I just recorded a video for the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History to help explain to high school students preparing for the US Gov AP exam "What is due process?" This definitely ain't it 👇

plus 7,400 more cases reported that aren't yet verified, 308 hospitalizations, cases in 41 states.

Another data point against "no use cases for AI". fortune.com/2026/07/21/a...

oh no, there's a 4th edition. I'm already consuming a lot of shelf space for editions 1-3.

This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...

He was impeached for being corrupt. His own office of lawyers resigned en masse because they thought he was a criminal. He was under federal indictment until Trump dropped the case. Did he think he could run for Senate and just…. Not have to talk about that stuff?

Another dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers take. 🤦‍♂️ Not only does the governor have no authority to appoint anyone to a vacant Senate seat, the seat isn't vacant, and no one may declare it vacant. The Senate would (rightly) ignore it, and the Dems in Disarray articles would flourish. FFS, sit this one out.

this is why keeping corruption out of government is not some sideshow, it’s fundamental to effective governance if you cannot trust the people in charge of public health because “they changed their story due to bribes” is a legitimate inference, that is a crisis all on its own

doesn't bother fact-checking USDoD's fake US hospital story. doesn't distinguish credit bureau from data broker. otherwise, decent episode but come on.

I should add that this is exactly what @nkorpett.bsky.social and James Pearce predicted in their May 2025 @lawfaremedia.org piece, "The Law Firms’ Deals with Trump Are Even Riskier Than They Seem"

husband of multiply divorced nondenominational Pentecostal megachurch prosperity gospel pastor Paula White

Trump is, to borrow a term, intersectionally awful: His incompetence, bordering on an uncanny anticompetence, in each particular sphere is compounded & exacerbated by his incompetence in all the others.

Comparing this piece that calls tqbf's blog "terrible" to the original, my opinion is almost entirely the opposite, and this guy comes across as an asshole. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-...

I'd heard of the mechanical Turk, but was previously unfamiliar with this more recent fake automaton, Enigmarelle. (catching up on old Fortean Times issues). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigmar...

seems like the rank order should be based on the total divided by the number of members funded -- average donation to an ICE supporter? or maybe with some weighting based on who they are, to distinguish from money being spread widely (and more thinly) for other reasons.

At my sister's, I learned from a nephew that he's part of an evangelical group that goes to Latvia and puts on music and sports camps for locals, but hides its evangelical nature. He said there were some atheist kids who came for it and weren't too happy about it. I said it's a bait-and-switch.

$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"

FDA retracts claim that tainted lettuce caused 5-state outbreak of cyclospora illnesses

Nothing says “I should be taxed more“ more than using $82 million to argue that you should not, in fact, be taxed more.

A remembrance of my friend Steve, from an underground high school newspaper to the Phoenix punk scene to protesting Scientology. blog.lippard.org/2026/07/reme...

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

thread on hardliners in Iran taking control

Idly wondering how the bond markets would have reacted if Carney had declared Canada's intention (and budget) to scoop up as many grad students and researchers (esp. int'l) from American academia as are willing to relocate? Sort of a combination Manhattan Project-Marshall Plan-Op Paperclip-Dunkirk.

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

"I had only one reaction to the panelists and their cheerleaders: these gutless losers will never win. If they have their way, we will, at best, remain in this crisis for a generation longer, and at worst we will simply lose the war." www.liberalcurrents.com/tit-for-tat-...

Damn

Scoop: Created in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court was formed to “to review applications for the removal from the U.S. of alien terrorists”. The Attorney General submits applications for consideration. The Court has never received a submission. Until this week... 1/2

Peter Thiel Snags Top Prize from Politico’s Owner

I KNEW there was gonna be bad news about her that came out eventually

I saw a bunch of people earlier today posting context-free PSAs about the fact that ChatGPT is not a search engine, and I assumed it was another round of “students don’t know how to do things anymore” discourse. Or if not students, maybe lovers? Nope, it was the Editor-in-Chief of Science Magazine.

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Good article, but make sure you read all the way to the disclosure at the end!

🚨BREAKING: Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened top election officials in all 50 states and D.C. with criminal charges if they do not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to feed their voter rolls through a flawed federal database. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

not The Onion, though this gives them material

The fact this “gold” coin won’t have any actual gold is quite the metaphor www.mining.com/trumps-us-go...

What a graphic. @cnn.com #$NVDA #$TSLA #$AEO

Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."

Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved back to Alabama www.al.com/news/2026/06...

gonna start talking like this to my boss

Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.

To be clear, NC and OH post their public voter files online available to anyone with a browser

A statement from WIRED leadership.

President Trump says declassified intelligence he claims shows shocking vulnerabilities in the US election system, including computer hacking and foreign interference, can now be viewed on the White House web site, which immediately crashes.

Law professor Ann Lipton explains exactly how illegal in this thread. @annmlipton.bsky.social

Is it insider trading for the president of the United States to sell access to market-moving information for money?

The most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

I was hoping for a twist where Kashmir Hill tracked down John Crane Miller and then published an AI-generated biography of him. But Bill Johns is a good consolation.

90% of NextDoor comments are cards from an "ignorant or troll?" game.