Demand Saudi Arabia free the woman they jailed for choosing her own clothes!

Trump tries to rewrite what happened at Libertarian Convention after he was booed on stage
The disgraced ex-president is in major damage control mode after getting publicly booed at the Libertarian Convention, going on a posting spree on Truth Social to minimize the blow to his ego and to his public image. The coping conman swore that actually he didn't even want the Libertarian endorsement, promised to get the majority of Libertarian votes, and attacked right-wing crackpot RFK Jr. as a "radical left Democrat." His loyal weenies in the Republican Party raced to help out, with Sen. Tim Scott going on CNN to proclaim that “I saw a wave of red hats at the Libertarian convention!" What he did not know was those hats were there in support of Argentina's dog-cloning weirdo president Javier Milei, not Trump. Oops! [RETWEET THAT!]

RFK Jr. and Brian Tyler Cohen clash in contentious debate
The right-wing conspiracy theorist and spoiler candidate was NOT expecting to be called out to his face for his lies, but Brian Tyler Cohen held him over the coals.

McConnell plots to use election-denier to retake Senate
Ruben Gallego for Senate: Mitch McConnell will stop at nothing to retake the Senate, even if that means giving power to one of the most radical of Trump’s election-denying, democracy-threatening acolytes, Kari Lake. Her election lies helped spark the mob attack on January 6th and has even called for gun violence if Trump gets convicted of his crimes. This November, she'll be running against star Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego, and it's on all of us to help Ruben ensure that Kari Lake never sees the inside of the Senate. Will you chip in to protect our Senate majority and elect Ruben Gallego?

Israeli attack on Rafah tent camp kills 45, prompts global outcry
The death toll is still climbing from the horrific Israeli bombardment of a refugee tent city in an area that the Israelis themselves had declared a "humanitarian safe zone." More than half of dead are women, children or elderly, say health officials. The strike prompted an outpouring of condemnation from the international community, with France's President Macron saying he was "outraged," Ireland's Foreign Minister calling it "barbaric," and Italy's Defense Minister saying these bombings are no longer "justifiable." "Gaza is hell on earth. Images from last night are yet another testament to that," wrote UNRWA on Twitter.

Biden’s got a plan to protect science from Trump
The Biden administration is setting up new tripwires for Donald Trump at America’s premier health research agency to safeguard against political interference should the worst happen. Trump's dangerously ignorant and rabidly anti-science stances could manifest themselves in deeply harmful ways should he fill the ranks of government with similarly deranged lunatics, so in an effort to Trump-proof, NIH has designated an official to identify political meddling in the agency’s work and is tasking a soon-to-be-established scientific integrity council with reviewing those cases. Hopefully, it'll never be needed, but better to be safe than sorry — especially when it comes to public health.

America's child care shortage is pushing military families to a breaking point
It appears that not even our nation's servicemembers can escape the stresses of our nation's post-pandemic childcare crisis. Lack of care centers and childcare workers have left 9,000 children on monthslong waitlists for military-run child care centers, which is extremely inconvenient for servicemembers who could be shuttled around the country on a moment's notice. Many are worried this will harm the military's ability to retain its servicemembers as they are forced to try to find private sector childcare, which is often exorbitantly expensive. “Child care is so very expensive. We’re here on a military salary, which doesn’t compete with the private sector,” says military spouse Alexandria Robinson. “I see a lot of people struggling with ‘How do I pay for the child care that I need to get a job, but I don’t have a job to pay for the child care?’”

Eat a rock a day, put glue on your pizza: how Google’s AI is losing touch with reality
Google has just rolled out its newest AI search tool, and the results have been, uh, not great. While it can easily provide the answers for simple questions, AI Overviews will also tell you that “astronauts have met cats on the moon, played with them, and provided care”. More worryingly, it also recommends “you should eat at least one small rock per day” as “rocks are a vital source of minerals and vitamins”, and suggests putting glue in pizza toppings. Google has run into the issue that the AI doesn't know what's actually true, just what is popular — which is why it is pushing satirical articles from The Onion as truth. Once again, we must ask: who asked for this?