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The BBC says it will air a new MasterChef season filmed before presenters Gregg Wallace and John Torode were fired over Banijay's misconduct report (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/bbc-will-air-next-season-masterc…

BBC Will Air Next Season Of ‘MasterChef’ Featuring Gregg Wallace & John Torode
The BBC will air the 'MasterChef' season featuring Gregg Wallace & John Torode after they were fired following a Banijay review.

Last Thursday, the movers ultimately arrived and did an awesome job, emptying the house and garage in 3 hours. The house sale closed with no issues on Friday at 5pm. Today, Monday the 23rd, our house purchase should close mid to late afternoon. Tomorrow, the moving truck arrives to dump our possessions into various rooms. We're almost there...
#NewBeginnings #FeelinGood
https://youtu.be/Edwsf-8F3sI?si=FDM6ees_yO_DqqCE

“Following attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran… the IAEA can confirm that no increase in off-site radiation levels has been reported as of this time,”
US joins Israel in attacking Iran, strikes Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz sites | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera

US joins Israel in attacking Iran, strikes Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz sites
IAEA says it has not detected any increase in radiation levels at key nuclear sites in Iran following US air strikes.

Yosemite Employee Fired After Flying Trans Pride Flag (Laura Bliss/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-18/yosemite-employee-fired-after-flying-trans-pride-flag?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NTUzMzMxMSwiZXhwIjoxNzU2MTM4MTExLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMTc2MDNHUEwzWU0wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGQTEyREYyMDg1QUQ0Njk1QkYyNjIwMDYyQzE5MjNENCJ9.R0iDSh_KxWy6553MfRO5W2Ya5S3YR5-YaJZOOckJusw&email=467cb6399cb7df64551775e431052b43a775c749&emaila=12a6d4d069cd56cfddaa391c24eb7042&emailb=054528e7403871c79f668e49dd3c44b1ec00c7f611bf9388f76bb2324d6ca5f3&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=08.18.25 — Energy & Environment -- RF
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p115#a250819p115

Die Bundeswehr schließt einen Millionen-Deal mit #Google – Kritiker wie Kiesewetter, von Notz und Schönbohm warnen zurecht: Wer sicherheitskritische Systeme an US-Konzerne auslagert, macht sich erpressbar. Technologische Souveränität? Fehlanzeige. Statt „Fort Knox“-Marketing wäre Eigenständigkeit die sicherere Wahl. |
Abhängigkeiten bei der Bundeswehr: Scharfe Kritik an Deal mit Google-Clou…

Abhängigkeiten bei der Bundeswehr: Scharfe Kritik an Deal mit Google-Cloud
Der Beschluss der Bundeswehr, auf Cloud-Dienste von Google zu setzen, kommt bei Sicherheitspolitikern nicht gut an: Deutschland könne politisch erpresst werden.

On many issues, Americans are deeply polarized.
War with Iran isn’t one of them.
An Economist/YouGov poll of U.S. adults taken in the days after Israel’s attack last Friday found that Democrats opposed entering the conflict by a margin of 50 points and Republicans opposed entering it by a margin of 30 points.
Given these numbers, you might think Democratic leaders would be doing everything they can to prevent President Trump from striking Iran without the approval of Cong…

Opinion | Schumer and Jeffries Need to Step Up and Challenge Trump on War Powers
Failing to aggressively defend Congress’s role in authorizing war would be a serious blunder for Democrats.

Here’s the key point: Trump’s corruption of justice isn’t just individual; it’s categorical. We have grown accustomed to him rewarding his loyalists and punishing his critics. That he fired the prosecutors who worked on his federal criminal cases while pardoning the Jan. 6 rioters represents a textbook case of individual favoritism.
The Trump administration’s abuse of the civil rights division is something else entirely. It had already initiated a “litigation freeze” on filing new civil rights cases, and it had indicated that it was even going to reconsider previous settlements and consent decrees intended to address police misconduct.
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Civil rights laws are designed in part to protect innocent citizens — including, of course, innocent citizens from minority communities — from unjust government officials. Here, the legal world is turned upside down. The Justice Department is using its civil rights division to protect an unjust government official who violated the civil rights of an innocent individual.
#USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/dillon-taylor-justice-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.0DWy.hF58YNdciy3A&smid=url-share

I'm almost through The Shepherd's Crown and it's better than I feared - definitely better than Raising Steam, in my opinion.
There are only two things that I find jarring: Nanny Ogg sounds WAY folksier than it does normally, and it's clear he would've edited it massively ("dainty" appears every second page).
Other than that, I have the feeling he wrote the same book in the Good Timeline, the one where the Embuggerance left him alone.

A former Justice Department official is warning of a
🔥wave of retribution inside the agency.
Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors' offices, told CBS News,
"The rules don't exist anymore."
Hartman, who was fired Monday via a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
is the fourth person connected to the agency's work on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots to be terminated in the past month.

Fired Justice Department official warns "we are falling into an abyss"
Patty Hartman, who worked with the public affairs team on Jan. 6 prosecutions, was fired Monday by Pam Bondi.