Original organizers, joined by new wave, are demanding the government not undo four decades of progress

A few nights of artificial coastal light disrupted sleep in reef fish, and the effects persisted during a five-month reef experiment. Exposed fish also showed shifts in markers associated with brain health. doi.org/hb8gdh

Having your electricity disconnected is more common in Oklahoma than any other state. Resident Nytieya Tobias owed $36 last month when she came home from work to find her power was off.

Retailers forced to ban ingredients linked to rainforest destruction

Mexico, Kenya, Italy and other nations are experiencing anywhere from one to two more months of heat stress than they were several decades ago, new research published Monday says, and some areas even more so.

The Vandal Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @rawstory.com

“Gabbard’s parents are followers of Butler, a former Hare Krishna disciple who founded Science of Identity Foundation in Hawaii in the 1970s. They raised Gabbard in the group. Some adherents mixed Butler’s toenail clippings into their meals, two former followers said, as a sign of devotion.”

PFAS forever chemicals are accumulating in wildlife the world over, including in the UK - as we reported last year. We loaded this data onto our Watershed Pollution Map so you can explore PFAS pollution in wild creatures in your area. (Link in article.) share.google/nxM0JdFMaSdX...

Marine mammals like dolphins + whales are particularly vulnerable to PFAS pollution: - high up the food chain, they can accumulate PFAS from every contaminated creature they eat - their long lives mean PFAS may have decades to build up in their bodies theconversation.com/levels-of-fo...

Further proof of the old adage that if you can’t spot the sucker at the table… you’re the sucker. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Congress is getting ready to remove the requirement that shell companies register their real owners. The bill "will restore America’s status as the leading offshore haven"

Republicans trying to make the world safe for kleptocracy newrepublic.com/article/2118...

Putin crawls into bed tonight with a smile on his face. Our country is being betrayed and weakened and it barely makes a ripple in our daily headlines.

Piece by me this week - looking at the surging number of killings by police in the United States: www.economist.com/united-state...

Oh, you can just… expand the court?!

Tens of millions of voters have had their data run through the Trump administration's revamped SAVE tool. A judge just found it unlawful.

A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things.

“Ten defendants in three cases handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg have now seen their federal charges permanently dropped as a result of the grand jury controversy in Boutros’ office.”

The number of people detained by ICE for over a year has soared—surging five-fold from March 2024 to March 2026. How the Trump admin has plunged people into indefinite detention with little recourse or opportunities to petition for freedom. boltsmag.org/louisiana-im...

I actually disagree this is even minor anymore. It’s millions of dollars of graft and corruption and they’re about to start railroading random citizens through the justice system with who knows what charges to cover it up. This would have been a major scandal ten years ago.

Hormuz vessel crossings: @bloomberg.com

Iranian star Parastoo Ahmadi reportedly sentenced to 74 lashes for singing without hijab www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Ossoff: “The election deniers, they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing to tell, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission. And you may have seen that one of those election deniers now asks to represent Georgia in the Senate.”

People ticketed for vandalizing Washington Reflecting Pool to be fully prosecuted, US Attorney Pirro says reut.rs/4ezNBhH

Many of the migrant laborers who maintain the scenery of the Hamptons cannot afford to live there. The difficult life and lonely death of Francisco Camey reveal the human cost behind the manicured landscape. nyti.ms/4uLqy9t

What distinguished the Egyptian polity was its unprecedented integration of rule across an extensive stretch of the Nile Valley, creating the world’s earliest kingdom and laying the foundations for a political tradition that would endure for millennia. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/pre-dynast...

Legal impunity for the president's allies - more and more brazen

Worth remembering “take bribes for clemency” is one of Justice Sotomayor’s examples in the Presidential Immunity dissent that Roberts complained was far-fetched catastrophizing

Donald Trump's birthday week pileup of defeats! Citizen victories over data centers and gerrymandering! Genteel Trump slagging from Barack himself! Terrible reviews for JD the Bad Catholic! And Mamdani wraps it all up with a victory speech! Get it all at:

Michael Bloomberg is convinced that the fossil fuels industry has completely captured the US government and US media. And he's correct. He plans to do something about it. www.ft.com/content/5d02...

Misinfo is not dangerous at all, they say. "Rising number of cancer patients are skipping chemo and opting for ivermectin instead, analysis finds. Scientists are pointing to the Joe Rogan Experience has spreading dangerous misinformation about cancer drugs" www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

jesus fucking christ she wasn't just still in the cult she was actively being run like an agent

Literally the only way the global war on terror could have reached its end stage: By the U.S. losing its wars and our president who is the former host of celebrity apprentice gushing over a former member of Al qaeda who now controls a country for being so physically Hot and asking him to do favors

What's happened since the 2024 election is that US politics has moved from a version of the political game at the national level that was predominantly governed by the norms, rules, and expectations of the pluralist game of politics to the friend-enemy mode.

And it's going along with him once his term expires. A $1 billion present to the Grifter in Chief, billed to American people who sent him to the Oval to suck their money dry.

Oh great, "specialized expert technical groups". So is that Kushner or Witkoff? Or are they both sitting in the corner waiting for the "$300b real estate investment kleptocracy" group?

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Facts matter. Trump is trying to restrict mail in voting by taking control of who is eligible. That’s up to the states, but Trump has decided the states can’t mail ballots to anyone who isn’t on his list. Read here to understand the EO & lawsuits challenging it: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The GOP is lying about Talarico for being a fake vegetarian & then sitting down to their bun-less burgers and fermented vegetables, lolllll.

"I've seen three people knocked down on this road in the last two years. Sometimes when it rains you have to choose between walking in the drainage ditch or walking in traffic. We know it's dangerous, but there isn't another way to get to the [bus stop]," he added. (transport is broken worldwide)

I missed that Trump snookered Palm Beach into allowing him to keep a helipad built under guise of Presidential transport past the time he's out of office. Not clear what happens if law or science removes him before end of term. eu.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/t...

The Ohio Organizing Collaborative has played a critical role in fighting for fair redistricting and running successful voter registration programs aimed at racial minorities. Now, the Trump administration is targeting the organization.

CRC is a Leonard Leo funded front. Scott Walter is a raging anti glbtq & was “let go” as ex dir of Becket Fund, another Leonard Leo front, because he has less personality than JD & was unable to bring in funding. So Leo set him up in his on shop to research Soros. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Has everyone forgotten about the trump tower Baku? It really makes me wonder. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Who could have predicted this? 🤷🏻‍♂️

No declaration of war. No due process. No congressional authorization. The UN’s top expert on counter-terrorism & human rights says the U.S. is committing extrajudicial killings at sea. 211 dead and counting. Where is Congress?

“Questions remain about mystery investors, while the daughter and son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump have both spoken publicly in support of the project... An individual who sold land for the resort development…is also targeted by prosecutors in the trafficking case.” Via @occrp.org

NEW: 35 retired fed judges escalate challenge against Trump $1.7 billion slush fund & IRS deal They say Trump Admin's latest filing "underscores the need to investigate whether the parties have perpetrated a fraud on this Court & corrupted the integrity of the judicial process"

Trump is a bully. And like most bullies, he’s weak. The world has now seen just how quickly he folds when facing international threats and they’re taking notes. MS NOW exposes Trump’s Iran flip-flops in this montage.

The Shroud of the Lost Trump Memorial at the Kennedy Center is one of the more bizarre sights in DC, trumped only by the Trump Algae Pool, a massive failed amateur science project in front of the Lincoln Memorial.