Christian nationalists are opening private schools. Taxpayers are funding them. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Gunmen Attack Synagogues and Churches in Russian Republic (www.nytimes.com)
Eric Trump Says Dad’s Criminal Charges Are Attracting Black Voters: ‘Certain Communities Are Coming Over to My Father’ (www.mediaite.com)
A Texas Democrat voted against rights for trans kids. This queer Black mom challenged her – and won (www.independent.co.uk)
Deadly methanol-laced bootleg liquor kills dozens in South India (www.npr.org)
FBI offering $10K reward for information about deadly New Mexico wildfires (www.usatoday.com)
Trump floats UFC-style migrant league amid border crisis (www.politico.com)
Netanyahu claims Israel saw ‘dramatic drop’ in US arms shipments (thehill.com)
‘Too many old people’: A rural Pa. town reckons with population loss (www.washingtonpost.com)
There is a deepening sense of fear as population loss accelerates in rural America. The decline of small-town life is expected to be a looming topic in the presidential election....
Texas woman allegedly tried to drown Palestinian-American girl, aged 3 (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli defence minister flies to US for ‘critical’ talks on Gaza and Lebanon (www.theguardian.com)
Eight-year-old pekingese Wild Thang wins World’s Ugliest Dog contest (www.theguardian.com)
The World’s Ugliest Dog annual contest may not render the most flattering title to its victor, but don’t tell that to Wild Thang....
US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan (apnews.com)
The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions....
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ATTACKED ME FOR MY REPORTING — AND THEY’RE DOING IT TO HIDE INFO FROM THE PUBLIC (theintercept.com)
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Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus. (apnews.com)
Holy title, Batman!
The New York Times: Woman Tried to Drown 3-Year-Old Girl After Making Racist Comments, Police Say (www.nytimes.com)
At a news conference on Saturday, Mr. Carroll said that the Council on American-Islamic Relations was referring to the mother as Mrs. H, because she did not want to be publicly identified....
All farts are funny. It's just a matter of degree (www.wolframcloud.com)
Fartology is an up and coming science.
40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess (arstechnica.com)
TIL: How Henry Ford’s Strange Social Program Aimed to Control The Personal Lives Of Workers (medium.com)
TIL that there is a global, time traveling radio (sort of) (radiooooo.com)
You can choose anywhere on earth, pick a decade, and hear music from that time and place. Pretty neat.
Study: 83% of Americans will have to work into their 70s in order to afford to retire (medium.com)
Canada expresses concern about human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, groups urge U.N. human rights chief to take more action over "documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims" (www.reuters.com)
Canada’s ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday....