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The Tea App Markets Itself As A Safe Whisper Network. It's Just More Digital Surveillance The biggest red flag is that the Tea app seems to be an attempt to quick-fix on an individual level what is a structural problem — that is, misogyny — via surveillance culture.

"The Tea app is yet another example of surveillance tech enabling us to turn one another into content fodder for the tech industry."

Read Politics editor @leximcmenamin.com's latest op-ed ⤵️

'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

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“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

Brace yourself. This one is sobering, difficult to watch and read, but absolutely critical. I tried reading and watching earlier today with my kid, age 8, and had to stop. It’s heavy.

Bravo @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

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Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal

Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants

Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal

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15 sources of wildfire smoke forecasts for North America » Yale Climate Connections Forecasting wildfire smoke is hard. We review the best tools to help you predict when unhealthful levels of smoke are coming.

We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of fire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. Living in the Pyrocene means a new reality: knowing what the latest wildfire smoke forecasts are, in order to plan your outdoor activities. I review the best tools to do so:

I'm a @motherjones.com reporter looking to speak with federal workers (past and present) at SAMHSA, particularly those whose portfolios included substance use disorder/fentanyl/opioids. My signal is abbyvesoulis.09. As always, you can remain anonymous. 🙏

Day 460 of negotiations with the @society4science.bsky.social. Since then, the ISS has orbited Earth ~7,360 times. At least the ISS knows how to complete a mission. Help support ours: sign the petition below!

#faircontractnow #UnionStrong

the heat waves hurt us all, but they most hurt the incarcerated—many of whom have no ready access to A/C or clean, cool water

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 —

2,123 lives: Inside the stats and stories of those arrested by ICE from the S.F. area See the path from arrest to detention to deportation for immigrants arrested by ICE in the "San Francisco Area of Responsibility."

Mission Local spoke to several people who were deported, including Edin Reyes, a father of two who was deported to Guatemala just four days following his arrest.

See the stats — and more stories — in our piece below:

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Why is Gov. Gavin Newsom blocking rooftop solar in California? Follow the money.

New policies—from a "green" government—have slowed the adoption of a widely popular green technology. What gives?

My latest dives into "cost shift," Gavin Newsom's shenanigans, and how utilities are responding to renewables.

Filled with disabled rage that pre-existing health conditions are seemed as a reason to somewhat diminish malnutrition.

Look how tired Mona is. Please help her feed her children 🌸

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Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites this Week Abrupt termination of satellite data by U.S. Department of Defense sends forecasters scrambling for a fix on the brink of the busiest stretch of the hurricane season

If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️

Gazans Are Starving to Death. Here’s How to Help. At least 93 people have died of malnutrition since July 20 due to Israel’s monthslong blockade.

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Gazans Are Starving to Death. Here’s How to Help.

These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers. “There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?” one woman says.

"I’m barely eating. There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?”

Today in @thenation.com: Mothers in Gaza are trying to keep their kids from starving to death. But they're starving too.

Please, please listen to them.

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As a Heat Wave Roiled Illinois, People Incarcerated Suffered The Most - Inside Climate News Deteriorating conditions in the state’s prisons and climate change could be a potentially deadly combination, advocates warn.

New from me: Illinois prisons are already crumbling, advocates are worried climate change & extreme heat could make it so much worse, “It’s not like heat makes prison unbearable, it’s that prison is unbearable and the heat makes it even worse,” insideclimatenews.org/news/2807202...

The West's data centers suck (water and power) - High Country News From simple searches to chatGPT, the big digital buildup threatens the grid and water supplies.

The West’s data centers suck (water and power). Lots of great information and visualizations here from @landdesk.bsky.social ‪@highcountrynews.org‬ www.hcn.org/issues/57-8/...

Palestine: As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... Over 100 humanitarian groups, including MSF, urge governments to act as starvation spreads in Gaza.

Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza.

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Gaza today: I am messaging with Mohamed, a Bedouin farmer who has been in refugee camps since the IDF destroyed his family's land, orchards, and water sources in Rafa.
'Hello sister, how are you? I'm fine but we're close to starving to death. Here people have become skeletons from hunger.'

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

Cook County state’s attorney stops maintaining lists of discredited cops The changes amount to small but significant rollbacks in the office’s openness under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke

cook county state's attorney eileen o'neill burke has quietly scrapped two lengthy lists of tarnished police officers that were maintained by her predecessor to fulfill the office’s constitutional obligations and prevent wrongful convictions.

from @invisible.institute + @chicagoreader.com:

Nothing I can say could come close to summarizing these words, these photos. Just read it.

“Tell me how to save my daughter Rahaf from death [...] She’s suffering from malnutrition. There’s no treatment, no milk at the hospital. They’ve taken away her right to live. I see death in her eyes."

In Louisville, schools are being built on contaminated land. How are kids, staff kept safe? Decades-old pollution lies beneath two Louisville school properties, spurring concerns about the health of students and staff.

Incredibly important reporting from @connorgiffin.bsky.social on schools being built on contaminated land in JCPS.

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Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

"We were kidnapped" On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

"The bitterness is still there. The anger about what happened to him is still there.”

After four months, more than 200 men sent to El Salvador have been released from CECOT and returned to Venezuela. @nlanard.bsky.social and I spoke with family members and friends waiting to be reunited with them.

Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Why did Greenpeace take the fall? The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment.

In March, a jury ordered Greenpeace to pay $666 million to the companies behind the Dakota Access pipeline. But Indigenous leaders, water protectors, activists, and court records agree: Greenpeace played a bit part in the Standing Rock movement, at best. grist.org/project/indi...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."

A tribe in Florida joins the fight against the 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigrant detention center The Miccosuki tribe alleges that both state and federal agents failed to conduct an environmental review of what the camp would to the Everglades.

A tribe in Florida joins the fight against the ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigrant detention center.

The Miccosukee, who make their home in the Everglades, said authorities didn't do an environmental review.

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