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Kristi Noem Waives Environmental Laws to Build Trump’s Wall Through a Wildlife Refuge

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday that Secretary Kristi Noem has waived the protections of the Endangered Species Act and other federal statutes to “ensure the expeditious construction” of the border wall through the Lower Rio […]

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This Artist Painted Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Now She’s Documenting His Immigration Crackdown.

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In June, Isabelle Brourman took a sketch board and her press pass to immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City. She’d heard that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were arresting people after their hearings, and she wanted to document it. Court security wouldn’t let her inside. Brourman, a 32-year-old mixed-media […]

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They Survived Katrina and Started to Rebuild. Now Trump’s Cuts May Flood Them Out Again.

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After Hurricane Katrina and its related flooding inundated much of New Orleans in 2005, residents of a large Vietnamese community in the Algiers neighborhood were some of the first to return and rebuild. But 20 years later, their neighborhood is still prone to flooding, especially during hurricane season. And, like much of the city, the […]

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Trump Administration Suspends Staff Who Pled to Save FEMA

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Several employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been placed on administrative leave just a day after signing a public letter accusing the Trump administration of politically motivated firings and “uninformed cost-cutting,” multiple media outlets reported Tuesday. As I wrote yesterday: In an urgent letter to Congress on Monday, more than 180 current and former […]

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Donald Trump Revs Up His Revenge Goons

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The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Toward the end of The Godfather, Michael Corleone, who has risen to […]

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Why Rehab Often Fuels Relapse Instead of Recovery

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The opioid crisis has been a quiet, deadly presence in America for a quarter-century now. Since 1999, it’s killed more than 800,000 people in the US. That’s more than the number of Americans who died in the Civil War. But in the background, another crisis has been simmering: the often-lawless patchwork of treatment centers and […]

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Octavia Butler Predicted Our Dystopian Present. What Can a Futurist Learn From Her Chilling Accuracy? 

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When the Los Angeles fires began last January, the designer and futurist Tracee Worley was re-reading Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler’s chillingly prescient novel, written in 1993 but set in the 2020s. In the book, climate change has devastated the world, an increasingly dangerous and inequitable society has resulted in many people living in […]

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Slouching Into Fascism

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This column originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here. The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here. The precise moment when and where in […]

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EV Sales Are Booming in America—for Now

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In March, President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared on the lawn of the White House to show off a line of electric vehicles, transforming, for a moment, the commander in chief into the car salesman in chief. Five months later, […]

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Right-Wingers Hope Taylor Swift Will Inspire a New Generation of Trad Wives

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You could say that Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce’s engagement, announced Tuesday in an Instagram post that has 17 million likes and counting, broke the internet. And right-wingers immediately started talking rings and talking cradles. News outlets sent push alerts. Celebrities and politicians sent their congratulations. “Taylor Swift engaged” was the number one […]

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Texas Flood Relief Took a Back Seat to Trump’s Redistricting Demands: “It’s a travesty.”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early July, flash floods along the Guadalupe River killed 138 people and caused an estimated $1.1 billion in damage, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in Texas history. But just a week later, Texas found itself whiplashed into another crisis altogether: […]

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How Trump’s FEMA Cuts Put You at Risk, According to Staffers

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In an urgent letter to Congress on Monday, more than 180 current and former workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) wrote to “sound the alarm” about the Trump administration’s handling of the agency and cuts to FEMA’s funding. The moves, they argue, have obstructed officials’ ability to respond to and protect the public […]

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