The Daily Click — July 12, 2023

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• Republican Blockade Leaves Marines Without Leader for First Time in Over a Century | The New Republic In a fucking display of incompetence and misplaced priorities, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville has single-handedly managed to leave the Marines without a leader for the first time in over a century. Not only has Tuberville’s abortion policy blockade jeopardized top military promotions, but it has also drawn criticism from the defense secretary himself. Perhaps it’s no surprise that Tuberville is known for his questionable stances, such as refusing to acknowledge white nationalists as racists. With leaders like Tuberville in the Republican Party, one can’t help but wonder what’s wrong with them.
• Tuberville Blockade Over Abortion Policy Threatens Top Military Promotions — The New York Times
• Defense secretary rips Tuberville-led hold on promotions | The Hill
• Tommy Tuberville: What’s Wrong With the Republican Party
• Tommy Tuberville Isn’t Convinced White Nationalists Are Racists — Rolling Stone
• Angry Joe: When President Biden loses his cool In public, President Biden likes to whisper to make a point. In private, he’s prone to yelling.
• Social media injunction unravels plans to protect 2024 elections
• Investigation Uncovers More of Clarence Thomas’ Undisclosed Freebies from Wealthy Pals The Supreme Court justice’s rich friends at the Horatio Alger Association have showered him with benefits, including lavish vacations and funds for a fawning documentary about his life
• Bank of America to pay $250 million for illegal fees, fake accounts : NPR
• How to use Apple Pay on Amazon | Mashable
• Apple Invents a Health Related Apple Watch Patch System that would directly Challenge the Polar Heart Rate Sensor System — Patently Apple
• Apple resizes the iPad’s workflow with Stage Manager SVP Craig Federighi on stretching Apple’s iPad to fit new ways of working.
• Bear 2 is here!
• Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff | Ars Technica “Evernote, the app that has sought for two decades to find a large paying audience for its “external brain,” is moving its operations to Italy, home of its parent company Bending Spoons. It’s yet another big shift for a company that’s been useful, but not quite profitable, since at least 2004.”
• Twitter traffic is ‘tanking’ as Meta’s Threads hits 100 million users “User traffic on Twitter has slowed since the launch of Meta’s text-based platform Threads, which has already surpassed 100 million sign-ups since its debut last week.”
• How a tree dispute between New Jersey neighbors took over the internet.
• What to know about the drug price fight in those TV ads At least nine bills introduced in Congress take aim at pharmacy benefit managers, the powerful middlemen that channel prescription drugs to patients. Here’s what the fuss is all about.

Originally published at https://thedaily.click on July 12, 2023.