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Video: Trump Nuked a Major EPA Climate Rule. Here’s What You Need to Know.

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On February 12, Donald Trump dropped the climatic equivalent of an atomic bomb. He announced the repeal of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, the basis of the EPA’s ability to regulate climate-warming emissions. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history,” proclaimed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “This is corruption, plain […]

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Tired of Dystopian Sci-Fi? You Might Like Solarpunk.

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I was doomscrolling again. It was a fall evening in 2023, and I found myself sucked into a stream of posts about our collapsing climate: droughts causing billions in Dust Bowl–style crop damage, Florida’s worst-ever coral bleaching, a record melt in Greenland. To distract myself, I picked up The Lost Cause, the latest sci-fi novel from […]

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Colbert Takes CBS to Task, Again

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Late Show host Stephen Colbert once again gave his audience the inside scoop on Tuesday amid the ongoing clash involving him, network executives, and a candidate for US Senate in Texas.  The latest comes as CBS refuted Colbert’s assertion that he had been instructed not to interview Texas State Representative James Talarico and that he […]

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“Who the Fuck Are These Men?”

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By nightfall, people all over America had seen the footage. It was barely a month into President Donald Trump’s second term, and a team of black-clad private security officers was violently dragging a woman out of a Republican town hall meeting in Idaho. One agent mumbled that things would get “a hundred times better” if […]

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DHS Axed Its Civil Rights Staff—And Opened the Door to a Major Lawsuit

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Rodney Taylor, a double amputee, was denied the care he needed for his prosthetics—causing the silicone lining of one of his legs to deteriorate, along with bone spurs in his back. Down in Texas, DACA recipient Javier Diaz Santana, who is Deaf, was denied access to an American Sign Language interpreter for weeks. On February […]

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Big Tech’s Claims That AI Can Help Fix the Climate Crisis Are “Greenwashing”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation […]

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The Man Who Taught Nonviolence to Martin Luther King Jr.

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Back in February 2010, the radio show State of the Re:Union, created by Al Letson, produced an award-winning episode looking at civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. The episode was called “Who Is This Man?” because while Rustin was not well known, his work supported the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. Rustin was a man […]

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CBS Didn’t Want Colbert to Talk to This Democratic Candidate. He Did It Anyway.

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Executives at CBS News made it clear to Late Show host Stephen Colbert: he wasn’t to interview Texas State Representative James Talarico last night, nor was he to discuss how he wasn’t supposed to talk to the Democratic US Senate hopeful. But Colbert, who only has months left of his tenure on the show after […]

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Murdoch’s Defense in Epstein Lawsuit: Trump Is Lewd

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A version of 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. Sometimes there’s no smoking gun, but there’s the smell […]

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Louisiana Bets Big on “Blue Ammonia.” Communities Along Cancer Alley Brace for the Cost.

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This story is from Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action. Sign up for Floodlight’s newsletter here. From her home in Donaldsonville, La., less than three miles from the world’s largest ammonia plant, Ashley Gaignard says the air itself carries a chemical edge.  The odor, she said, is sharp and lingering. […]

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Trump’s Climate Repeal Will Kill America’s Transition From Gas Guzzlers to EVs

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is aiming to take out many federal actions on climate change in one blast. The first impact of this deregulatory […]

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They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.

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This article is adapted from Kate Brown’s new book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City, which will be published February 17, 2026, Copyright W. W. Norton & Company. In 2013, Nicole and Dan Virgil lived in a lush, affluent suburb of Chicago. Dan had a good job. Nicole home-schooled their […]

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