Federal agents' use of tear gas and other chemical irritants as crowd control measures is worrying medical professionals and public health experts, who say such exposure could disproportionately impact children and other vulnerable populations https://bit.ly/4rZxwXp
President Trump is using East Potomac Park in Washington as a dumping ground for the remains of the East Wing. He also wants to turn its affordable golf course into a luxury destination. “It’ll be a real loss for a lot of people in the city,” a local resident said.
The Oil Industry’s Latest Disaster: Trillions of Gallons of Buried Toxic Wastewater
Industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe. www.desmog.com/2026/02/12/t...
"If we surrendered
to Earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees."
~Rainer Maria Rilke
(King's Canyon, Calif)
Map showing the size of Palestine, shrinking over the years, from 100% of the region prior to the Balfour Declaration, to less than half the region after the Nakba (1948), to fragmented pockets making up about 10% of the region by the 2020s.
Today in #LaborHistory 11/2/1917: #BalfourDeclaration proclaimed British support for the creation of a #Jewish homeland in #Palestine (90% of local residents at that time were Arabs). Called for protection of Arab civil & religious, but not political rights.
November 2, 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
This is nuts. And we would like to know more about these "guided missile warheads."
Good reporting via @juddlegum.bsky.social / @popular.info
Anchorage officials say they're working to transition Western Alaska evacuees from mass shelters into more private housing, while the school district focuses on supporting students.
Much of the East Wing of the White House was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency.
Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits, all thanks to the government shutdown.
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LIVE NOW: Judge Kevin Farmer says he will be hearing 57 defense motions in the #StopCopCity RICO case:
Thousands of federal staffers working on mental health-related issues have been purged by Trump’s government.
It's all a part of the president's mental health plan: Defund, incarcerate, disappear.
How do the straightforward messages from America’s past about fighting fascism compare with the bewildering signals about rights and freedom coming from the administration of Donald Trump?
Asian American and Pacific Islander women under 50 are now tied with white women for the highest breast cancer rates. Experts point to westernization, increased screenings and more.
The worst fish kill in the history of Ireland
around 50,000 fish – primarily trout killed
Once again, the perpetrators of an environmental/social catastrophe may avoid consequences.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
28yo Sandra Annette Bland, arrested July 10, 2015 in Prairie View for failing to signal lane change, murdered by Texas state troopers on July 13, 2015.
You are remembered: “If I die in police custody…make sure that I'm remembered." #SandraBland #OTD
CNN: “Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of immigration by a wide margin: 62% to 35%. And more than twice as many Americans strongly disapproved (45%) as strongly approved (21%)… 7 in 10 independents disapproved…” www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/p...
Curious to me is how quickly some people change their tune when personally affected.
Sign of a true republican.
This 👇 they just didn’t want to see it
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from their 100-year flood map in Texas in response to appeals
🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car.
They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.
Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.
(🎥 ABC 7 News)
Tesla made $405M last quarter — but only by selling $595M in emissions credits. Musk is not in the car business. He’s a pollution salesman. #ElonMusk #Tesla
www.gregpalast.com/elon-musk-th...
‘ICE Barbie Visited Biohazard Lab With RFK Jr. Before Hospitalization’
“Kristi #Noem was hospitalized for an allergic reaction one day after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared a photo alongside Noem visiting a biosafety lab that was temporarily shut down due to safety concerns.”
#ddrm
This is possibly the most disastrous thing Trump has tweeted. The demand for “unconditional surrender” from a country we are not yet at war with locks US policy in an unachievable dead end. I have FOUR chapters of my book devoted to that phase and how it prolonged WWII in Germany and Japan.
