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Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming venture firm Mido Capital; sources: he plans to raise ~$100M for a fund backing early-stage AI and other startups (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Nexstar appeals a district court judge's injunction blocking its Tegna acquisition while an antitrust lawsuit proceeds and calls the injunction "overbroad" (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/nexstar-reactions-tegna-merger-i…

Nexstar Rails Against $6.2B Tegna Merger Injunction: Calls Out DirecTV & State AGs “Cynical Attempt To Advance Their Own Commercial & Political Interests”
Months after a federal judge put a freeze on Nexstar & Tegna's $6.2B merger, the local TV giant trashed State AGs & DirecTV in a hardcore court filing

Racist rioting in Madrid following the mass crossing to Ceuta.
https://www.eldiario.es/politica/ultima-hora-crisis-ceuta-actualidad-politica-directo_6_13481026_1124703.html
Meanwhile leaked information implicates …

Cuatro manifestantes detenidos y varios policías heridos en los altercados con grupos ultras frente al Congreso
La policía ha dispersado con pelotas de goma a los manifestantes que estaban en la puerta de el Congreso de los Diputados. Según EFE, hay cuatro detenidos y cuatro agentes han resultado heridos.

"Dr. Chen’s lawyers said that Ms. Herridge’s “claimed right to protect her source(s) glosses over exactly what she is shielding from Chen, the courts, and the public: the identity of federal official(s) who broke the law, abused their access to sensitive records to harm a private citizen and laundered that corrupt, unlawful conduct through a reporter to escape detection.”
Supreme Court Allows Reporter to Be Fined for Failing to Disclose Source - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/supreme-court-herridge-first-amendment.html

Queen City Nerve, Charlotte's only alternative newspaper, shuts down after nearly eight years due to financial hardship and a potential sale falling through (Tony Mecia/The Charlotte Ledger)
https://www.thecharlotteledger.com/p/queen-city-nerve-calls-it-quits

Queen City Nerve calls it quits
Alternative newspaper cites failed sale and mounting financial pressures

Supreme Court Allows Reporter to Be Fined for Failing to Disclose Source (Ann E. Marimow/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/supreme-court-herridge-first-amendment.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260702/p89#a260702p89

But the Grandmaster's Palace also has these extraordinary 1710 Gobelins tapestries depicting exotic scenes from Africa, India, and the Americas. Just opened and newly restored and they are astonishingly beautiful.
The racism and colonialism inherent in this artistic project is important to understand. But the artistry is also beautiful, I'm glad to have seen them.