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Desi Doyen/Green News Report@greennewsreport.bsky.social · yesterday

🔥 Damage mounts from disastrous Spokane Fires ☢️ Extreme drought shuts down nuclear power in Europe ⚡Walmart is now a major EV charging network 🤡 US intelligence agency warns of growing cyber threats to water systems. Trump blames Minnesota... Our new @GreenNewsReport LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=18364

And all credit to politico for getting the audio of this call - I should have mentioned that in the clip!! @alicemiranda.bsky.social @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’

The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.

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Strict Scrutiny Podcast@strictscrutiny.bsky.social · yesterday

On Todd Blanche: (1) his written statement on the weaponization fund is a meaningless joke and (2) the danger(s) he poses to abortion access: m.youtube.com/watch?v=fJAY...

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

CNBC: "Oil moved pretty drastically on what the secretary was saying ... that in turn has impacted the futures pretty rapidly"

11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.

100 years of July sea surface temperature anomalies... you'll see important patterns of regional climate variability as the animation evolves, but ultimately, the story behind the long-term trend toward record warmth is driven by human-caused climate change. Data from @noaa.gov ERSSTv6. 🌊

On this day in 1896, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 7 May 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt and on the 9 May 1942 to Sobibór where she perished. Her name was Marie Ecksteinová Please support @sobibor.org 1 / 2

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

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They’re just showing how much suffering they can squeeze out of people who already don’t have much left. And the worst part is they’re proud of it. The cruelty isn’t a side effect - it’s the whole damn point. Read here: prospect.org/2026/07/31/t...

“For a long time,” Chan says, “misogyny was dealt with as a domestic issue within the family home or within personal relationships. There needs to be an understanding that this is a public safety threat.” @cultmtl.com cultmtl.com/2026/07/trea...

Treat incels as the violent extremists they are

Misogynistic incel subculture — elements of which have become disturbingly mainstream — is a serious public safety threat.

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It seems like Caitlin Clark wants to play basketball and doesn’t want to be dragged into politics despite many people constantly obsessing over her. Some people are more interested in being athletes than activists. It’s her life, she doesn’t have to be who you want her to be.

Just another casual reminder that you’re being laughed at by corporates because a) governments facilitate them and b) we don’t push back. Cost of living crisis, for you not for them.

TY Seattle

The world still weeps...now due to the resurgence of fascism in our nation... On this day in 1944 Anne Frank was arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified... Her entire family except her father would be dead in less than a year...

July was France's hottest month ever recorded. According to the country's weather service, the month was also France's third-driest July on record, with rainfall nearly 70% below average.

Cornyn lost his primary. Tillis is walking. Neither has a donor, a term, or a future to protect. Both caved before lunch Monday. www.JackHopkinsNow.com

The proposition that the president of the United States is an adjudicated rapist isn't an argument. It is a fact.

Scientists say we’re heading for 2-3C by mid century. Risk assessors & insurers say this means 2-4 BILLION deaths. Governments & the media say pretty much nothing.

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

🥵 #HeatKills.

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy@physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · yesterday

The #ClimateChange crisis is also a #PublicHealth crisis. Warming temperatures affect health on a global scale. #MedSky

I Remember, Hope you do….

On this day in 1911, a Slovakian Jewish woman was born. A seamstress, on the 30 Jul 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt and on the 20 Aug 1942 to the Riga Ghetto. She perished in the Shoah. Her name was Margita Tauberová

Why do we bother obeying the law and paying our taxes when the President does neither? He is playing us all for fools!

This is so true. Texans you have to turn Texas back to blue. You have to want better.