This email went to every Social Security subscriber and every word of it is a lie. Social Security benefits are still taxed. This big, ugly bill doesn’t change that. It’s disturbing to see Trump hijack a public institution to push blatant misinformation.

You Can Finally Keep Your Shoes On—TSA's 23-Year Airport Security Rule Ended Today - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/you-can-finall…

(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences Timothy's coverage has started convincing me x.com/binarybits/sta…

If Chicago's pension funds were passively managed in 2024 (instead of spread across 80+ management firms), the city would have saved ~$40,000,000 in management fees. And returns would have been about 25% better.

2025 Donald Trump should listen to 2013 Donald Trump. He was right the first time.

A true genius, and an American original. RIP. "Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97" nytimes.com/2025/07/27/art…

UPDATE: Tsunami alerts are in effect for multiple U.S. states and British Columbia. Tsunami WARNING for Hawaii and part of the Aleutians. Tsunami WATCH for California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia. Biggest worldwide #earthquake since 2011.

Perfect example of how Biden tried to make government work for people, in this case, by creating what was effectively a free Turbo Tax-like program and Trump killing that program with little to no media coverage, leaving the public none the wiser.

Vibe code is legacy code blog.val.town/vibe-code (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447395…)

Trump just ensured that we should not trust any government data coming out of his administration. Why should we trust data from agencies in which the director's job depends on altering any bad economic news? Any Republicans with a spine need to speak out.

Very, very bad to behave this way...

Firing the head of a key government agency because you don’t like the numbers they report, which come from surveys using long established procedures, is what happens in authoritarian countries not democratic ones. This is surely not the most serious threat to our democracy that

Is the US devoting appropriate resources to battling Canadian wildfires? I believe the USDA has sent a couple of hundred firefighters to Canada. But the costs of all this smoke in terms of health impacts and general misery seem large. Has anyone done a cost benefit analysis?

not a headline but probably the best thing the Onion has ever done

Tabarrok on Flight Delays marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that, with 57M miles of data, Waymo’s autonomous vehicles experience 85% less serious injuries & 79% less injuries overall than cars with human drivers. 2.4 million are injured & 40k killed in US accidents a year

Under the new Donald Trump FDA, no one under the age of 65 is eligible to receive COVID vaccines unless they have a specific medical condition that deems them "high risk" This includes children. I REPEAT: YOU CAN NO LONGER GET COVID VACCINES UNLESS YOU ARE ELDERLY OR HIGH RISK

Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.

ICE literally arrested firefighters in the process of fighting a fire. If a dystopian comedy included this scenario, people would dismiss it as unrealistic.

Wow, I didn't realize the difference between cars and motorcycles was this big. Motorcycles are 29x more dangerous.