Excellent @nytimes.com The Daily episode featuring Jason DeParle showing the real-life impact of the harmful 2025 Republican reconciliation law that cut food assistance and health coverage. More red tape means even eligible families lose help.

Arizona’s Food Stamp Crisis Is Coming for the Rest of the U.S.

Podcast Episode · The Daily · August 5 · 31m

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NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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These scientists”… found that multiple chronic viruses reactivate during acute COVID-19 infection, particularly from the Herpesviridae and Anelloviridae families.”!!

Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature

Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...

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NEW: Voter Suppression and Election Subversion Tactics and How to Counteract Them thegreenspotlight.com/2026/07/vote... #votersuppression #disenfranchisement #electionsubversion #electionintegrity #gerrymandering #voterpurges #voterregistration #voterID

Before leaving for August recess on Friday, the Senate could vote on a bill that would turbocharge Trump’s corruption. Senate Democrats can stop the CLARITY Act if they work together, but that’s not going to happen unless our senators hear from us. 👇

Stop Trump’s Crypto Corruption - No to CLARITY Act

The Senate will be considering the CLARITY ACT, a Trojan horse for deregulation that would only help Trump, billionaires, and foreign governments profit at our expense. We need senators to block them.

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After voters packed a Tarrant County meeting and spoke out, officials backed away from a plan that would have cut nearly half of Election Day voting locations. This is what happens when communities organize, stay engaged, and make their voices impossible to ignore. https://bit.ly/4q5ioZ6

GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage

The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters

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🌲🌲Vast stretches of unbroken forested wilderness, or intact forest landscapes, are uniquely valuable. But they’re also under threat. Global Nature Watch's latest research reveals the reasons behind intact forest loss, and what can be done👉 go.wri.org/intact-fores...

Fragmentation and Fires Are Threatening the World’s Last Intact Forests

The world's remaining intact forest landscapes are shrinking. Human-caused fires, logging, and mining, drilling and exploration are the leading causes.

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Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of more than $90bn (£67bn) in just three months as the Iran conflict sent energy prices soaring and the emissions-fuelled climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves. The windfall war profits have reignited calls for oil and gas supermajors such as Saudi Aramco and BP to pay for the environmental damage caused by “cashing in on human misery” and fund a rapid transition to renewable energy. Continue reading...

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"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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In recent weeks, congressmen like Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) have leveled racist attacks against immigrant communities in their districts. As I note in CAMPAIGN TRAILS, a century ago those same racist attacks were being made against people named Emmer and Rulli.

Pulling Up the Ladder

In recent weeks, Republican representatives in Congress have repeatedly insisted that specific groups of immigrants in their communities will never be assimilated into American life, that they pose a ...

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#Primary elections today (Tuesday, August 4th) in: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington. You can get voting info at your state's Secretary of State election site (see thegreenspotlight.com/2020/02/stat...) or your County's elections office (usvotefoundation.org/election-off...).

The largest cause of deforestation is, and has been, the expansion of farmland. But the production of which products, in particular, has been driving this in recent decades? A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.

A new bill would tackle political corruption by establishing a new federal enforcement agency. More than 9 in 10 voters believe corruption is a big problem in politics and government. bit.ly/4apvVns

Poll: Voters Want Solutions for Government Corruption

Overwhelming majorities across parties see corruption as a major problem and back measures to limit self-dealing by officials and the influence of money in politics.

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It’s Primary Day! The choices we make today will shape what’s on the ballot in November and the future of WA. Return your ballot to an official drop box by 8PM TONIGHT! Find your nearest drop box at VoteWA.gov Let’s go vote!

Still need to register to vote? You can do so in person! Today is the deadline to register and/or update your voter registration. To find your nearest county election office, visit WA’s SOS County Elections Office directory: www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...

#Primary elections today (Tuesday, August 4th) in: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington. You can get voting info at your state's Secretary of State election site (see thegreenspotlight.com/2020/02/stat...) or your County's elections office (usvotefoundation.org/election-off...).

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

The state has found some registered Texas voters were wrongly flagged as potential noncitizens. The secretary of state told counties to immediately reinstate any Texans who were removed from the voter roll despite showing DPS proof of citizenship. bit.ly/4yOsWzH

Texas finds some registered voters wrongly flagged as noncitizens

The secretary of state told counties to immediately reinstate any Texans who were removed from the voter roll despite showing DPS proof of citizenship.

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Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

Scientists worldwide: We invite you to sign the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Thirty-five years after the first warning, the scientific evidence is even stronger. Please read, sign, and share by going to this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“The climate emergency kills,” he said on Monday. “And that’s why it’s not enough to address the consequences, which we do; what we have to do is reduce its causes, anticipate its effects, and, consequently, better prepare our country to protect people’s lives.”

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

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Trump's mail voting executive order sets up a legal trap: force states to refile their lawsuit closer to November, then argue it's too late for courts to intervene. The doctrine he'd use to do it was designed to protect states from exactly this kind of federal intrusion.

Trump's ballot case threatens to turn Supreme Court's own election rule against itself

President Donald Trump's emergency appeal to limit the use of mail ballots is about to force the Supreme Court to confront a doctrine it built for one purpose – and may now stretch for another one entirely.At issue is the "Purcell principle," a 20-year-old rule warning federal courts against changi...

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Wow. Iowa MAGA Senate candidate Ashley Hinson has taken nearly $90,000 in donations from billionaires named in the Epstein Files. https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-iowa-gop-senate-candidate-ashley-hinson-faces-fresh-heat-over-epstein-pen-pal-campaign-donor-cash/

MAGA Candidate Faces Fresh Heat Over Epstein Pen Pal Cash

Ashley Hinson took close to $100,000 in campaign funds from billionaires with ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

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The latest UBS Global Wealth Report offers a stark snapshot of global inequality: The richest 1.5 percent of the world's adults now own nearly half of all global wealth.

In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the time. Out of a sample of 1,427 alerts that Flock sent to police in the town of Roseville, alerts that flagged vehicles as stolen or used in a felony after they passed one of the city's Flock cameras, 71% were inaccurate.

Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police in one California town

Flock sent 1,427 alerts to Roseville police over two years, flagging cars as stolen or used in a felony. In 71% of them, Flock read the plates wrong.

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Tips for emergency preparedness and disaster response: thegreenspotlight.com/2019/01/disa... #GoBag #evacuations #wildfires

Trump knows exactly who is responsible for this attack, and knows that other states were hit too. This is what modern warfare looks like, and it further illustrates there’s no plan to win a war with Iran. www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...

Sweeping cyberattack on water systems in multiple states has US officials on edge | CNN Politics

Hackers have targeted water systems in several US states in a coordinated cyberattack that has caused some utilities to issue boil-water notices and switch to manual mode, taking their systems offline...

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Overnight temperatures are warming up across much of the contiguous United States during the month of August. Some of the largest trends are across the West, especially for daytime maximum temperatures (which I will post later). More U.S. climate change visuals: zacklabe.com/united-state...

Extreme Heat health, safety, and survival: Tips for helping people, other animals, and plants www.thegreenspotlight.com/2023/07/extr... #heatdome #heatwave #extremeheat #globalheating #climateemergency #lethalheat #heatstroke #heatstress #recordbreakingheat