Source: The Bulwark
by Joseph Stieb
It’s one of the worst jobs in Washington: Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defense for policy, is tasked with explaining Donald Trump’s erratic foreign policy to the public. But you could just as easily say he volunteered to launder Trump’s bellicose, bizarre acts by finding an intellectual coherence that isn’t there. The 46-year-old grandson of former CIA Director William Colby and graduate of Harvard and Yale is a born-and-bred courtier to the powerful. He boosted lies about the 2020 election and spent the subsequent four years angling for a position in the next Republican administration. He seems to have convinced himself that Trump would be a vehicle for executing his grand vision of focusing American foreign policy on China while distancing the United States from, in his view, parasitic European allies and a hopelessly troubled Middle East.” (07/28/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/elbridge-colby-and-the-art-of-defending-the-indefensible-trump-foreign-policy
Source: Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone
“All this innovation that’s being poured into finding new ways to conduct mass military slaughter, to surveil and control our entire society, to restrict and manipulate the flow of information, to create artificial scarcity for products that people need, to create artificial demand for products that people do not need, to compete with rival corporations in order to turn billionaires into trillionaires — none of that needs to be happening. Humanity could be using its creativity and cleverness to make the world a better place instead.” (07/28/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/07/28/were-being-plunged-into-dystopia-when-we-could-be-living-in-paradise/
Source: Engadget
“As it promised last year, Baidu has started testing its robotaxis in London along with partners Lyft and Freenow, the companies said in a press release. Baidu’s Apollo Go RT6 will start appearing in the UK capital (with test drivers aboard to start with), while Lyft and and Freenow, the German taxi company Lyft now owns, will take care of booking passengers starting next year. The trials are part of the partnership between Lyft and Baidu, with the aim of eventually deploying thousands of autonomous vehicles across Europe. To expedite that plan, Lyft acquired Freenow last year to take advantage of its large taxi network operating in the UK and Germany.” (07/28/26)
https://www.engadget.com/2224882/lyft-and-baidu-start-testing-robotaxis-in-london/
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on public opinion of the Iran War, as a new poll shows that Americans are still hesitant to trust Democrats despite having mixed feelings about the war.” (07/28/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/5987841-rising-july-28-2026/
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Maybe some good will come from these military murders. Maybe the American people will finally come to the realization that the drug war is nothing more than a decades-old, ongoing, never-ending deadly, destructive, and corrupt racket that has brought nothing but death and the destruction of liberty and privacy, while making the federal government ever more powerful. Maybe — just maybe — Americans will finally, after decades of drug-war failure, pressure U.S. officials to terminate the abomination of the drug war.” (07/28/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/07/28/futile-drug-war-murders/
Source: Townhall
by Salena Zito
“Until recently, Lanyia Brooks worked as a custodian in a data center, where she spent her days maintaining the facility while watching tech professionals build the infrastructure around her. Brooks said that perspective changed completely when a data center technician noticed her work ethic and remarked that she ‘worked too hard to be just working as a custodian,’ and sent her a link to a specialized career training program. Despite waiting two anxious months to hear back, Brooks was accepted, conquering her fears to take her very first airplane flight to Indianapolis for the opportunity.” (07/28/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/salenazito/2026/07/28/inside-metas-bet-on-the-dignity-of-work-n2680220
Source: CNBC
“The Supreme Court’s job approval rating among all Americans has hit a record low, as support for the high court by Republicans sharply dropped in 2026, a new Gallup poll has found. Just 33% of Americans approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing, Gallup found. That is a 6-percentage-point drop from the 39% who approved of its work in July 2025, which was the prior low-water mark for approval of the court. A record high of 61% of Americans disapprove of the court, according to Gallup, which has been polling the public’s approval of the Supreme Court for 26 years. That is up from a disapproval rate of 52% last September.” (07/28/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/supreme-court-approval-poll-gallup-republicans-trump.html
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Keli‘i Akina
“Like many local business owners, Hawaii’s farmers and ranchers have to deal with rules and regulations that often make it harder to run a successful enterprise. They also share the same concerns about the high cost of housing and how it affects their ability to attract and retain employees. This year, with encouragement from my colleagues at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, the state Legislature took steps in the right direction to help.” (07/28/26)
https://fee.org/articles/planting-the-seeds-for-progress/
Source: Common Dreams
by CJ Polychroniou & Alexandra Boutri
“The US is the richest country in the world, yet an international outlier on many measures. Among industrialized nations, the US spends a lower percentage of its GDP on public social expenditure, has no universal healthcare system, union density is at an all-time low, and the average American’s standard of living is in decline, as ‘nearly half of US households can’t make ends meet.’ Of course, delusional President Donald Trump continues to say that the US is the ‘hottest country in the world.’ Is the US, however, ready for radical change?” (07/28/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-ready-radical-change
Source: Seattle Times
“Ugandan authorities said on Tuesday the East African country is ‘free’ of Ebola after the last patient was discharged in mid-June, a delicate milestone as the virus continues to plague a remote part of neighboring Congo. Uganda always insisted its outbreak was linked to the larger one that started in eastern Congo’s province of Ituri, which shares a land border with Uganda. … Confirmed cases in Congo have reached 3,262, its Ministry of Health said in an overnight update. Data by Congolese health authorities showed that 1,437 patients have died, in what officials have said is the fastest Ebola outbreak on record.” (07/28/26)
https://archive.is/YcCSB
