And another day of impeachment inquiries, blocking rules, ocean current collapse, climate change fingerprints, hot tub temps off FL coast, FL’s F on Black History homework, depression and dementia, X, and UAPs comes to a close:
“History teaches that autocrats who lose power and regain it are vengeful. If plagued by legal proceedings that threaten them, they are doubly intent on remaking government so that they are never haunted by investigations, impeachments or indictments again.” — Laurence Tribe
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy floats an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Speaking Monday on Fox News, McCarthy said the questions raised by House Republicans about the Biden family finances need to be investigated. So far, he acknowledged, the House’s probes have not proven any wrongdoing, but an impeachment inquiry “provides Congress the strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge and information needed.”...In his brief comments on Fox, McCarthy said the House needs to “get the rest of the knowledge” of what’s happening with the Biden family finances. -- Yet, they fought and fought against any investigation of their cult leader Trump. Republicans are not fighting for America. They are fighting to forever rule America.
Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in lecture. The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters. — Free speech is ending in Texas.
Federal Judge Blocks Biden Administration’s Rule Restricting Asylum. The policy is similar to a Trump-era transit ban that was also blocked by the same Obama-appointed judge as unlawful...“The ruling is a victory, but each day the Biden administration prolongs the fight over its illegal ban, many people fleeing persecution and seeking safe harbor for their families are instead left in grave danger,” Katrina Eiland, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement. “The promise of America is to serve as a beacon of freedom and hope, and the administration can and should do better to fulfill this promise, rather than perpetuate cruel and ineffective policies that betray it.”
A crucial system of ocean currents is heading for a collapse that ‘would affect every person on the planet’. A vital system of ocean currents could collapse within a few decades if the world continues to pump out planet-heating pollution, scientists are warning – an event that would be catastrophic for global weather and “affect every person on the planet.” A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature, found that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current – of which the Gulf Stream is a part – could collapse around the middle of the century, or even as early as 2025.
Climate change leaves fingerprints on July heat waves around the globe, study says. The fingerprints of climate change are all over the intense heat waves gripping the globe this month, a new study finds. Researchers say the deadly hot spells in the American Southwest and Southern Europe could not have happened without the continuing buildup of warming gases in the air.
Like a hot tub: Water temperatures off Florida soar over 100 degrees, stunning experts. On Monday, as much of the country stewed in bubbling heat, a boiling milestone was hit — a buoy in Florida registered a jaw-dropping 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit water temperature. This was on the heels of the same buoy in Manatee Bay registering 100.2 degrees on Sunday. For perspective, the average hot tub temperature is 100-102 degrees F. While the readings would've been considered a possible outlier or sensor error, surrounding buoys recorded similarly high temperatures, with 99.3 F at Murray Key and 98.4 F at Johnson Key.
The Creators of Florida’s Black History Standards Get an F on Their Homework. Florida education officials and the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, are facing a wave of criticism this week after the Florida Board of Education approved a new set of guidelines for teaching public school students about slavery in America. Among the guidelines is a provision implying that slavery benefitted some Black people because they learned skills while being enslaved.
Education Department opens investigation into Harvard’s legacy admissions. Top colleges’ preferential treatment of children of alumni, who are often white, has faced mounting scrutiny since the Supreme Court last month struck down the use of affirmative action as a tool to boost the presence of students of color.
JPMorgan ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘nymphettes,’ U.S. Virgin Islands says. JPMorgan countered that the U.S. Virgin Islands was also to blame for allowing Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women and teenage girls, saying the territory used its powers to enable these crimes.
Everything to know about Elon Musk's 'everything app'. Twitter’s rebrand to “X” is more than a name change. Musk has trumpeted the move as the biggest step yet in the transformation of what was once a humble microblogging app into an “everything app.” He has shared snippets of his vision for this app dating back to his initial acquisition of the company, pointing to China’s WeChat app as something of an inspiration...Everything apps, as Musk likes to call them, are popular in Asia. In China, WeChat integrates instant messaging, social media and payment services all into one app. -- Because I want Elon Musk controlling literally everything about my digital life? Um, no thank you.
“Elon’s story is an inspiring reminder that as long as your dad owns an apartheid emerald mine, you too can become the biggest loser on earth.” -- Zack Bornstein
Court: Time For Florida to Stop Needlessly Institutionalizing Disabled Kids. A landmark ruling says DeSantis’ state is violating the rights of children with disabilities. Last Friday, the federal court for Florida’s Southern District issued a groundbreaking ruling: that the state had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by unnecessarily institutionalizing children with complex health needs, placing them in nursing homes instead of providing community health services. As an outcome of the ruling, which follows a two-week trial in May, Florida will have to develop plans to help children institutionalized due to lack of community resources return home.
A new study finds a strong link between depression and dementia. A diagnosis of depression in adulthood could more than double your risk of developing dementia in older age, according to a new study.
Hearing aids may slow mental decline in those at higher risk of dementia, study finds. Hearing loss has emerged as one of the likely risk factors for dementia for several reasons. As the brain struggles to hear, scientists suspect, it might have less capacity for cognitive work like thinking or remembering. The brain shrinks faster when it absorbs less sound. Hearing loss can also lead to social isolation, leaving older folks less cognitively engaged.
These 8 habits could add up to 24 years to your life, study says. Want to live up to an additional 24 years? Just add eight healthy lifestyle choices to your life at age 40 and that could happen…Starting at age 50 instead? No problem, you could prolong your life by up to 21 years, the study found. Age 60? You’ll still gain nearly 18 years if you adopt all eight healthy habits.
Are we alone? House hearing seeks extraterrestrial explanations. Many members insist they have not seriously considered the question or are keeping their concern focused on national security risks from not knowing the cause of UFO sightings. But some members say they have seen enough to think that the unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) — a more recent term for sightings of strange objects or effects in the sky — are of nonhuman extraterrestrial origin. “It’s either something extraterrestrial, or something extraterrestrial that they reverse-engineered,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.).
How the search for UFOs went mainstream: A tale in 5 moves. But it has taken nearly two decades of sober, bipartisan legislative work to get to the point where the search for UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) is politically mainstream. From the mysterious videos that started it all, to the 2007 foundation of a secret UAP-hunting program, to the 2021 passage of a UAP whistleblower law, to the military’s own acknowledgment of hundreds of unexplained phenomena, here are five moves by lawmakers and government officials that helped take the hunt for UAP into the public square.
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