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The best argument against an Unitary Executive Theory is Donald Trump.

In Budapest low waters laid bare a Wehrmacht motorcycle from the second world war. Near the village of Ryahovo in Bulgaria, the remains of a mammoth became visible. In the Serbian stretch of the Danube a fleet of Nazi-era warships were revealed

UK has refused resettlement application despite ‘years of loyal service’ that have resulted in ‘constant fear’ of reprisals

'We’re in uncharted territory. There is no historical analog for this kind of rapid increase in fire activity.' In the last decade, more area has burned in B.C. than in the preceding 67 years. Professor Mike Flannigan explains why: thenarwhal.ca/bc-wildfires...

Earlier this month, federal prosecutors moved to strip citizenship from 25 naturalized Americans, accusing them of lying about their pasts and hiding serious crimes. https://to.pbs.org/4hutDIh

“Most people don’t think you’re a nice kid," the owner of an Arkansas private school told a boy before urging other students to take turns attacking him. She repeatedly thwacked him with a footlong plastic cylinder, calling him a liar. with @arktimes.bsky.social

District Judge Indira Talwani agreed with a coalition of voting-rights groups that Trump’s March 2026 anti-voting executive order (EO) was likely unconstitutional. Talwani blocked the EO from taking effect, which would have allowed USPS to disenfranchise eligible voters. https://demdock.com/4qezYKc

US firefighting personnel are being overrun by wildfires at the highest rate in two decades, leading to six deaths and dozens of injuries this year, federal data showed, a grim count during a record-setting fire season in the United States reut.rs/4getWok

A federal judge dismissed a ‌lawsuit by President Trump’s administration that alleged Harvard University failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment reut.rs/4hystvq

Don’t miss the latest edition of Indy Elections, where we talk about Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s thoughts on President Trump’s recent visit and dive into how a dearth of independent polling is a flashing red warning sign. More here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/when...

Beyond Elon Musk’s interpretation of ‘The Odyssey,’ Silicon Valley leaders have often misunderstood classic books like ‘Foundation’ and ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.’ It’s evident in their tech. www.wired.com/story/book-e...

President Trump issues an executive order that aims to reduce the number of universally recommended vaccines for children, a move that reaffirms the dramatic overhaul Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced earlier this year that has been blocked in the courts.

Pencils are more expensive. So are notebooks, scissors, glue sticks — just about every back-to-school item that families will load into their literal or virtual carts this summer has gone up in price at a time when American families already feel crushed by rising costs. https://to.pbs.org/4wxLT84

July was the hottest month ever recorded in the US, surpassing the previous record set in 2012, with intense heat domes contributing to historic highs https://cnn.it/45Tm2f6

⚡️ Ukraine strikes Russian petrochemical plant more than 2,000 kilometers from border, General Staff says. The attack struck the plant's central gas fractionation unit, according to the General Staff.

Our entire food system needs a redesign to cope with increasing threats to resilience over the long haul.

The Senate is on track to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, but other high-priority items are still tangled, largely due to a Republican divide. https://to.pbs.org/4wavs0x

Given that two U.S. Senators have publicly announced that they are voting against confirming Todd Blanche as U.S. Attorney General, that means it's already a done deal and those Senators are being given cover to look moderate, knowing their votes are now unnecessary. Let's watch.

Hegseth decapitates another top general. Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza, commander of the Army’s V Corps, was removed from command in recent days. Apparently he makes Hegseth feel insecure. abcnews.com/Politics/top...

For sure. Rent-seeking, regulatory capture, they're all known problems in a democracy The solution is better laws, better regulators, *much* more aggressive use of antitrust so the effects of regulatory capture aren't as pronounced, etc bsky.app/profile/shaw...

This is a good and correct answer

Trump crashing out, again.

Raiding bookshops looks patently repressive, especially to people in Taiwan who watch Hong Kong to see what Chinese rule might be like

U.S. has used ‘virtually all’ of long-range precision missiles in Iran war, sources say

⚡️Ukraine attacks one of Russia's largest refineries for 2nd night in a row, locals report. The reported target is the Slavneft-Yanos oil refinery in Yaroslavl, over 700 km (435 miles) from the Ukrainian border. It is one of the five largest refineries in Russia.

Utilities threaten action if lawmakers fail to cut their wildfire liability risk

“The Trump administration opened the floodgates for these predatory companies to come in and profit off of detaining human beings.”

People of colour are 12 times more likely to be at risk of losing British citizenship than their white counterparts. Samira Shackle on how draconian rules created second-class citizens on the basis of heritage

Echoes of 2020. The president insisted the election was stolen from him due to voter fraud. But when it came time to prove it in a court of law, where there are criminal penalties for lying, his team backed off.

“Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation.” A major concession from President Trump’s team after he repeatedly claimed the problem was caused by vandals. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

FIFA's proposed plan to sell private stakes in upcoming World Cup tournaments that sparked backlash from fans and soccer associations around the world has been scrapped, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said in a statement. https://cnn.it/4pO3gz0

President Donald Trump's remarks questioning whether Iran had hacked water systems in Minnesota sparked anger online Friday.

Former congressman George Santos agreed to pay $35,000 to settle charges by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that he engaged in “manipulative activity” in trades he made regarding whether he would attend the State of the Union address.

BREAKING: Denver International Airport closed part of the terminal on Friday night because of a “possible security threat,” officials said in a statement.

When Texas asked the data center industry to report how much water they consume, fewer than 1/3 of companies responded. Less than 17% responded to a separate, "mandatory" survey by the Texas Water Development Board.

The Aeon mall destroyed in a post-quake explosion in southern Japan on Tuesday had just reopened last month as a new entertainment complex to commemorate its recovery from a deadly tremor a decade ago.

Trump's teleprompter operator who bet on speeches no longer working in the government

⚡️US Senate advances Russia sanctions bill following death of Lindsey Graham. "It's not only about money that help Russia wage its war, but it's also a big signal to Europe, Ukraine, and our people, so I'm very thankful," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Volkswagen in takeover talks with Chinese partner on Spanish battery plant, trade outlet reports reut.rs/4vSNO67

He was shot at by ICE, then wrongfully accused. His nightmare had only just begun

⚡️Civilian grain ship sinks in Black Sea following Russian strike. A civilian cargo ship sank on July 26 in the Black Sea near Odesa after being struck by Russian missiles days earlier on July 19 while it was transporting grain, authorities reported.

Nicaragua’s president says opposition parties will “never again” be able to seek power through the ballot box. Elections in the country have long been a sham, but this is still a significant shift

Mike Waltz -- the same guy who accidentally added the editor of the Atlantic to a top secret Signal group chat about US strikes in Yemen -- says that people who expose military secrets need to be in jail.

This is very simple. The US govt signed a deal with the Saudis. Trump got backlash on Fox and from Republicans in Congress. Trump then immediately reneged on the deal. You can't trust anything Trump says and you can't trust anything he puts in writing. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump has announced another series of massive attacks, targeting infrastructure and Iran's residual nuclear sites. But essentially no military strategists think this is an effective approach to resurrecting a deal along the lines of the one Obama achieved, which now seems hopelessly out of reach.

What an absolute waste thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill....

This is fucking appalling, and Democrats and ~small-government~ Republicans should be shutting the government down over this ongoing, pointless, expensive, anti-freedom, anti-democracy move by Trump. This is not a legitimate use of the military, and everyone knows it.

An investigation by The New York Times found that President Trump’s push to quickly get a new Air Force One led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features that potentially left the president and others who travel with him vulnerable. Our reporter Eric Lipton explains. nyti.ms/4pF8OM1