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Here is the GPL News Brief for July 27th 2026: Here Is Today’s Stories: Seattle police are searching for two men who parachuted from the Space Needle Three killed and four injured in shooting at food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle Court documents reviewed by AP say there were at least 3 shooters at Seattle food festival Berlin police shoot dead man suspected to have carried out fatal attack on Pride parade Berlin shaken by attack on Pride March: ‘I never thought this could happen in the most queer-friendly city in the world’ Mitch McConnell releases health update, saying he’s not ready to return to work yet McConnell Extends Senate Leave, Will Miss State Picnic Scotland, Spain and Canada grapple with wildfires ‘Help Never Came.’ Canadian Wildfire Evacuees Want to Know Why. On the front lines with firefighters and volunteers defending Bordeaux from a monster fire Joey and I chat about the wild fires in our latest episode of our podcast! Contagious Cancer Found in North American Catfish “I Was the Perfect Victim”: A Narrative History of Surviving Epstein Trump tells Michigan auto workers, ‘I’ve done more for you than your parents’ in latest rambling speech Donald Trump Holds The White House Press Corps Hostage Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and proved its point Gordie Howe International Bridge is open! Here’s what you need to cross it 2026 WNBA All-Star Game takeaways: A dunk, a worthy MVP and a plea for intensity A Brief Exchange That Shows the Enormous Difference Between Trump and Obama Those are your headlines for today. We release a recap of all the news of the week on Fridays, so if you haven’t yet, please like, subscribe, and restack on Substack so these and all our newsletters get delivered to your mailbox! For Free! We keep up with all the news for you, so you don’t have to. Aren’t we sweet? Talk to y’all tomorrow! 🚫🤴 Get Pod Local: Where we start Locally while thinking Globally xx Jalon 👉🏽 This daily podcast is free, but if you’d like, please buy Jalon some coffee. She can’t do these newsletters and podcasts without it! (Seriously). Good News! We are now everywhere you get your podcasts! So you can take me on your commute, in the gym, or when I like to listen to podcast, while you’re washing dishes. Subscribe and leave a review for us! Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Your Moment Of Zen I’m calling it right now. He will be running for the highest offie one day. Also, I’m still laughing. Election 2026 CV101 Join a club and roll up your sleeves. This will take all of us doing something. There’s a job for everyone! Here’s an opportunity in Dallas, but everywhere there are ways to join in and help us fight this authoritarian administration. Reminder for everyone: Please check your voter’s registration every month until the election this November. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Wanna help Texas flip blue? Donate to the TEXAS Democratic Party. The DNC will not send us enough money to really get to work.👇🏽 This newsletter is free, but if you’d like, please buy Jalon some coffee. She can’t do these newsletters without it! (Seriously). Recent Other GPL Newsletters (in case you missed them) The Latest GPL Podcast Episode Is Up! Watch it anywhere you listen / watch this podcast. 👇🏽We’re Also On Youtube! And growing! Thank you to everyone who likes, loves, subscribes, listens, watches, reads. It really does mean a lot to us. We also post these on our Youtube Channel! Other GPL Goodies Get Pod Local: The Podcast (Season 2!) with Joey and Jalon Joey and Jalon sit down with Politicians, Community Leaders, and movers and shakers making a difference. And almost every episode, the Dallas Mayor catches a stray. He deserves it. It’s fine. New episodes every Thursday! GPL Presents: New Newsletter with Jalon Nichols Every week, Jalon catches you up on what is going on out here, who is doing it, how does that impact your everyday life, and what everyone is saying about. We are based in Texas, so we have a lot of Texas news, but we cover the whole wide world. There is a LOT of stuff going on everyday, and no one can keep up with it all, but we attempt to….for you. (Clap for us). GPL Presents: Organizers Corner w/ Joey Cade Every Sunday night, Joey Cade, our Resident Precinct Chair, lays out our Call To Actions for the week. Because knowing what’s going on is one thing. But doing something about it is another. Let’s do both! GPL Presents: Water Cooler with Jalon and Joey Every morning, Jalon D’na and Joey Cade check in and talk about something we read or saw on slack. Videos drop on some Thursdays! GPL Presents: Daily Briefs with Jalon Nichols Everyday, Jalon reads you the headlines of the day — just to keep you in the know. Think NPR at the top of each hour, with a lot of shade some jokes. Get full access to Get Pod Local at getpodlocal.substack.com/subscribe