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"Devastating news for Arctic environmental monitoring."
'Truly Devastating': Trump Ends Federal Funding for Key Arctic Climate Report
"For two decades," said one of the report's authors, "it has documented conditions across the Arctic system, bringing together physical and social sciences with real-world observations/data and consistent updates."
commondreams.org
"Do not tell me we cannot afford Medicare for All," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, sharing new research. "What we cannot afford is a broken healthcare system based on greed."
Yale Study: Sanders' Medicare for All Bill Would Save Over 114,000 Lives and $1 Trillion a Year
"Do not tell me we cannot afford Medicare for All," the senator said. "What we cannot afford is a broken healthcare system based on greed."
commondreams.org
Who's funding the dark money Third Way — we dug into most recent tax filings: - Republican-run insurance industry front group - Health insurance giant - Big Pharma - More insurance lobbyists ...as the centrist group fights the Democratic left and Medicare for All:
Health Insurers Are Paying Third Way as It Targets the Left
A health insurance industry group run by Republican consultants made its only disclosed 2024 donation to the centrist Third Way, according to a tax filing by the group.
readsludge.com
Third Way — which has declared "war" on progressives — is a Trojan Horse for corporate America. Their funding sources are a Star Wars cantina of billionaire megadonors, Fortune 500 CEOs, giant corporations, and corporate dark money bundlers.
The Moronic Bullshit of the "Third Way"
There's no "middle" between neofascist corporatism and democracy
robertreich.substack.com
If you’re raising money to keep money in politics, I don’t consider you a Democrat. Get out of the party.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5d agoThe most powerful rising force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged economic system. Corporate Democrats refuse to see how big money has corrupted America. They — and their billionaire donors — are some of the biggest enablers of Trump's neo-fascism.
What we're reading from @epi.org: The cost of mass deportations in states like Minnesota and what federal tax dollars could be funding instead www.epi.org/blog/the-cos...
The cost of mass deportations in states like Minnesota—and what federal tax dollars could be funding instead
This week, EPI will release a new tool showing the cost of mass deportations to taxpayers in every U.S. city, county, and state. For the first time, the actual economic tradeoffs imposed on all taxpay...
epi.org
“Frustrated, annoyed, irritated” WILLIAMSON COUNTY voters were turned away from a designating voting location in Thompsons Station — during polling hours — because of a back-to-school event. Full: www.wsmv.com/2026/08/08/w...
24 detainees were loaded onto today's ICE Air flight in Minneapolis. Six seconds in, the staff on the left are unfolding a WRAP full-body restraint; on the right, the shackles are untangled. If you may have had a loved one on this flight, the full loading can be viewed here: youtu.be/st3guNEQm2M
Last week, the third lecture in my new online course, "Hitler and Stalin Today," asked "What is Fascism?" The fourth lecture asks "What is Communism?" Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca Read more about the lecture and watch the full recording here: snyder.substack.com/p/what-is-co...
All across America, the public is rising up against data centers. Good. We need a national moratorium and robust AI regulations NOW.
"Wind plus solar is on a tear right now," said one expert.
Renewables Surge Despite Trump Cuts, With Solar Top May Power Source in 2 States
"Wind plus solar is on a tear right now," said one expert.
commondreams.org
ICE Air flight coming to MSP, Fri Aug 7, estimated arrival: 2:35 PM. Shackled detainees will board the plane at Signature Aviation. Since January 1, MN50501 has tracked 121 ICE Air flights through MSP, carrying 4,239 people. 📑 ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data 📡 adsb.lol/?icao=aaeafd
Facts confirmed this week: ▶️Top driver of deforestation globally: beef ▶️Top driver of biodiversity loss globally: beef and dairy ourworldindata.org/what-has-dri... and www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...
What has driven deforestation in the 21st century?
Agriculture has been the main driver of deforestation, but this has been concentrated in only a few commodities: mostly beef, palm oil, soy, and forestry products.
ourworldindata.org
New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."
Moderate Democrats have a choice to make
Do they want to help their party win, or do they want to whine about the left?
publicnotice.co
More from Commissioner Schnell here: www.startribune.com/mn-operation...
DOC commissioner: Minnesota banned private prisons. ICE is bringing one back anyway.
DHS apparently plans to reopen the private, for-profit Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton as a 1,600-bed ICE detention center operated by the private prison company that owns it, DOC commission...
startribune.com
“Last winter, Minnesotans banded together and rejected the harm caused by ill-informed, unplanned and costly federal immigration overreach. As DHS takes steps to reopen Appleton as a federal facility, our response should remain the same: Minnesota is not the place for this.”
Minnesota! 📣 Ever think about what the $4.4 billion of federal taxpayer dollars spent on mass deportations could buy instead? We did. Wednesday, we're launching a tool that shows the economic tradeoffs of Trump's immigration + deportation assault on our communities. Get a peek here 👇
The cost of mass deportations in states like Minnesota—and what federal tax dollars could be funding instead
This week, EPI will release a new tool showing the cost of mass deportations to taxpayers in every U.S. city, county, and state. For the first time, the actual economic tradeoffs imposed on all taxpay...
epi.org
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
Fund the organizers and trainers who can turn 833 local fights into a coherent national and international movement without flattening what makes each one local. And fund fast.
Funders Need to Catch Up to the Anti-Data Center Movement
The anti-fracking movement and the Inflation Reduction Act coalition were both built in part on early philanthropic bets on local and national organizing; data center resistance can follow the same pattern, but only if the money shows up while the moment is live.
commondreams.org
ICE Air flight coming to MSP, Fri July 31, estimated arrival: 12:40 PM. Shackled detainees will board the plane at Signature Aviation. Since January 1, MN50501 has tracked 119 ICE Air flights through MSP, carrying 4,184 people. 📑 ottergoose.net/ice-flights-... 📡 adsb.lol/?icao=a82a75
Your inbox is overflowing. Your mailbox groans with catalogs. Your phone rings at dinner with robocalls. Blame the spammers, sure. But at a deeper level? It's all economics. 🧵 (newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/a-primer-o...)
A Primer on the Economics of Privacy
Your name is for sale. You ought to decide who to.
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com
28 people flown to indefinite detention on ICE Air today from Minneapolis. In rain that got heavier as the loading process went on, MN50501 volunteers observed construction workers, elderly, and women. If you may have loved ones on the flight, full footage be seen here: youtu.be/gJr9Q79MQxc 🧵👇
All the people who live near the equator are going to need to migrate somewhere else, which they call an invasion, so they're declaring war on them.
Trump's Smithsonian purge follows the same roadmap used by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and every strongman who came before… hartmannreport.com/p/that-sign-...
That Sign in Front of the Smithsonian is More Dangerous Than You Think
Trump's Smithsonian purge follows the same roadmap used by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and every strongman who came before…
hartmannreport.com
Signature Aviation, MSP's private jet terminal, was busy yesterday, with aircraft from the Pohlads, Cargill, Target, Marvin Windows, Sanford Health, and ICE. The ICE Air flight was loaded with 29 shackled detainees, who were flown away from Minnesota to Alexandria, LA and El Paso, TX.
Donald Trump cut fire prevention to give Elon Musk a tax break. www.startribune.com/report-doge-...
Report: DOGE delayed fire-prevention plan for Echo Trail near Ely
Washington Post reporting supports the allegations of a former Forest Service ranger now running for the Legislature.
startribune.com
Once again, just here posting that it might be time to stop paying taxes. Something to think about. 🤔
Aleesa@akuzee.bsky.social · 3w ago“Last year, the Trump administration delayed a $10 million grant that was supposed to help Minnesota thin out about 4,000 acres of dense, dry forest at high risk of burning. Most of that work never got started… And now, some of those areas are on fire.” www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
