The family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt. But why was this happening? For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out. (Published Feb. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social)

We all know this still stinks to high heaven. Gov. Andy Beshear says he still hasn’t received an official update from Sen. Mitch McConnell. “I’ve had no official response. Nothing sent to our office, no letter, no email.”

Pete Hegseth announced mandatory testosterone deficiency screenings for active duty service members age 30+ during annual health assessments. Troops under 30 may opt in voluntarily, and any testosterone replacement therapy remains voluntary. Isn't this called gender affirming care?

Sounds like gender-affirming care to me.

Meanwhile, a new study finds that a heat wave in England and Wales last month killed about 2,700 people. During a three-day peak, an estimated 440 people died per day due to heat-related causes.

23 zettajoules is the latest measure of excess heat into oceans caused by fossil fuel: 23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules Entire human energy production = 1/2 a zettajoule.

Learning about a U.S. scandal (in my own field) by reading the foreign press: “The Trump administration has stacked a top chemical safety board with industry-aligned scientists who have financial conflicts of interest and stand to profit from deregulations.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/cY8HD

Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

“This brazen act should be seen as nothing more than an attempt to prevent the public from knowing what is happening in their country by intimidating journalists from doing their jobs.” {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...

Egypt fans being pulled aside, patted down, and double-checked before the Argentina vs. Egypt match, while Argentina supporters were allowed to walk through security without the same level of screening. And this is exactly why people keep accusing FIFA of double standards.

The truth is coming out. Just like we said yesterday, ICE is using the same story we’ve seen time and time again. As more facts emerge, that narrative continues to fall apart. Imagine that, ICE lied. Accountability starts with the truth.

Friday Trump moved to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining, real estate development and other activities in what environmentalists characterized as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century. It did so by recasting a single word, “harm.”

So ICE has thugs wearing “media” vests and masks filming protesters, something that is totally normal in a democracy www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

Absolute bullshit. They got $30 billion last year. They just killed a father, husband, and business owner and they’re smugly politicking. Shameless and unacceptable.

This should horrify all of us! Women in ICE detention underwent invasive medical procedures without informed consent. Senator Jon Ossoff’s bipartisan investigation called the findings “nightmarish & disgraceful” Everyone deserves dignity, bodily autonomy & human rights! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

USDA had to revise its late June U.S. beef export numbers DOWN 90%. Quite the "error."

Under DHS’ use-of-force policy, moves that cut off a person's breathing “must not be used as a means to control non-compliant subjects or persons resisting arrest.” But videos we reviewed showed agents using these restraints to do just that. (Published January)

Warning! ⚠️ Things are going to be bad this midterm election. The Trump administration has fired the remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), leaving the independent bipartisan agency without any sitting commissioners.

Chukwu: The Senate gets one chance—one chance—to consider the information that we are asking for to decide whether Todd Blanche should become the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. That is what we are pushing for in this litigation. And DOJ is trying to do everything it can to stop us.

Omar Yaghi, who won last year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, is leaving the US for Tsinghua University in China. The stars like Yaghi, who was at UC Berkeley, can leave. China benefits. Trump and Vought and Kennedy are killing US science for no compelling reason.

SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

The Senate must not confirm Blanche, who is working hard to run out the clock— New Mexico’s AG requested the unredacted files 130 days ago. DOJ spox says “they look forward to supporting the investigation.” Endless gaslighting.

Anyone who follows this account knows I’ve been warning about Waymo since they went live. Waymo willingly works with I.C.E. as well as cops. It’s NOT written explicitly in their policy, but Waymo’s actions are clear. I’ve personally witnessed evidence obtained from Waymo. This is very, very bad.

Quick reminder that in typical years, extreme heat kills more Americans than all other so-called natural disasters…combined.

This is bad

NEWS: Rep. Andrew Clyde owns a gun store. He sits on the committee that funds the ATF, and he's spent years trying to gut its budget. A gun sold by his store just turned up in a federal trafficking case.

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

How a Colorado tribe beat the federal solar permit freeze A 170 MW solar and 80 MW battery storage project has broken ground on tribal lands in northwest New Mexico www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/07/h...

Today, WAPO ran a story claiming that Seattle is being “overrun” by trans people escaping from Red states. I didn’t read it. Too damn stupid to even skim. I’m in Seattle. We’re fine.

Do you see a pattern here? If you didn't vote for Trump, you get no federal funds to help salvage your house from a blizzard. Now imagine this if you are a scientist, working in a blue state, & your grants get terminated b/c you didn't show loyalty. newrepublic.com/post/212851/... #pinks

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This is the woman the Trump administration is accusing of spreading “radical activist ideology.” Trump just yesterday said that he can spot a bad person just by looking at them. With her white skin, modest dress, sensible chin length bob, and strand of pearls—yeah, probably Antifa. So scary!

Three egg producers will pay $3.3 million and donate 53 million eggs to food banks and nonprofits to settle a price-fixing lawsuit with the DOJ. None of the producers have to admit any wrongdoing. Is this really justice? Or just the cost of doing business?

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.

New in PN with @juddlegum.bsky.social: How Kalshi infects the news "Since last December, both CNBC & CNN have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of financial ties between the networks & Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently"

While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I have thoroughly enjoyed the World Cup. I have loved cheering for the US team. Then that fucker intervened. Yes, the red card was excessive, but I would rather lose because of it than win because Imbecile called FIFA. The joy is gone. Now we’re the bad guys. He destroys everything.

The World Meteorological Organisation’s recent State of the Global Climate 2025 report confirms that our planet is gaining energy faster than it can shed it, and the ocean is taking about 91% of that excess. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ocean-...

A massive marine heat wave in the Pacific, spanning an area 8x the contiguous US, is expected to intensify storms, exacerbate heat waves on land, and raise sea levels, particularly along the California coast. Climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of marine heat waves.

Our phones can help us protect our rights while we protest, but they can also leave us vulnerable to surveillance and endanger the safety of others. Before you hit the streets in protest, our digital privacy expert Chad Marlow has important information that can help protect our rights.