El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.
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Moldy showers. Food shortages. A lack of toothpaste, deodorant and soap. Military families are sounding the alarm about rapidly worsening conditions on the USS Lincoln. From Priya Sridhar:
Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
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i have never seen a higher density of pride flags than in Boise
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
BREAKING: This is gobsmacking. An arrest––for arson––has been made in the Old Trails Fire, which destroyed more than 700 homes in the Spokane area. A DNR fire investigator was able to locate the origin to w/in a 10 sq m area. The fire was started with nothing more than a butane lighter or match.
Behold jjigae soup with the most expensive zucchini I have ever bought. $3.84 for one zucchini. $3.84. One zucchini. Not from the Farmers’ Market or the Coop either. And just a normal size.
The reason to grow food at home is not really to be self sufficient or even to save a bit of money (I would fail on both counts I suspect), but to hear your five year old shout ‘oh lucky day’ because you’ve picked a bag of green beans, or have them cheer because it’s sweetcorn season.
When enough rain falls in Maltahöhe, Namibia, millions of desert lilies bloom across the landscape for just a few days each year. This natural phenomenon briefly transforms the arid desert into a sea of flowers almost overnight. IG: @ earthpix
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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I hope you’re sitting down for this. The shooter at the In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho that killed 3 people and injured 2 people is a Republican, white male, and prob a born again christian. I’m as shocked as you are.
The front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.
To all my new 🔥 follows, Hi 👋 I'm a former USFS employee who, back in the 90s, accidentally became the first person to put a fire information website on the internet. My Red Card was FFT2 & COMT I have *opinions* about fire, fire info, & education. During fire season, I mostly post #IdahoFire 1/
In Boise there is a beautiful firewise garden that IMO should be guide for code up in the foothills. I’m going to sum up how to protect your home based on their info in the following thread. 🧵 #IdahoFire assets.idahofirewise.org/wp-content/u...
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Spokane earlier. POV3 Geolocation: 47.70246, -117.47554 Tiktok acct JenBunny_4917 view of the VA Medical Center prior to or during evacuation. Sporadic wooded area (west) behind hospital. 6/
Spokane 6:30 pm. More fire department apparatus crossing the Meenach bridge, and an ambulance. Two more hours to sunset. The river, thin, uncaring, flows northwest, the low water marking the reason this has been a river crossing, for generations to the families that lived here.
I’ve organized an emergency briefing to discuss the serious situation in Spokane. We’re monitoring the situation closely, more to come. If you are in the area, please follow instructions from emergency personnel and obey any evacuation orders. www.krem.com/article/news...
Geopolitics and Security Studies Center analyst Dionis Cenusa on the Ceuta crisis: “The timing chosen for this hybrid warfare operation was not accidental… 1/
As temperatures rise and streamflows fall, government officials partially or fully close regional blue-ribbon trout streams to fishing.
Angling restricted on two dozen rivers in Montana, Yellowstone National Park
As temperatures rise and streamflows fall, government officials partially or fully close regional blue-ribbon trout streams to fishing.
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Trump: 'You want to see everything end fast? Give crazy people nuclear weapons. It'll end real fast."
just incredible to watch the US president take Iran's side when my state's water systems are under cyberattack
COMMENTARY | The scheme seeks to entice Idaho to accept one-third of the country’s now homeless nuclear waste cache for a ‘promise’ of a big pay day, writes guest columnist Marc C. Johnson. #idleg #idpol
Trump has a plan to make Idaho home to vast stockpile of nation’s high-level nuclear waste • Idaho Capital Sun
The scheme seeks to entice Idaho to accept one-third of the country’s now homeless nuclear waste cache for a 'promise' of a big pay day, writes Marc C. Johnson.
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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
"She's frustrated that news and social media coverage often treats these rural fires as if there's nothing much out here to burn. This is our livelihood, she says."
Oregon is on track for its worst wildfire season yet
Wildfires in central and eastern Oregon are prompting evacuations and forcing ranchers to scramble to move cattle and find feed as public range land burns. More than a million acres have burned so far...
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Iran war has consumed nearly 67% of US Patriot interceptor stockpile, report says
Iran war has consumed nearly 67% of US Patriot interceptor stockpile, report says
In less than six months of war with Iran, the U.S. has used nearly two-thirds of its Patriot interceptor inventory, according to a new analysis.
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"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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