curated news excerpts & citations
Bloomberg: Hillary Clinton Urges India to Step Up on Climate
Also: the biggest US gas plant could also be a huge source of emissions
India has been urged to push forward global action on climate change even as President Donald Trump rolls back emissions reduction policies in the US.
“It is not possible for us to wait any longer,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Mumbai, addressing India’s first major national climate conference. “We cannot wait for the political change that I know will come to the United States, because that’s a few years off — we have to do the innovation and build the models here.”
(Bloomberg more…)
Inside Climate News: Paris Court Holds Historic Climate Trial in Case Against TotalEnergies
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Robert Reich: The Supreme Court’s tariff decision extends far beyond tariffs
A 6-3 majority of the Supreme Court decided yesterday that Trump cannot take core powers that the Constitution gives Congress. Instead, Congress must delegate any such power clearly and unambiguously.
This is a big decision. It goes far beyond merely interpreting the 1997 International Emergency Economic Powers Act not to give Trump the power over tariffs that he claims to have. It reaffirms a basic constitutional principle about the division and separation of powers between Congress and the president.
…… by the same Supreme Court logic, Trump has no authority to impound money Congress has appropriated because the Constitution has given Congress the “core congressional power of the purse,” as the Court stated yesterday.
…Nor, by this same Supreme Court logic, does Trump have authority to go to war because Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution grants Congress the power to “declare War … and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water” — and Congress would not have delegated this highly consequential power to a president through ambiguous language.
(Robert Reich more…)WSJ: Trump Demeans Himself as He Attacks the Supreme Court
USA Today: US government could owe $175B in refunds after tariff ruling
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“They had no trouble taking the money, so we think they should just flip the tubes around and send it right back to us,” said Stephen Woldenberg, senior vice president at Learning Resources, in an interview with WGN, a NewsNation local affiliate.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Palace Tremors, RFK’s Health [S]Care in ER, & Frederick Douglass Carries the Freedom Banner
“No man is above the law, and no man is below it.” — Theodore Roosevelt
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Trump promised RFK Jr. would ‘restore faith in American health care.’ A year in, trust has plummeted (CNN)
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Legacy and the Life of Frederick Douglass in Celebration of Black History Month
(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar more…)Washington Post: Speaker Johnson denies request for Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the Capitol
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – February 21, 2026
On February 22, 1889, outgoing Democratic president Grover Cleveland signed an omnibus bill that divided the Territory of Dakota in half and enabled the people in the new Territories of North Dakota and South Dakota, as well as the older Territories of Montana and Washington, to write state constitutions and elect state governments. The four new states would be admitted to the Union in nine months.
Republicans and Democrats had fought for years over admitting new western states, with members of each party blocking the admission of states thought to favor the other. Republicans counted on Dakota and Washington Territories, while the Democrats felt pretty confident about Montana and New Mexico Territories.
In early 1888, Congress had considered a compromise by which all four states would come into the Union together. But in the 1888 election, voters had put the Republicans in charge of both chambers of Congress, and while the popular vote had gone to Cleveland, the Electoral College had put Republican Benjamin Harrison into the White House.
Democrats had to cut a deal quickly or the Republicans would simply admit their own states and no others.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Farm Bureau: Farm Bankruptcies Continued to Climb in 2025
(Farm Bureau more…)
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Daily Beast: CBS to Air Star’s Axed ‘60 Minutes’ Segment Days After He Quits
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE?
Anderson Cooper’s “white genocide” investigation will hit the small screen on Sunday.
(Daily Beast more…)
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Slate: Texas Is Prosecuting a Midwife for Abortion. Its Case Is Already Falling Apart.
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TNR: McConnell Stalls Trump’s Election Overhaul Bill as Republicans Fume
Egberto Willies: “I’m Voting Today”: Texas Woman Refuses Silence After Roll Removal Shock
Pamela McRae voted before—then vanished from the rolls. This Texas voter’s defiance shines light on voter suppression tactics nationwide.
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Boing Boing: White House posts “Trump Right About Everything” report, peer-reviewed by the voices in his head
The White House has published a sweeping new economic analysis concluding that convicted felon Donald Trump is, as usual, correct about everything. This finding was rigorously validated through the administration’s gold-standard peer-review process, in which senior aides repeatedly say “yes, absolutely” until a new problem arises.
(Boing Boing more…)
ICE deaths 2026 – They deserve remembrance and justice.- 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
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Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
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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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