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Monday, July 20, 2026

Carlson bashed his former pal yet again during a July 15 interview on Bloomberg journalist Mishal Husain's podcast, after she asked if it was time to hold Trump "fully accountable" for the Iran war reigniting. Husain said it made sense, since the president is the "most powerful man in the world." Carlson scoffed at the description. "I don't think he's the most powerful man in the world," Carlson said. "I have held him directly accountable, it's his fault, he's the U.S. president, he was elected. That's his job, and a huge part of the job is resisting pressure from outside forces."


The song has been streamed nearly 500 million times on Spotify.
Jul 20, 2026

It was on this day, 61 years ago, that Dylan released "Like a Rolling Stone," five weeks after completing the recording at Studio A of Columbia Records in New York City.

Upon its release, "Like a Rolling Stone" quickly stood out given its unusually long length of 6:13. In those days, songs played on the radio were usually around three minutes long, as the New York Times noted in 2004.

For its rankings of the 500 greatest songs ever in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "Like a Rolling Stone" No. 1.

It maintained the top spot for the updated rankings in 2010, though Rolling Stone most recently listed it as the fourth-best song ever in 2024.


More voters would be more likely to support a democratic socialist candidate than a Make America Great Again supporter or a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, the CNBC All-America Economic Survey found.


It can't have been fun for the anthropologists when their discipline was singled out as a hive of political groupthink. In fact, they got very angry about the "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences," commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis. What will happen in the 2026 midterms? Sign up for Margin of Victory The 10 scholars who authored the report, which was released in June, offered anthropology as an example of a field where "we see a widespread deterioration in scholarly standards ... together with a toxic intellectual climate in which reasonable dissent on politically charged topics is routinely suppressed and punished." For instance: The American Anthropological Association canceled a 2023 conference panel on the relevance of biological sex to anthropology.


The FBI will no longer investigate assault confrontations with ICE agents, according to two people familiar with the directives. According to those sources, FBI special agents in charge of field offices and agents in those field offices were told Thursday that the FBI would no longer investigate cases of assault against a federal officer. Read more


A phallus-shaped iceberg hovered off the coast of Dildo, Newfoundland in Conception Bay before collapsing.


Yemen's Houthi rebels announced they are imposing a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia in response for a recent attack on Sanaa Airport. The statement did not clarify exactly what that means. This could put pressure on Saudi Arabia, which uses its East-West Pipeline to try to move oil out of the kingdom while the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Read more


Karolina Urbanov from the Czech Republic set world records in two events. She earned first place in the Women's Underhand Chop, cutting through 11" (27.9 centimeters) of white pine in 21.28 seconds. She also came in first in the Women's Standing Chop, cutting through 9" (22.8 centimeters) of white pine in 19.38 seconds. Meredith Ingbretson of Hayward set a world record in the Women's Boom Run, sprinting across the water and back over eight red cedar logs in 13.78 seconds. Read more


Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) thinks there's something queer about Secretary Pete Hegseth's fixation on masculinity. The congresswoman weighed in on the U.S. military's plans to test male service members' testosterone levels, telling journalist Scott MacFarlane there's something odd about being so obsessed with manliness while villainizing the LGBTQ community at the same time. Read more


US Gestapo Gruppenfuhrer Tom Homan brayed on national TV (CBS Face the Nation): "I think no matter what people think of ICE, no matter what you think of immigration law, you should always comply with law enforcement... bottom line is -- we'll see when the investigation plays out -- [the dead victims] would be alive today if they simply complied."

Tom Homan is not a good human being.


Sunday, July 19, 2026

Tropical Depression Two has formed in the northeastern Gulf and is expected to bring heavy rain and tropical storm-force gusts to the northern and eastern Gulf Coast in the coming days. Tropical Depression Two is forecast to become a tropical storm tonight or Monday, at which point it will be called Tropical Storm Bertha. Read more


Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) unleashed her outrage on Pete Hegseth following the deaths of two U.S. service members. On Saturday, the secretary of defense took to X to repost the news of the military personnel killed and injured on Friday. "Godspeed, heroes," Hegseth, 46, declared. "Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve." In response, Greene, 52, sent a scathing message of her own. "Sacrifice?? What the f"k are you talking about??" she wrote on X. "They did not willingly sacrifice themselves." Greene " who resigned from Congress in January 2026 and announced she was done supporting the Republican Party " continued: "They were killed because of the war you, Trump and the admin, are waging on behalf of a FOREIGN COUNTRY, Israel."


Between 2007 and 2024, Florida attempted to rebuild the Gulf of Mexico's ecosystem in an unusual way: dumping over 500,000 tons of recycled oyster and clam shells straight back into the water. These shells were gathered from seafood restaurants (quite literally scraped off of plates) as well as seafood plants. So essentially, a massive amount of sinking, rotting garbage was supposedly going to bring the struggling sandy seafloors back to life.


Russian attacks kill 6 in Kyiv and other cities and expose gaps in Ukraine's air defenses

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) " Russia attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with ballistic missiles, drones and guided bombs Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, authorities said, again highlighting Ukraine's shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems.


Iran's improving ability to strike sensitive targets has raised concerns among U.S. officials that the regime may be receiving targeting assistance from China or Russia, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, as Iran killed two U.S. service members and left a third missing in an attack on a Jordanian air base.


It's no secret that JD Vance has lost the confidence of many Jewish Republicans, who have taken issue with the vice president's reprimanding of Israeli officials, indulgence of anti-Israel conspiracy theories and silence on Tucker Carlson, the prominent pundit who has turned against Israel. But Vance is still thought by many to be Donald Trump's likeliest successor at the top of the party's ticket in 2028, leaving the GOP's Jewish supporters with the question of whom to back when Trump's second term ends. Read more


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