John Vaillant

BREAKING: A judge declared Kari Lake’s appointment at the U.S. Agency for Global Media illegitimate and reversed her efforts to dismantle it.

This win in our case protects federal workers and the power of independent journalism across the globe.

Even red states are defiantly rejecting DOJ’s demands for private voter data “Election officials across the political spectrum stood up to protect state sovereignty and voters’ security, regardless of partisanship,” voting rights advocate David Becker told Democracy Docket.

Earlier this week, Idaho became the latest state to push back against the U.S. Department of Justice’s campaign to seize the private voter data of every state. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/eve...

Chicago-based construction firm Clayco launches solar energy business The construction firm will add nearly 1,000 employees nationwide by 2027 to its new unit, called Clayco Power and Energy.

Donald Trump may have gutted federal support for solar energy, but it's getting time to shine in Illinois.

With our Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act, we're incentivizing renewable energy with results like the launch of Clayco Power and Energy.

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all good, but 43% seems awfully high . . .

The Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President What William Grimes wanted John Quincy Adams to know about freedom on the 50th anniversary of the country’s founding

A copy of William Grimes’s memoir—the first known American fugitive-slave narrative—is addressed to John Quincy Adams. Discovering this “moved me in ways I hadn’t anticipated,” Regina E. Mason, Grimes’s third-great granddaughter, writes

Trump’s War With Iran Is Also a Climate War Fossil fuels are structurally embedded in modern warfare.

"At a time when civilization is hurtling toward irreversible climate breakdown, to overlook the climate consequences of three of the deadliest militaries on earth going to war would be journalistic malpractice."

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Ravel & Nijinsky play piano four-hands

An undated photo from an unknown photographer, in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum

U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

Who knew? @newyorker.com

A worthy effort!

Can fire-resistant homes be sexy? 'You be the judge,' says this Palisades architect A new home built in Pacific Palisades is designed for fire resistance without sacrificing architectural beauty.

Pacific Palisades Architect Builds Fire-Resistant Home Like A Sexy Tank

@nohaggerty.bsky.social reports for the @latimes.com with photography by Caroline Brehman

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran reportedly hit U.S. military's Camp Victory near Baghdad International Airport

Anxiety #13.

An excerpt from Jesse Jackson’s powerful speech to the Democratic National Convention on July 19, 1988.

May he rest in peace.

Renewable Energy and National Security The wind and the sun don’t need to transit the Strait of Hormuz

Trump's Iran war makes the case for the energy transition to renewables for most countries much clearer and immediate. @pkrugman.bsky.social 1/

The intensity of the Israeli bombardments in Beirut’s southern suburbs....
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New flag?
The latest from "America's Newsroom" (#FoxNews)

Costco Says It Will Use Potential Tariff Refunds To Lower Prices It is unclear whether the wholesaler will receive tariff refunds, though it is one of several companies suing the Trump administration for the refunds.

Costco: if we succeed in getting tariff refunds, we will pass them back to our members. Sets the standard for others. www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

While you were blinking,

Here’s how Doug Ford’s ban on American booze in Ontario has impacted distilleries one year later It’s officially been one year since Ontario’s liquor aisles turned into the unlikely battlegrounds in a trade fight with the United States.

"More than 3,600 American-made alcohol products were pulled from LCBO shelves and taken off the menus at restaurants and bars across the province, marking an “enormous hit” to U.S. producers as Ontario said it had sold $965 million worth of their alcohol annually." www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Read more about what this case means for press freedom in this op-ed by @seth-stern.bsky.social in @theintercept.com, published in Nov.

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

COPE Councillor Considering Next Steps After Mayor’s False Drug Accusations | The Tyee Ken Sim wrongly accused Sean Orr of dealing illegal drugs and initially let another councillor take the blame.

Within this story from @kehyslop.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social: Former Green councillor Adrianne Carr says she resigned in 2025 in part because of remarks Sim made to her during an in-camera meeting
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Scoop: FEMA Cancels All Emergency Manager Trainings

Scoop: FEMA Cancels All Emergency Manager Trainings #Climate

Meanwhile, in the land of the living:

YouTube video by Channel 4 News Israel and America rain bombs on Iran and Lebanon - as thousand flee Beirut

=1,000= ships with $25 billion in cargo are now trapped in the Gulf of Hormuz per Lloyds:
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

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