Teddy Wilson
@reportbywilson.bsky.social
Journalist and Researcher | Reporting and Research on the U.S. Radical Right | Publisher of Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social | Subscribe: https://www.radicalreports.org | Support My Work: https://linktr.ee/reportbywilson
"The flooded wells are evidence that brine is 'migrating' underground through crooks and crannies in the rock... Complicating matters, as many as 66,000 undocumented, old-fashioned oil and gas wells pockmark Ohio, according to state estimates."
In Ohio, Toxic Wastewater Is Bubbling Up Out of the Ground
The state is a major importer of fracking wastewater, which gets pumped underground but doesn’t always stay there. The city of Marietta is fighting back.
nytimes.com
This Pacific Island Disappeared Under Rising Seas. A New Sculpture Marking the Spot Will Morph Into a Home for Seabirds, Coral and Marine Life
This Pacific Island Disappeared Under Rising Seas. A New Sculpture Marking the Spot Will Morph Into a Home for Seabirds, Coral and Marine Life
"The Solomon Siren" remembers Kale Island, submerged a decade ago in the Solomon Islands
smithsonianmag.com
Nuclear plants in Romania and Hungary are under threat of being shut down because there’s not enough water from the Danube to cool them.
As the Danube Hits Record Lows, Every Centimeter of River Counts
Nuclear plants in Romania and Hungary are under threat of being shut down because there’s not enough water to cool them.
bloom.bg
After years of battles over its use — and a long-running drought — states that rely on the Colorado River are facing the prospect of further cutbacks. Years of gridlock among the states prompted the federal government to step in. https://to.pbs.org/450332c
Western states face more water cutbacks as Colorado River shrinks
After years of battles over its use — and a long-running drought — states that rely on the Colorado River are facing the prospect of further cutbacks. Years of gridlock among the states prompted the f...
pbs.org
Perfectly normal response to an obvious mental health crisis and serious medical emergency — No notes. “Perez, why you crashing out?” *sips drink*
Jackson police are investigating the death of an unidentified Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday night. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...
Black Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Home in Jackson, But Details Are Sparse
Jackson police are investigating the death of a Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a home in Mississippi's capital city.
mississippifreepress.org
Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"The lawsuit alleges that Texas A&M canceled an LGBTQ literature course that Reddy and Sadler were scheduled to teach this fall and required Sadler to remove the Academy Award-winning film 'Moonlight' and a poem titled 'Trans-Generation' from another course."
Texas A&M sued over teaching limits on race, gender
This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks.
texastribune.org
He Sees Politics as a Spiritual Battle Against Demonic Forces. Now He’s Advising the Governor.
He Sees Politics as a Spiritual Battle Against Demonic Forces. Now He’s Advising the Governor.
Meet Nate Schatzline, the Christian nationalist and former state representative who is helping Greg Abbott manage “election integrity.”
texasmonthly.com
NEW: Jeanine Pirro has pushed a slew of flimsy, short-lived, Trump-endorsed prosecutions — but Trump's fury over her failure to prosecute Reflecting Pool vandalism is a sign of his 2nd-term obsession and desire to use DOJ to fulfill it w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Jeanine Pirro struggles to give Trump the wins he craves the most
She’s delivering on some core priorities — but the Reflecting Pool is just the latest politically charged prosecution to fall flat.
politico.com
More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal services after it let a longstanding contract with a nonprofit expire. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/04/r...
Legal services contract expires, and unaccompanied immigrant children face deportation • Ohio Capital Journal
WASHINGTON — More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
Highly recommend listening to @jackjenkins.me in conversation with Dr. Amanda Henderson:
The 'Pastors in Name Only': The new (old) fight over who counts as christian
Religion reporter Jack Jenkins examines the growing public power of the religious left and what it could mean for Congress.
religionnews.com
Come see me at the Mill Valley Library THIS THURSDAY in conversation with Angela Hennessey! Super excited to talk about grief, culture, capitalism, and building inclusive death movements with her.
Author Talk: s.e. smith in Conversation with Angela Hennessy
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning is a book about grief and mourning as collective activities best undertaken in community....
millvalleylibrary.libcal.com
Antarctic Interior Hits Minus 119.4 Degrees Fahrenheit, Earth’s Lowest Recorded Temperature in More Than a Decade
Antarctic Interior Hits Minus 119.4 Degrees Fahrenheit, Earth's Lowest Recorded Temperature in More Than a Decade
The record-setting cold at the Concordia research station comes just weeks after another part of the southernmost continent experienced the opposite extreme, with winter temperatures climbing to unpre...
smithsonianmag.com
This Freakish Fungus That Turns Ants into Zombies May Be Hiding Inside Amazon Mosses
This Freakish Fungus That Turns Ants into Zombies May Be Hiding Inside Amazon Mosses
Learn how the fungus that turns ants into zombies also overruns mosses, revealing the bizarre way that it manipulates the insects it infects.
discovermagazine.com
Under the second Trump administration, the fight over history has become a fight over democracy. Who deserves to be trusted with the country’s memory?
Who Owns American History? - Dissent Magazine
Under the second Trump administration, the fight over history has become a fight over democracy. Who deserves to be trusted with the country’s memory?
dissentmagazine.org
DHS has used, with varying degrees of success, administrative subpoenas and grand jury subpoenas to unmask social media posters, according to the new report.
REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its Online Critics
ICE’s Round-the-Clock Digital Dragnet About a month ago, it emerged from upstate...
talkingpointsmemo.com
“Flora and vegetation will come back with the next rain. Nature can be very resilient. But for the animals, it will be a long, long time to recover.”
French wildfires are turning animals’ homes into ‘a desert of ashes’
The catastrophic fires have potential to do long-term damage to many wild animal populations, but a toad species could be the most affected.
nationalgeographic.com
Washington’s wildfires are a warning for the entire U.S.
Washington’s wildfires are a warning for the entire U.S.
Dry conditions and climate change are putting forests across the country at risk for disaster
scientificamerican.com
NEW: The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
The EPA Heralds Its Omaha Cleanup as a Success. But We Found Many Yards Still Have Toxic Levels of Lead.
The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show th...
propublica.org
A 37-year-old Spokane, Washington, resident with a previous manslaughter conviction is arrested in connection with the largest of the region’s three wildfires, which have displaced thousands of people and destroyed hundreds of structures, authorities say.
Man accused of arson in the biggest of 3 major fires in Spokane, Washington
Aaron Farinacci, 37, was arrested late Monday afternoon in connection with the Old Trails Fire, the Spokane County sheriff said.
nbcnews.to
Texas and Maine have vastly different relationships with both churches and unions, yet they are both actively organizing in response to ICE’s cruelty and violence. sojo.net/articles/new...
ICE Is Moving More Quietly. Clergy Resistance Is Not
From Texas to Maine, people of faith are active on every front of resisting deportations and detainment.
sojo.net
This week, @sesmith.lol wrote about how some books get deluxe multiple special edition treatment and what that says about publisher priorities. Art by @meowwwls.bsky.social!
A Forest of Special Editions and Influencers
What happens when books become aesthetic objects?
f.mtr.cool
“Kennedy, a leading vaccination skeptic who has spent years amplifying misinformation about vaccines, including the shot that protects against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR)...”
RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak
Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR
theguardian.com
The historic German housewives who laid the groundwork for today’s tradwives
The historic German housewives who laid the groundwork for today’s tradwives
Today’s tradwives rework the ideals of the early 20th-century German housewives’ movement.
theconversation.com
"A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has been linked to a neo-Nazi group and online accounts that praised Adolf Hitler..."
NZ First youth leader linked to neo-Nazi network
A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.
thepost.co.nz
Flock license plate cameras are surging in Texas. So is an anti-surveillance backlash.
Use of Flock license plate reader cameras surges in Texas
More than 200 local law enforcement agencies have data-sharing agreements with DPS, providing wide access to vehicle information.
texastribune.org
