Week of 2025-0720

Sunday 2025 July 20

• Mike Masnick at TechDirt: “Fascism For First Time Founders“
• Akim Reinhardt at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Holocaust Happened“
• Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel: ““May Every Day Be Another Wonderful Secret,” Donald Trump Once Wished“
• Paul M. Smith at ABA Human Rights Magazine: “The Supreme Court, Gerrymandering, and the Rule of Law“
• Allison Gill at The Breakdown: “The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI“

Monday 2025 July 21

• Paul Krugman: “Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros“
• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Pig Butchering“
• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “A vanished world and the question of democracy“
• Paul Musgrave at Systematic Hatreds: “At the Coalface“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Trump and the American People — Two Ships Crossing in the Night“

Wednesday 2025 July 23

• Barry Goldman at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Social Contract and the Shadow Docket“
• Gary Borjesson at 3 Quarks Daily: “How to Start Thinking about Attachment“
• Paul Krugman: “The Hellscapes of Their Minds“

Thursday 2025 July 24

• Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad at 3 Quarks Daily: “When Your Girlfriend Is an Algorithm (Part 2)“
• Jochen Szangolies at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Empty Throne: Emergent Conspiracies And Causal Cherries“
• Bill Scher at The Washington Monthly: “Democrats Should Get Tough and Quit Negotiating Spending Bills“
• Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “John Roberts In Court Filing: I Manage the Judiciary, Not the President“

Friday 2025 July 25

• Dick Edelstein at 3 Quarks Daily: “Optimism in 1960s and 1970s R&B“
• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Creeping fascism“
• Lucy Tompkins at Seven Days: “Winooski Superintendent Detained, Questioned by Border Officials“
• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “The Columbia Capitulation“
• Paul Krugman: “The Art of the Really Stupid Deal“
• Colby Smith at The New York Times: “Trump Spars With Powell Over Fed’s Costly Renovations in Rare Visit“
• Courtney Allen and Emily Van de Riet at Fox19Now: “School district says doctor’s notes will no longer excuse child absences“
• Emine Yücel at Talking Points Memo: “The Trump Admin Gets Ready to Seize Congress’ Power of the Purse“
• Domenico Montanaro at NPR: “How and why Trump has struggled in dealing with the Epstein files“

Saturday 2025 July 26

• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Decadence“
• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “The ‘jurisprudence’ of bad faith“
• Paul Krugman: “Talking With Henry Farrell“
• Jayson Jenks at The Athletic: “An MLB pitcher walked away from $12 million. He tells us why he has no regrets“
• Mike Masnick at TechDirt: “The Good, The Bad, And The Incredibly Stupid In Trump’s AI Action Plan“
• Mike Masnick at TechDirt: “DHS Declares Abrego ‘Will Never Walk America’s Streets’ Hours After Judges Order His Release“
• Tim Cushing at TechDirt: “Baltimore Shows You Can Bring Down Murder Rates Without Throwing More Cops At The Problem“
• Tres Savage Sasha Ndisabiye at NonDoc: “Board members: TV in Ryan Walters’ office displayed nude women during executive session“
• Claudia Sahm at Stay at Home Macro: “Brick by brick: Fed independence“
• Greg Berman at Vital City: “Despite what you’ve heard during the mayor’s race, this city is a miracle.“
• Caryl Englander at Vital City: “How Small Acts Shape Great Cities“
• Thomas Mellins at Vital City: “Urban Infrastructure, Reexamined“
• Greg B. Smith and Haidee Chu at The City: “New Eric Adams ‘Donors’ Say They Never Gave to His Reelection Campaign“
• Joe Patrice at Above the Law: “The Revolution Will Be Card Cataloged: Dispatches From The Law Librarian Frontlines“