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Stuff I read: facts. Former FT, NYT, WashPost, Bloomberg, KFF Health
Retro Report does great work and provides timely lessons for teachers...here's an excellent example: the secret CIA operation that haunts US-Iran relations. (And by a super producer: Matthew Spolar ;). )
@retroreport.org
retroreport.org/video/the-se...
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The Secret C.I.A. Operation That Haunts U.S.-Iran Relations - Retro Report
Retro Report is an independent, nonprofit newsroom creating trusted documentary videos and classroom resources.
https://retroreport.org/video/the-secret-c-i-a-operation-that-haunts-u-s-iran-relations/?utm_source=Retro+Report+Education&utm_campaign=77644c4474-MAR9_ENERGYCRISIS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_64a84ba2bf-77644c4474-621759523&mc_cid=77644c4474&mc_eid=62cdc231e1
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That faraway attack in Iran. Your utility bills.
@kiley.bsky.social
digs in.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...
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How Will the War in Iran Affect Your Utility Bills? - Inside Climate News
Conflict in the Middle East could have major repercussions for U.S. electricity and natural gas prices. Some states, like Pennsylvania, are particularly vulnerable.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05032026/iran-war-lng-utility-bills/
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Alligator Alcatraz: A state-commissioned assessment on the Everglades site (set in a watershed providing drinking water for millions of Floridians) point to pollutants from the center's always-on generators. Emissions exceed regulatory threshold, report says.
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Documents Raise New Concerns Over Alligator Alcatrazâs Air and Climate Pollution - Inside Climate News
The concerns originate in a state-commissioned environmental assessment on the Everglades detention site, which has detained thousands of migrants since opening last summer.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06032026/florida-alligator-alcatraz-detention-site-pollution/
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The EPA lost more than 4,000 employees in the first year of Trumpâs 2nd term, bringing its staff to 12,849âa level not seen since the Reagan administration. That's a 24% drop, double the rate of losses across the entire federal workforce.
@mlavelle.bsky.social
insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...
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EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts - Inside Climate News
An Inside Climate News analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows more than 4,000 employees departed between January 2025 and January 2026, including a majority of team leaders.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06032026/trump-epa-staffing-lows/
1 day ago
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Christine Spolar
Peter Aldhous
2 days ago
Catching up with coverage from my
@insideclimatenews.org
colleagues on affordability, energy ... and war
insideclimatenews.org/news/0203202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...
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Why Electricity Bills Are So Highâand How the Blowback Could Hit Trump - Inside Climate News
As Democrats and climate activists seize on energy costs as a political issue, new data shows electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025. The figures were much higher in some states.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02032026/whats-driving-higher-electricity-rates/
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Martha Pskowski
3 months ago
Texas has no regulations to protect workers from the stateâs blistering heat and overturned city ordinances that required rest breaks. What does that mean for workers in one of the hottest parts of the country?
@keertigopal.bsky.social
and I spent months investigating for
@insideclimatenews.org
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This: a hothouse future ? đźhttps://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022026/earth-unprecedented-shift-from-warm-to-hot/
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Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future - Inside Climate News
Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes next.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022026/earth-unprecedented-shift-from-warm-to-hot/
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More than half a century ago, at Queenâs University Belfast, Michael McElroyâs classmates finished an exceptionally difficult math exam and vented. They wanted to hear from the class's star pupil. (So do you...he became a pioneering atmospheric scientist)
insideclimatenews.org/news/1002202...
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Trailblazing Atmospheric Scientist Was âa Titan in the Scientific Worldâ - Inside Climate News
Harvard University researcher Michael McElroy made groundbreaking contributions to climate science and helped shape global environmental policy.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10022026/trailblazing-atmospheric-scientist-was-a-titan-in-the-scientific-world/
27 days ago
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Christine Spolar
Peter Aldhous
28 days ago
Here's
@texastribune.org
with our
@insideclimatenews.org
story on flood hazards to tank batteries and other oil industry infrastructure in the Guadalupe River Basin. w/
@dylanbaddour.bsky.social
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/09/t...
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Fracking boom put oil field in Texas riverâs floodplain
Lack of a state floodplain policy enabled oil companies to build in parts of Texas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/09/texas-guadalupe-river-oil-field-floodplain/
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You gotta appreciate a reporter who gets a tip from ... a nun. Hear
@dylanbaddour.bsky.social
explain his tipster and his latest data-rich investigation about the effect on fracking on Texas floodplains. He and
@peteraldhous.com
are on ICN's Sunday Morning:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...
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Disaster Looms on the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News
Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins, Texas reporter Dylan Baddour and data journalist Peter Aldhous as they discuss ICNâs new investigation into how the fracking boom put an ...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08022026/icn-sunday-morning-guadalupe-river-floodplain-fracking/
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âItâs been the best-kept secret in all of western Colorado"...a former oil and gas developer worked with Colorado Mesa University on a geothermal heating/cooling network. The school saved millions$$$ and set a new standard for energy-efficient buildings.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0702202...
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A Groundbreaking Geothermal Heating and Cooling Network Saves This Colorado College Money and Water - Inside Climate News
When a former oil and gas developer partnered with Colorado Mesa University on geothermal, the school saved millions and set a new standard for energy-efficient buildings.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07022026/colorado-college-geothermal-network/
28 days ago
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The Guadalupe River basin in Texas has seen a fracking boom over the last 20 years. Inside Climate News scoured satellite imagery on Google Maps to identify oil tanks and other oilfield infrastructure, all in the floodplains. This is what ICN found:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...
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âA Disaster Waiting to Happenâ: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News
Lack of a state floodplain policy in Texas enabled oil companies to build in areas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08022026/texas-guadalupe-river-floodplain-fracking-boom/
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An American Reckoning | Ben Rhodes
Robert McNamaraâs failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War contributed to fifty years of foreign policy failures. It can help us understand the crisis ...
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/02/26/an-american-reckoning-mcnamara-at-war-taubman/
29 days ago
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Christine Spolar
Financial Times
29 days ago
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff
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Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff
Exit of Mandelson protégé comes as Sir Keir Starmer seeks to stave off leadership speculation
https://ft.trib.al/cPjBd1p
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Chinaâs genius plan to win the AI race is already paying off
A network of ultra-competitive high-school talent streams has been turning out the leading lights of science and tech
https://www.ft.com/content/68f60392-88bf-419c-96c7-c3d580ec9d97
29 days ago
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www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The lessons of Kent State
Fifty years later in Minneapolis, the script hasn't changed.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/the-lessons-of-kent-state/
about 1 month ago
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Philippe Morillon, General Who Made Fateful Protection Promise, Dies at 90
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...
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Philippe Morillon, General Who Made Fateful Protection Promise, Dies at 90
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/world/europe/philippe-morillon-dead.html?smid=bs-share
about 1 month ago
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Christine Spolar
Jake Bolster
about 1 month ago
If you're wondering what potential litigation strategies in both basins could look like, check out my latest with
@wyattmyskow.bsky.social
. The basin's deadline is Valentines Day.
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Four days of icy weather in Texas = oil, gas and petrochemical facilities released 1.6 million pounds of regulated pollutants. Companies were allowed to vent or burn off pollutants, because of "enforcement discretion" during the big freeze. ICN did the data:
insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...
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Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Facilities in Texas Emitted 1.6 Million Pounds of Regulated Pollutants During Last Weekâs Icy Weather - Inside Climate News
As freezing temperatures swept over West Texas last week, leaky pipeline systems in the Permian Basin of West Texas began to suck in air, spoiling their products, risking an explosion and leading oper...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31012026/oil-gas-and-petrochemical-facilities-emitted-1-6-million-pounds-of-regulated-pollutants-during-last-weeks-icy-weather/
about 1 month ago
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Christine Spolar
Dan Gearino
about 1 month ago
What's killing onshore wind power? I went to the state where I was born and raised to try to figure out why onshore wind development, once a point of pride, has slowed almost to a stop. With
@ajbeamer.bsky.social
in Shenandoah, Iowa:
insideclimatenews.org/news/2501202...
#energysky
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Whatâs Killing Onshore Wind Power? - Inside Climate News
Facing staunch local opposition and federal roadblocks, new wind project development is teetering on the brink, despite growing power demand. Even Iowa, the nationâs most wind-powered state, is âclose...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25012026/onshore-wind-power-opposition-road-blocks/
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This. What happened this week and what affects our futureâŠhttps://insideclimatenews.org/news/21012026/economic-interests-drive-chinese-climate-leadership-amid-u-s-retreat/
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Economic Interests Drive Chinese Climate Leadership Amid U.S. Retreat - Inside Climate News
As the United States retreats from climate policy, China signaled its rising intent to lead a transition away from fossil fuels and toward Chinese-made renewable energy technologies in remarks to worl...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21012026/economic-interests-drive-chinese-climate-leadership-amid-u-s-retreat/
about 1 month ago
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James Bruggers
about 2 months ago
Such a smart and timely story on the ecological nightmare that is Iran, and its human toll. I donât think youâll read the story anywhere except at Inside Climate News. From
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insideclimatenews.org/news/1401202...
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Iranâs Regime Has Survived War, Sanctions and Uprising. Environmental Crises May Bring It Down. - Inside Climate News
Decades of water depletion, dam building and repression of scientists and environmentalists have driven Iran toward ecological crises that are fueling protests rocking the country.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14012026/iran-environmental-crisis-water-shortage-protests/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPVF8tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe3RwR59w2R-CC4PdJIUyeSisDWJyHU_TyXRGU-Khz0h2gMFprT9ChsyH2_bc_aem_Fe8b1obqU336FSkiZO1kFQ
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Peter Aldhous
2 months ago
đ§”Context/analysis on Venezuela and Greenland from
@insideclimatenews.org
colleagues: 1/ Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say
insideclimatenews.org/news/0701202...
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Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say - Inside Climate News
Given Venezuelaâs murky political future, few analysts expect a rush to invest the billions needed to pump more oil from the worldâs largest reserves.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07012026/billions-needed-to-pump-more-venezuela-oil/
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Announces It Will Cease Operations
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Announces It Will Cease Operations
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/business/media/pittsburgh-post-gazette-closing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
2 months ago
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Arizona's AG: âMore and more people are finding themselves harmed by big corporations and by the consolidation of power...not very many politicians seem willing to get in there and lead the fight. I donât have any problem doing that."
@wyattmyskow.bsky.social
insideclimatenews.org/news/0501202...
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Arizonaâs AG Is Clear-Eyed About the Stateâs Energy Costs and Water Scarcityâbut Can It Help Her Win Reelection? - Inside Climate News
Kris Mayes, the only Arizona politician to win a statewide office as both a Republican and a Democrat, is fighting utilities, industrial ag, the mining industry and the Trump administration in a polit...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05012026/arizona-attorney-general-kris-mayes-energy-costs-water-scarcity/
2 months ago
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Desflurane is a common anesthetic used in operating rooms worldwide. Itâs also a climate super pollutant. The Yale New Haven Health System changed that and now relies primarily on sevoflurane--and saves $1.2 million a year. Read more w/
@mckennapr.bsky.social
insideclimatenews.org/news/0501202...
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Health Care Providers Are Dropping a Common Anesthesia Drug Thatâs Also a Climate Super Pollutant - Inside Climate News
Limiting use of desflurane helps hospitals reduce their greenhouse gas emissions; the European Union now prohibits its use during most procedures.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05012026/health-care-providers-are-dropping-a-common-anesthesia-drug-thats-also-a-climate-super-pollutant/
2 months ago
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I'm in Germany this week and v glad to be reading
@isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The New German War Machine
After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/german-militarism-european-security/684951/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin
2 months ago
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The Venezuelan Oil Industry Trump Is Planning to Revive
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/b...
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The Venezuelan Oil Industry Trump Is Planning to Revive
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/venezuela-oil-industry-trump.html?smid=bs-share
2 months ago
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Monuments in Texas say her tribe went extinct. But Donnel Point offers evidence of a people who lived then and now, say historians and resident Love Sanchez. The land--and @dylanbaddour.bsky.social--offer facts at odds with a narrative taught in Texas schools.
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Indigenous Groups Fight to Save Rediscovered Settlement Site on an Industrial Waterfront in Texas - Inside Climate News
Flanked by a chemical plant and an oil rig construction yard, the site at Donnel Point may be the last of its kind on this stretch of coastline, now occupied by petrochemical industries.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122025/texas-indigenous-groups-fight-to-save-site-on-industrial-waterfront/
2 months ago
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Fracking once was seen as an energy gift to Pennsylvania consumers. But companies now are exporting the gas. People in PA are paying big electric bills.
@kiley.bsky.social
asks: why arenât residents benefiting more from the resource beneath their feet?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2109202...
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Frackingâs Broken Promise to Pennsylvania - Inside Climate News
Fracking was supposed to lower Pennsylvaniansâ electric bills. Instead, theyâre higher than everâand theyâre about to get worse.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21092025/pennsylvania-gas-fracking-electric-bills/
2 months ago
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Inside Climate News looks back on 2025: The United States largely ceded its leadership role in global climate policy, and helped solidify China as the ascendant power...and there is growing market, absent the US, for solar power and electric vehicles.
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The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trumpâs Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty - Inside Climate News
Global inaction on fossil fuel and plastic treaties, the dismantling of federal agencies and regulations and the rapid rise of data centers were just a few of the consequential stories that Inside Cli...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28122025/2025-year-in-climate/
2 months ago
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Fracking and oil and gas waste? âThere are no national regulations. There are only state regulations and they vary a lot,â said Sheldon Landsberger, an engineering professor at University of Texas at Austin. Read what Inside Climate News saw in Pennsylvania...
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Tracking Oil and Gas Waste in Pennsylvania Is Still a âLogistical Messâ - Inside Climate News
More than a decade after regulators promised to improve reporting standards for this waste, an Inside Climate News investigation found huge discrepancies in state records.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19122025/pennsylvania-oil-and-gas-waste-tracking-logistical-mess/
2 months ago
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Oh New YorkâŠ
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"American Canto is Nuzziâs attempt to elevate a grubby affair to the status of the mythic, to transmute the base metal of Page Six sexting stories into the gold of literary reflections on the political moment." YES.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Olivia Nuzziâs Tell-Nothing Memoir
Can âAmerican Cantoâ turn scandal into literature?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/olivia-nuzzi-memoir/685106/?gift=YCyn5y81d-mwEDw0Ly1NkACB-mb1Nozh0zKyW8ngAUw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Read every word....
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The New German War Machine
After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/german-militarism-european-security/684951/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin
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After Deadly Fire, Hong Kong Ominously Warns Grieving Citizens to Stay in Line
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...
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After Deadly Fire, Hong Kong Ominously Warns Grieving Citizens to Stay in Line
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/business/hong-kong-fire-china.html?smid=bs-share
3 months ago
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The Pittsburgh Symphony Plays How an Orchestra Should Sound
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
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The Pittsburgh Symphony Plays How an Orchestra Should Sound
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/music/pittsburgh-symphony-manfred-honeck.html?smid=bs-share
3 months ago
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Christine Spolar
ProPublica
3 months ago
What were the CIA-backed "Zero Units" in Afghanistan? For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
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The Night Raids
CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
https://www.propublica.org/article/afghanistan-night-raids-zero-units-lynzy-billing?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1764470100&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Miroslaw Chojecki, Solidarityâs âMinister of Smuggling,â Dies at 76
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/w...
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Miroslaw Chojecki, Solidarityâs âMinister of Smuggling,â Dies at 76
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/europe/miroslaw-chojecki-dead.html?smid=bs-share
3 months ago
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Christine Spolar
Edward Luce
4 months ago
Fully agree with my paper's editorial on Trump. Ukraine needs Europe to stop flattering Trump the conman and take a clear stand for its own survival and values.
www.ft.com/content/8ccf...
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Trumpâs world view: cynical, self-interested and money-grabbing
Latest Ukraine peace plan presented by the US would be a capitulation to Moscow
https://www.ft.com/content/8ccf437f-4551-474c-b09d-8057d616e7b1
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Endless Gossipy Chatter About Epstein. One Glaring Omission.
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Opinion | Endless Gossipy Chatter About Epstein. One Glaring Omission.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/opinion/epstein-files-victims.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Step by Step, How China Seized Control of Critical Minerals
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/business/china-rare-earth-export-controls.html
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AH! "Kyoto" has opened at Lincoln Center...timely play for these climate times (and before the
#COP
in November...) Here's my interview with the playwrights (during its London run)
insideclimatenews.org/news/2903202...
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Climate Change Is Must-See Theater in London. Meet the Playwrights Behind âKyotoâ - Inside Climate News
The 1997 U.N. climate agreement in Japan has been turned into a play that explores the politics and personalities behind the first global deal to limit greenhouse gases.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29032025/kyoto-climate-change-meets-theater-in-london/
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Good morning...:)
youtu.be/GFTHzzFA-TQ?...
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ERIC LU â final round (19th Chopin Competition, Warsaw)
YouTube video by Chopin Institute
https://youtu.be/GFTHzzFA-TQ?si=xz9SVpdiyNucJDoU
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What the Founders Would Say Now
They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/founding-fathers-declaration-of-independence-legacy/684329/
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On this day....1960, The Pirates won the World Series, defeating the New York YankeesâŸâŸâŸ in Game 7, 10-9....remember my dad coming home from that :)
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/health/cdc-layoffs-measles.html?smid=bs-share
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ThisâŠ. fascinating
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Patrick Cockburn · Diary: Interviewing Hitler
The impact Norman Ebbutt had had became clear soon after his departure from Berlin. Goebbels gave him a back-handed...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n18/patrick-cockburn/diary
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