A Wisconsin brewery owner wants to shut down Fourth of July parades, both in Minocqua, where the brewery is located, and across the nation. Kirk Bangstad “says he ‘will not allow this town to comfortably celebrate its most important event of the year’ because he believes he’s been targeted by city officials,” according to Bring Me The News. Via MinnPost
https://bringmethenews.com/wisconsin-news/wisconsin-brewery-owner-plans-to-disrupt-parade-over-feud-with-officials

Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts
Political interference and chaotic cuts to staff, programs and grants at the National Science Foundation are producing ‘devastating consequences’
Nina Lakhani
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/national-science-foundation-trump-cuts

New Orleans teacher fired by Catholic school for being gay says ‘it’s just time’ for discrimination to stop
Mark Richards was fired from St Francis Xavier school after an obituary identified him as his late husband’s widower
Ramon Antonio Vargas in New Orleans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/new-orleans-teacher-mark-richards

US couple could face trial in France over stolen shipwreck gold
Novelist and husband suspected of helping to sell bullion taken decades ago from ship that sank off Brittany in 1746
Agence France-Presse
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/03/us-couple-could-face-trial-in-france-over-stolen-shipwreck-gold

America is over neoliberalism and neoconservatism. Trump is not
Samuel Moyn
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/03/trump-neoliberalism-neoconservatism

US researchers launch new mission to solve mystery of Amelia Earhart’s fate
Researchers to follow fresh clues that suggest pioneering aviator may have crash-landed on remote Pacific island
Marina Dunbar
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/02/amelia-earhart-missing-plane

The Sandman season two review – Neil Gaiman’s emo drama is so pretentious it ruins everything
The return of the mopey goth hero sees him stroppily shuffle through what could be fantastic adventures as if they are tedious obligations. And some of the dialogue: oof!
Jack Seale
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/03/the-sandman-season-two-review-neil-gaiman-netflix

Is this the end for Easter Island’s moai statues?
Sofia Quaglia
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250702-the-indigenous-restorers-of-easter-islands-moai-in-the-face-of-climate-change

Ancient Egyptian history may be rewritten by DNA bone test
Pallab Ghosh
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dnnyz0z6do

The European nation pioneering ‘beer diplomacy’
David Farley
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250627-the-european-nation-pioneering-beer-diplomacy