How desperate US prisoners try to escape deadly heat
With no air con, a former prisoner describes lying in toilet water to survive brutal heat.
Is Elon Musk right to ditch the Twitter bird logo?
“While Musk’s vision is to turn X into an ‘everything app,’ this takes time, money, and people – three things that the company no longer has,” Mike Proulx, a research…
Obamas’ chef Tafari Campbell dies in paddleboarding accident
“Tafari was a beloved part of our family. When we first met him, he was a talented sous chef at the White House – creative and passionate about food, and…
US heatwave leads to rising number of burns, medics say
Superheated asphalt or metal seatbelts can melt flesh in minutes, officials warn amid intense heat.
Officials investigate police dog attack on driver in Ohio
A video shows the K-9 pulling down the driver, who is black, as he was trying to surrender in Ohio.
Nova Scotia floods: Body found of one of four missing
Unidentified remains also found as police continue to search for three others missing in Nova Scotia.
No Joke: Ursula Von der Leyen’s EU Commission Just Received “World Prize for Peace and Freedom” | naked capitalism
Few political figures have done more to keep Ukrainians fighting — and dying in huge numbers — in a bloody, futile proxy war of attrition than Von der Leyen. Last…
Israel’s Political Crisis
In their details, the judicial changes that Israel’s Parliament passed yesterday sound like something that liberals in the U.S. and democracy advocates around the world might support. Israel reduced the…
Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina and Head of “BRICS Bank” Throw Cold Water on BRICS Currency Project | naked capitalism
We’re late to a story that interestingly has been very much under-reported, perhaps because it is contrary to the anti-globalist narrative….already a minority faction in the Anglosphere. We’ve said for…
A Continental Competition, All in One Neighborhood
At the eight-minute mark of the final of the CAN 18 soccer tournament, the players on the Mauritania team score three times in rapid succession. The balls hitting the goalkeeper’s…