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Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

Ahhhh I love this so much!

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Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.

The cost to end homelessness in the U.S. is also only $10 billion a year with a housing-first approach.

Billionaires are directly stealing from all of us.

Absolutely incredible news. Now we need to do everything in our power to ensure that everyone has fair and affordable access to this drug!

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

The English language is a beast, filled with inconsistencies and complications, but sometimes it can produce the most beautiful words and phrases. 🙏

I Watched a Woman Nearly Die in a Cell Across From Mine. Texas Prisons Need Air Conditioning. More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning — that can mean the difference between life and death.

Please read this first-person essay from Lanae Tipton, an incarcerated journalist in Texas with a desperate plea for air conditioning in prisons. She’s watched women seize on the floor from the heat. As one prison staffer said, “I vomited blood.”

thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/25/t...

This hurts.

Let's honor Wisconsin's progressive legacy and get a dedicated civil servant elected who will be proactive, thoughtful, and LOUD about fighting to protect democracy, human/civil rights for all, and the environment.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announces he will not run for a third term.

I'm grateful for his tireless service to this state, for holding the line against right-wing attacks for 6 years, and for stepping back at exactly the time we need fresh energy & perspective in the governor's office.

Scream at your reps, schoolboards, principals, and teachers if they try to poison your kids with this bullshit.

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

🚨Now that the men imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador are free, their stories are coming out; and they are horrific.

One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.

A New Era for WIRED—That Starts With You As of today, there are even more ways to enjoy WIRED’s journalism, including premium newsletters and livestream Q&As. Join us.

Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

The Roller Derby World Cup and a borderless future Vol. 69 (nice) IN THIS ISSUE: ESSAY | NOW READ THIS | TAKE ACTION | IN PERSON | FINAL FRAME It’s no secret that I love the sport of roller derby. I’ve been involved since 2012, when I finally worked...

New issue of my newsletter is out today, wherein I have some thoughts about roller derby and the dream of a borderless world:

U.S. Olympic Committee demonstrating the moral backbone of overcooked spaghetti. Utterly shameful.

"Silencing voices.

As if banning international media is not enough.
Humanitarian workers are also banned when they report on atrocities committed in #Gaza and elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory."

Full statement: x.com/unlazzarini/...

300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence. For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...

“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”

Hard co-sign.

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation Is Exactly What It Looks Like Mock a Trump bribe on Monday, get canceled by Thursday. The Late Show’s death reveals how billionaires and presidents are reshaping American media.

“This is how media freedom dies. Not with dramatic raids on newsrooms or journalists thrown in jail... It dies with mergers and acquisitions, with regulatory pressure and financial settlements.”

https://trib.al/P3y6L99

He's 82. 82!

'Unconstitutional. Unethical. Authoritarian.' ICE Bars Millions of Immigrants From Bond Hearings One watchdog said the new policy "seems like a blatant attempt to stop them from exercising their right to due process."

'Unconstitutional. Unethical. Authoritarian.' ICE Bars Millions of Immigrants From Bond Hearings

A recent ICE memo stated immigrants are no longer eligible for a bond heading as they fight against deportation & should be detained "for the duration of their removal proceedings."

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

Perhaps the most disturbing thing I ever heard one of my students in the US say in passing was, "People are paid what they're worth."

This was a student at a small teaching university in Connecticut. They understood working-poor poverty as the natural order, not an act of theft enacted by the rich.

“He would tell me … that he’s going to help us and that he would make his dream come true to have his own salon,” his mother said in a recent interview. “And they thwarted all of that. They stepped on him, ran him over, completely shut down his dream. Now what is my boy going to do?” #FreeAndry

Do people remember this story that we published in June at Bolts?

If you do, we have an update for you momentarily — you're going to want to sit down for it.

"CEO caught having affair with his head of HR in jumbotron at Coldplay concert" is the type of thing that, if pitched as a plot in a movie, etc would be dismissed as far too ham-fisted.

This timeline is jacked in so many ways, both horrifying and deeply inane.

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...