“A citizen-science program is training pet dogs to find the eggs before they hatch so they can be destroyed. It's revealing the surprising power of pet dogs' noses, with even unconventional sniffer-dog breeds like the humble pug able to play their part.” www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Philip Gourevitch
Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
NEW: Cornyn pulls a Columbo. JUST ONE MORE THING. Cornyn won’t vote for Blanche unless Blanche rescinds the Trump IRS settlement. www.politico.com/live-updates...
CANADIAN TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES FELL 25 PERCENT IN 2025 as Trump returned to the White House and Canadians opted to spend their vacation dollars elsewhere, Statistics Canada reports. The trend continued into early 2026, “signaling a persistent shift away from the United States”
Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
We actually had the 16th highest mortality rate in the world and it largely resulted from the ignorant asshats who were *resisting* the common sense protection measures Fauci was promoting like masking and distancing. What a colossal asshole.
Aaron RuparRFK Jr: "Because of Dr Fauci's leadership and other reasons, we had the highest mortality rate from covid of any country in the world" #OtherReasons 🙃
Marc Rosenblum, head for statistics at DHS, resigns, saying he is delighted to no longer be involved in supporting the agency's war against facts and the truth. www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...
So facing criticism that it was obscuring US casualties in Trump’s war Hegseth’s pentagon further obscured US casualties in Trump’s war.
The New York TimesFacing criticism that it had minimized the number of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in the war with Iran, the Pentagon changed the way it reports casualties. The changes separated the casualty numbers into two separate web pages, potentially making it more difficult to tally the war’s full toll.
Trapped? What about failure? That's the story. A president that launched a reckless war and completely and totally failed...with all of us paying the price. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
RIP to a master: "“People claim Guy was a curmudgeon, but it’s really that he was alarmed—and rightly so—by what is happening to the natural world,” Mr. Gwynne added. “He always used to say, ‘The infidels have invaded my church, and they’ve almost reached the altar.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/s...
the US Chamber of Commerce: "Congress can & should, exercise its plenary authority over immigration policy to prevent significant disruption to America’s work force & avoid an unnecessary humanitarian crisis,” the chamber wrote in a July 10 letter to Senate leadership www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
About 1 in 5 reliable Republican base voters are at risk this November, according to AFP Action. Those voters are either saying they may stay home or are weighing voting for Democrats.