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Saw American Zoo yesterday and thought it was excellent. “Part investigative thriller, part historical reckoning, the film traces an unsettling lineage connecting the zoo’s founders to controversial experiments in animal breeding and the racial ideologies of twentieth-century Europe.”

American ZooThe Catskill Game Farm was America's first ever private zoo, fostering beloved childhood memories for a generation before falling into disrepair and closing in 2006. But found home movies would expos...jfi.org

“Over the decades, many senators have missed months and even years of Senate business, with some recent prominent figures such as John McCain, and Edward M. Kennedy, going months without voting before they both died in office, of brain cancer, at the end of storied careers.” Gift link:

Why Mitch McConnell Isn’t Giving Up His Senate Seat (Gift Article)Democrats are demanding that the Kentucky Republican resign. Others who were sidelined for far longer faced no such calls, but times are changing.www.nytimes.com

“The shifts add to a growing body of evidence that suggests the audience for pro-Trump content has fallen from its heights and, for some creators, has reached new lows.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

TIL born Jacob Cohen! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_...

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“She wrote up the results for her senior-year high school research project.” !!

Am interested in reading more about the boundary drawing and contestation over “who is *really* Jewish?” Am open to work about any country. Recommendations?

Providing authorities with a “duress passcode” that intentionally erases the device risks triggering statutes against destroying evidence. Perhaps a good alternative would be essentially two logins, one private and encrypted, the other an active decoy.

A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge. (Gift Article)Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.www.nytimes.com

Saw parts of this presented a year ago and am still thinking about it. Highly recommend.

Surgeon General in the first Trump administration en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_...

Why has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...

Inside the Democratic Socialist uprising - Niskanen CenterCandidates affiliated with (or sympathetic to) the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) have recently won several Democratic primaries.www.niskanencenter.org

New robot just dropped

Winning the battle, losing the war: “According to Pew, polls show that a majority of Americans now hold a negative view of Israel, including majorities of adults under the age of 50 in both political parties. Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, that number rises to 80 percent.”

Mamdani Calls Netanyahu a ‘War Criminal’ and Calls on U.S. to Arrest HimMayor Zohran Mamdani challenged the United States to execute an international arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, which New York itself cannot do.www.nytimes.com

Across illnesses from cancer to Parkinson's, huge bets on genetics have underdelivered. I can't help but wonder whether obsession with genes reflects the long shadow of “race science” and eugenics: not so much explicit racism as a deep and largely false cultural inheritance that genes are destiny.