Source: Liberal Currents
“Why won’t Gregory Bovino stay gone? Why can’t Trump keep his pool clean? And how many fireworks is too many fireworks? We asked our friend and yours Amanda Moore to help us get to the bottom of these questions and more.” (07/01/26)
Source: LP Alliance
“Ya Got Trouble 2: Florida Edition.” (07/01/26)
Source: The UnPopulist
by Jonathan Rauch
“Pre-liberal faiths, such as tribalism and Christianity, provided meaningful stories—sometimes for better, though often for worse. In the recent past, liberalism, too, had a story: of a grand human endeavor of progress, equality, and liberation. Yet today, the author says, mass consumerism, fragmented media, tech-driven sociopathy, and cultural nihilism have taken a wrecking ball to meaning. In its own way, careerism has been just as bad; what Avent calls the Modern Faith ‘has no guidance for people in our situation’ beyond urging that we ‘achieve professional success, make money, job done.’ If any of this sounds familiar, that might be because the charge that individualism, industrialization, and consumerization lead to anomie and nihilism has roots that go back to Plato among the ancients and Rousseau and Marx among the moderns.” (07/01/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/liberal-societies-need-grand-stories
Source: WAAY 31 News
“Huntsville Police are investigating an early morning shooting on Salem Drive that they believe was an act of self-defense. Officers responded to a home on the 200 block of Salem Drive around 3 a.m. Wednesday, after getting a report of a shooting. When they arrived, they say they found a man with gunshot wounds who was taken to a local hospital, where he remains in critical condition. Detectives with the Violent Crimes Unit believe the injured man broke into the home while carrying a gun. Police say he then threatened the people inside before one of them shot him in self-defense.” (07/01/26)
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“Weaponizing Civil Death to Crush Dissidents (w/ Hüseyin Doğru).” (07/01/26)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/weaponizing-civil-death-to-crush
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israeli Minister Vows 100% Control of Gaza, Trump Considers Return to Full-Scale Iran War, and More.” (07/01/26)
Source: Liberalism.org
by Siri Terjesen
“How a voluntary, bottom-up answer to an information problem became a federally enforced cartel, and why prying it loose is a cause every liberal should own.” (07/01/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/the-academy-s-captured-gatekeepers
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“We need a constitutional amendment to set the number of justices. Leaving to Congress the option of remaking the Court every time partisan control changes in Washington is … corrupting.” (07/01/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/07/01/unpacking-the-court/
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Russian forces have launched a major drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight, killing 13 people, officials say. Several neighbourhoods were evacuated as strikes rocked buildings throughout the city, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russia was preparing for a ‘massive’ attack.” (07/02/26)
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“The colonists declared independence from Britain. … Today’s America is built on dependence, not independence. The average American is born in a government-regulated hospital, issued a government birth certificate, assigned a government identification number, shipped off as early as possible to government-regulated schools, graciously allowed by government to work in government-regulated businesses (if his or her government papers are found to be in order), retires on a government pension, and is eventually buried or cremated in accordance with government regulations. And, of course, every Fourth of July, he or she dutifully waves a piece of cloth representing that government, cries tears of gratitude for the brave government employees who defend his or her ‘freedom,’ and perhaps — if, and only if, the government allows it — enjoys some fireworks.” (07/01/26)