More than a quarter of American adults have a daily gambling habit, 42 percent of bettors have said they spend more than they should, and a majority of men ages eighteen to forty-nine have an active account with an online sportsbook.

Despite widespread support from California lawmakers, a bill limiting solitary confinement was blocked by Governor Gavin Newsom. Instead, Newsom directed prison officials to implement reforms, but those reforms are now being dialed back.

Israel deploys AI and payments to conservative media to try to beat back the tide of unfavorable U.S. views about its handling of wars in Gaza and Iran.

By Dave Whamond www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

The U.S. has replaced Hungary as the Secretariat of the Geneva Consensus Declaration, taking over leadership of the international anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ coalition after Viktor Orbán's defeat. As Hungary retreats from exporting anti-rights policies, Washington is stepping in to lead them.

The 16-year-old who died was May Pollard. She went by Jane Doe in the lawsuit, because she didn't want to be an activist. She just wanted to be a teen girl who played Terraria with her friends and ran a Discord dedicated to the streamer Jerma985. 3/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

And as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.

A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social

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Andrew Tate is also a politically-connected sex trafficker who has abused children, and who unfortunately has a lot of defenders in positions of authority. The fact that we talk about the “Epstein class” and not the “Tate class” is telling.

The Trump team's intervention to free the Tates from Romania in early 2025 was a bridge too far for some on the right. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette

“The mounting level of US government debt, on track for $40 trillion courtesy of this summer’s “big beautiful bill,” risks a tectonic crash for the US economy” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Inside Greece’s Refugee Camps, Gender-Based Violence Is Built Into the System

Horrific

"Most...said they had a valid work permit...arresting officers falsely told them that their work authorization did not establish legal presence in the US....most were taken... often violently...Many told us they felt like they were kidnapped. Detained people said they were held incommunicado..."

🎯 “An elite consensus that AI-assisted learning might be fine for hoi polloi but not for future leaders at the most selective institutions cannot be far-off now“ The coming class divide on AI: tech-free learning at elite institutions, AI-centered learning everywhere else.

More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.

As I said the other day - this story is very much revealing how little folks understand the massive reach and influence of agribusiness and how the food chain works. Framing the story around taco bell is a good ex of news coverage failing to give us the info we need about our corporate food system.

all the more reason to tax these parasites www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/u...

Trump’s shadow looms large over Los Angeles 2028 Olympic green ambitions 2028 LA Olympics are two years away, and corporate backers that organisers are counting on are wary of angering US president Donald Trump by championing green causes

USA: "COVID Is Rising Again in the Bay Area For Summer 2026" "To put it another way: Any “summer cold” you hear people complaining about over the coming week could once again be COVID-19." Source: www.kqed.org/news/1209132...

The smoke footprint is quite expansive via: www.capitalweather.com/wildfire-smo...

The betting site Kalshi emerged as a dominant sports betting platform during the World Cup. But the company avoids billions of dollars in taxes by insisting it is not a sports gambling operator. n.pr/4foSwm3

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

"Republicans in North Carolina, who control state and county election boards, have attempted to move early voting sites off college campuses, which would reduce Sunday voting in a blatant attempt to make it harder for students and Black voters to cast ballots." shero.substack.com/p/drop-sunday

Chambers has been detained in Spain on an international arrest warrant but should Spain comply with this extradition warrant, it would sit at odds with President Sanchez’s outspokenness on Palestinian rights, its’ recognition of the state of Palestine & criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Canada's fires were started by a combo of lightning strikes, human activity + extreme and long-lasting heat, which created bone-dry vegetation that can act as fuel for fires. Throw in some trapped hot air, more storms, whipped-up winds, and voila: climate change-induced wildfires.

“The false rhetoric about the cause of wildfires is not constructive," says Tim Gray, exec director of Environmental Defence Canada. "It helps to further underscore the sense Canadians have that the U.S. has lost its way." Canada sent water bombers + teams to help with last year's CA fires.

BREAKING🚨: 120 buoys staged for Trump's Rio Grande floating barrier broke loose near Eagle Pass, closing bridges. They're drifting toward Laredo, where officials declared an emergency, expecting them at the Colombia Bridge by Sunday, threatening water supplies & trade. Read full story: 🔗🦂

“With each buoy weighing a ton, bridge operators shut down Eagle Pass' three international bridges last night fearing damage to bridge pillars in the river as the buoys made impact, leaving border residents stranded on both sides of the river.”

"Before he can vote for himself in the primary, Mike Lindell needs to register to vote in the state he wants to lead as gov The Secretary of State’s office said Lindell, Trump’s preferred candidate, 'does not have an active record' A review shows Lindell has an active voter registration in TX"

“I mean, this is random Trump bull****,” Bruce Schneier, a security technologist at Harvard University, told Democracy Docket. “He wants to destroy democracy, and this is the next step.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

Reminder: When fires ravaged southern California, Canada sent firefighting crews to help battle the blazes.

One of the first things Trump did after returning to office was gut the CFPB, the agency that protects Americans from financial predators. That sabotage has cost Americans an estimated $26.5B and counting. Trump is making his corporate donors even richer by letting them swindle you.

Ending Temporary Protected Status program is a moral and economic catastrophe thehill.com/opinion/immi...

The perfect parody doesn't exis-

I don’t remember the government wanting to test people’s testosterone levels before microplastics were in people’s brains

We passed a good bill in the House to sanction Russia and help Ukraine. The bill offered by the late Senator Graham is not that bill, it is a bill that would give Trump new powers to impose additional tariffs of up to 100% on U.S. trading partners without congressional oversight.

The press release states that Thiel has "shaped the public debate on innovation, freedom, and the future of Western societies." This is literally the guy who said "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

“.. As states brace for as many as 10 million Americans to lose their health insurance under .. Trump’s 2025 tax-and-spending law, New York offers a preview of the upheaval expected to ripple through the U.S. next year ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

This is deeply disingenuous and, frankly, a dereliction of journalistic integrity. A quick glance at Yum! Brand’s annual filings reveal that this is common language included every single year as an investment risk factor. The most recent filing is no different because the risk is always present.

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

Rep. Gil Cisneros (D-California) and family members of Reps. John McGuire (R-Virginia), Dan Meuser (R-Pennsylvania) and John James (R-Michigan) have together purchased up to $130,000 in SpaceX stock since the company’s initial public offering on June 12.

(Bloomberg) - US executives are selling shares at the second-fastest pace in more than 20 years, a classic red flag .. 👀 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump claims 278,000 non-citizens on voter rolls. That’s laughable. Utah recently audited 2 million people on voter rolls and found just 27 noncitizens registered, amounting to .00135% of registered voters