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GOP party convention says quiet part out loud: "We do not want to be a democracy.” ( www.seattletimes.com )

‘Call the police, he’s on drugs': But the worker was dying from heatstroke. ( www.politico.com )

Trump's Camp Says It Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025 Manifesto -- Aside From Writing It ( theintercept.com )

JPMorgan Chase warns 86 million customers they might have to start paying for their bank accounts ( finance.yahoo.com )

The potential charges, says Marianne Lake, CEO of consumer and community banking at JPMorgan, are a result of new regulatory rules that cap overdraft and late fees. Lake says Chase will be passing along those increased expenses to customers, which would put an end to now-free services such as checking accounts and wealth...

Pole Vault ( xkcd.com )

alt-text: "Ugh, and we JUST went through this yesterday with the javelin."

Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested ( www.rawstory.com )

Growing number of ‘unemployables’ frustrated by the job market ( www.theglobeandmail.com )

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Supporting Palestine Helped the Left Win in France and Britain. Will Democrats Learn From It? ( theintercept.com )

France’s far-right National Rally party, alongside conservative centrists, had spent weeks painting the left’s support of Palestine as an electoral poisoned pill. In attacks all too familiar in the U.S., they conflated anti-Zionism with antisemitism, slamming Israel’s critics as antisemites. Israeli officials explicitly...

Pay for Lawyers Is So High People Are Comparing It to the N.B.A. ( www.nytimes.com )

Judge Denies Texas Attorney General’s Efforts to Use Consumer Protection Law to Shut Down a Migrant Shelter ( www.propublica.org )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17199492

Donald Trump's sister says he 'has no principles' in secret audio recordings ( www.youtube.com )

Texas Supreme Court lets gender-affirming care ban remain in effect ( www.advocate.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17235221

Take 30 seconds and unwind with baby otter Tofino ( www.youtube.com )

Trump’s Deranged Platform Is Already Sending RNC Into Chaos ( newrepublic.com )

Today's dads help out more than previous generations. Is it actually enough? ( www.salon.com )

Firefox now handles passkeys like Chrome on Android 14 ( www.androidpolice.com )

Mozilla's latest changelog confirms that Firefox now has support for an Android 14 feature designed to consolidate passkeys and third-party sign-in tools. As of version 128, when you create a passkey for an account on supported websites, Firefox can pass these credentials along to your password manager — even if you're using a...

The baby sea otter now has a name! "Tofino a baby otter pup with an ice treat 🧊" ( www.youtube.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24577384...

Justices Sotomayor and Jackson fear for democracy in their dissents: Democratic appointees said the Supreme Court's decision on Donald Trump's immunity claims would hurt the country ( www.msnbc.com )

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