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Campaign Promise Broken? Trump Has No Plans to Mandate IVF Coverage Despite a pledge to make insurers cover in vitro fertilization, Donald Trump's White House is backing off plans to do so.

Donald Trump‘s White House is not pursuing a campaign promise to mandate health insurance pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF), even though he pledged to do so multiple times on the 2024 campaign trail.

Margaret Bourke-White's famous Depression-era photo of a line of Black flood refugees in front of a billboard featuring a smiling white family in a car and reading WORLD'S HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING: There's no way like the American Way

forthcoming from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Elon Musk’s DOGE Burned Through $21.7 Billion of Taxpayer Cash A report added up all the costs associated with DOGE and found it wasted billions by paying employees not to work, cancelling projects and more.

Waste, fraud and abuse:

"The Department of Government Efficiency generated some $21.7 billion in waste across the federal government in the first six months of the year, according to a new report from the minority staff of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI)."

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

Trump's 'big beautiful bill' cuts food stamps for millions — the average family may lose $146 per month, report finds A new law includes the largest-ever cuts to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. Here's how much that may reduce what families can spend on food.

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It was only after reading Crossings by @bengoldfarb.bsky.social that I realized the true destructive nature of roads in wilderness areas. Highly recommend his book to understand the stakes here.

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food. It calculated how much Gaza needs – but data shows how this is being withheld

Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period …

Even if every bag of UN flour had been collected and handed out … starvation was inevitable. Palestinians did not have enough to eat.”

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

This event has generated a tsunami - current size is not yet known. Please pay attention to all information and notices from your local officials. www.tsunami.gov

A short while ago, there was an 8.0
earthquake off the coast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.

We are in touch with the National Tsunami Warning Center. The threat of a tsunami to the Washington state coast is UNKNOWN at this time. We will post more when we know more.

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The EPA cited my paper in their argument against the endangerment finding today. However, their point is completely backwards: my paper actually supports the EPA's 2009 range of 1.8C to 4C warming by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

hobbling sound, Misery

EPA Leadership Is So, So Proud of Its Ignorance Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

"It’s like taking over a hospital and making the surgeons break bones instead of fix them, like suddenly requiring your engineering firm to use 'three' in place of pi, like telling a three-star chef her new goal is to make all the patrons puke."

Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed revoking a scientific finding that's long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

Let's all spend some time with the phrase "revoke a scientific finding," shall we

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The chryon showing heat indexes in the 120s in the corner while he talks is pretty fitting.

DOJ escalates its attacks on judges who rule against Trump

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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

this is wild:
"Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, pluss runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans" and rising sea level www.propublica.org/article/wate...

The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come Mounting evidence shows no US state is safe from the flooding that ravaged Texas’ Kerr Country.

The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come. Mounting evidence shows no US state is safe from the flooding that ravaged Texas’ Kerr Country. www.wired.com/story/kerr-c...

Severe malnutrition among under-5s in Gaza City has tripled in two weeks, charity says MSF says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled since May and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’ * Middle East crisis – live updates The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said that rates of severe malnutrition among children under five at its Gaza City clinic have tripled in the last two weeks as starvation in the Israeli-besieged strip worsens. The global aid community has sounded the alarm as Gaza descends deeper into mass starvation, with daily deaths from starvation reported as Israel allows only a trickle of aid into the territory. Continue reading...

Severe malnutrition among under-5s in Gaza City has tripled in two weeks, charity says

Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger.

#protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.”

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"You can't run a successful restaurant if you have to pay for every single ingredient in all the dishes. I mean, I understand the farmers and vintners want to be paid, but you just can't do it."

If AI can't survive without rampant copyright THEFT, it's not a business. It's a crime scene.

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

This would literally be the repeal of a well-established fact: that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human lives.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner.

But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"

any chance for Seattle?

Me: sends myself an email
Me, one half second later: Oh no who's emailing me

Trump administration to destroy nearly $10m of contraceptives for women overseas As part of president’s shuttering of USAID, destruction of the contraceptives will cost US taxpayers $167,000

NEWS from me: The Trump administration has decided to destroy almost $10 million worth of contraceptives rather than send them to women in need overseas. The destruction itself will cost $167,000, the state department told me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ChatGPT cannot admit any such thing. These reporters are engaging in versions of the delusion that is afflicting the man in question.

These things are designed to reflect back what you want to hear and validate your thesis of whatever.