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Via The New Yorker: ‘A scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on Truth Social has generated outrage and a lawsuit…’

Via The Atlantic: ‘As the war with Iran drags on, the president is in disagreement with the vice president, military leaders, and long-standing American allies…’

A federal judge today dismissed the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard, ruling the incidents cited were “too isolated and episodic” to prove ongoing civil rights violations.

Via Delete DoorDash: ‘For the last year and a half, DoorDash has been silent as their delivery drivers have been hunted and even killed in the streets by ICE and other federal police.

Henry Abraham via Substack: ‘What remains a mystery to me, though, is why Americans aren’t angrier over Trump’s crimes and misdemeanors.

Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing: ‘The press secretary announced her resignation on July 16th, days after Trump escaped a missile threat in a catering truck….’

Sarah Kuta via Smithsonian Magazine: ‘Scientists have discovered that people from distinct cultural backgrounds are ticklish in many of the same spots on their bodies.

Via New Scientist: ‘Memories in mice persisted even after they lost the connections that we thought were needed for recall, expanding our knowledge of memory in the mammalian brain…’

Clay Risen via The New York Times: ‘John Crowley, an author of sweeping fantastical narratives whose ability to blend such disparate material as American history, dreams of lost utopias and “Alice in Wonderland”-tinged occult allowed him to transcend the…

Joseph Cox via 404 Media: ‘ICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people.

Via Heather Cox Richardson: ‘The scandal that Trump secretly used a small plane to leave Türkiye for Britain after credible Iranian threats of assassination, leaving journalists and White House staffers to act as a decoy, has provided a crystal clear view…

Anne Cleary via Aeon: ‘Have you been here before?

Marcia Dunn via AP News: ‘Sorry, North America.

Mike Pearl via Gizmodo: ‘We already knew something weird happened with Donald Trump last month in Turkey, even by the already weird standards of this administration.

Ed Cara via Gizmodo: ‘Trump’s latest executive order threatens to further unravel our progress against resurgent diseases like measles….’

Denise Chow via NBC News: ‘A new moon will keep skies dark, making shooting star sightings more likely during the Perseids’ most active phase….’

Sophie Ellis via Discover Wildlife: ‘Hang Son Đoòng is the world’s largest natural cave and remained undiscovered until 2009…’

Alan Bellows via Damn Interesting: ‘On 6 August 1945, a number of eyes in the Japanese city of Hiroshima turned skyward at the drone of a US B-29 bomber flying across the cloudless sky, accompanied by two other aircraft.

Via NPR: ‘The famous author’s short story, ‘There will come soft rains’ predicted a world where machines would take over after August 4th, 2026….’

Via dino-world.com: ‘Most people assume the thylacine simply died out from natural causes, the way species quietly fade when their world changes around them.

Daniel Hampton via Raw Story: ‘President Donald Trump’s habit of insisting things are happening “like nobody’s ever seen before” is more than just a verbal tic.

Here & Now Newsroom via WBUR: ‘The small town of Terrasse-Vaudreuil, about 30 miles west of Montreal, recently became the first in Canada to recognize trees as living beings with a special set of rights — including the rights to life, to natural growth, to

Adithi Ramakrishnan via AP News: ‘Scientists originally took the images for a different reason: to fine-tune and test the limits of the telescope.

J F Martel via Aeon: ‘When early humans first painted cave walls, they began to find out who they really were: our minds emerged from our images…’

Jason Weisberger via Boing Boing: ‘The Orange Menace claims his administration restored the Endangered Species Act to the meaning Antonin Scalia “explained.”

Rob Beschizza via Boing Boing: ‘The ad campaign for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, a gritty new take on the public domain monster, has been partially unraveled by advertising regulators in the U.K.

Scott Stossel via The Atlantic: ‘If coroners were to pin an actual time of death on Freudianism, they might specify 1963.

Brendan Brown via ScienceBlog.com: ‘The nightly choice between a book and a screen isn’t a minor preference—it’s a decade-long experiment that rewires your brain in measurably different ways….’

Dorothy Neufeld via Visual Capitalist: ‘Czechia ranks first globally for academic freedom, while Myanmar and Nicaragua rank last.

Here & Now Newsroom via WBUR: ‘Scott Tong speaks with baker and writer Kate Lebo about embracing bitterness, complex flavors, and why baking with ultra-sweet fruit doesn’t make for better pies….’

Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily: ‘The writers of the Beat generation adopted ideas and images from cultural traditions ranging from Buddhism to jazz.

Ellyn Lapointe via Gizmodo: ‘A set of engineered safeguards could protect Earth’s habitability for 9.1 quadrillion years, according to new research.

Christianity On The Spectrum via Dispatches from the Autism Wars: ‘the shifting definitions of autism have particularly affected those with profound autism and their caretakers.

The Editorial Board via The Wall Street Journal: ‘A friend quipped the other day that President Trump truly deserves the Nobel Peace Prize because he has already ended the Iran war eight times.

Henry Abraham via Henry David Abraham’s Stuff for Public Consumption: ‘This week marks the 81st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Alice Fleerackers via Nautilus: ‘A dark history that is in danger of returning as support for people with disabilities withers…’

These are not my most decorous posts but, I’m sorry, they need to be brought to everyone’s attention.

Kaitlin Simpson via Us Weekly: ‘A video linked to the government of Iran is under investigation after appearing to issue a threat — and detail ways — to assassinate First Lady Melania Trump and her and President Donald Trump’s son, Barron.

Nahal Toosi via POLITICO: ‘President Donald Trump and his aides rarely go easy on their perceived enemies.

Rob Beschizza via Boing Boing: ‘The Atlas of Surveillance is a database of surveillance technologies deployed by law enforcement in communities across the United States.

Benji Jones via Vox: ‘In a rule published earlier this month, the administration determined that, in many cases, destroying the habitat of federally threatened and endangered species is no longer explicitly illegal, even if doing so could ultimately drive…

Kurt Andersen via The New York Times: ‘Does anyone under 50 know who Carlos Castaneda was?

Norimitsu Onishi via The New York Times: ‘As smoke from forest fires in Canada have darkened skies south of the border, lawmakers in Michigan, Ohio and other U.S. states have accused the Canadian authorities of inaction and poor forest management.

Alan Herrera via Comic Sands: ‘Harnik’s picture captured the sort of reaction one would expect from a malignant narcissist upset that the attention is not on him at all times, so Trump’s reaction wasn’t a surprise….’

Robert Davis via Raw Story: ‘President Donald Trump alarmed onlookers on Sunday after he went on an hours-long AI picture posting spree on Truth Social.

Via CBS News: ‘Science shows us that, even though plants don’t have brains, they seem to have a nervous system that responds to touch in remarkable ways.

Terrence O’Brien via The Verge: ‘Sam Tunick allegedly gave federal agents a fake ‘duress password’ at the airport….’

Charlie Warzel via The Atlantic: ‘If President Trump has one true skill, it is conjuring up alternate realities and getting his supporters to accept them.

Ashley Stimpson via Sierra Magazine: ‘How the Trump administration’s regulatory rollbacks threaten thousands of plants and animals with extinction…’

Via Dazed: ‘The growing ‘unquantified self’ movement is rebelling against data-driven wellness and the pressure to track every aspect of our bodies and minds…’