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Well-behaved women rarely make history. (Views my own and may not reflect the views of my fine employer.)
🚨 Texas Gov. Abbott (up for reelection) announces halt to new data centers on Monday, pausing his longstanding corporate handouts. Both D & R voters are pushing back. Texas R state legislators are questioning it. How Texas became the wild West of data centers? www.texastribune.org/2026/07/27/t...
💥 UEFA statement on reversal of FIFA plans to sell off pieces of the World Cup. "the current FIFA leadership has not only lost our confidence but that of many members of the football community" www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
Coming in August on Netflix: documentary on Mike Wallace. Posting for no reason.
💰analysis by @axios.com : Major donors who had supported Texas election Sen. John Cornyn in the primary have been very slow to donate to now-candidate Ken Paxton. Only a few so far.
🚨Breaking into your feed with actual good news: A wonderful Molly Ivins documentary just dropped on Netflix. Hilarious. Brilliant. Dead-on accurate. The voice we need. She called it like she saw it. Crystal-clear look at the US and Texas today - in her words 20 years ago.
As Tennessee is named the worst state to live in 🤷♀️ here's the focus by one candidate www.cnbc.com/2026/07/11/w...
Freedom 250 event in Brussels, US ambassador didn't like a Q from invited press , told police one was a "threat" and threw them out. This is not what US should export. Heck of a report. And this sounds *too* close to the DC event:
👀 This person says they raised millions for a monthlong Smithsonian festival for 250, but it was canceled when permits were denied and the money raised redirected to - ? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...
Climate change making fires worse, millions of acres destroyed and lives ruined each year, NOAA data showing May was not great, so naturally ... they want to eliminate research 🧐 WUT
This is what to know: you have to pay to see it. With all due respect for the paper's need to make money, election coverage should be free to support democracy.
CBS Mornings did mention it briefly on Thursday. Briefly. Then the last Colbert show, with an epic lineup and epic reaction online. And the morning after, where every big CBS show and movie and book is covered, every ep hard sells CBS shop merch, every ep for years used daily Colbert clips - this.