AMERICANTHINKER - Consumer sentiment during the COVID lockdowns
By Noel S. Williams Democrat sentiment thrives when America dives.
NPR (Chiara Eisner) - More than 25,000 children lose previous legal protections, as federal contract ends
Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children are set to lose legal representation. The federal contract that pays for legal access expired Friday.
NPR (Jane Arraf) - Lebanese who fled the Israeli invasion visit to see what's left
Residents of the ancient town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon have endured wars in the past, but the latest conflict with Israel is testing the limits of their endurance.
WASHINGTONPOST (Peter Jamison) - The last day of an American factory
A Trump donor called for an end to offshoring. Then his company moved much of this plant’s work to China.
REDSTATE (Brad Essex) - The Essex Files: Biology Is Not Bigotry: Why the WNBA Reaction to Female Fans Should Worry Everyone
WASHINGTONPOST (N. Kirkpatrick) - Coyotes overtake abandoned housing development, vexing neighbors
A West Hollywood pack making its home in what’s been dubbed a “coyote condo” is drawing curious onlookers and concern from nearby residents.
SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - MI5 directors who plotted IRGC 'terror' ban exposed in leaked emails
By Kit Klarenberg
Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone show both a current and former MI5 director secretly lobbied for the British government’s move to label the IRGC a terrorist entity as well as the UK’s adoption of the draconian National Security Act. The correspondence reviewed here offers extraordinary insight into how the MI5 influences Downing Street and manipulates public perceptions of dubious or non-existent threats. On July 13 , the government of former Prime Minister Keir Starmer officially listed the IRGC as a terrorist organization, citing supposed kidnapping and assassination plots by the Iranian military branch. Now, merely publishing Iranian-supplied casualty figures could be categorized as “terrorism,” potentially landing…Open
NYTIMES (Pete Wells) - Anthony Bourdain’s Wild Summers Still Echo in Provincetown
As a new film evokes his coming-of-age in this bohemian Cape Cod town, Pete Wells goes looking for the people and restaurants that shaped him.
NYTIMES (Paul Sonne and Milana Mazaeva) - The U.S. Deported Him to Jail in Russia. Then He Escaped.
Facing a long prison sentence or a forced trip to the front line of a war he opposes, Artyom Vovchenko believed it was worth taking a risk.
NYTIMES (Anton Troianovski, Ken Bensinger and Constant Méheut) - How Ukraine Is Making Inroads With MAGA and a Trump Ally, Laura Loomer
Ukraine and its supporters have invested years in trying to undo the skepticism of the country’s war effort harbored by President Trump’s MAGA movement and the president himself.