curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – October 25, 2026
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Trump and his allies keep saying they are digging the United States economy out of a hole dug by former president Joe Biden, but on October 19, 2024, The Economist called the U.S. economy “The Envy of the World.” Trump disagreed, insisting that Biden’s economy was horrible.
He promised the new tariffs he intended to impose would create an economic miracle. Just hours after his second inauguration, he said that tariffs were “the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary,” because “tariffs are going to make us rich as hell. It’s going to bring our country’s businesses back that left us.”
Now Republicans are studiously avoiding the word “tariffs” …
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
Marlon Weems:
How prediction markets moved from forecasting tool to political infrastructure
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Crispian Balmer, Juliette Jabkhiro @ Reuters:
French protest groups demand more rallies as Macron faces tough choices- Protest groups call for protests on October 31
- Nationwide strike scheduled for November 5
- Authorities said 410,000 people marched on Saturday
(Crispian Balmer, Juliette Jabkhiro @ Reuters more…)
James Mackintosh @ WSJ:
French profligacy made it the first victim of higher global bond yields
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Al Jazeera:
International leaders and politicians congratulate the Brazilian president on his re-election
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Ruth Ann Crystal MD:
SARS-CoV-2 RBD evolving to evade immune recognition, PJ.2.1 rising in BC, Verbal memory deficits in Long COVID, H5N1 raging on mink farm, US measles cases now more than double 2025, & Ebola spreading
(Ruth Ann Crystal MD more…)
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Lukman Abdulmalik, Zubaida Baba Ibrahim @ Nigeria Health Watch:
Why Is Kano’s Water ‘Thick Like Coffee’?Despite billions in planned water investments and leaning on support from both USAID and the Chinese private sector, residents of the northern Nigerian state face unreliable supplies, potential contamination, and serious health risks.
(Lukman Abdulmalik, Zubaida Baba Ibrahim @ Nigeria Health Watch more…)
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[a different] Charles Sauer:
Is Shohei Ohtani taking away an American’s job?
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Dissent in Bloom:
An Anti-Birth Control Power Grab: The White House Women’s Health Initiative
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Ted Gioia:
From the Burning Bush to ChatGPT
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Brian Merchant:
We cannot under any circumstances let AI firms govern the future
The January 6Memory Project
ICE Detention Expansion Tracker
A field guide to claims
Last Days in Two Nations
Climate.us
formerly Climate.gov
Climate Solutions Explorer
Have I Been Flocked?
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
Mourning Those Who Have Died in ICE Custody
Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- October 17: Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias
- September 18: Carlos Josue Marchena Marchena
- August 31: Pierre Damas Bel
- August 1: Edwin Lopez-Cornejo
- July 19: Jose Chajon-Raxon
- July 14: Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran
- July 13: Joan Sebastian Guerrero
- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
- June 4: Mamuka Artmeladze
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
Suffering Under President Obama
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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