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Ok, Charlie Brown. Kick the ball.

No health care, no deal.

CBS News kills its climate unit David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

Make a Submission The OCC is an independent, non-partisan entity charged with reviewing allegations of misconduct against Members, officers, and staff of the United States House of Representatives.

We can make a complaint against Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, for impeding government process, failing to swear in a duly elected member, failing to release #EpsteinFiles, failing to facilitate negotiations, closing the House.
Failure to do his JOB.
Let's go.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

No one should have to beg their member of Congress for basic compassion.

The Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act ends the cruel 29-month wait for Medicare and disability coverage for people who are already fighting for their lives.

“More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump [regime] dismantling USAID… Around 4.5 million would be among children under 5… 88 deaths per hour.”

“It’s not left-wing rhetoric to feed the hungry, heal the sick. If this isn’t murder, I don’t know what is.” Bono

Declining ocean greenness and phytoplankton blooms in low to mid-latitudes under a warming climate Chlorophyll a is declining in low- to mid-latitude oceans, indicating reduced ocean productivity and fewer phytoplankton blooms.

"Declining ocean greenness and phytoplankton blooms in low to mid-latitudes under a warming climate" | Our (Hong et al) new article in @aaas.org #ScienceAdvances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Water is everybody's business! thevalueofwater.org/imagineaday

WIC Stops Accepting Some Applicants Amid Government Shutdown The WIC program will only accept applications from pregnant women, breastfeeding women and high-risk infants during the federal government shutdown.

WIC’s application limitations could be especially harmful for Black women living in food deserts like the Mississippi Delta, Cassandra Welchlin said.

She worries about children going hungry because they have difficulties learning and paying attention in school if they do not have access to food.

With federal support, Valley Children's Hospital was building a backup battery system to protect patients from power outages. But Trump’s Department of Energy has cut its funding just days after announcing millions in handouts to coal power plant owners.

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

Goons shooting from rooftops into a peaceful protest.

This is no longer America, the land of the free. We are under siege. The Trump administration has declared war on Americans.

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Let’s get this straight, once and for all:

Homophobia is not an opinion.
Transphobia is not an opinion.
Xenophobia is not an opinion.
Misogyny is not an opinion.
Racism is not an opinion.

It’s hatred. — Are we all clear on this?

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Please read this thread. There’s an important message at the end
I view any hindrance to our communication as an attempt to censor, block, oppress. We are deep in the information-war phase of fascism. Maybe the most important fight. If we get cut off from each other, we will truly be in the dark 1/

Many people still believe burning wood for home heating is 'green'.

It's totally not.

A ‘tropical’ disease is spreading in American wildlife This neglected tropical disease is no longer confined to the tropics. It’s here, in the United States, spreading silently in wildlife.

www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/c...

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.

History shows us how scientific empires fall: ideology over evidence. Today, the Trump admin is dismantling our research institutions piece by piece. If we don’t act, we know how this ends.

Looking to stand up for science? #31Days of Action is happening now - join us 👉 zurl.co/MeIbs

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Seven suspected tuberculosis cases at Tacoma ICE processing facility The KING 5 Investigators discovered seven suspected cases of TB at the Northwest ICE Processing Center, confirmed by the Washington State Department of Health.

www.king5.com/article/news...

A million kids won’t live to kindergarten because of this disastrous decision The world’s war on child death was going well. Then RFK Jr. came along.

This is legacy of “pro life” voters. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.

EviCore markets itself to insurers by promising a 3-to-1 return on investment — that is, for every $1 spent on EviCore, the insurer would pay out $3 less on medical care and other costs.

(Published Oct. 2024)

YouTube video by Sullys_Classroom The Iran Nuclear Debacle

youtu.be/fmIm8jZwv6s

Thank you Bruce Springsteen.

op: estreetnation

Brutal.

The Seed Dropper Imagine 2200 climate fiction: Decades after flooding drove his family from their Louisiana home, June returns to replant the land, and grapple with its legacy.

New Climate Fiction!

The Seed Dropper.

Decades after flooding drove his family from their Louisiana home, June returns to replant the land, and grapple with its legacy.

grist.org/climate-fict...

#Writers #ClimateFiction #Fiction #BookSky #Literature #BlackSky #Louisiana

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Can philanthropy replace US climate funding? The short answer is no, but increased climate funding could fill gaps and attract investment

The final edition of our pop-up newsletter about the politics of the renewable energy transition spotlights the role philanthropists could play in filling funding gaps, as cuts by the Trump administration strand many climate change–related research efforts and other initiatives.

The atmosphere is getting thirstier and it’s making droughts worse – new study A new study shows that rising ‘atmospheric thirst’ is responsible for about 40% of the increase in drought severity over the last four decades.

theconversation.com/the-atmosphe...