My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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More chickens and possums.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2d ago

We cannot tuck our pants into our socks any tighter or check for ticks any more thoroughly than we already are, Sarah Zhang writes. She proposes a bolder solution to combat these blood-sucking pests:

The mill town next to my mill town wants a data center.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2d ago

“Opposition to data centers may be the singular unifying issue in American politics,” Ethan Brooks writes. So why were the residents of a small town in Maine united in their support of one?

If current headlines are to be believed, boredom has become the secret behind almost everything worth having: creativity, imagination, even happiness. Read more from Josefa Ros Velasco about the magic of boredom in Ideas. press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-re...

The reinvention of boredom

If a medieval monk, a nineteenth-century poet, and a psychiatrist from the 1950s could agree on one thing, it would be this: boredom was not something anyone should actively seek. Today, we seem to be...

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President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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FAA Proposes Letting Space Companies Ignore Environmental Damage To The Planet They Launch From share.google/IKmYct1tjinC...

FAA Proposes Letting Space Companies Ignore Environmental Damage To The Planet They Launch From - Jalopnik

Humanity is dramatically increasing its presence in space, and that's putting strain on the legal framework around it.

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This deal solidifies the Trump family's immunity from tax audits. Under no circumstances should the American people believe that Trump‘s former personal attorney will stop his schemes to funnel taxpayer dollars to his allies and supporters.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

The Forest Service wants to move ahead with a plan for a radioactive rare earth mine fourteen miles from Devil’s Tower, with no environmental impact statement or public hearings. You should tell them how you feel about that:

BREAKING: USDA Pushes Forward on a Radioactive Open Pit Mine Miles From Devils Tower

The Forest Service won’t publish a draft study and won’t let anybody object. Michael Boren signs the decision himself. You have until August 28.

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JOB : Directeur ou directrice du musée Bourdelle, Paris ➡️ www.emploi-territorial.fr/offre/o07526...

For #AncientSiteSunday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called Bacchus temple is one of...🧵1/2 📷 Rami Rizk 🏺 #archaeology

The only article I’ve ever seen that metions dioxin danger in wildfires - finally! www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

Wildfires take a toll on firefighters, victims of both flames and long-term cancers

In addition to four deaths, at least 129 firefighters suffered smoke inhalation from the wildfires in Gironde, Landes and Var in July. Unions criticize the inadequate protective equipment.

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Workers at a Kentucky plant kept getting sick. Then whistleblowers exposed a toxic secret. - The Atavist Magazine #sameshitdifferentcompany

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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Wildfires. A poem in the Observer. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

In the Cairngorms by Kathleen Jamie

A new poem about the wildfires in the Highlands by Scotland’s makar

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Rachel Kushner is such a good writer. I came back to one of hrt essays from last year recently. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/... - so good at writing.

Obscure and Ill-Fated | Rachel Kushner

“One doesn’t marry in order to write about women nor have children to write about children nor teach in a prison to write about prisoners,” John Cheever

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Criminal

ProPublica@propublica.org · 5d ago

The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email. (Published May)

There’s so much grift it’s hard to keep track. This was last May

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."

This is so very brilliant. The whole summer issue is phenomenal @nybooks.com Thank you. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Refusing to Look Away | Anahid Nersessian

In Killing Spree, the poet Jorie Graham pursues an essentially ethical impulse to find a true language for the evil in the world.

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Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist | The Booker Prize share.google/beReTGTvZZJK...

The Booker Prize 2026 longlist announcement | The Booker Prize

‘We are confident that our longlist of books has something for ever...

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so wild to see a classicist create a news cycle today, a classicist! lol what a time!

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We’re sorry the website is being erratic today. Our engineers are on it. In the meantime, listen to Emily Wilson on the LRB Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Or be like the cat and just look handsome in the vicinity of our magazine – that is always an option.

Kate-Laurel@yourlocalkl.bsky.social · last wk.

in honor of the @lrb.co.uk site going down/the terrific Wilson review, please enjoy my always-beloved now-departed cat LRBles, pictured here with his namesake. Unfortunately, he was a lifelong illiterate.

Oof

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."

𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐲𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐬 [via Lund Uni] 🧪🥼👁️🐙👀 The original single eye continues as the pineal gland: "explain the striking cell-type similarities between the retina and the pineal gland." www.cell.com/current-biol... #bilateran #evolution #vertebrate #eye

Evolution of the vertebrate retina by repurposing of a composite ancestral median eye

The vertebrate retina differs dramatically from that in all other animal eyes. In this review, Kafetzis et al. argue that, before the vertebrates, a series of lifestyle changes in ‘our’ lineage led to...

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BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.

And France is about to experience our fourth extreme and persistent heat wave and August has barely begun.

Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average. Climate change makes extreme fire weather more likely and intense — drying fuels, extending seasons, and turning landscapes into tinderboxes. Wildfires are burning more land, more fiercely, from California to Canada to the Mediterranean.

Ugh www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

France will face fourth heatwave of the year starting next week

Weather models indicate that a heatwave is set to hit France around July 29, though its intensity and duration are yet to be determined. Summer 2026 is on track to become the hottest ever recorded in ...

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Reporter: Congressman Kean, why did you trade stocks while you were missing votes for more than three months? Kean: 🦗🦗 Reporter: No response, sir? Kean: 🦗🦗