats. But global oligarchism is coming under increasing pressure 1/

must take action against the concentration of power in central areas of the economy. Those who stand up against cartels, anti-competitive mergers or platform monopolies are not only fighting for efficient markets. He also fights for democracy. 29/

In countries as Serbia or Albania, protest movements are not only directed against governments, but also against corrupt system itself. Activists have recognized that as long as politics and business are chained together in mutual acceptance of advantage, no functioning democracy can develop 20/

The change at the President's House happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.

Speaking of thin-skinned, paranoid, wildly corrupt buffoons who stop at nothing to silence their enemies, how about that Mark Zuckerberg, huh? Sure, all the headlines these days are about Zuck's intention to transform Facebook into a sports betting site: www.businessinsider.com/metas-zucker... 10/

BREAKING A federal judge NULLIFIES the purported “settlement” behind Trump’s $1.776B slush fund, finding there was never a “case or controversy” — and referring his attorney for possible professional discipline. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains