Robert Reich

landmark’s Nuart Theater in Los Angeles, California

Extended Run!
The Last Class film is also spreading to more theaters






Friends,

I’m delighted to tell you that The Last Class film, about my final semester teaching my 800-student undergraduate course at UC Berkeley, is now playing in 46 theaters in 20 states (and the film team is adding more screenings to the list each day).

Due to all of you showing up to see it, seven theaters in six states have just extended their run of the film for another week:

Ciné Athens in Athens, GA, now thru Thurs, July 24
Rialto Cinemas Elmwood in Berkeley, CA now thru Thurs, July 24
The Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, NY, now thru Thurs, July 24
Kentucky Theatre in Lexington, KY, now thru Thurs, July 24
Salem Cinema in Salem, OR, now thru Thurs, July 24
The Grand Cinema in Tacoma, WA, now thru Thurs, July 24
Landmark’s Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles, CA now thru Thurs, July 24

People tell me it’s an uplifting and optimistic film at a very dark time in our history. It’s about the next generation — their energy, excitement, and enthusiasm — and their hopes for the future.

Should you wish to have a look, here’s the trailer.

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At A Glance

Bookkeeping
> $245,300: How much Fyre Festival sold the rights to its brand for on eBay.
> 749 miles: Longest journey by an EV on a single charge, set by Lucid Motors.
> 40: The number of birthday freebies a man secured on his 38th birthday.

Browse
> Snoop Dogg becomes co-owner of Welsh soccer team.
> Legacy of the Appalachian Trail’s first female solo hiker.
> UNESCO just added 26 new World Heritage sites.
> Neanderthals may have had family recipes.
> Inside a movement to help nature through music.

Listen
> Journaling as a strategy to unlock creativity.
> How AI is shaking up the legal industry.

Watch
> The entire history of English in 22 minutes.
> Explaining the golden ratio.
> Why AriZona iced tea is always 99 cents.

Long Read
> Marriage is about learning to braid the bitter with the sweet.
> How a hunter-gatherer community in Central Africa raises parents.

Best of the Week: Girl's note to home residents found on empty toilet paper roll.

Historybook: Inventor and businessman Samuel Colt born (1814); First US women’s rights convention held (1848); Maurice Garin becomes first winner of Tour de France (1903); Sports journalist Stuart Scott born (1965); First GPS signal transmitted (1977).

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In The NEWS

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> CBS will cancel "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," retiring the franchise in May 2026, citing financial reasons; the program is the most-watched late night franchise on US broadcast television (More)

> Connie Francis, singer of "Stupid Cupid" and viral TikTok song "Pretty Little Baby," dies at age 87; Francis became the first woman in history to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1960 (More) | Bryan Braman, former Super Bowl-winning linebacker, dies of cancer at age 38 (More)

> The 2025 WNBA All-Star festivities kick off tonight with the three-point contest and skills challenge (8 pm ET, ESPN), followed by tomorrow's All-Star Game (8:30 pm ET, ABC); star Caitlin Clark will miss weekend with injury (More)

Science & Technology
> OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent that can control multiple applications on a user's computer to carry out complex tasks such as making purchases, planning trips, creating slide decks, and more (More)

> Surgeons perform world's first pediatric heart transplant using a technique that restarts the heart outside the donor's body; procedure saved the life of a 3-month-old patient, could increase organ donor pool by 20% (More)

> Researchers discover unique electrical patterns that occur as the brain transitions from sleeping to being awake; findings may help lead to new treatments for sleep disorders (More) | Breaking down the different stages of sleep (1440 Topics)


Business & Markets
> US House passes bill regulating dollar-pegged stablecoins, which now heads to President Donald Trump for signing; two House-passed bills governing regulatory oversight of digital assets and barring Federal Reserve from creating its own digital currency head to the Senate (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow +0.5%, Nasdaq +0.7%); S&P 500 and Nasdaq rise to records (More) | Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Platforms investors settle shareholder claims seeking $8B in damages over alleged Facebook privacy violations (More)

> Newsletter publisher Substack raises $100M at $1.1B valuation, achieving unicorn status (More) | AI coding startup Lovable also reaches unicorn status after raising $200M at a valuation of $1.8B (More) | What are unicorn startups? (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with benign condition known as chronic venous insufficiency, White House press secretary reveals; the condition occurs when blood pools in the vein, restricting flow to the heart (More) | Department of Homeland Security reaches deal with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to get access to data on 79 million Medicaid enrollees (More)

> House of Representatives slated to vote today on Senate bill to reduce $9B in federal spending on foreign aid and public broadcasting (More) | Republicans advance judicial nomination for former Trump lawyer, Democrats walk out (More)

> Israeli strike on Gaza church kills at least three people, wounds 10 others, including the priest; Israel says the strike was a mistake (More)

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World War III

 

• Is this a possibility?
• Is this a good possibility??

There are organizations in the USA that have hired a group of experts, many of which are former military personnel, war historians, and those who study global politics...  WHO INTENTIONALLY STUDY AND PREDICT THE POSSIBILITY OF WAR THROUGHOUT THE WORLD and where are conflicts likely to occur.

WHY???

• So that our country can be prepared.
• So that our companies can be prepared.

Where would WWIII break out?

• Europe - because of the Russia/Ukraine war
• Middle East - because of the Israel/Iran (now Syria war
• South China Sea - because of China desire to control Taiwan

Currently:

• NATO is preparing for war
• China/Russia are preparing for war
• USA is preparing for war

WHAT WILL HAPPEN DOMESTICALLY?

• Increase in price of gasoline
• Increase in the price of electricity
• Political blame game
• increased polarization
• Congress must declare war
• Supply shortages (food, building materials, computer chips)
• Heightened terrorist alerts
• Tourists' flights stopped to Europe, etc.
• Possibly a national draft again

It is doubtful, at this point in time, that nuclear weapons will be used but that is always a possibility.  If nuclear is used, long term survival can only take place underground.  

Who would be taken underground to perpetuate the human race?

Humanoid Robots would be able to survive a nuclear holocaust...

Somewhat Political

 

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 to Support Health Studies for Deep Space Travel

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission sit inside a Dragon training spacecraft at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. Pictured from left: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena 

Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui (Credit: SpaceX).

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission is set to launch a four-person crew to the International Space Station later this summer. Some of the crew have volunteered to participate in a series of experiments to address health challenges astronauts may face on deep space missions during NASA’s Artemis campaign and future human expeditions to Mars.

The research during Crew-11 includes simulated lunar landings, tactics to safeguard vision, and other human physiology studies led by NASA’s Human Research Program.

Select crew members will participate in a series of simulated Moon landings, before, during, and after their flight. Using a handheld controller and multiple screens, the astronauts will fly through simulated scenarios created to resemble the lunar South Pole region that Artemis crews plan to visit. This experiment allows researchers to evaluate how different gravitational forces may disorient astronauts and affect their ability to pilot a spacecraft, like a lunar lander.

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Russell Brand

 

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Diamond & Silk

 

Surfer

 

The White House

 

The Big MIG

 

Oil painting by Anna Maiko

 

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TimcastIRL

 

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Headlines

Uber


Uber inks $300+ million deals for new robotaxi service. The global ride-hailing leader is getting serious about autonomous vehicles. Uber announced it’s investing $300 million in EV-maker Lucid and a similar amount in tech startup Nuro to launch a new robotaxi program that could compete with Waymo. The goal is to deploy 20,000 autonomous EVs over the next six years, starting in 2026 in a “major US city.” The deals with Lucid and Nuro underscore Uber’s strategy to outsource its robotaxi technology rather than develop it in-house as it seeks to become the go-to service for autonomous rides. Uber’s stock was mostly unchanged following the news, but Lucid’s soared nearly 40%.

New details in the Air India crash investigation. According to dialogue of the plane’s two pilots recorded by its black box, the captain, Sumeet Sabharwal, turned off fuel switches to the engines after it took off, the Wall Street Journal reported. The first officer reportedly questioned the captain’s actions before he “expressed surprise and then panicked,” while the captain remained “calm.” The investigation has not yet determined whether or not the switches were shut off on purpose. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff last month, killing all but one of its 242 passengers and crew.

Netflix can’t stop winning. If Wall Street has expectations, Netflix is probably going to beat them. The streaming giant reported its Q2 financials yesterday, posting $11.1 billion in revenue (up 16% from the same period last year and ahead of estimates) while adjusting its full-year forecast up to as high as $45.2 billion. Netflix stopped divulging its subscriber figures earlier this year in order to emphasize revenue and profits...which appear to be impressing investors as much as intended. Its stock is up nearly 44% so far this year as the company has increased prices and continued to promote its ad-supported option. Netflix also debuted the trailer for the final season of Stranger Things, set to come out in three parts starting on Nov. 26.—AE

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Robert Reich

What Every Washington Lobbyist Now Knows







Friends,

I’m old enough to remember when corporate lobbyists swarmed Capitol Hill. I also remember when half the members of Congress who retired got lucrative lobbying jobs taking their old chums out for meals or drinks and selling them on whatever the corporate backers wanted.

No longer. Now, the lobbying business is all about sucking up to Trump.

Harvard sociologist Theda Skocpol calls it “competitive sycophancy,” in which


“competing sets of people [vie] to flatter him and manipulate resources and rules to his personal and family advantage. They do one extreme thing after another, try to outdo each other, and he chooses who to back, with shifts and chaos and unpredictability week after week.”

In a new story for New York magazine, Washington correspondent Ben Terris reports on how Washington’s lobbying class has been reshaped in Trump’s second term.

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At A Glance

DNA evidence points to women-led society in ancient China.

TikTok trend suggests path to retire with $4M.

See a robot artist's painting of King Charles. (w/video)

Florida residents rescue four people in a small plane crash.

... and handwritten notes save mother and son lost in California.

Top summer reading genres, by state.

"Superman" movie drives up interest in dog adoption.

See photos of vintage fast food restaurants.

Clickbait: Sloths do, in fact, toot.

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Science & Technology
> Researchers confirm a slight difference in the decay of certain types of subatomic particles, a phenomenon known as breaking charge-parity symmetry; may help explain why the universe is filled with matter instead of antimatter (More) | Inside CERN's antimatter factory (1440 Topics)

> The brain utilizes channels in the lining of its blood vessels to direct blood flow to regions requiring more energy, depending on the task; new study may lead to preventive treatments for neurodegenerative diseases (More)

> Toxic algae blooms release "antivitamins" into the surrounding environment, inhibiting the growth of other algae species and allowing them to spread more quickly (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +0.5%, Nasdaq +0.3%) after President Donald Trump denied reports he was planning to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell (More) | Ranking all the Fed chairs since 1914 (1440 Topics)

> Meta begins trial over $8B privacy lawsuit filed by shareholders (More) | Scale AI to lay off 200 full-time employees, or about 14% of its global staff, and cut ties with 500 contractors; comes a month after Meta invested $14.3B in the startup (More)

> The US plans to send letters to 150 countries, notifying their leaders of tariffs expected to go into effect Aug. 1 (More) | How world trade depends on the dollar (1440 Topics)


Politics & World Affairs
> Department of Homeland Security expands third-country deportation program, sending five immigrant detainees from various countries to the southern African nation of Eswatini (More) | Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fires two top deputies at the Department of Health and Human Services, reason not immediately clear (More)

> Senate advances $9B package of spending cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting; package spares $400M global AIDS relief program (More) | Mandatory versus discretionary federal spending (1440 Topics)

> Volcano erupts in southwestern Iceland, forcing more than 100 to evacuate; officials say the molten rock isn't threatening infrastructure (More) | See footage (More)

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