'It's inhumane.' Despite how hot it is, Tennessee renters don't have a right to air conditioning (www.newschannel5.com)
Despite how hot it is, landlords in Tennessee are not required to keep the air conditioning running....
On Politics: Brad Lander's scheming shows Eric Adams' weakness (archive.ph)
Lander offers less potential excitement than Myrie, a Brooklyn state senator who is just 37 and could make history as the city’s first Afro-Latino mayor. He might be less of a political brawler than Stringer, who has survived several tough primaries and can pull plenty of votes from his old West Side base. Ranked-choice voting...
The Ballot Measures Aim to Reduce Partisanship. Can They Fix American Politics? (archive.ph)
Eight states are certain or likely to field election initiatives that would overhaul redistricting or give voters a greater voice in choosing candidates.
A wax sculpture of Abe Lincoln was no match for D.C.’s punishing heat (www.washingtonpost.com)
Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus. (apnews.com)
Holy title, Batman!
Man survives being lost in California mountains for 10 days by eating berries (www.theguardian.com)
As McClish told it, the 34-year-old outdoors enthusiast from Boulder Creek, California, lost his bearings after beginning his hike the morning of 11 June. He had not informed anyone else of his plans, so it would not be until the afternoon of Thursday, 20 June, that the unkempt-looking hiker was found at the bottom of a remote...
Two years after Dobbs, the White House warns of Republican assaults on Americans' bodily autonomy (www.advocate.com)
Eric Trump Says Dad’s Criminal Charges Are Attracting Black Voters: ‘Certain Communities Are Coming Over to My Father’ (www.mediaite.com)
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange to be freed after pleading guilty to US espionage charge (www.reuters.com)
Kind of incredible, and really surprising as far as I can see :)
Bank of China halts payments with sanctioned Russian lenders, Russian media reports (www.themoscowtimes.com)
Archived link...
"They want the votes": Ted Cruz says Democrats are pro-Palestine just for show (www.salon.com)
Alvin Bragg Claims Victory as Jim Jordan Seethes at YouTube (www.thedailybeast.com)
2 years after Roe v. Wade, physicians still struggle to provide essential care (abcnews.go.com)
Police: Vandal spray paints ‘F--- Elon’ on 34 Tesla Cybertrucks in Fort Lauderdale (www.local10.com)
Police said 34 new Tesla Cybertrucks were damaged. The owner parked the exotic cars in a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale....
Utah invokes sovereignty to ignore Biden admin’s Title IX transgender protections (www.kuer.org)
Pastor Robert Morris tried to scare his sex abuse victim with threat of prosecution (www.salon.com)
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange to be freed after pleading guilty to US Espionage Act charge (www.reuters.com)
Illinois may soon return land the US stole from a Prairie Band Potawatomi chief 175 years ago (apnews.com)
Some 175 years after the U.S. government stole land from the chief of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation while he was away visiting relatives, Illinois may soon return it to the tribe....
FBI offering $10K reward for information about deadly New Mexico wildfires (www.usatoday.com)
‘News deserts’: if local newspapers are dying, will local democracy die with them? (www.theguardian.com)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty in deal with US and be freed from prison (apnews.com)
Second Canadian scientist alleges brain illness investigation was shut down (www.theguardian.com)
Death toll at Hajj pilgrimage rises to 1,300 amid scorching temperatures (apnews.com)
More than 1,300 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, Saudi authorities announced Sunday....
New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products containing toxic "forever chemicals" (www.cbsnews.com)
How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State (www.propublica.org)
Last year, representatives of New Mexico’s oil industry met behind closed doors with the very groups with which they typically clash — state regulators and environmentalists — in search of an answer to the more than 70,000 wells sitting unplugged across the state. Many leak oil, brine and toxic or explosive gasses, and...
