There’s a whole lot in this sentence from the NYT.

It’s over

Without much notice, the Education Department has suspended student loan forgiveness under a long-standing repayment plan, offering no timeline for resumption and little explanation for the decision. wapo.st/44Uy0o0

A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

During the first Trump admin, Nathan Albers' firm got caught hiring undocumented workers & hiding it from the feds. Now, Albers is getting paid to build the largest immigrant detention camp in the US. My latest w/ Jeff Ernsthausen propublica.org/article/nathan…

SCOOP: Two senior NOAA officials were just placed on leave. Both led ‘Sharpiegate’ inquiry cnn.com/2025/07/25/wea…

NEW: In a sign of what could be in store for other targets of Trump & his allies, Media Matters (Media Matters) is struggling to survive. The Dem-aligned group has racked up $15m in legal bills, dialed back its criticism of Trump & Musk & contemplated closing. nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/…

A new study concludes that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. propublica.org/article/water-…

NSA General Counsel ousted from Agency, Laura Loomer takes a measure of credit. nytimes.com/2025/07/29/us/…

The below occurs one day after West Point announced the appointment of Jen Easterly, a former Biden administration official and cybersecurity expert, to its faculty. Easterly is a West Point alum and retired Army officer. She also was a Rhodes scholar.

Whoa. Trump lays into Sen. Josh Hawley over the stock trade ban. He calls Hawley a “second-tier senator” “He is playing right into the dirty hands of the Democrats.”

homefield advantage applies to everything really