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House Judiciary Dems call for DOJ leaders to testify on Epstein fallout (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/15/congress/house-judiciary-democrats-justice-department-testify-jeffrey-epstein-trump-00454465
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p110#a250715p110

Attendees of Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit erupted in boos over the Trump administration’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein,
the deceased child predator.
Top MAGA leaders criticized the White House from stage and on their wide-reaching social media accounts throughout the weekend,
-- attacking not only Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, for declining to release more on the investigation and potential Epstein associates,
-- but raising questi…

MAGA leaders sound alarm about discontented Trump base: ‘A huge risk’
At the Turning Point USA conference in Tampa, the young MAGA faithful boils over the Epstein memo saga and boos talk of protecting immigrant workers.

Millie #Baci
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYilndGb0v8

Rhetorical Analysis of an Open Letter
I want to talk first about the effects of genre on rhetorical analysis. Let’s start with two main categories. Primary sources: These are texts from a writer or an organization to a specific audience or audiences with a persuasive purpose. Such texts include op-eds, letters, press releases, blog posts, tweets, and emails. These texts provide an opportunity for a straightforward rhetorical analysis because the rhetorical situation is…

Bei dem Begriff "AI Literacy" handelt es sich um ein Oxymoron:
https://open.substack.com/pub/themindfile/p/against-ai-literacy-have-we…

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

"Let’s be honest,
an idea of 30 percent tariff rate is effectively prohibitive to the mutual trade,”
Maros Sefcovic, the European Union’s trade commissioner, told reporters in Brussels on Monday.
“The current uncertainty caused by unjustified tariffs cannot persist indefinitely,” he added.

Companies in Europe Are Frozen as Tariff Uncertainty Drags On
After European Union leaders said they would keep negotiating instead of immediately retaliating against President Trump’s latest threat, businesses remain unable to develop long-term plans.

Please, tell me again how anarchism is chaos.
If this whole sorry episode of human history shows us one thing, it’s not that “we don’t need leaders” but that the very concept of “leaders” is incompatible with the future of our species. Advanced civilisation cannot survive under these primitive hierarchies that concentrate inordinate amounts of power in the hands of a relative handful of individuals. Look at the sorry state of these danger clowns.
Either we find ways to devolve po…

Robert Reich (@rbreich@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Musk vs. Trump https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-ab9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Macron says High Seas Treaty could take effect from January after surge in support at ocean summit"
#Oceans #Environment

UN urges countries to ratify landmark High Seas Treaty
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders to ratify the treaty, warning that fishing, plastic pollution and rising sea temperatures were destroying ocean ecosystems.

Do Students Write Better Post-AI Support? Effects of Generative AI Literacy and Chatbot Interaction Strategies on Multimodal Academic Writing
Yueqiao Jin, Kaixun Yang, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Dragan Ga\v{s}evi\'c, Lixiang Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04398

Do Students Write Better Post-AI Support? Effects of Generative AI Literacy and Chatbot Interaction Strategies on Multimodal Academic Writing
Academic writing increasingly involves multimodal tasks requiring students to integrate visual information and textual arguments. While generative AI (GenAI) tools, like ChatGPT, offer new pathways for supporting academic writing, little is known about how students' GenAI literacy influences their independent multimodal writing skills or how chatbot interaction strategies (passive reactive vs. proactive scaffolding) impact learning. This study examined 79 higher education students' multimodal a…

More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as dozens of wildfires remain active and affect air quality in parts of Canada and the US, according to officials.
Most of the evacuated residents were from Manitoba, which declared a state of emergency last week.
About 17,000 people there were evacuated by Saturday, along with 1,300 in Alberta.
About 8,000 people in Saskatchewan had been relocated as leaders there said the number could climb.
Smoke was r…