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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026
The truth behind Trump’s Venezuela oil grift. Grocery prices surging. Rep. Garcia’s shadow hearing on a big Trump crisis. A MAGA “cheap gas” scheme accused of selling stolen fuel. Military leaders warning the Iran war is stretching U.S. forces thin. And much more in today’s bulletin:
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 451.
… NYT: “The Trump admin’s highly unusual deal to develop Venezuela’s vast oil resources would have the US govt collaborate with an influential and polarizing Venezuelan businessman.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There's no doubt about it: data centres and AI are emerging alongside, and combining forces with, climate breakdown, eco-collapse, and fascism as a massive threat to local communities, natural ecosystems, and the global biosphere itself. Every one of us is needed for that fight.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/08/2026
Rescue teams are rushing to find hundreds of people still missing after flash floods near Nepal's border with China.
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Over 160 killed, 800 missing in Nepal after devastating Himalayan floods
Rescue teams are rushing to find hundreds of people still missing after flash floods near Nepal's border with China.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
"for all the people “celebrating” this as a win “against” Meta, you’ve been fooled. Meta just cut a deal to put itself in charge of how social media works going forward. this is Meta taking a “please regulate me Daddy” approach to the government, & getting exactly what it really has been asking for"
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Tristan Call of Cthulhu @tristancall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING! Epstein Island Pedophile Who Immensely Helped LLMs Come Into Power Warns of Backlash That's Already Been Happening For Years!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 26/08/2026
GRAPHIC WARNING: This video contains sensitive footage that may disturb some viewers. A massive flash flood in the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and ‌China's Tibet washed away villages while damaging roads, bridges and power projects in a region bordering Tibet, authorities said
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/08/2026
As Kenya courts data-centre investment, communities fear growing pressure on an already stressed water system.
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Can Kenya's AI ambitions coexist with Naivasha's water needs?
As Kenya courts data-centre investment, communities fear growing pressure on an already stressed water system.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ebola responders were chased with machetes while trying to bury a victim in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the latest attacks on frontline workers struggling to contain an epidemic that’s spreading faster than they can respond www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Machete Attacks Disrupt Congo Ebola Response as Outbreak Spreads Across Area Bigger Than France
Ebola responders were chased with machetes while trying to bury a victim in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the latest attacks on frontline workers struggling to contain an epidemic that’...
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Every day I’m crying,” Renita Theus, 41, said outside her darkened apartment, where her car remained trapped under a fallen tree. “It’s hot … I walked to the dollar store and they’re all out of candles and batteries.” "She lost her cleaning job in Chicago … because she was not able to travel."
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Desperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without Power
Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 22/08/2026
“Stars And Stripes” played a major role in breaking stories about living conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln earlier this summer.
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‘Stars And Stripes’ Editor Says He’s Worried About Military Censorship After Fires Him For ‘Insubordination’
“Stars And Stripes” played a major role in breaking stories about living conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln earlier this summer.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/08/2026
Israeli settlers fatally shot 17-year-old Karim Sanad Shalaldeh while Israeli forces killed 58-year-old Fathi Khazem.
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Israeli army, settlers kill 2 Palestinians in separate West Bank incidents
Israeli settlers fatally shot 17-year-old Karim Sanad Shalaldeh while Israeli forces killed 58-year-old Fathi Khazem.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/08/2026
According to some Flock execs, police aren’t prone to abusing its tech—they’re just more prone to get caught.
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Flock execs are taking credit for catching bad cops now
The surveillance firm says police aren't prone to abuse its tech—they're just more prone to get caught.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Walmart just received a $2.9 billion tariff refund, massively boosting the company's profits. Regular people paid the costs of tariffs by and large across America. But now corporations are getting huge checks from the government, while working people get nothing.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Coillte manages approx. 7% of Ireland's land area, about 1,100,000 acres, supposedly for the benefit of the nation (you and me). But in reality it's nothing but a racket.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 20/08/2026
🚨 OCEAN HEAT: We are entering uncharted territory. Record-breaking ocean temperatures are pushing ecosystems closer to dangerous tipping points. Fossil fuel corporations and big polluters are gambling with a liveable planet for profit.
Line graph of Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomalies from 1982–2026. The red 2026 line rises from around -0.7°C in January to nearly +2.7°C by mid-August, far above most previous years. Source: Climate Reanalyzer, using NOAA OISST v2.1 data.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An attorney says his client suffered a brain bleed and traumatic brain injury after a violent ICE apprehension, then woke up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. His family didn't know where he was for days. Now his lawyer is demanding answers.
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Lawyer Says ICE Detainee Suffered Brain Bleed After Violent Apprehension, Was Guarded by Agents Instead of Given Private Medical Care
MeidasTouch has obtained a detailed narrative from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, describing a violent apprehension by immigration
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Is there a sadness greater than having to leave your place of birth?”, one relocated participant in Odisha asked us. They described leaving behind their farmland, trees and home, and arriving somewhere with “not even flowers to offer the Gods”.
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Climate change is driving some entire communities to relocate – but simply moving isn’t enough
Researchers spoke to relocated people in India and Bangladesh to find out what worked.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
UK’s #nuclear waste a ‘calamity for future generations’. "It is irresponsible and immoral to create yet more wastes arising in the next century for which no management provision can conceivably be made". www.energyvoice.com/renewables-e...
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Investigation: The UK's nuclear waste management problem
As the UK prepares to build new nuclear power plants, its nuclear waste management plans remain uncertain. What happens to the waste?
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Adding to the impact, children make up a quarter of confirmed cases, and almost a third of all deaths. And those are just the direct deaths from the Ebola virus…”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/08/2026
🚨 FOX MOCKS SAILORS: Fox News host Joey Jones lashed out at U.S. sailors speaking out about dire conditions aboard the USS Lincoln, calling them “weak” and warning America has “nothing left.”
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Fox Host Trashes U.S. Sailors as ‘Weak’ for Speaking Out About Dire Conditions
Fox News host Joey Jones mocked service members speaking out about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
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Jamie Mortimer @flimflammery.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Does this seem like holding someone to account?
Newscord Instagram post reading 'Hounded to death. 249 articles, 22 days.', alongside a graph showing the number of articles published by 15 news outlets, divided into 'Before the resignation (24 Jul to 4 Aug)', 'Resignation to death (5 Aug to 13 Aug)', and 'The day he died'.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
Black person plagarizes: they take your job, your money, they sneak into your house and steal your dog White person plagarizes: they’re very sorry, of course they’ve lined up a new job writing for the nation, isn’t it great that we all had a teachable moment together?
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/08/2026
Authorities in Iran intercepted 3,663 kilograms of methamphetamines headed for Europe and the Persian Gulf in the first quarter of 2026, according to the UN’s drugs and crime fighting agency (UNODC).
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We Can’t Look Away From the Bulldozers at Santa Elena Canyon www.texasmonthly.com/travel/santa...
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There Are Bulldozers at the Spiritual Heart of Big Bend. Here’s What That Means to Texans.
Construction equipment is disturbing the silence at the spiritual heart of Big Bend National Park. Here’s what that means to Texans.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Temperatures hit as high as 43°C (109°F) in France today as the fifth major heatwave of the year has arrived in Europe. Hundreds of cities and towns across the continent experienced their hottest August temperatures ever recorded.
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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.
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SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
Everything you allow to happen to incarcerated people is what you give permission to happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...
ICE Plans to Give Officers
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Gloves That Can Deliver
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/08/2026
Israeli forces arrest 23 Palestinians and demolish home of man killed in confrontation with Israeli settlers in July.
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Israeli raids, demolitions continue as UN warns West Bank at breaking point
Israeli forces arrest 23 Palestinians and demolish home of man killed in confrontation with Israeli settlers in July.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
He basically used journalists as…human shields?
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/08/2026
We are increasingly living in what's called a "K-shaped economy" - the poor and middle class have no more money to extract, while the top 0.1% have grown immensely wealthy. Companies selling ultra-luxury goods and services are booming. Mega-yachts, supersonic flight, space travel, etc.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
That sounds hot. Is it hot?
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It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now
The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I keep thinking about this gorgeous essay about how LLMs- so often trained by inheritors of colonial English- has now rendered the kind of language that is natural to us (“fancy” vocabulary, passive voice, reduced relative clauses) artificial and suspect. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
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I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/08/2026
Russia commits war crimes every single day
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Pedro Sánchez has sent a letter to the EU institutions complaining about the political reaction of some member states to the migratory crisis in Ceuta. “In the current international context, the European Union cannot afford this kind of selfish, polarising and unlawful reaction.” 🧵
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
See, it's funny because it's true. #Sad
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
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A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Dear god—this is state child abuse at scale and for profit:
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/07/2026
After fleeing Sudan’s war, refugees battle thirst in Chad’s camps aje.news/fk1p4d
After fleeing Sudan’s war, refugees battle thirst in Chad’s camps
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
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Alyssa S. #BakerSquad 🏆 @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS & we can still stop it. Please call your Senator NOW & ask that they sign onto S.4814 & extend TPS for Haitians for 3 years. This will be a catastrophe for our neighbors who have been here legally!! Here's the call script! drive.google.com/file/d/1XXEs...
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S. 4814 Script .PNG
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
An old-fashioned word. But a beautiful word. (via @apnews.com)
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
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ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Witch-hunts targeted women with financial independence and status. In colonial New England, women from families w/o male heirs made up 64% of the females prosecuted for witchcraft, 76% of those who were found guilty and 89% of those who were executed. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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What makes a woman a witch? Financial independence
Women aren’t being burnt at the stake any more, but there is still risk and violence implicit in the label ‘witch’
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