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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 4h
Cartoon — Alien Discrimination
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Alien Discrimination
An Independent, Progressive Journal of News and Opinion.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 6h
Sam Altman, Elon Musk and the rest of the boys know AI is dangerous better than anyone. They're pushing full speed ahead without safeguards anyway.
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Sam Altman Is Driving Drunk. Let Him Face the Consequences
We already have laws to deal with the myriad harms caused by AI. We just need to use them.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 7h
Germany is funding its own political suicide.
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How Germany’s Electoral System Enabled the Rise of the Far Right
For half a decade, the Alternative for Germany party has been recruiting on TikTok with millions of euros in taxpayer funds.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 8h
America has spent more time in the post-Fordist economy than the Fordist bargain itself ever lasted.
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Fordism’s 50-Year Hangover: What Comes Next In the Post-Fordist Economy?
Enough nostalgia — we’ve been in the post-Fordist economy for longer than the Fordist bargain held. What comes next?
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 11h
This summer provided strong evidence that the public infrastructures of advanced nations were built for a climate that no longer exists. www.truthdig.com/articles/mas...
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Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts
This summer provided strong evidence that the public infrastructures of advanced nations were built for a climate that no longer exists.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 12h
The White House moved the funds into a Customs and Border Protection budget line intended for "commemorative events" related to border security, federal records show. www.truthdig.com/articles/tru...
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Trump TV Ads Used $20 Million in Homeland Security Funds
The White House moved the funds into a Customs and Border Protection budget line intended for "commemorative events" related to border security, federal records show.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 13h
Director Sophie Deraspe wants her new documentary “The Final Act” to change how we think about dying. www.truthdig.com/articles/how...
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"The Final Act" Director Interview: How to Plan Your Own Death
Director Sophie Deraspe wants her new documentary “The Final Act” to change how we think about dying.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 14h
How America's history museum tells the nation's story is suddenly up for grabs.
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How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War
A political spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and murder of George Floyd exposed the museum to accusations of woke excesses.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 15h
Inspectors visited the site, said they saw no pollution and never took a single sample.
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Did a Texas Developer Have a Duty to Disclose Toxic Oil and Gas Waste?
New documents add alarming details to the tale of a North Texas housing development built atop millions of tons of drilling waste.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 16h
Trending Story — Robert Kraft Enters the Concussion Protocol
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Robert Kraft Enters the Concussion Protocol
Once again, the worst parts of the NFL and real life converge on ownership.
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altghost gestalt @pneumaticorangutan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
by 2 of the 3 metrics experts use to study poverty, California has a higher percentage of people mired in it than any other state in the country
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 30/09/2026
Cartoon — The Original Data Centers
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The Original Data Centers
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 30/09/2026
Killing a federally protected animal is now legal — as long as it wasn't on purpose, federal wildlife officials said.
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The Fate of the Endangered Species Act Rests on Two Simple Words
The Trump administration has upended protections for thousands of threatened species by redefining the words "take" and "harm."
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 30/09/2026
Sergey Brin gave $102 million to defeat Proposition 40 while his own wealth grew $105 billion in 20 months.
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Meet the 22 California Billionaires Opposing Prop. 40
The rich Californians who've spent the most to fight a ballot proposal to tax billionaires have seen their personal wealth increase by over 64% in the last 20 months.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 30/09/2026
Israel's Supreme Court already upheld a law allowing citizenship to be revoked. Netanyahu wants another law targeting anyone who defames soldiers. www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
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The Israeli Filmmakers Behind ‘NAZA’ Might Lose Their Citizenship
Netanyahu has pledged to advance two bills aimed at addressing what he calls the “immense damage” the documentary has done to Israeli soldiers.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
The majority of Americans understand that the administration’s propaganda push is meant to hide wrongdoing and avoid further revelations of egregious human and civil rights violations and staggering corruption.
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Now Streaming: Constitutional Misconduct
So far, Trump TV is a ratings flop but the threat to press freedom should be the top news.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
Who will control the seeds, science and markets behind the new interest in Africa’s indigenous crops? www.truthdig.com/articles/in-...
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In Africa, Changing the Crops Without Changing the System Is Not Good Enough
Who will control the seeds, science and markets behind the new interest in Africa’s indigenous crops?
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
Who will control the seeds, science and markets behind the new interest in Africa’s indigenous crops? www.truthdig.com/articles/in-...
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
A new rule would prohibit using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restrict voting access. www.truthdig.com/articles/whi...
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White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule would prohibit using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restrict voting access.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
Faced with trade sanctions and another sovereignty threat, the two leaders present a united front in the North Atlantic. www.truthdig.com/articles/mac...
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Macron and Carney Make Trump an Island
Faced with trade sanctions and another sovereignty threat, the two leaders present a united front in the North Atlantic.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
UNICEF said 58,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents. More than a million need protection and psychosocial support.
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A Generation of Orphans
From Sudan to Iran, children are losing their parents at a pace the world no longer finds shocking.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
How does a defense secretary with his sights on the Oval Office rewrite a humiliating defeat in Iran? Pete Hegseth is counting on a "replacement press corps."
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Pete Hegseth Wants to Be President
As he stumps in Iowa, the defense secretary is depending on a "replacement press corps" to rewrite his role in a disastrous war.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
Trending Story — Donald Trump Will Soon Have New Ways to Start a Nuclear War
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Donald Trump Will Soon Have New Ways to Start a Nuclear War
Hawks inside and outside the Pentagon are preparing secret plans that would make nuclear war far more likely.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
Cartoon — Still Better Than Trump
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Still Better Than Trump
An Independent, Progressive Journal of News and Opinion.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
While “Primetime” explores the heyday of “To Catch a Predator,” two new films show Gen Z taking a very different approach to dirty old men.
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"Primetime" Review: Sex and the Single Generation
While “Primetime” explores the heyday of “To Catch a Predator,” two new films show Gen Z taking a very different approach to dirty old men.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
A Yale historian compared the White House's Smithsonian campaign to Joseph Goebbels' Nazi propaganda ministry. Is history repeating itself?
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How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War
A political spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and murder of George Floyd exposed the museum to accusations of woke excesses.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 29/09/2026
New documents add alarming details to the tale of a North Texas housing development built atop millions of tons of drilling waste.
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Did a Texas Developer Have a Duty to Disclose Toxic Oil and Gas Waste?
New documents add alarming details to the tale of a North Texas housing development built atop millions of tons of drilling waste.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 28/09/2026
"The History of Concrete" review: a fascinating and often moving X-ray of a city that never sleeps www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
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"The History of Concrete" Review: Where Dreams Are Made
John Wilson’s off-the-cuff documentary explores people through their material world, and vice versa.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 28/09/2026
Enough nostalgia — we’ve been in the post-Fordist economy for longer than the Fordist bargain held. What comes next? www.truthdig.com/articles/for...
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Fordism’s 50-Year Hangover
Enough nostalgia — we’ve been in the post-Fordist economy for longer than the Fordist bargain held. What comes next?
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 28/09/2026
We already have laws to deal with the myriad harms caused by AI. We just need to use them. www.truthdig.com/articles/sam...
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Sam Altman Is Driving Drunk. Let Him Face the Consequences
We already have laws to deal with the myriad harms caused by AI. We just need to use them.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 28/09/2026
For half a decade, the Alternative for Germany party has been recruiting on TikTok with millions of euros in taxpayer funds. www.truthdig.com/articles/how...
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How Germany’s Electoral System Enabled the Rise of the Far Right
For half a decade, the Alternative for Germany party has been recruiting on TikTok with millions of euros in taxpayer funds.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 28/09/2026
As Ecuador and the U.S. continue their aggressive campaign in the Pacific, victims' families are trying to hold them accountable.
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In Manta, Ecuador, a Community Is Devastated by U.S. Boat Strikes
As Ecuador and the U.S. continue their aggressive campaign in the Pacific, victims' families are trying to hold them accountable.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 28/09/2026
AI doomerism obsesses over a highly implausible "Terminator 2" scenario, not the looming crash in stock market values.
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Discipline and Punish: How to Think About the AI Industry’s Extinction Pitch
The hyped-up threat of AI apocalypse is used to misdirect both opposition and regulation. Don’t fall for it.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 28/09/2026
Despite facing obstacles to hold a powerful official accountable, top athletes keep fighting to help the next generation.
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In India, Women Wrestlers Grapple With Sexual Harassment
Despite facing obstacles to hold a powerful official accountable, top athletes keep fighting to help the next generation.
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DnB Time @oldtech.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Human Appeal, GoFundMe widows, Chuffed campaigns and a hundred smaller efforts like them prove that ordinary people will show up for orphaned children when institutions won’t. What they can’t do is substitute for the diplomacy that would have kept those children’s parents alive in the first place.”
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 28/09/2026
California billionaires' wealth grew more than 15% a year from 2019 to 2025 while they paid just 0.26% of it in state income taxes.
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Meet the 22 California Billionaires Opposing Prop. 40
The rich Californians who've spent the most to fight a ballot proposal to tax billionaires have seen their personal wealth increase by over 64% in the last 20 months.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 28/09/2026
Given how tightly Trump’s aides control what information reaches him, it’s possible the president is unaware that his propaganda channel is a massive flop.
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Now Streaming: Constitutional Misconduct
So far, Trump TV is a ratings flop but the threat to press freedom should be the top news.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 28/09/2026
Venice gave "NAZA" its Special Jury Prize. At home, its Israeli directors might lose their citizenship.
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The Israeli Filmmakers Behind ‘NAZA’ Might Lose Their Citizenship
Netanyahu has pledged to advance two bills aimed at addressing what he calls the “immense damage” the documentary has done to Israeli soldiers.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 27/09/2026
Some of the online voices amplifying Pete Hegseth's views have a secret: They work for the Pentagon.
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Pete Hegseth Wants to Be President
As he stumps in Iowa, the defense secretary is depending on a "replacement press corps" to rewrite his role in a disastrous war.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 27/09/2026
In Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine and Iran, a generation of children is being orphaned at a pace the world has stopped finding shocking.
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A Generation of Orphans
From Sudan to Iran, children are losing their parents at a pace the world no longer finds shocking.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 27/09/2026
California’s billionaires, individually and collectively, are spending wildly to try to defeat the state initiative that would tax their wealth.
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California Unions Back the Fight for a Wealth Tax
Labor federation president says Proposition 40 — opposed by the ultrarich — is needed to maintain basic healthcare services after cuts by Trump and Republicans.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 27/09/2026
A new nuclear policy is taking shape in secret, crafted by a small group of Pentagon officials, that will give President Donald Trump more ways to start a nuclear war.
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Donald Trump Will Soon Have New Ways to Start a Nuclear War
Hawks inside and outside the Pentagon are preparing secret plans that would make nuclear war far more likely.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 27/09/2026
Starting this week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says that it now considers it legal to kill a federally protected animal, as long as it wasn’t done on purpose.
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The Fate of the Endangered Species Act Rests on Two Simple Words
The Trump administration has upended protections for thousands of threatened species by redefining the words "take" and "harm."
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 26/09/2026
From Justin Nobel, in collaboration with @truthdig.com: We reported on homes and a school built atop a former drilling waste site. Texas claims their homes are safe; owners aren't so sure. It's unclear if they have a case against developers.
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Did These North Texas Developers Have a Duty to Disclose Oil and Gas Waste History?
A housing development and school was built atop an old drilling waste site in Johnson County. New test results came back safe, but it’s unclear what the homebuyers had a legal right to know.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 27/09/2026
Hegseth's new fitness standards aimed to cut women from combat roles. More than 90% of female Marines met or exceeded them anyway.
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Trump World Is Determined to Man Up
Its embrace of misogyny has harmed decades of women's progress.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 27/09/2026
“Primetime” is based on the Esquire article “Tonight on Dateline, This Man Will Die,” which details the suicide of Texas prosecutor Bill Conradt after a botched, rushed, legally-dodgy TCAP ambush.
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"Primetime" Review: Sex and the Single Generation
While “Primetime” explores the heyday of “To Catch a Predator,” two new films show Gen Z taking a very different approach to dirty old men.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 27/09/2026
Who gets to decide how America's history museum tells the nation's story is now an open question.
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How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War
A political spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and murder of George Floyd exposed the museum to accusations of woke excesses.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 26/09/2026
A landfarm plowed more than 4 million barrels of oil and gas drilling waste into land that is now home to hundreds of families and an elementary school.
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Did a Texas Developer Have a Duty to Disclose Toxic Oil and Gas Waste?
New documents add alarming details to the tale of a North Texas housing development built atop millions of tons of drilling waste.
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 26/09/2026
“The History of Concrete” is one of the year’s most fluid documentaries. This intriguing, often amusing reorientation of how we see the material world is directed by the inimitable John Wilson as he traverses New York and speaks with its denizens.
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"The History of Concrete" Review: Where Dreams Are Made
John Wilson’s off-the-cuff documentary explores people through their material world, and vice versa.
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