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The French anime shop owner has put out the security footage of his store being looted.

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

In 2022, a Canadian church hosted a ‘physician-assisted suicide’ in its sanctuary, ending the life of an 86-year-old congregation member. They called it a “crossing over ceremony.” 🧵

BREAKING: US and Iran discuss phased deal to reopen Hormuz and end US blockade, per Reuters

🚨INCREDIBLE: During a multi-vehicle collision on the Route 90 bridge in Ocean City, Maryland, a 2-year-old girl was ejected from a pickup truck, falling nearly 30 feet into the Assawoman Bay below. Jonathan Bauer, who was driving across the bridge with his teenage daughter when the crash occurred, rushed over to inspect the wreckage. Looking down into the water, he saw the toddler floating face down and becoming unresponsive. Without hesitation, Bauer instructed his daughter to flag down first responders, removed his shoes, and leapt off the bridge into the bay. He swam to the little girl, lifted her onto his shoulder, and patted her back until she coughed up water and began breathing again. A passing pontoon boat quickly navigated toward them, pulling both Bauer and the toddler out of the water and transporting them to shore, where emergency personnel were waiting. The child was airlifted to a regional medical center for evaluation and released the following day in good condition. Bauer was later honored by local law enforcement and civic leaders for his decisive actions and selflessness.

JUST IN: America’s “loneliness epidemic” is worsening, with 1 in 10 young adults now spending an average day seeing zero other people in person. — FT

Buc-ee’s CEO says company is prioritizing conservative, business-friendly states over blue states.

Buckle up for a lap around the nation’s capital. Ride along the 1.7-mile Freedom 250 Grand Prix track, feeling every turn as you fly down Pennsylvania Avenue and past the Washington Monument, U.S. Capitol and Smithsonian museums. The first-ever INDYCAR race around the National Mall takes over D.C. Aug. 22-23, with Sunday’s race airing live on FOX.

31 out of 32 NFL owners are billionaires. 26 out of 30 NBA owners are billionaires. 26 out of 30 MLB owners are billionaires. Your tax dollars helped build their stadiums. But today, the average person can’t afford the price of a ticket to a sporting event. That must change.

JUST IN: Claude AI developer Anthropic to file for IPO as soon as end of August, expecting to match or exceed SpaceX's record, Bloomberg reports.

In 2001 George W Bush proposed a partial privatization plan for Social Security so you could put 10% of your SS contribution into the markets. People rejected this. We can now see that if it had passed, the 10% that went into the markets would have outperformed the 90% the government managed, the program would be solvent, and the average SS recipient would be receiving 2X what they currently receive. The worst bet you’ll ever make is betting on government.

BREAKING: Stocks could be headed for a correction as AI enthusiasm pushes tech valuations toward dot-com bubble levels, per ECB

Wow this is *terrible* Google is not just buying “operational data.” The package includes more than 175,000 employee records dating back to 1986, plus productivity metrics, behavior data, HR records, internal emails, and 500 million Microsoft Teams chats/collaboration logs. Decades of real workers’ day-to-day communications, performance tracking, and workplace interactions from a company that just laid off thousands and collapsed. All of it is now being scrubbed (supposedly) and fed into Google’s AI models. Privacy is dead.

JUST IN: Google has reportedly won a $10 million bid for Spirit Airlines’ internal enterprise data, including decades of documents, emails, workflows, & code.