Source: Fox News
“Two Democratic candidates locked in a race to fill the seat left by the late Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., advanced to a runoff election on Tuesday evening after failing to capture 51% of the vote. The winner of the election will add another Democratic seat in a narrowly divided House of Representatives where Republicans hold 218 seats and Democrats control 212. Adding even one more Democratic member puts increased pressure on Republicans to remain united on party-line legislation. Marcye Scott, the daughter of the late David Scott, and Everton Blair, chair of the Gwinnett County School Board, will face off against each other in a runoff to represent the Peach State’s 13th Congressional District on Aug. 25. A third candidate, Caesar Gonzales, a Republican, did not advance, receiving only 8.7% of the vote.” (07/29/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/battle-replace-late-house-dem-overtime-after-daughter-failed-clinch-seat
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Thoughts on Michigan’s Final Debate! The Impossible Midterms Archive Test (with Howard Mortman).” (07/28/29)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/thoughts-on-michigans-final-debate
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“Although the House passed the budget resolution, the Senate hasn’t moved on it. There’s a real possibility that the Senate doesn’t do anything with it. Why? Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) doesn’t have the votes to move H.Con.Res. 113. Instead, Thune, who is in his first term as majority leader, is more interested in moving a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the federal government open. The House passed a CR, H.R. 9770, before the recess. However, the House-passed CR doesn’t include the anomalies requested by the White House, which include $1 billion for procurement of materials to build a new battleship.” (07/28/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/is-congress-ready-for-reconciliation
Source: Law & Liberty
by Daniel J Mahoney
“The hope and sober wisdom of the American Founding can help save us from creeping nihilism.” (07/29/26)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/renewal-and-gratitude/
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Algeria’s parliament elected its first-ever woman speaker on Tuesday evening, making Khalida Boufedeche the fourth-highest-ranking official in the country. Boufedeche, an allergist by training who represents the capital Algiers, is a member of the National Liberation Front (FLN), the historic party of Algerian independence and allied with the current government. The FLN was the biggest winner in parliamentary elections earlier this month, securing 91 of the body’s 407 seats.” (07/29/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260729-khalida-boufedeche-elected-as-algeria-first-woman-parliamentary-speaker
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Are the Ukraine and the Iran Wars Merging? | Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov.” (07/28/26)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69614
Source: Aaron Ross Powell
by Aaron Ross Powell
“In the opening chapter of his book Ghosts of My Life, the Marxist theorist Mark Fisher argues that capitalism has destroyed creativity. That art—and he’s talking mostly about music in the book—has stagnated, that it’s no longer dynamic, but is instead endlessly remixing the past. I’ve always found this passage fascinating, because he’s very much onto something, even if not to quite the degree he imagines, but then he pins the blame in the wrong place. To the extent that we’ve lost the creative spark, in the way Fisher presents it, the culprit really isn’t capitalism. Or neoliberalism. It’s instead, to a rather blameworthy degree, NIMBYism.” (07/29/26)
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mrqtnr7r2c2i
Source: The American Prospect
“The Rollup of All Media Is No Longer Inevitable (with Adam Conover).” (07/28/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/07/28/organized-money-the-roll-up-of-all-media-is-no-longer-inevitable-with-adam-conover/
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jonah Goldberg
“I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but it’s almost like the GOP is secretly promoting the Democratic Socialists of America, which is now producing a lot of the energy and excitement within the Democratic and Republican parties. The DSA champions many views that exist wildly outside the mainstream of American politics, including the abolition of the police, prisons, the Pentagon and the U.S. Senate. This is all, to borrow a term from social science, bat guano insane. … but I’m not too worried, even if the GOP fails to weaponize the Red Menace. If you tune out the noise and simply look at the more mainstream question of socialism’s alleged rise in popularity, fears of a socialist takeover of America are absurdly overblown.” (07/29/26)
https://archive.is/dcKiM
Source: SFGate
“Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people in southwestern Japan. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit a day earlier in the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu, also left at least 62 people injured, six of them seriously, the prefectural government said. The tally has been steadily growing, fanning fears it may continue to rise.” (07/29/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/death-toll-rises-to-13-as-rescuers-search-for-the-22364581.php
