This is beyond appalling. I await the day when Trump is convicted and sent to the Central African Republic. He can take Stephen Miller with him. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say

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For this vital piece I don't need to write my own headline. This one works: "This Is the Formula That Defeated Orban. It Would Defeat Trump, Too." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

Opinion | This Is the Formula That Defeated Orban. It Would Defeat Trump, Too.

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My latest, on a forgotten atrocity by US troops in Vietnam with many times more casualties than My Lai that packs a lesson for Trump and Netanyahu: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: Almost-forgotten atrocity in Vietnam War holds lessons for the Trump era

Given President Trump’s expressed openness to bombing Iran 'back to the Stone Ages,' Americans should acquaint themselves with the U.S. Army campaign that killed some 7,000 civilians.

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Important piece! Whether the 2026 elections will take place, and its results accepted, are much bigger questions than most people realize. This may be why Trump doesn't try to change course or seem appropriately panicked by the drubbing he'd get in honest elections. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

Opinion | ‘When You Think of It, We Shouldn’t Even Have an Election’

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Fantastic piece. "It really makes those midnight chats with the love bot sort of bittersweet to know that the orgasms are measured in metric tons of melted glacier." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

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Russian embassy, Washington DC. To mark the fourth anniversary of the full scale invasion

Here's my latest, a departure from my usual water- and environment-related stories, about the emergence of tiny home villages as a solution to the homelessness and housing crises. lawmagazine.bc.edu/2026/01/no-p...

Here in Woodstock, VT, residents and visitors have been protesting Trumpist authoritarianism every day for more than a year. Here's what appeared yesterday-- and stay to the end to see the glorious Leslie Leslie's sign! Thanks to stellar videographer Marion Abrams of madmotion!

OPINION | Even by Trump’s standards, his latest letter is so dangerous and so delusional that there is no longer any question that the president is mentally “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” as laid out in the 25th Amendment.

Trump’s Insane New Threat Leaves No Doubt: It’s Time for the 25th Amendment

There is no longer any denying the president is unable to carry out the demands of his office.

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Insanity. Trump throws a tantrum over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, which he deserves about as much as Pol Pot, threatens to turn the last of our allies into enemies, and Repubs say "Sure, that makes sense." Is there not an ounce of courage in the GOP? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Trump ties Greenland takeover bid to Nobel Prize in text to Norway leader

Trump’s push to take over Greenland and unleash a trade war with European nations has sparked the greatest transatlantic crisis in generations.

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Krugman: The Stupidest Trump Move So Far open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

The Stupidest Trump Move So Far

Just kill me now. Or tariff me. Whatever.

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Here's my latest, about the inadvertent weakness built into the Endangered Species Act and the way that the Trump administration is poised to bulldoze the Act. dornsife.usc.edu/icw/2026/01/...

The Endangered Species Act Meets the Klamath River Basin - Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

Jacques Leslie is the author of Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for its “elegant, beautiful prose....

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Maduro’s Ouster Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

Opinion | Maduro’s Ouster Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands

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The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment

Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...

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If there's one thing that works better than colonial rule, it's certainly remote colonial rule.

This is obviously more bad news re: the AI bubble and coming bailouts, stated or unstated. The more personally invested Trump is in the hype cycle, the more he will use public money to delay truth time. But for now he has a notional technology saving his failed media company. Good times!

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece. Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...

My latest L.A. Times op-ed: the triumph of salmon vs. Trump's sabotage. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: Salmon's comeback pits nature against Trump administration

The Trump administration is using illegal funding cuts and questionable regulatory sleight of hand to divert water to farmers and away from tribes.

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Release of the complete Epstein file is to Trump what going to prison is for Netanyahu. Both prospects are so intensely resisted that making sure those things don't happen becomes the foundation of their policies. N. comes up with endless war; T. embraces a passel of harebrained schemes.

This prison is the ultimate embodiment of Trump's (and Bukele's) sadism, ineptitude, and ruthlessness. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive

Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their four months in CECOT.

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A piece about the Yurok tribe's lawyer that was a pleasure to write. He's a graduate of Boston College Law School; thus the story in the BC Law School Magazine. With brilliant photography by Jordan Gale. lawmagazine.bc.edu/2025/07/the-...

Boston College Law School Magazine | The Tribal Victory of the Century

With discretion and respect for Native Americans, a BC Law alum helps restore a river, its salmon, and its people to their rightful places.

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Fascinating, revealing conversation about the mostly unacknowledged conflict between agriculture of all kinds and a healthy climate and environment. We obviously need food to survive, but the way ag is conducted now won't work much longer.

Michael Grunwald@mikegrunwald.bsky.social · last yr.

I had a dream that my energy & climate hero @volts.wtf, who absolutely fucking hates talking about food & climate, would do an episode about WE ARE EATING THE EARTH. He did it! It was so fun and I am so grateful. www.volts.wtf/p/reducing-t...

Here's my latest, a story about the Klamath River basin that, for a change, is upbeat. e360.yale.edu/features/kla...

A Win for Farmers and Tribes Brings New Hope to the Klamath

In the long-contentious Klamath River watershed, an experiment that turned a barley field into a wetland not only improved water quality. It also offered a path forward for restoring populations of tw...

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The extraordinary elite propaganda effort on behalf of nuclear power has worked: public support for nuclear power is at record highs. This took place during a period in which the only nuclear plant built in the US is 10s of billions over budget. Pretty impressive.

Nuclear Energy Support Near Record High in U.S.

Americans support nuclear energy and offer mixed views on fracking and offshore drilling, while a diminished majority prefer renewable energy development over more fossil fuel production.

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Please let us not try to overthrow the Iran regime, however odious it is. The U.S. might succeed in pulling off a coup, but it would lose the aftermath. Most people don't like having foreigners pick their governments for them. Whatever govt. emerges would be stained by its association with the U.S.

"Our stadiums are monuments to the poverty of our civic ambitions and our inability to summon the collective will to use the land we have for the things we need. They are distractions from our inability to build anything else." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

Opinion | Sports Stadiums Are Monuments to the Poverty of Our Ambitions

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The Trump admin is gambling that its laughably ill-suited but creepily telegenic cabinet members will not deliver up a catastrophe such as an epidemic fueled by lack of vaccinnation, an undetected hurricane, a gruesome plane crash... Not a bet I would take. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

Opinion | A Hurricane Season Like No Other

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The #Trump admin's assault on Harvest is meant to show that if it can destroy Harvard, it can take down any other university. Leaders of other fields, particularly those Trump considers insufficiently supportive, such as, say, The New York Times, would be wise to get prepared.

"Half of Yemen’s children under 5 are malnourished — 'a statistic that is almost unparalleled across the world,' UNICEF says." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

Opinion | The $7 Billion We Wasted Bombing a Country We Couldn’t Find on a Map

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The indispensable Naomi Klein passes on some insights about our global predicament. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'

The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.

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The U.S. is now on the Civicus monitor watchlist of repressive regimes for "unprecedented executive orders designed to unravel democratic institutions, rule of law, and global cooperation." monitor.civicus.org/watchlist-ma...

Watchlist March 2025 - Civicus Monitor

CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist: 5 countries where there has been a decline in civic freedoms

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