Source: New York Post
by staff
“It’s odd how little credit Mayor Eric Adams gets for his relentless, steady and successful drive to get more housing, including more affordable homes, built in New York City. In under four years, he’s arguably done more than his predecessors achieved in the previous two decades, winning changes that will make a huge difference in the long term rather than offering empty promises of instant miracles. The latest: The City Council just OK’d Adams’[s] plan to rezone Midtown South, opening the door for nearly 10,000 new housing units, 2,800 of them affordable, in an area that was largely zoned for (outdated) industrial uses. Some of those units will come from converting commercial space to residential, an obvious next step for older, vacant office buildings.” (08/17/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/17/opinion/mayor-adams-deserves-credit-for-stunning-housing-wins/
Source: Fox News
“A new study suggests that cutting out a single category of foods could nearly double people’s weight-loss results. The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine on Aug. 4, found that overweight adults who ditched ultra-processed foods (UPFs) lost nearly twice as much weight over a two-month span as those who did not. UPFs include microwave meals, sodas, potato chips and packaged cookies, among others. But they can also include items marketed as ‘health foods,’ some medical professionals say. UPFs go through multiple processes to be ‘stabilized for consumption’, Dr. Jeffrey Kraft, a bariatric surgeon at Hackensack Meridian Palisades Medical Center in New Jersey, told Fox News Digital.” (08/18/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/cutting-one-food-type-could-nearly-double-weight-loss-study-suggests
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (08/18/25)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2548
Source: ABC News
“Google has agreed to pay a 55 million Australian dollar ($36 million) fine for signing anticompetitive deals with Australia’s two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines on some smartphones, the U.S. tech giant and Australia’s competition watchdog said. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in a statement it had commenced proceedings in the Australian Federal Court on Monday against the Singapore-based Google Asia Pacific division. The court will decide whether the AU$50 million ($36 million) penalty is appropriate. Under the anticompetitive agreements, which were in place for 15 months until March 2021, Telstra and Optus only pre-installed Google Search on Android phones sold to customers.” (08/18/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/google-pay-36m-fine-anticompetitive-deals-australias-largest-124734578
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Radha Stirling on fighting for travelers who have been Detained in Dubai.” (08/17/25)
https://rumble.com/v6xoty4-ff-344-radha-stirling-on-fighting-for-travelers-who-have-been-detained-in-d.html
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“Or, Poulantzas Should’ve Been An Anarchist.” (08/17/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-relational-theory-of-power
Source: SFGate
“The Canada Industrial Relations Board declared a strike by 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants illegal Monday and ordered them back on the job after they ignored an earlier order to return to work and submit to arbitration. The strike at Canada’s largest airline entered its third day on Monday and is affecting about 130,000 travelers per day during the peak summer travel season, and the two sides remain far apart on pay and other issues. Air Canada suspended plans to restart operations Sunday after the union defied an earlier return-to-work order. ‘The members of the union’s bargaining unit are directed to resume the performance of their duties immediately and to refrain from engaging in unlawful strike activities,’ the Canada Industrial Relations Board board, or CIRB, said in a written decision.” (08/18/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/strike-by-10-000-air-canada-flight-attendants-20822118.php
Source: The Libertarian Republic
by Austin Petersen
“The latest lawsuit over sports betting in Florida is once again dragging gamblers, businesses, and taxpayers into a courtroom battle. Filed by Protect The Constitution, LLC, the complaint argues that the state’s 2021 compact with the Seminole Tribe violates Amendment 3 of the Florida Constitution by expanding gambling without a voter referendum. The lawsuit highlights a familiar tug-of-war: government officials, powerful tribes, and industry lobbyists fighting over who gets to control betting rights. But the bigger question remains untouched — why should politicians or courts decide at all? In a free society, consenting adults should be able to place a wager without needing permission from Tallahassee or Washington.” (08/17/25)
https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/floridas-sports-betting-fight-shows-why-liberty-not-lawsuits-should-decide/
Source: In These Times
by Matt McManus
“In 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump proclaimed, as part of his ham-fisted effort to present himself as a man of the people, that he loved ’the poorly educated’. As his post-election work to redistribute wealth upwards made clear, Trump’s professed affections had less to do with concern for working class wellbeing than his expectation that an uneducated population would more readily accept his relentless lies and hypocrisies. Since returning to office, Trump’s hostility to education has expanded dramatically into an all-out attack on higher education. He has threatened to cut funding to numerous universities he sees as sites of intellectual opposition, most spectacularly including Columbia University, which recently agreed to a $200 million settlement and a promise to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in exchange for not losing all federal funding.” [editor’s note: Posted to remind you how delulu most “progressive” pundits still are – SAT] (08/18/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/conservatives-censorship-trump-ron-desantis-christopher-rufo-education
Source: CBS News
“Two U.S. tourists drowned last week in separate incidents at Carnival Cruise Line’s new Bahamas resort, authorities said. Both were passengers on Carnival cruise ships that had sailed to the Caribbean, the company confirmed to CBS News on Sunday. They died Friday while swimming at Celebration Key, a private resort on Grand Bahama Island that only Carnival cruise passengers can use, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force and Carnival. … Carnival opened Celebration Key — a $600 million resort compound on Grand Bahama Island that features numerous restaurants, pools, live music venues, a retail hub and amusement park-style activities — in July.” (08/17/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carnival-cruise-passengers-die-separate-drowning-incidents-bahamas-resort/
