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How David Hockney Taught Los Angeles to See Itself

How David Hockney Taught Los Angeles to See Itself

A Brit, he became a symbol of the city’s culture, stylish and alienating, with his vivid swimming pool paintings and embrace of SoCal light, hedonism and gay liberation.

Liberal New York Times 🗞️ Breaking! 1:26 PM Read

House conservatives mount push to codify Trump border policies

Hard-line conservatives in the House are mounting an uphill push to codify President Trump’s border policies, demanding a vote by July 4 and warning that policies that have significantly cut down crossings at the southern border could be easily reversed once he leaves office. “The president has given us the most secure border that, literally,…

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What to Know About the Ebola Outbreak

What to Know About the Ebola Outbreak

Aid agencies are racing to help health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The virus is known to have killed at least 140 people, but the true toll may be far higher.

Liberal New York Times 🗞️ Breaking! 11:37 AM Read

Iran peace deal expected to be finalized ‘in the next 24 hours’: Pakistan

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday that a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran could be finalized “in the next 24 hours.” Pakistan has been mediating the peace talks between the two sides, and Sharif wrote in a social media post that the nations “are closer to a peace deal than ever…

Moderate The Hill 🗞️ Breaking! 11:35 AM Read

Ghana’s Partey denied entry for World Cup

Ghanaian star soccer player Thomas Partey is set to miss his national team’s opening FIFA World Cup match next week after he was denied entry to Canada. Partey, who also plays for Villarreal CF in Spain’s club soccer league, is currently facing charges in the United Kingdom including seven counts of rape and one count…

Moderate The Hill 10:41 AM Read

David Hockney and the Bliss of Not Standing Still

“As important as the boys and the pools and the light,” a memoirist writes, “the most important thing was becoming the driving.” It would inspire an obsession with moving focus into the future.

Liberal New York Times 10:38 AM Read

Fetterman scoffs at Platner: ‘He’s not even a Democrat’

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) rebuked the Democratic nominee in the Maine Senate race on Friday, saying scandal-plagued Graham Platner is “not even a Democrat.” “We’re the party of pearl clutching, and now we’ve embraced him because we don’t have a choice,” Fetterman told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham in an interview Friday. “Like if you can’t…

Moderate The Hill 10:17 AM Read

Schiff blasts ‘corrupt system’ that made Elon Musk a trillionaire

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) late Friday criticized what he called a “corrupt system” that produces extreme wealth at the top while many Americans lack access to health care. “There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people,” he wrote late Friday on social platform X,…

Moderate The Hill 10:15 AM Read

Post-Platner Democrats must ask: ‘Are we the baddies?’

“Are we the baddies?” That line from a famous comedy sketch came to mind this week as Democrats struggled to embrace Graham Platner, the Nazi-tattooed, Hamas-praising, veteran-bashing, sex-texting, self-described Communist who was just nominated to be the next U.S. senator from Maine. The hilarious sketch from the British show “That Mitchell and Webb Look” portrays two Nazi soldiers…

Moderate The Hill 10:00 AM Read

Anthropic pulls plug on new AI models after Trump admin directive

Anthropic said Friday it will remove access to two AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to comply with a Trump administration directive restricting foreign nationals from using its latest systems due to security concerns. Details of the government’s request, including the length of the restrictions, have not been made public. The company said it…

Moderate The Hill 9:18 AM Read

Trump name stripped from Kennedy Center after court ruling, rain delay

Workers removed President Trump’s name from the exterior of the Kennedy Center on Saturday morning, hours past a court-ordered deadline that was later extended.   Justice Department (DOJ) attorneys representing the historic performing arts center asked a district court late Friday evening for a 12-hour extension to the 11:59 p.m. Friday deadline. The attorneys cited…

Moderate The Hill 8:07 AM Read
How to Kick SpaceX Out of Your 401(k)

How to Kick SpaceX Out of Your 401(k)

It is impossible to beat the stock market. But if you want to divest your retirement of Elon Musk-related companies, here is the best way to do so.

Liberal New York Times 8:05 AM Read

Unfinished Business

We like it when projects are completed, but what if we could abide comfortably in the toiling and striving it takes to get them there?

Liberal New York Times 6:12 AM Read

FISA 702 lapse plunges US into unknown territory

The unprecedented expiration of the nation’s warrantless spy powers has plunged the country into legal uncertainty over the extent to which it can surveil foreigners located abroad.  Both chambers of Congress on Thursday failed to pass bills to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) through July 2 amid outrage from Democrats…

Moderate The Hill 6:00 AM Read

GOP divided on pursuing third reconciliation amid election tensions

Republicans are divided over whether to pursue a third party-line spending package, with some lawmakers expressing skepticism that such an ambitious effort can clear Congress in a high-stakes election year. GOP leaders and top budget writers have already begun laying the groundwork for a third package, which they hope will include defense funding, fraud prevention…

Moderate The Hill 6:00 AM Read

Screwworm spread tests US readiness after Trump staffing cuts

The U.S. spent decades driving the New World screwworm far into South America. But now the parasite has reemerged, and officials are working to beat it back yet again using many of the same tried-and-true methods as the government did in the 1950s.  Experts have been tracking the path of parasitic fly as it moved steadily northward…

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Open Thread

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New York, New Jersey

New York, New Jersey

Before the World Cup came, Hoboken’s little square mile was already teeming with life.

Conservative The Dispatch 2:45 AM Read