29 July 2025

Tuesday Links - 29 July

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first with EPA Head Announces Deal With Mexico To Fix Tijuana River Pollution Problem

This is a pretty big deal. Sure, it’s mostly about the San Diego area, but, imagine if it was Biden who got this deal done: it would be all over the national news, instead of primarily local San Diego area outlets.

Miguel Gonzalez - You cannot be this dumb...never mind. [On the International Defensive Pistol Association scheduling its Championship Match in China.]

Unfortunately this is not the first time IDPA HQ has done the stupid. I am going to say 20 years ago or less, Venezuela tried to host an international IDPA match and a lot of clubs in South Florida raised hell and then some pointing out the draconian Gun Control Laws that the country has and how they went against all IDPA initially stood for.

Moonbattery - Somali State Rep Shares Her Loathing of America

If Rep Abdi does not seem to brim over with appreciation for her adopted country, that could be because she is not here to assimilate into it, but to replace it.

The Other McCain - Hey, Who Had ‘Illegal Immigrant Colombian Transgender Pedophile Rapist’ on Their 2025 Headline Bingo Card?

Excuse my flippant sarcasm, but sometimes the news is so grim that we must choose between two reactions: (a) laugh at it and try to maintain our sanity, or (b) take it seriously and end up in a sort of catatonic madness like Kurtz in Heart of Darkness: “The horror! The horror!”

Spiked - We are coming apart

The leafy Essex market town of Epping is the latest place to go off. On Thursday night, a protest was held outside the Bell Hotel, where migrants have been housed since 2020. Last week, an Ethiopian resident of the Bell was charged with three counts of sexual assault, one count of inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity and one count of harassment without violence. He’d arrived in the country, by a small boat, just eight days prior.

Again from The Other McCain - ‘Forgetting Is Sin’: Some Thoughts on the Life and Career of My Friend Jeff Dunetz

Jeff Dunetz knew who he was. His sense of identity was a source of inspiration, as well it should be.

EBL - Mills Brothers : Nagasaki (1937)

26 July 1945: The plutonium core leaves for Tinian Island

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Playoff Season

I finally figured out how many players I can keep for next season in the 1969 Continual Draft league that Pete runs, and I have some hard choices to make. Speaking of which, we’re looking for a new manager to run the Expos. Contact me or Pete and we’ll get you set up.

Legal Insurrection - Thirty-Two Discriminatory Scholarships at Florida State Univ. Challenged By Equal Protection Project

The Equal Protection Project (EqualProtect.org) has challenged almost 500 discriminatory programs and scholarships at over 100 colleges and universities. But we didn’t expect to find a major problem at one of the largest state universities in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis has made getting DEI out of higher ed one of his priorities.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 27 July 2025: Bean Sprouts And Carrots Edition

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that AI is not a licensed therapist, doctor, or lawyer and there are no legal privacy guarantees for its users. (Tech Crunch)

Sam thinks there should.

But not for any reason other than it would benefit him personally.

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