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Oxford folks: is going to the playground at Blenheim really £100+ for a family of three now?! We used to sneak in the side entrance in Woodstock and go for free. I never would have visited as a kid at this price. @dailyinfooxford.bsky.social do you have the scoop?

Oxford folks: is going to the playground at Blenheim really & £100+ for a family of three now?! We used to sneak in the side entrance in Woodstock and go for free. I never would have visited as a kid at this price. @dailyinfooxford.bsky.social do you have the scoop?

Here’s our 2022 investigation into churches endorsing candidates. Relevant today: IRS Looks Other Way as Churches Endorse Political Candidates w/ @texastribune.org

Trump Administration, Reversing Itself, Won’t Rewrite a Ban on Asbestos

HOLY WOW! The Johnson amendment is essentially overturned in a legal settlement.

Have we diagnosed the origin of the bro-who-backs-into-parking-spaces trend?

ABC News is quietly hollowing out “GMA3,” turning it into a ghost of its former self as the decline of broadcast TV accelerates. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/what-happe...

While the National Weather Service and outside meteorologists say the agency provided timely ​and accurate forecasts, the fatal flooding in Texas is generating fresh alarm about cuts and vacancies. www.commondreams.org/news/texas-f...

In a court filing today, the IRS upended a decades-old ban on churches endorsing political candidates. At the same time, it's a rule that the IRS has almost never enforced. In 2022, we spotlighted 20 churches who appeared to violate this rule for local, state and federal elections:

the IMDb goofs section is usually rife with nitpicking posted by humorless pedants, but then you stumble on the sole entry for Glenn Danzig's 2021 erotic cowboy horror movie, Death Rider in the House of Vampires...

NEW TONIGHT: The IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit, carving out an exemption to the decades-old ban on politicking by nonprofits. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

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ICE Got Billions. Texans Got Death. | The Danielle Moodie Show youtube.com/live/tUJDBcD...

i don't know if the guy who was never elected governor, was credibly accused of corruption during his short time in office, and who was so unpopular that the national party pushed him aside so Cuomo could be governor... it would be like me offering a clinic on how to dunk a basketball.

With deep job cuts at the FDA, inspectors say the ongoing strain could compromise policing an industry spread across more than 90 countries. “Things will be missed, we are going to have a lot less safe drugs,” a former inspector said.

“Silicon Valley billionaires are now openly embracing anti-Muslim hate as they pivot toward defense startups that profit from perpetual war and the genocide in Palestine.” @taylorlorenz.bsky.social writes about Shaun Maguire, the racist multi-millionaire tech VC: zeteo.com/p/this-pro-i...

How affordable housing in National City became a cash machine for San Diego County labor unions @inewsource.org

look who just popped by for dinner and a movie... Before Barry Keoghan in Saltburn, there was Barry Lyndon in, well... Barry Lyndon.

I suppose someone has already pointed out the irony of Hayden being hired by the Andrew Mellon foundation, given that Timothy Mellon, Andrew’s grandson, was Trump’s second largest donor after Elon Musk, giving nearly $200 million to groups supporting Trump

“The whole thing is completely deranged... In the moment, we have a force which is committing genocide in Gaza.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @owenjones.bsky.social discuss Bob Vylan’s chant at Glatsonbury, noting that Western politicians care more about the chant than Palestinians being killed.

"The commands are: everyone that comes inside needs to die," the soldier said. "If they're inside, they're dangerous, you need to kill them. No matter who it is." www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-so...

A case challenging the Trump admin's "ideological deportations" of pro-Palestine students is heading to court. "The policy chills noncitizens from speaking," said the First Amendment group arguing against the government. www.commondreams.org/news/case-ch...

More than 9,000 municipal workers in Philadelphia are entering their second week on strike as they demand a living wage from the city. "I don't want to be rich. We just want comfort inside the city that we serve daily," said union leader Greg Boulware. www.commondreams.org/news/philade...

Whatever Trump may say or think, people in the United States will be paying his tariffs. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

This is probably not the time to focus on who’s to blame in the past. Instead, it’s time to consider the future and our power to strengthen the fundamentals of our democracy before all is lost. www.commondreams.org/opinion/mask...

“The Palestinian territories Israel occupies have functioned as Big Tech’s ideal laboratory and testing ground.” Read the open letter from world economists in support of UN Special Rapporteur @franceskalbs.bsky.social's special report on Gaza: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

In 2000, there were 86 cases of measles recorded in the U.S. Halfway through 2025, there have already been 1,274 recorded cases. The spread of measles is directly related to vaccine hesitancy. MMR vaccination rates have plummeted due to the spread of misinformation about the safety of vaccines.

The rap sheet on Bezos is long—and damning. www.commondreams.org/opinion/jeff...

"When thousands more people die from not getting care, we know who to blame," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.commondreams.org/news/rural-h...

The @nejm.org is out with a new series: The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care

"[Jake] Tapper has an ability to triangulate, to find positions that he thinks put him above the battle between left and right but in fact, give aid and comfort to the Republicans amassing autocratic power," writes @markjacob.bsky.social in Stop the Presses.

"Not only is it necessary to impose a stronger burden of justice on billionaires, but more importantly, it is possible," wrote seven Nobel-winning economists. www.commondreams.org/news/2-perce...

Even when labor and abundance are not directly in tension, their organizing principles are. www.commondreams.org/opinion/abun...

Children Died in Texas Floods—Trump’s Cuts Made It Inevitable | democracyish LIVE youtube.com/live/S_KL0ps...

A president who can break laws at will is a dictator. The political system creating and accommodating this condition is fascism. Donald Trump is a dictator heading a fascist regime. www.commondreams.org/opinion/scot...

It's wild to watch people who don't believe in climate change because it contradicts their view that only God can control the climate repeatedly blame the effects of climate change on a secret cabal of weather magicians.

Under the cloaks of the Israeli and American flags, the official stories insist that the unconscionable should be invisible, writes @normansolomon.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/invi...

Weather, climate, and the tragedy in Texas, by @jonallsop.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

TWO DAYS FROM NOW, DC! Join us for a special screening of 'Who Killed Shireen?' on July 9th at @pressclubdc.bsky.social, followed by a conversation with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @dionnissenbaum.bsky.social! Seats are selling fast, get tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/who-killed...

How to sell yourself in wartime: on the front lines of the Ukrainian media’s fight for funding. By Anne Hylton. www.cjr.org/feature-2/uk...

Remind me again which side the free-speech absolutists are on?

“There's the shock of Trump, but then there's all of these Canadian oligarchs.” @naomiaklein.bsky.social breaks down the impact of Trump on Canadian right-wing politicians, comparing them to oligarchs. Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/how-zionis...

I know it's been said many times, but the Times killing its public editor spot was a real travesty.

"Trump and congressional Republicans have certainly delivered for the billionaire class." www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...

"Essentially, legal experts said, Mr. Trump is claiming a constitutional power to immunize private parties to commit otherwise illegal acts with impunity."

"This leaves us with the fact that the crypto lobby and the politicians they control—in both parties, to be clear—are are setting the table for the next financial crisis, aided by a President engaged in a massive grift, selling digital meme coins and ramping up his family’s own crypto exchange."

“October 7 and the aftermath vividly illustrate how power and narrative operate together in the West through consensus and coercion.” Pulitzer Prize winner @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social writes about his role as a writer in a time of fascism. Read the full article here: zeteo.com/p/saying-wha...

Navigating Risk, Noise, and Uncertainty. ritholtz.com/2025/07/navi...

“Things will be missed,” former FDA inspector Patrick Stone said about the layoffs. “We are going to have a lot less safe drugs.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/fda-...

Here too, please. www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...

While reporting this story about Hurricane Helene in NC, I was struck by how many people were asleep near creeks and rivers largely unaware of the coming danger. They were left to swim from homes. Or worse. 100+ died Texas is sounding so tragically similar. www.propublica.org/article/hurr...

Hi, everyone, I am traveling so I haven’t been posting (or writing) much. Here is a first for me: The New York Times Book Review did a full review on my latest book. Here is a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/b... 1/

Been on vacation for two GLORIOUS weeks. Anything of import happen in my absence? Do I even want to know?

This is bleak. FDA Cuts Will Limit Scrutiny of Troubled Foreign Drug Factories, Inspectors Say

A Texas Dad Tried to Kayak to His Daughters. The Girls Texted, ‘I Love You.’ 😢 so sad

How Healthcare Cuts in the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Affect Americans

10 Monday AM Reads. ritholtz.com/2025/07/10-m...

www.propublica.org/article/fda-...