Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?

A study concluded that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

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A jaw-dropping report of weaponized political surveillance. The government grabbed years of sensitive records from major progressive groups and unions, baselessly claiming they were needed to address threats of "domestic terrorism" It's a near perfect mirror of the J Edgar Hoover COINTELPRO abuse

U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota’s Immigration Crackdown

The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.

nytimes.com

USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying apnews.com/article/usai...

USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying

The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.

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The administration is anti-vaccine and pro-disease.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya: "We shouldn't be keeping kids out of schools because their parents have made different decisions than other parents" (Note that Trump is asleep)

and yes more importantly, this is antiscientific antivaxx garbage because RFKjr is a grifter who doesnt believe in the germ theory of disease and wants to end childhood vaccination

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 4d ago

BREAKING — Trump is planning to sign an executive order today that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines, breaking the MMR into three separate shots and making other key vaccine changes. @lenasun.bsky.social @rachelroubein.bsky.social

Two additional cases of HIV cure were presented at IAS meeting Rio. Both individuals received stem cell transplantation for cancer treatment. This brings the number of people "cured" to 13. We learn more with every case. Credit @lizhighleyman.bsky.social www.aidsmap.com/news/jul-202...

Two more people cured of HIV after stem cell transplants, offering more clues to long-term remission

Two more people appear to be free of HIV after stem cell transplants for cancer treatment, according to case presentations this week at the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) in Rio d...

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UPDATE: America's gun psychopathy continues: *326* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest: A gunman shot 10 people, 3 fatally, then killed himself in Twin Falls, Idaho: www.kens5.com/article/news...

Nebraska's Medicaid director, in an exclusive interview with nonprofit news organization Tradeoffs, said roughly 200 people will lose health coverage on Aug. 1. n.pr/4wwMtTv

In Nebraska, Americans begin to lose Medicaid under Trump's work rules

Nebraska's Medicaid director, in an exclusive interview with nonprofit news organization Tradeoffs, said roughly 200 people will lose health coverage on Aug. 1.

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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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Yes

The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020

It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced

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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

Overland, MO, couple killed in Guatemala after being deported by ICE | STLPR www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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The racism of our government and the lack of humanity for anyone they deem not part of the group they care about is despicable. They just hate most people.

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3w ago

“The State Department urges Americans not to visit Haiti under any circumstances, citing the rampant violence there.”

Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...

Come be my boss! We're looking for a new ID division chief at UMN! Happy to chat with anyone who is interested! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed Trump in the 2024 election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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My God this is embarrassing. There are still GREAT people at CDC and they don't deserve to be associated with this nonsense.

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m sorry what

RFK Jr is all about grift. He doesn't give a damn about any of us. Want to sell nonsense and steal people's money? Go for it. Want to actually help people...he will have concerns.

Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 3w ago

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

New contamination just dropped

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

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The FDA itself needs a black box warning

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 3w ago

So the FDA is now "reviewing" the evidence on whether compounding pharmacies can make some peptides, complete with a panel full of people who, um, sell peptides. Peptides with almost no evidence that they actually WORK www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Podcast Jay thought masks were tyrannical overreach during COVID. But he’s fine detaining people because they’re in the same country as a virus. Unconscionable.

Atul Gawande@agawande.bsky.social · 3w ago

13 Americans w/o Ebola exposure put in detention when returning from Africa. “Staff even created a map for Bhattacharya that showed the vast distance from Kinshasa to Ituri province, to highlight the low risk. He ordered them to be detained anyway.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This isn’t about fraud - it’s about cutting your healthcare so that Trump can afford the tax cuts he gave to billionaires. They’re cutting more money in healthcare than they’ve prosecuted for fraud. The math doesn’t add up. www.cbsnews.com/news/medicai...

Trump administration halts $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota as part of fraud crackdown

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his agency is pausing $867.5 million in Medicaid payments to California and $199 million to Minnesota.

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Russell Vought should be impeached The two-time director of the Office of Management and Budget has been two-timing Congress, making spending cuts that lawmakers rejected.

Opinion | Russell Vought should be impeached

The two-time director of the Office of Management and Budget has been two-timing Congress, making spending cuts that lawmakers rejected.

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Nothing to see here 😳

This Is Fine Meme

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Roger Sollenberger@sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 4w ago

The FBI director is traveling to Russia weeks before the midterm elections. “His host is likely to be the FSB, the Russian security service that is heir to the Soviet-era KGB” www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

NEW: @maxblau.bsky.social spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers?

Do My Grocery Store Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed?

Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem?

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ICE murdered two people in broad daylight within a week. And now, the FBI is promising LESS accountability. DHS agents need to be reined in—NOT given total impunity. The American people deserve answers. And ICE NEEDS accountability and oversight, ASAP.

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations

Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

nytimes.com

If you're a current or former employee at CDC or FDA in a food safety role, I'm interested in speaking with you for a story for @wired.com. You can reach me securely at emullin.06 on Signal.

America's gun psychopathy continues: *308* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 1 person killed and 8 wounded, in Denver, Colo.: www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

Man dies, 8 people hurt in south Denver shooting at bar on East Hampden Avenue

A man is dead and multiple other people are hurt after a shooting in southeast Denver. That's according to Denver police, who say they are working to develop suspect information.

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Despite their oversight role, FCC members have accepted pricey gala tickets from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount. Seven of the 10 commissioners who served since 2016 accepted tickets worth more than $260,000, ProPublica found.

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals

Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...

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