Sunday, July 6
Robert Reich
As we slide further into a dysfunctional police state
Friends,
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been stripped down so much it can barely respond to emergencies, yet it’s funding detention centers such as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades.
The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, responsible for some of the areas hardest hit by Friday’s flooding, is missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster, and meteorologist.
The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, is missing a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer who are supposed to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.
At A Glance
Fifty plays and musicals exploring US history.
The top 10 medieval castles in Ireland.
Why water towers are built that way.
Snapshots from rural life in Cuba during the 1950s.
Why the Federal Reserve is independent.
The ambiguities of using emojis.
The physics of baseball pitches.
A look at the medieval origins of Tarot cards.
Mapping the world's ocean currents.
A defense of advertisements.
Below Minneapolis, a sea of sewage warms a closed-off cave.
The history of figuring out what the cosmos is made of.
The growing season in cities lasts 34 days longer than in rural areas.
What actually is Yoo-Hoo?
What made ancient Rome's Appian Way so great.
UNIVERSAL GREED
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We also have problems like wealth/poverty gap, corrupt politicians, criminals, greedy businesspeople and individuals, obesity, lazy citizens, uneducated and uninformed masses, fake news, and con artists trying to rip people off.
From 1960 until 2025, it seems to me that our problems have increased, and our positive qualities have decreased.
It is my opinion and probably my opinion only that the reason for this flip-flop is GREED.
Americans are pushed in high school to go to college for the sole purpose of using that degree to EARN MORE MONEY. I was in high school from 1962-1966.
When I was in grad school 1979-1981, we were taught that engineers were being taught the BUILT IN OBSOLESCENCE CONCEPT which was design products so they only last 3-5 years so that REPEAT BUSINESS is force and companies will increase their revenues.
Computer technology grows so fast that new computers must be purchased every 3-5 years also.
Greed via money is at the heart of our problem as to why we are having these problems. Let's make as much money as we can before we die.
NO ONE HAS EVER LOOKED AT THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF ADOPTING THAT PHILOSOPHY OUTSIDE OF THEMSELVES.
Unintended consequences are always a bitch...
JWST discovers how we’re able to see the Universe at all
One of JWST’s main science goals was to teach us how the Universe grew up to be the way it is today, and one important cosmic mystery to solve was how the Universe came to be transparent to starlight.
Previous studies had shown that the most prominent early JWST galaxies, the big, bright, massive ones, were too rare and too few in number to create enough ultraviolet photons to be responsible.
But a new study, highlighting many gravitationally lensed early, low-mass, but rapidly star-forming galaxies, measured their abundance exquisitely. We’ve found, at last, the main culprit behind cosmic reionization.
Saturday, July 5
Ponderings
It is my opinion, shared with millions of others that the US of A is the greatest country in the world today... has been for decades... and will continue to be for decades.
This fact can be easily proven with just our BILL OF RIGHTS alone that contains the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, the least of which is the first and second amendments:
- Freedom of Speech
- The Right to Bear Arms
Can you imagine any other country where you have the right to BURN THE FLAG OF A COUNTRY without suffering any consequences???
- No arrest
- No fines
- No jail time
Does any of the following countries allow their citizens or visitors to do this?
- Russia
- China
- Mexico
- Canada
- Great Britain
- India
- North Korea
- Iran
- Countries in the European Union
- Countries in Africa or South America
It is this FREEDOM that does not exist in any other country, making the USA by far, the greatest country in the world.
It does not take a brain surgeon or a Harvard graduate to figure this out...
Morning Brew
TRAVEL
Plan a perfect summer weekend
Thomas Dambo
A Reddit roundup of the best public pools around the US
Plan cycling routes across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand
The best weekend getaways in the US, as recommended by Morning Brew readers
Free attractions to hit on a road trip
CULTURE
Deep dives into movies, TV, and more
eBay
How Napoleon Dynamite rewrote the indie movie marketing playbook. Like anyone can even know that.
Why Hey Arnold! sounded so jazzy
Crunching the data to decide when you should give up on a TV show
How to spot a fake masterpiece
READ
Our favorite books this summer
Grant Thomas
Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection will have you laughing out loud at the characters and their outrageous choices until you recognize yourself in them.
Ironheart just premiered on Disney+. Get the graphic novel to devour after tearing through the series.
Here’s a hilarious read about Sarah Hartshorne’s time not becoming America’s Next Top Model.
For those of us obsessed with Love Island, Aisling Rawle’s wild satire takes on the reality TV machine.
Thumbing through a magazine is just as prestigious as finishing whatever overhyped nonfiction book the NYT is telling you to rea
Plan a perfect summer weekend
Thomas Dambo
A Reddit roundup of the best public pools around the US
Plan cycling routes across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand
The best weekend getaways in the US, as recommended by Morning Brew readers
Free attractions to hit on a road trip
CULTURE
Deep dives into movies, TV, and more
eBay
How Napoleon Dynamite rewrote the indie movie marketing playbook. Like anyone can even know that.
Why Hey Arnold! sounded so jazzy
Crunching the data to decide when you should give up on a TV show
How to spot a fake masterpiece
READ
Our favorite books this summer
Grant Thomas
Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection will have you laughing out loud at the characters and their outrageous choices until you recognize yourself in them.
Ironheart just premiered on Disney+. Get the graphic novel to devour after tearing through the series.
Here’s a hilarious read about Sarah Hartshorne’s time not becoming America’s Next Top Model.
For those of us obsessed with Love Island, Aisling Rawle’s wild satire takes on the reality TV machine.
Thumbing through a magazine is just as prestigious as finishing whatever overhyped nonfiction book the NYT is telling you to rea
Robert Reich
An ode to a disappearing America
Friends,
Today I want to talk about the real meaning of patriotism.
It’s the exact opposite of the puffed-up patriotism peddled by Trump and his white Christian nationalists — with feigned fears that the nation is losing its whiteness or its dominant religion, that too many foreigners are crossing our borders, that men are competing in women’s sports or children are using school bathrooms inconsistent with their sex at birth, or that teachers are not celebrating the nation’s history.
To the contrary:
True patriots don’t fuel racist, religious, or ethnic divisions.
Patriots aren’t homophobic or sexist.
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