Used-car prices are rising faster than overall inflation after crossing the $30,000-mark again early this year, per WSJ

Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there. wapo.st/4mrLVJE

SARS-CoV-2 impairs frontal-executive brain circuits, causing lasting “brain fog,” fatigue, and cognitive decline. The damage mimics early neurodegeneration and stems from inflammation, vascular injury, and disrupted neural connectivity. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-neuropat…

This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. Governor Gavin Newsom

A Florida woman is suing a dairy after drinking raw milk that hospitalized her toddler with E. coli and a bowel blockage and hospitalized her with sepsis, causing her to have a miscarriage. The milk was labeled: “Not for Human Consumption.” (as is legally required in Florida)

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.

Bill Maher: "I was a guy who did not want the Covid vaccine, but I do want research on mRNA. I don't think that that's crazy stuff." Andrew Huberman: "mRNA is in every single one of our cells... we would not be here were it not for mRNA... there is incredible work on non-COVID

Cancelling an energy project basically right before it’s finished and delivering power to the grid shows that Trump’s energy policy is about creating shortages so that prices go up. I do not wonder why.

Arguably one of the best campaign ads I’ve ever seen from Graham Platner for Senate. This is the New Democratic Party. Going back to its roots. Real, blue collar, working class people, leading the charge to take the party and the country back from oligarchic elites. ✊🏻

#BREAKING Lightning ignites multiple small fires in Angeles National Forest amid heat wave, red flag warnings abc7.com/post/lightning…

Joe Rogan on amnesty for undocumented immigrants: “There’s this pushback on amnesty. People have this crazy pushback. If someone’s been here for 20 years, they’ve been working on a farm, they’re good people. Let’s figure out a pathway to amnesty.”

'Unseasonable' heat causing severe conditions in SoCal, new wildfires starting to burn latimes.com/california/sto…

Miss "Lydia" shows us her screen with a temp of 97° at 11am while she works packing grapes in Bakersfield CA. The area is under an extreme heat warning meaning a high risk for heat illness especially among the elderly like herself but she works out of necessity. #WeFeedYou #calor

They don’t want to leave a record of their crimes

Most of the immigrants ICE arrested in California last month have never even been charged with a crime, much less convicted. If Donald J. Trump says he’s only targeting the “worst of the worst,” why do his own numbers prove otherwise?

At-home COVID tests still work despite new variants. They target the stable N protein, not the mutating spike. Accuracy depends more on timing, viral load, and repeat testing than on variant type. Serial testing boosts detection and public confidence. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/at-home-covi…

FOX: What's the problem with the wind farm in Rhode Island?  Zeldin: The president is not a fan of wind FOX: This project is largely almost finished. You got AI, the electrification of everything around us. Why would you take any power offline?

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”

ICE detains husband of Democratic congressional candidate—who is also a disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is wheelchair bound—after suffering severe injury during training for deployment in Iraq. Agents arrested him at his naturalization hearing—he is already green card holder who

🚨BREAKING: The first U.S. human case of flesh-eating screwworm has been confirmed in Maryland, traced to a traveler from Guatemala. The parasite, usually found in cattle, eats living tissue as outbreaks spread north from Central America.