Andrea Kendall

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

Anthropic said a Pentagon designation of the AI company as a "supply chain risk to America's national security" won't impact their business partners as heavily as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth implied last week. https://cnn.it/40OqTM4

Tell the AI giants to stand together against killer robots The US Secretary of War is on a rampage. He’s trying to bully the world’s top AI companies to rip out their safety guardrails and "tailor" their models for Trump’s military. He wants to turn AI into a

Tell the AI giants to stand together against killer robots actions.eko.org/a/tell-the-a...

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

After spending his 66th birthday in the custody of Thames Valley Police, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was released on Thursday evening and returned home 10 hours later to the Sandringham Estate. Here's what could happen next: https://cnn.it/4rwjFrY

A CNN investigation reveals that immigration officers are detaining hundreds of US citizens under 18 USC 111. But when those cases make it to court, many are falling apart. https://cnn.it/4czPn2K

Women's Rights are Democratic Rights: The Global Authoritarian Backlash to Gender Equality, by Hillary Rodham Clinton

I can say from personal experience that Putin is threatened by strong women.

As I argue in a new piece in @foreignaffairs.com, he and his fellow autocrats have reason to fear us:

Defending women's rights and combating authoritarianism is the same fight.

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions 9.12.25

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For the second year in a row, the gender pay gap is widening — just another sign our country is moving in the wrong direction. We should be moving forward, not backward.

Trump says he will posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. https://cnn.it/4nhPJxP

$31 billion to prop up an industry that is destroying our planet.

Our government continues to put the interest and profits of the fossil fuel industry over the safety of Americans.

We need to end polluter handouts NOW.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Re-sharing something I learned yesterday: when they autopsied Andrew Goodman, they found traces of red dirt in his lungs.
Which meant he may still have been alive when the Klan buried him in that earthen dam in Neshoba, Mississippi.
History should make you uncomfortable so you don't repeat it.

Toxic algae in Florida: Scientists warn of hidden dangers Every summer, blooms of toxic blue-green algae reappear across Florida, turning lakes and rivers bright green, blue or forming brown clumps. They pose a serious threat to public health, pets, and wild...

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I hope this email finds you staving off the soul crushing effects of late stage capitalism to the best of your abilities

The undocumented immigrant population in the US reached a record 14 million in 2023, a 19% increase from the year before, according to new estimates from the Pew Research Center. https://cnn.it/4lXgeHn

I mean you could release them…

Starbucks CEO made $95M last year. The median worker made $14K. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1.
This isn’t capitalism rewarding risk, it’s extraction on autopilot. Every empire ends with elites hollowing out the core. You’re watching it.

Wolves along the British Columbia coast, known as sea wolves, survive almost entirely on marine resources, with 90% of their diet coming from the ocean. Genetically distinct from inland wolves, they swim miles each day in search of food.

Wolves along the British Columbia coast, known as sea wolves,
survive almost entirely on marine resources,
with 90% of their diet coming from the ocean. Genetically distinct from inland wolves, they swim miles each day in search of food.

A small Yukon community cuts diesel use by more than half with solar power Beaver Creek’s White River First Nation leads the way with a solar breakthrough, slashing diesel use by over half and reclaiming energy independence through Indigenous-owned clean power.

A small Yukon community cuts diesel use by more than half with solar power www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/20/n...

I hereby nominate Governor Gavin Newsome for the 2025
Nobel Peace Prize
#hEARo

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...

RFK Jr. has talked about finding the environmental causes of autism, all the while he is slashing divisions that actually research how the environment contributes to autism diagnoses. Great piece.
www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...