This is a thing that can happen now…?! (thanks y)
•How the CIA Came to Doubt the Official Story of JFK’s Murder
A bunch of JFK files have been recently declassified and they paint a strange picture; not what you’d expect. However, many more are still secret and intelligence agencies are lobbying Trump to keep them so. (thanks y!)
L.A. — the city of traffic jams — finds a way to get people out of their cars
Spoiler: it’s LRT
Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch
And all-new form factor. Making the watch an independent device would be a very good thing.
Canada’s jailhouse secret: Legally innocent prisoners are dying
Why in the hell do we, as a relatively progressive nation, have such shit jails? Also, why is this:
Prisoners awaiting trial accounted for 59 percent of the total number of inmates in provincial jails in 2015, up from 27 percent in 1995.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller Impanels Washington Grand Jury in Russia Probe
This is yet a further sign that there is a long-term, large-scale series of prosecutions being contemplated and being pursued by the special counsel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QwjURBSIPA
This was an algorithmic Spotify recommendation. Tiiiiight tho. More about the band here.
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This is great: 70 new stations to Bike Share TO in August.
•‘The moment when it really started to feel insane’: An oral history of the Scaramucci era
Via Funkaoshi. Looks like I picked a heck of a ten days to go on vacation and then get sick. My favourite part is “Pickle”.
Hackers Leak Episodes Of ‘Game Of Thrones’ After Massive HBO Hack
Episodes 3 (already aired) and 4, but they may have more
UPDATE: heh I forgot I had kinda already posted this. Although it was only a script when last reported.
HBO hacked: Game of Thrones data leaked
Script for the next episode, plus episodes of some other shows no one cares about
How much will the new iPhone cost?
Horace Dediu is predicting the price ceiling will be $1100, so perhaps $999 for the starting rung of the fancy (Pro?) model
The case of the Russian media czar who died mysteriously in D.C. isn’t so closed after all
Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon
Wow. Trump hires the top people.
Read the Full Text of Bill Browder’s Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee
Some deep background on just how corrupt and awful Putin is, and the insane story behind the Magnitsky Act:
Sergei Magnitsky was murdered as my proxy. If Sergei had not been my lawyer, he would still be alive today.
That morning I made a vow to Sergei’s memory, to his family, and to myself that I would seek justice and create consequences for the people who murdered him. For the last seven and a half years, I’ve devoted my life to this cause.
Hello – I’m cottaging! Just in case anyone was wondering where the Thrones write-up was. Hopefully I’ll have it up sometime tomorrow.
Balls Out: The Weird Story of the Great Truck Nuts War
It was an intense and bloody battle between two older men who didn’t really know how to use the internet—over fake balls.
When I was ten I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Goodnight, sweet wince.
Whaaaaat
•Sorry. Trump’s Attacks Aren’t Remotely Like Clinton and Starr
Josh Marshall:
It is very hard to come up with any plausible interpretation of these actions other than that the President is concealing grave wrongdoing which he will not allow to be uncovered. We are far, far past the point where ego, impetuousness, inexperience or anything else is a credible alternative explanation.
Trump Aides, Seeking Leverage, Investigate Mueller’s Investigators
It’s becoming clear that Trump will get rid of Mueller.
The Dirtbag Left and the Problem of Dominance Politics
Jeet Heer on Chapo and how they want moderate Democrats to “bend the knee” to the Sanders wing. He ties it to Trump-style dominance politics and argues it’s doomed to fail for the left. It’s an interesting take, but I’m not sold. I think some measure of browbeating could work well if paired with a more inclusive outreach effort. Which obviously should not be left to Chapo. (And is it me or is Chapo getting a lot of press these days?)
‘Game of Thrones’ Showrunners Announce Next Project for HBO: ‘Confederate’
Set in alternate reality where the south won the Civil War and slavery is still legal in present day