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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)
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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 23/09/2026
The 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly opened with clashing worldviews: one arguing for shared climate policy, protecting forests and regulating AI. The other boasted climate denial, celebrated fossil fuel expansion and attacked global climate regulation.
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Competing Climate Visions Clash at UN General Assembly - Inside Climate News
While President Donald Trump pushed against cutting emissions and regulating technology, environmentalists called for world leaders to reject conflict and build a stable future with clean energy.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NYT: “Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where immigrants are being held indefinitely.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🔥 MUST-READ — A WARNING ⚠️ from @AOC: “Heads they win, tails we lose… should the A.I. bubble congress must not bail them out… the biggest threat to humanity isn’t A.I. — it’s the tech oligarchs themselves… @RepAOC points out A.I. companies are demanding massive investments from 🇺🇸 while LOSING money
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/09/2026
“This idea that it’s somehow beyond our power to use what is probably the single most elegant feature of the Constitution—which is its capacity to be amended—is a complete failure of ambition and imagination,” Pete Buttigieg tells @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨An alarm is being sounded for the American public. Sitting federal judges go on the record with the NYT. On threats to democracy by DOJ/administration actions. Includes 90 minute interview with conservative Judge Patrick Schiltz. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings
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US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court REJECTS Department of Justice effort to restore U.S. Postal Service mail-in voting rule. A huge victory for voting rights and free and fair elections. A defeat for Trump and his scheme to rig the elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...
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🚨 State of California et al v. United States Postal Service et al
Learn more here.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026
Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/09/2026
"when I listen to Democratic voters, they’re not asking for ideological recalibration or even policy specifics. ... Instead, the Democratic voters I’m listening to are almost universally asking a different question: Why aren’t you fighting harder?"
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Voters Have a Message for Democrats
What I learned from 400 focus groups
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The one and only AI "slowdown" or "pause" is companies realizing that frontier-capability + massive compute = a need to truly prioritize guardrails and instruction-following before their models walk them into liability that bankrupts them. Everything else is cynical and fake.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10/09/2026
The fund managing the wealth of Lego’s billionaire owners plans to ramp up investments in plastics technologies as Europe tightens recycling rules.
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Lego Billionaires to Invest ‘Heavily’ in Plastic Recycling Tech
The fund managing the wealth of the Danish billionaires behind Lego A/S intends to significantly ramp up investments in plastics technologies, as Europe prepares to enforce much stricter recycling rules.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/09/2026
Trump this month announced plans to rescind a landmark rule that has protected old-growth forests in the US for 25 years. If finalized, the rollback is expected to benefit the companies that Tom Schultz, chief of the US Forest Service, represented in his previous role as a timber industry lobbyist.
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US Forest Service chief with industry ties pushed for more logging on public lands
Trump's plan to open up protected woodlands will benefit firms Tom Schultz once lobbied for.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/09/2026
The 20-year-old Haitian wrote before his death, “I came to this country to pursue my education … Yet now I’m walking through the streets of the United States with GPS monitor on my leg, carrying a feeling of shame and humiliation that I never imagined I would experience.” trib.al/8JowExf
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College Student Who Lost Legal Status Dies After Walking Into Traffic
Pierre Damas Bel died by suicide after losing his Temporary Protected Status and being forced to wear an ankle monitor.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/09/2026
Lianyong Wei's death marks the 57th death of an immigrant detainee held in the care of the government since the start of President Trump's second term. Twenty-four of those have occurred since Jan. 1. n.pr/3UzCLBQ
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ICE detainee dies just hours after he was admitted into detention
Lianyong Wei's death marks the 57th death of an immigrant detainee held in the care of the government since the start of President Trump's second term. Twenty-four of those have occurred since Jan. 1.
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rogue vagabond @picaroon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When you think the problem is the solution. “it follows that faster and more expansive growth will reduce deaths by even more.”
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 28/08/2026
California farmers use a dizzying array of plastic materials to produce the crops that feed the nation. But as scientists document microplastics accumulating in soil and waterways, they’re urging legislators to find sustainable alternatives.
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Can California Farmers Break Free From Plastic? - Inside Climate News
Microplastics in waterways and soil are fueling calls to reduce the pervasiveness of plastic in agriculture.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/08/2026
"For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer." www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This got a lot of play this week: “.. Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and the coming super El Niño are adding to fertilizer and food price pressures, with the potential to translate into weaker yields and lower food production capacity through 2027.”
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Organizations that help service members apply to leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats and targets inside Iran. www.ms.now/news/conscie...
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Troops fighting against Iran and drug smugglers say they're being asked to violate international law
Organizations that help service members apply to leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats and targets...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/08/2026
The high court’s shadow-docket decision isn’t the final word on mail-in ballots, but it reveals the conservative bloc’s comfort with the administration’s voter suppression schemes. trib.al/clG2enK
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The Supreme Court Joins Trump’s Insidious War on Voting Rights
The high court’s shadow-docket decision isn’t the final word on mail-in ballots, but it reveals the conservative bloc’s comfort with the administration’s voter suppression schemes.
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rogue vagabond @picaroon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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SupCo frees trump to enforce mail-in voting changes
The president’s attempt to overhaul mail-in voting via executive order comes as Republican-led efforts to stymie absentee ballots at the high court and Congress have floundered.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/08/2026
Exclusive: The Interior Department created a “White House priorities” list so that Trump’s pet projects could quickly be approved and funded—while maintenance needs at national parks across the country were deemed lower priorities, Michael Scherer reports:
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President Trump Has a Pet-Project Docket at the National Parks
The National Park Service changed the way it prioritizes projects so that the president’s requests are quickly approved.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: The editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes says he has been fired for insubordination after calling any censorship a "red line."
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Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, as well as its publisher and a reporter.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/08/2026
Iowa has the second-highest rate of cancer nationwide. Promises to address the issue are top of mind for candidates ahead of the November elections. "At some point," one voter said, "wouldn’t people just look at that data and say, you know, maybe we should do something different?”
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Why cancer, not affordability, may be the biggest issue in Iowa’s midterms
"State leadership and industrial agriculture are very hesitant to have those conversations."
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you didn’t already dislike power-hungry data centers popping up on Earth, just wait till you see what they could do to the night sky. A new study suggests proposed megaconstellations of orbital data centers could outnumber the visible stars and blot out the Milky Way.
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Orbital data centers could outshine the Milky Way
Without drastic interventions, data centers in space could disrupt scientific observations and fragile ecosystems by adding almost innumerable new “stars” to the heavens above
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Montana Free Press @montanafreepress.org · 18/08/2026
Nearly 45 million acres of national forest land could be opened to logging and development.
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Trump administration moves to allow logging and road building across all national forests
The Forest Service has advanced a policy change to remove protections for road building and logging across 6 million Montana acres.
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
50 Senators let a Weekend News Anchorman run the Pentagon because they were afraid a gameshow host would yell at them
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/06/2026
The Defense Department has designated its press office as a classified space, off limits to journalists, further restricting interactions between its public-facing representatives and the reporters assigned to cover the military.
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Pentagon Bars Reporters From Its Press Office
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has repeatedly curtailed journalists’ access in the Pentagon.
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rogue vagabond @picaroon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
www.producer.com/news/u-s-bio...
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New biodiesel mandate expected to be a boon for U.S. soy farmers
Biodiesel and renewable diesel producers in the United States are feverishly ramping up production, says a senior industry official.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/05/2026
More like a hush fund, am I right?
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Who's eligible for Trump's slush fund money? Blanche won't say.
And we won't know everyone who receives a chunk of the $1.8 billion fund.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has expanded the just-announced settlement of Trump's IRS lawsuit to include a pledge that the IRS will no longer pursue *any* claims it may have against Trump, his family members, and his companies over unpaid taxes.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/05/2026
Public opposition to data centers is hardening as overwhelming majorities of Americans now oppose the facilities in their communities, according to a new Gallup poll. The survey found that opposition is especially intense among Democrats. wapo.st/4nt6cA1
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 13/05/2026
Prices are rising faster than wages, according to data underscoring just how much the war against Iran is hurting everyday Americans.
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The economic pain is getting too real
Prices are rising faster than wages, according to data underscoring just how much the war against Iran is hurting everyday Americans.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 05/05/2026
Traces of a carcinogen and an environmental poison are two of the contaminants found in a ditch where Tesla’s lithium refinery discharges wastewater, testing commissioned by Nueces County, Texas officials found.
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Independent Testing Where Tesla’s Lithium Refinery Discharges Wastewater Found Toxic Metals - Inside Climate News
The drainage district that commissioned the test has now sent a cease-and-desist letter to Tesla’s operations, near Corpus Christi.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 05/05/2026
A team involving scientists, Indigenous people and conservationists point to the ecosystem connecting Yellowstone and the Yukon as an example of a region where humans and nature are flourishing together.
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Meeting Climate Targets Requires Humanity to Reorient Its Relationship With Nature, New Study Says - Inside Climate News
A team including scientists, Indigenous people and conservationists point to the ecosystem connecting Yellowstone and the Yukon as an example of a region where humans and nature are flourishing togeth...
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rogue vagabond @picaroon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Record U.S. Biofuel Targets to Test Biodiesel Industry After Slow Year
The U.S. biodiesel industry, still recovering from one of its most difficult years, will have a hard time ramping up production fast enough this year to meet the Environmental Protection Agency's most...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 27/04/2026
In these strikes, Iran hit over 100 targets across 11 U.S. bases in the Middle East, striking “warehouses, command headquarters, aircraft hangars, satellite communications infrastructure, runways, high-end radar systems and dozens of aircraft,” according to reporting.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/04/2026
A little more than a year ago, @paperwords.bsky.social received a letter from the US Forest Service detailing plans for a new wildfire recovery project. But a single word caught his eye—and alerted him to a secret, Big Tobacco-style campaign with ramifications for our forests.
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We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 25/04/2026
From food to insurance, prices are rising because of extreme weather, turning climate change into a new and growing source of inflation
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Climate Change Is Already Showing Up in the Cost of Living
Economists and central bankers are getting better at linking temperatures to price increases.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
TMZ: “When you give these orders to carry out this extreme level of violence, what’s going through your mind and body? Is there an adrenaline rush? Are you scared? Do you feel like you’re on a power trip?”
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