Somini Sengupta

Trump’s E.U. Trade Deal Comes With Impossible Energy Promises

Here you go:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Very much worth reading 👇🏽

Trump Administration Live Updates: Preliminary E.U. Trade Deal Reached After Months of Tense Talks

EU’s von der Leyen confirmed that Europe will buy $750 billion worth of American energy over three years. She also clarified the logic behind the time frame: “during his term.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

The First Time America Went Beard Crazy A sweeping new history explores facial hair as a proving ground for notions about gender, race, and rebellion.

This explains something about today's beard boom:

"Beards emerged as legible emblems of male virility and authority just as women began demanding the vote."

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Journalists Are Starving in Gaza “I used to chase the truth. Now I chase calories.”

"I used to chase the truth. Now I chase calories.”
www.cjr.org/news/journal...

An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

Chinese Car Giants Rush Into Brazil With Dreams of Dominating a Continent

Chinese carmakers are changing how the world drives.

Their latest venture: Latin America.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/c...

War, Inflation and Now Drought Are Hitting Global Food Supplies

It’s not just beef.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/c...

This Dinosaur Probably Tweeted More Than It Roared

Dinosaur song. 🦤

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/s...

Alas

Emu?

'Kisses yes, Bezos No,' protesters say, as Bezos wedding stirs controversy in Venice Protesters denounced the three-day celebrations for the wedding between Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos as a symbol of rising inequality and disregard for the city's residents.

Protesters denounced the three-day celebrations for the wedding between Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos as a symbol of rising inequality and disregard for the city's residents.

Protests have sprung up in response to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Venice wedding, including a variety of life-size mannequins placed throughout the city.

The satirical project is protesting the billionaire's wedding as a symbol of unchecked wealth inequality. wapo.st/3I1z8hU

Pretty remarkable! Here's a look at some of the cities that broke or tied for their hottest June day on record Tuesday! #heatwave2025 #heatwave

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Look forward to seeing heat adaptation plan from team @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Heat is one of NYC’s most urgent climate challenges

Unprecedented June heat along the Northeast urban corridor, brought to you by climate change » Yale Climate Connections Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

Extreme heat, fueled by the burning of coal, oil, gas:

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/06/unpr...

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Finally, community helps. Isolation hurts. (In heat, as in life.)

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🌳 Public money for green retrofits, from green roofs to green walls to insulation
⛱️ Shade shade shade – and yes many more trees and green corridors
👩‍🦽Check-ins with the homebound and elderly
⚠️ Robust early warning system with help for the most vulnerable
🛝 Green schoolyards

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💦 Public misting stations, water fountains, toilets
🚌 Shaded bus stops, including with greenery
🚶‍♀️Shaded walkways to and from metro stations
🌆 Shade requirements for new construction
👷‍♀️ Work rules for outdoor and indoor workers

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🌶️ Ok. That was a hot win on a hot election day. 🌶️

Now, how will the next mayor help us inhabit a much much hotter New York City?

Thankfully, there are practical fixes that other cities have made. Here are a few:

Trump & Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” would be one of the largest wealth transfers from the working class to the wealthy in U.S. history.

But how would it affect YOU?

We built a calculator.

Plug in your info to see what it’d mean for your finances.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Live Updates: Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary

Extreme heat election stunner:

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Daily report for 23 June 2025

Another day of the Saudis being Saudis at UN climate talks

"SAUDI ARABIA opposed noting 'with alarm and utmost concern' the state of the climate system, and called for deleting all references to 1.5ºC in favor of broader reference to Paris Agreement temperature goals"

enb.iisd.org/bonn-climate...

NYC elections.
Extreme heat edition.

Wildlife park near Exeter evacuated after bears escape Two brown bears escape from their enclosure and eat a "week's worth of honey" in the food store.

Bears raid honey store.
bbc.com/news/article...

Also Chiwetel’s list is fire

Pedro Almodóvar, Sofia Coppola and 117 Other Famous Names Share Their Top Movies of the Century. (Gift Article) To determine the best movies of the 21st century, we polled hundreds of celebrities. See how your favorite stars and directors voted.

Tell me your faves!

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

3/ All this is more visible to me because I’ve recently been to several world cities, preparing and adapting to heat.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

There are many practical fixes possible. We are dangerously behind.

2/ There is little to no shade, neither awnings nor arcades to walk under, and very few shade trees. There are no green walls. There are no water stations, no misting stations. There is one park in a canyon of buildings, with young trees that don’t yet provide shade.