Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

Palestine Action, condemned as a terrorist group in the U.K., has embraced property destruction as a means to undermine the arms pipeline to Israel.

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The parasocial technology of artificial intelligence took over where television left off, pushing society even more radically into an atomized configuration.

Far-right groups are using social media to revive nostalgia for Franquismo and whitewash the country’s blood-stained past.

Environmental lawyers say this campaign does nothing to improve clean water protections — and everything to punish pregnant people.

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Trump wants to buy the next election. Will Americans take the bait?

The shutdown has left service members without pay while billions go to defense contractors.

“Sirāt” is a film that feels dangerous to watch, making you wonder how its actors and crewmembers made it out alive.

As winter approaches, without immediate improvements to water, sanitation, shelter and nutrition, more people could die from entirely preventable causes.

Climate stress, aging infrastructure and legal ambiguity are pushing the Colorado River to the brink.

While Republicans fall in line, Democrats keep splintering.

Officials claimed the Chicago building was full of gang members. They have provided no evidence.

Texas just gave 5,000 state officers the power to act like ICE—no warrant required.

A 600-brain autopsy study found links between pollution and severe Alzheimer’s pathology.

The legend of a small, quaint Midwestern town (population 105,000) being home to the most storied team in the NFL is a romantic and charming one, but that’s only part of it.

Americans are once again demanding higher standards for the food they eat, insisting that companies stop using chemicals known to harm health.

The semiconductor boom is colliding with planetary boundaries.

Trump’s incompetence has long been obvious. The media keeps pretending otherwise.

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In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, secret classrooms and hidden microbusinesses are helping women survive — and resist.

American Samoa leaders say no. Scientists say it’s dangerous. But the U.S. is still pushing for seabed mining in the Pacific.

An antiabortion group is pushing the EPA to track abortion drugs in wastewater — not to protect the environment, but to restrict access.

A $2,000 payoff doesn’t erase tariff-driven inflation or gutted healthcare.

Military families are turning to food banks as the government shutdown drags on.

As winter approaches in Gaza, people are feeling miserable about what they could encounter this season, the third winter since the start of the genocide.

A century-old legal framework built for abundance is cracking under modern drought.

Chuck Schumer couldn’t hold his senators together at a time when their unity and toughness were essential.

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Although officials said they had intelligence about guns, drugs and explosives, they have not revealed evidence that they seized anything illicit.

Part of the reason that despite Trump lobbing a grenade into the FDA hasn't resulted in a Hot Listeria/E. Coli Summer is much of the inspection happens at the state level. Guess who's suuuuper pissed their shareholders aren't getting that $0.0001/share?

Multiple recent studies suggest that severe Alzheimer’s pathology correlates to chronic exposure to PM2.5 and other particulates.

Dozens of food and beverage corporations and trade groups are pushing for a federal law that would override tough new state-level food safety laws in favor of a weaker federal standard.

ICE will now fully reimburse local Texas agencies that help carry out deportations.

Most honest description of Trump's mind I've seen

Spain’s Cannes-winning Oscar entry “Sirāt” is a bass-fueled adventure wrapped in cosmic chaos. Film review by @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social

The media version of Donald Trump isn't the one leaving his DNA at the crime scene. @mobute.bsky.social

Packers fandom is an organized faith, with all the attendant sacraments, masses, rituals, apostles, saints and fallen angels.

The mystique, the mythos, the sheer unlikeliness of the Packers is irresistible.

Water for chips, not crops. Workers exposed, ecosystems sacrificed. This is the real cost of artificial intelligence.

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This wasn’t a deal. It was a surrender.

National Guard and Reserve troops are struggling because canceled drills mean no pay.

This is a fantastic deep dive with a ton of great info that debunks all the shallow arguments against how AI destroys the environment.

The mythical media trump—who knows anything about what he's talking about—is on a collision course with the sudden need to pretend to know nothing at all about a story that he's had lots of help trying to forget.

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Efforts to expand deep-sea mining are alarming scientists and Indigenous leaders, who worry mining threatens fisheries and food security.

An antiabortion group has been co-opting environmental laws in an effort to restrict access to abortion medications like misoprostol.

By forging creative and invisible networks that allow them to survive, Afghan women are finding a way to be free despite the Taliban bans.