Bookmarks Digest — Page 3
1. Graham Platner just dropped out. Here’s who could replace him. - POLITICO
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 09:58 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** POLITICO

Several potential successors have already signaled their interest in seeking the Democratic nomination for Maine Senate.
2. Johnson: 'Nobody's mad' at Anna Paulina Luna over House bottleneck - POLITICO
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 09:58 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** POLITICO

The Florida representative helped grind House activity to a halt last week in protest over inaction on the SAVE America Act.
3. SAVE America Act pursues reconciliation as Senate math stalls bill | Fox News
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4. Leinona Aoki on X: “@Teslaconomics @elonmusk Both. Grok 4.5 will be available in the standalone Grok app and on https://t.co/VT9EvC9PJg (including Grok Build). Just make sure you’re on the latest version or select it when it rolls out.” / X
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5. Elon Musk on X: “https://t.co/IQvI4sbaW5” / X
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6. Elon Musk on X: “Our internal assessment is that Grok 4.5 is roughly comparable to Opus 4.7, but much faster. The combination of capability, faster speed and lower cost is what makes it competitive. We are closing the loop on real-world usefulness, not benchmarks. Hardcore engineers at Tesla &” / X
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7. I added one sentence to every ChatGPT prompt I write — and the results were immediately better | Tom’s Guide
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 09:50 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 7, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Tom
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://www.tomsguide.com/author/amanda-caswell

I added one sentence to every ChatGPT prompt I write, and the results improved immediately. Here
8. Super rare tropical bird swoops over California. Experts fear a trend.
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 09:49 AM📅 **Original Publication:** May 29, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** SFGATE
✍️ **Author Reference:** Anna FitzGerald Guth

A mysterious seabird swooping over the beaches in San Clemente in recent weeks has wowed California birders.
9. NOAA releases new sky-high odds of historic El Niño in California
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 09:47 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 9, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** SFGATE
✍️ **Author Reference:** Anna FitzGerald Guth

After emerging in June, El Niño is now gaining power in the Pacific Ocean. The climate pattern generally brings rain to California.
10. Scott Kelly spent 340 days aboard the ISS, and he has said the leaving was never the hard part — it was the coming back, when the balance and the strange detachment lingered for weeks after splashdown
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 09:44 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 9, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily

Scott Kelly returned to Earth on 1 March 2016 after 340 days aboard the ISS, and the part he keeps describing in interviews is not the launch or the year in orbit but the weeks afterward — when his balance, his skin, and a strange watching-from-behind-the-eyes detachment took far longer to resolve than anyone expected.
11. How Torrent Frogs in China Avoid Accidental Homosexual Relations - Nature & Environment
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 09:41 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Haaretz

For animals to be fruitful, the sexes have to find each other accurately, or at least have a way to communicate 'Dude. You got that wrong'
12. Maggie Haberman questions Donald Trump's Air Force One explanation, citing security risks
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13. Inside the tense final hours of Graham Platner’s campaign - POLITICO
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 08:22 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** POLITICO
Graham Platner went down fighting. Advisers told him to focus on ‘gratitude.’
14. Secret Service advised Donald Trump to not fly Qatari-gifted Air Force One
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 08:22 AMNo summary details compiled.
15. California group pushes to add ‘Black English’ to schools’ multilingual program | Fox News
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 08:20 AMRacial justice groups in California are pushing to add
16. NASA’s New Horizons probe awakens after long hibernation near Pluto - UPI.com
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 08:19 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** UPI

New Horizons is often placed into a resource-saving mode while cruising long distances, and had been in hibernation near Pluto since August 7.
17. Graham Platner Plays the Victim | National Review
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18. Inside Trump’s Oval Office Decision to Ditch the Iran Ceasefire - WSJ
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19. McConnell Health Questions, Maine Senate Turmoil, Tyler Robinson Evidence Fight: AM Update 7/9 - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 08:13 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear demands a full update on Senator Mitch McConnell’s health as the 84-year-old remains hospitalized more than three weeks after …
20. Harvard lawsuit | Linda McMahon - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 08:12 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube

Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of Pod Force One: https://www.youtube.com/@PodForce1Watch full clips of Pod Force One with Miranda D…
21. Rogue Judge Gets NO JAIL TIME After Helping Illegals Evade ICE | Timcast IRL - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 08:10 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube

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22. HE JUST QUIT - YouTube
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 08:10 AM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube

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23. Medium
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 9, 2026, 08:08 AM📅 **Original Publication:** Jun 30, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Medium
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://pramodaiml.medium.com

Why Does AI Lean Left? The Reason Isn’t a Conspiracy, It’s Worse. AI leans left — measurably. But not because a programmer chose it. The real mechanism is stranger, and neither political side …
24. 'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now | ZDNET
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 09:00 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** ZDNET

At the Open Source Summit in Mumbai, Torvalds discusses the pain and power of AI in the kernel, and why Linux no longer supports 'museum' technology.
25. Earth's second moon caught on camera for the first time
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 08:51 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 7, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** GEEKSPIN

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft snaps historic first close-ups of Kamoʻoalewa, Earth's mysterious mini-moon companion in space.
26. Graham Platner Disaster Caused by Trump Derangement Syndrome | National Review
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27. Kennedy Center Lacks ‘Facts Or Evidence’ To Halt Removal Of Trump’s Name
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 08:42 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Forbes
✍️ **Author Reference:** Conor Murray

A federal appeals court rejected the Kennedy Center’s request for a stay pending appeal, which would have halted a judge’s order requiring the removal of President Donald Trump’s name from the venue while it pursues an appeal.
28. Donald Trump seeks to delay $5M payment to E. Jean Carroll
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29. Trump Abruptly Switches Back To Old Air Force One Instead Of Qatari Plane
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 08:39 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Forbes
✍️ **Author Reference:** Sara Dorn

Trump flew from Turkey to the U.K. onboard the old jet amid concerns about the security features of the new Qatar-gifted Air Force One.
30. Donald Trump returning to US on old Air Force One amid Iran threats
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31. Donald Trump hands Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky major wins with Patriot interceptors
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32. Could Mitch McConnell Be Replaced By Thomas Massie? Here Are The Scenarios
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 08:35 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Forbes
✍️ **Author Reference:** Sara Dorn

McConnell has been hospitalized since June 14.
33. US strikes Iran targets in Strait of Hormuz for second day
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 08:34 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 8, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Axios
✍️ **Author Reference:** Barak Ravid

It's an effort to get Iran to stop attacking commercial ships in the strait, U.S. officials say.
34. GitHub - 66HEX/frame: FFmpeg GUI · GitHub
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 06:01 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** GitHub
FFmpeg GUI. Contribute to 66HEX/frame development by creating an account on GitHub.
35. Frame - Media conversion reimagined
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 06:00 PM
A native Rust media conversion utility for macOS, Windows, and Linux, built with GPUI-CE and powered by FFmpeg.
36. Voice Agent Builder: Create Your Own Voice Agent in Under 2 Minutes | SpaceXAI
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 05:53 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** SpaceXAI

Create your own voice agent in under 2 minutes. Deploy human-like voice agents for customer support, sales, and more — no code required.
37. A 14-year-old who applied to NASA, was rejected, and ended up cleaning a space toilet on work experience in Leicester now leads Mars exploration studies at the European Space Agency
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 05:29 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 8, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily

In 2001, ahead of the opening of the National Space Centre in Leicester, a teenager on work experience was helping to prepare the exhibits. One of them was a
38. Experienced birdwatchers were found to have denser, more structurally complex brain tissue in regions linked to attention and perception, and when shown birds they had never seen before, those same regions activated most strongly
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 05:27 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 7, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Space Daily

When an expert birdwatcher encounters a species they have never identified before, what they are doing with their brain is not simply trying harder than a
39. Larry Sanger on X: “Sorry it’s behind a paywall. But if you want to see not only that article (https://t.co/i9647pdAle) but also the text of my keynote from last week’s Salzburg, Austria Infinity 365 conference (https://t.co/dxvPTsQz6C), and to support my work on encyclopedia reform, philosophy, and https://t.co/tJRzvJaU5Q” / X
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40. Larry Sanger on X: “I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show—and now I’m banned. I told the story in the Washington Examiner, out this morning: https://t.co/IubzC65BoC” / X
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41. Medium
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 04:46 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 8, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Medium
✍️ **Author Reference:** https://avi-loeb.medium.com

Neutrinos Are Worth a Thousand Words! We are due to witness soon a new stellar explosion in the disk of our Milky-Way galaxy. The expected rate of Galactic supernovae is approximately 2–3 …
42. New study suggests Earth could escape the sun's fiery demise | Fox Weather
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43. Scientists Found The Driving Force Behind Your Darkest Impulses, And It's More Widespread Than Thought : ScienceAlert
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 04:30 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 8, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** ScienceAlert
✍️ **Author Reference:** Peter Dockrill

Psychologists call it the dark triad: an intersection of three of the most malevolent tendencies of human nature – psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism.
44. The Milky Way’s Mysterious Glow May Be Dark Matter After All
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 04:28 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 8, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** SciTechDaily

Scientists have taken a fresh look at the Milky Way's mysterious gamma-ray glow using machine learning and uncovered evidence that reshapes a long-running debate.
45. We're All Still Living in Bill Clinton's Moral World | National Review
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46. Bari Weiss sidelines veteran CBS News correspondent on ‘60 Minutes’ Nigel Farage story: report
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 04:22 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 8, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** New York Post

CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has reportedly intervened in another politically sensitive "60 Minutes" story.
47. Iran war back on after Tehran attacks in Hormuz trigger Trump to declare ceasefire 'over' | Live Updates from Fox News Digital
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 04:21 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Fox News

NATO Chief Mark Rutte called the U.S. attacks on Iran "absolutely necessary" on Wednesday after the U.S. launched fresh attacks on Iran and revoked Iran
48. Frame Gives FFmpeg a Modern GUI for Everyday Media Conversion
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 04:02 PM📅 **Original Publication:** Jul 7, 2026
🏛️ **Platform/Host:** Linuxiac

Frame is an open-source media conversion utility that wraps FFmpeg in a native Rust GUI for video, audio, image, subtitle, and metadata workflows.
49. Scientists make quantum time flow backward in stunning physics breakthrough | ScienceDaily
📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 04:01 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** ScienceDaily

Researchers have created quantum control techniques that can make a system appear to run backward in time. By precisely managing quantum measurements, they can reshape the system's arrow of time and even harvest energy from the measurement process itself. The breakthrough could lead to more powerful quantum computers, quantum batteries, and other advanced technologies.
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📂 **Saved to Folder:** Jul 8, 2026, 03:59 PM🏛️ **Platform/Host:** YouTube Music
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