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🎁 gift article from The NY Times. Carnivory has independently evolved in 14 families of flowering plants and is defined by the trapping and digesting of prey for nourishment. Being a meat eater allows a plant to live in depleted soils and harsh habitats. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/s...
Darwin Was Right: These Plants Are Carnivores (Gift Article)
Scientists have proved that a species of plant covered with sticky hairs is carnivorous, confirming Darwin’s 150-year-old hunch.
nytimes.com
AI-driven surveillance pricing is predatory and needs to be stopped. Join our livestream to learn how you can defend your own privacy—live Q&A included! eff.org/livestream-sai
"Prosecutor Shannon Taylor Wins Primary in Virginia’s First Congressional District, Enters General Election in Strong Position to Unseat Career Politician Rob Wittman; Shannon outraised nearly 20-year incumbent Wittman in the most recent quarter" bluevirginia.us/2026/08/live...
Today, for the first time in New York City history, 2,000 two year-olds received offers for FREE 2-K. A big step for those who take baby steps. A big step towards a City every New Yorker can afford.
Here is the good news: DOJ is now 0-20 in lawsuits to gain access to voter files and tomorrow is the 90th day before the election which means states can't purge voters -- even if DOJ wants them to. The bad news: Trump won't give up trying to use DOJ to undermine the elections.
NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable
Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.
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NEW — Illinois is distributing one-time $400 emergency payments to residents who lost or saw a reduction in SNAP benefits following federal changes to the food assistance program. thetriibe.com/2026/08/chec...
Check your LINK card: Illinois is sending $400 emergency payments to some SNAP recipients • The TRiiBE
Over 100,000 Illinois residents have lost or are at risk of losing their SNAP benefits due to Trump’s attacks on the program.
thetriibe.com
Thoroughly wash hands and raw produce before cutting, cooking and eating it to avoid the intestinal distress that can accompany eating food contaminated with Cyclospora. More info: on.ny.gov/4pimJI0
The newest missive from Linda McMahon is a dressed up, watered down version of the Compact that was roundly rejected by universities and colleges last year. The fact that @aau.edu collaborated with the Trump administration on this letter should fool no one. Just say no. www.aft.org/press-releas...
AFT, AAUP Respond to Trump Compact 2.0
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Trump administration’s new higher education comp...
aft.org
Welcome to August! ♨️ Here's a look how temperatures have changed around the world over the last four decades... Just about everyone is seeing warming during this month. Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
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We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis
A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.
theatlantic.com
Congress Interrogates Fauci Over Origins Of Pie Brought To Cookout — theonion.com/congress-int...
Congress Interrogates Fauci Over Origins Of Pie Brought To Cookout
WASHINGTON—Accusing the physician of not being straight with the American people, an often hostile Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee this week interrogated Anthony Fauci over the or...
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The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
Not satisfied with just bringing back measles, the Trump regime is now bringing back acid rain.
EPA: Data center power not subject to acid rain restrictions
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story EPA exempts data center plants from acid rain rulesThe Trump administration announced Monday that it is excl…
thehill.com
The Trump administration's coordinated attacks on our communities calls for a coordinated response. That's why ACLU affiliates across the country filed 54 claims today to put an end to ICE and other federal agents acting with perceived impunity.
Today, @ACLU announced it is involved in 54 FTCA claims for rights violations by federal agents. While Idaho is not one of the states with an active claim, two Idaho National Guard members are the basis of a claim out of DC for unprovoked violence against a purple heart veteran at her DC home.
No one is safe when ICE feels empowered to detain U.S. citizens, use violence, and retaliate against those exercising our free speech rights. ACLU state affiliates across the country are representing people harmed by federal law enforcement to make sure immigration agents aren't let off the hook.
ACLU puts feds on defense: 54 claims in 17 states
The civil liberties group also released a report identifying 432 incidents of alleged misconduct.
allrisenews.com
Camp East Montana is known as a "graveyard for living people" where at least three people have died. Our recent litigation shows its horrors — medical neglect, beatings, minimal sunlight, filthy conditions, inedible food, and more. If ICE won't do anything about it, we'll keep seeing them in court.
ICE extends no-bid contract for major detention center in Texas, rejecting calls for closure
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to keep one of its largest detention facilities open for at least another year.
apnews.com
The filing is part of a coordinated nationwide effort by the ACLU involving 53 claims across 17 states and DC on behalf of people facing egregious harms at the hands of federal immigration agents. Immigration agents' widespread abuses endanger us all. (5/5)
ACLU of Texas Files Legal Claim Against the Federal Government on Behalf of Individual Harmed by Federal Immigration Agents - ACLU of Texas
HOUSTON — The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas today filed a claim against the federal government on behalf of lawful permanent resident Elton Purvis who experienced medical neglect and mistrea...
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This is one of 54 coordinated actions taken by ACLU affiliates to hold ICE, National Guard troops, and other federal agents accountable for their brutality and rights violations.
The ACLU had launched legal claims against immigration detention conditions in 17 states, including Texas. A $10 million claim by a man who was held in Texas for seven months before his deportation, is part of the group’s allegations. bit.ly/4c6lw0L
ACLU launches national legal action against immigrant detention
A $10 million claim by Elton Purvis, who was held in Texas for seven months before his deportation, is part of the group’s allegations that immigrants’ medical and other needs were neglected.
bit.ly
Incredible story: With the help of AI, U.S. officials created a map that mislabeled every country in Africa. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
reuters.com
"Also driving the rewetting...are changes to the land surface, ranging from the internationally funded Great Green Wall project to the revival of traditional water harvesting methods and...abandonment of irrigation projects that once emptied rivers of their flows" e360.yale.edu/features/sah...
After Decades of Drought, Water Is Rising in the African Sahel
Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists, ...
e360.yale.edu
Helpful stats on wildfire trends in EU as whole, and individual countries here: forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu/apps/effis.s...
EFFIS - Statistics Portal
forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu
Firefighters in Oregon, Spain, and now France (?!) are battling wildfires big enough to generate pyrocumulonimbus clouds. These fire storms are treacherous on the ground. But scientists are concerned about the *planetary* consequences of injecting so much smoke into the upper atmosphere...🌍🔥🧵
My CCF colleague Andy Schneider on the latest developments in CMS' ongoing efforts to withhold federal #Medicaid funding from California and Minnesota: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/07/29/w...
Weaponizing Fraud Against Medicaid in California and Minnesota: Another Quarter, Another Round of Deferrals
At a July 21 press conference, CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz announced that his agency was deferring payment of $1.1 billion in federal Medicaid matching funds to California and Minnesota “pending revie...
ccf.georgetown.edu
“The overarching thing we’ve all got to ask ourselves is, do we want politicians deciding how history is taught and understood?" she said. “Is that the role of government — to control what we learn about the past and ourselves? I would suggest it’s not.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/a...
For Museum Boss Who Became a Trump Target, It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again (Gift Article)
Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.
nytimes.com
