They grew up with disability rights. Now, they're fighting to keep them

Siblings Cody and Kaleigh Brendle have grown up with the right to community integration. Now, they worry those protections for people with disabilities like them are being eroded.

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As Heat Rises and Wildfires Rage, Gender Inequality Is Turning Deadly

Climate vulnerability depends on intersecting factors, such as gender, a topic missing from much global climate discussion.

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Nearly half of women with disabilities report experiencing sexual harassment or assault at work, poll finds

A new 19th/SurveyMonkey Poll is among the first to shed light on sexual violence faced by women with disabilities in the workplace.

19thnews.org

The Flock uprising is just the beginning - Salon.com

People are sick of tech billionaires trying to control our lives

salon.com

Wow! Literary Award 2026

The annual Wow! Literary Award for emerging writers and poets (formerly Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize) is a contest for emerging writers of all ages whose work explores questions of interspecies co...

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AI Detectors are Falsely Flagging Neurodivergent Writers

AI has become a widespread watchdog, yet its weaknesses are causing neurodivergent individuals to be wrongly flagged for their writing.

pub.cbrasch.me

Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Outcomes of Clinical Trials

Users on Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether drug trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.

futurism.com

Ups and Downs of Publishing with a Small Traditional Press

Join a panel of seasoned genre authors to discuss their experiences publishing with small traditional presses.. Event starts at August 16, 2026 4:00 PM EDT

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AI Has Ideas About Intellectual Disabilities. It's Not Always Accurate

As artificial intelligence proliferates in American life, new research finds that the technology is poised to amplify stereotypes about people with intellectual disabilities.

disabilityscoop.com

The Hum - Wikipedia

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Moscow IVF Clinic Refuses to Stop Offering Putin Foe’s Sperm

Demand may very well skyrocket after the Kremlin effectively declared him an enemy of the state.

thedailybeast.com

Speculative Literature Foundation – Promoting literary quality in speculative fiction.

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Substackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a ‘Witch Hunt’

“I’m not going to apologize for using AI in the creation process.”

404media.co

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

futurism.com

How Videos Helped Me Uncover Abuse at an Arkansas Private School

Mary “Tracy” Morrison ordered students to scrub floors and urged them to attack a classmate. Few records exist of incidents at The Delta Institute for the Developing Brain, a private school with littl...

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Orcas Explode Fish Into Confetti, Possibly for Fun, In ‘Astounding’ New Video

A team captured first-of-its-kind footage of orcas holding a sunfish carcass still and ramming it so hard that it burst into fragments, which may be a form of social play. “We could hear the sound,” s...

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White House Wants To Make It Harder For People With Disabilities To Sue Federal Agencies

The White House is pushing back on a long-running lawsuit over its disability accommodations by challenging the right of people with disabilities to sue the federal government.

disabilityscoop.com

Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults.

As ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune investigated child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, reporters found a common theme: children who were victims of sexual misconduct going ...

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Trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson - Wikipedia

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I Got Slopped

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

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First ‘true sugar’ molecule found in space — offering hints to life’s origins

Erythrulose, which has four carbon atoms, is the most complex sugar spotted beyond our Solar System.

nature.com