Some, maybe many, people on the right have indulged in the fantasy that universities are left-wing brainwashing operations, and that professors have the power to turn students into wild-eyed radicals who are left of Marx and Trotsky.
Judge Todd E. Edelman, an Obama appointee, warned U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, 75, on Monday that the Trump administration is "operating at its own peril" in the way it has handled its case against David Hearn, 67, a former Olympic canoeist.
The Donnerboy Rule
The word integrity is rooted in the Latin word integer, meaning "whole" or "complete" " living by your principles, choosing honesty over opportunism, making ethical choices that may be inconvenient or unpopular, maintaining your moral compass. It is not possible to have integrity and be loyal to Trump. The two are in direct conflict. No one can be honest in a regime based on big lies. As the poet, philosopher and statesman Vclav Havel put it: "If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth." So a choice must be made " personal integrity or loyalty to Trump. Read more
Dummkopf Trumpf quietly denied nearly 6,000 clemency applications this month from convicts who mostly lacked political connections or wealth. The denials came after the diabolical Trumpf junta had raised hopes that Dear Leader might mark the country's 250th independence anniversary by granting clemency to as many as 250 people.
Hundreds of dangerous runamoks are amongst us.
In what could have been a scene out of the classic 1972 film Deliverance, father and son Joseph Charles Henrichsen (49) and Phoenix Henrichsen (23) abducted at gunpoint two US Forest Service employees, zip-tied them, and held them in a trailer for 15 hours before they were rescued by law-enforcement personnel in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
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IDF Major-General Avi Bloch warned that Settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are having a dangerous and destabilizing effect: "Jewish terrorism threatens everyone's security." He mirrored what ex-PM Ehud Olmert recently stated about Israeli brutality in the West Bank where two more Palestinians were recently murdered. Since October 2023, Settlers and the IDF have killed 1,181 Palestinians and injured nearly 13,000 others; approximately 24,000 Palestinians have been arrested. At a recent public event in NYC, a rabbi declared: "If you really want to fight antisemitism, be a better Jew."
"Crimes against humanity"
For weeks, Army Ranger School students put their bodies through a physical ringer, carrying heavy loads and marching far distances with little to eat and sparing sleep. But when Army researchers measured the course's grueling toll, they found that female soldiers experienced fewer physiological changes than their male counterparts.
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
