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Amanda Kolson Hurley and Ari Natter @ Bloomberg: The US Defense Department Is Still Preparing for Climate Change
The military might not be talking about climate anymore, but it’s still working to be ready for it.
When Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 storm, tore through Florida’s Tyndall Air Force Base in 2018, it battered F-22 stealth fighter jets, destroyed hundreds of buildings and churned up 700,000 cubic yards of debris. The total cost of the damage approached $5 billion.
Now, Tyndall is being rebuilt as a super-resilient “installation of the future.” New buildings sit more than a foot above the ground, to remain dry through 75 years of sea-level rise. Their roofs are designed to withstand winds of up to 165 miles per hour. Manmade oyster reefs will protect coasts by breaking up waves.
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Ryan Erik King @ Jalopnik: Elon Musk shouldn’t be able to shut down the U.S. military’s internet
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 18, 2026
And, just like that, President Donald J. Trump’s triumphant boasting that the Strait of Hormuz had been permanently reopened has unraveled in less than 24 hours. …
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David Gilbert @ Wired: MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged
Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.
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Tamara Pearson @ truthout: US Mining Plan Will Sacrifice Mexico’s Environment for Weapons and Tech
A new mining agreement provides no benefits for Mexico and fails to address health and environmental impacts.
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Becky Ferreira @ 404 Media: Babies Born from Dead Parents Will Increase with New Tech. Are We Ready?
Reproductive technologies have enabled children to be posthumously conceived from the frozen eggs and sperm of deceased parents, raising legal, ethical, and practical questions.
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Rae Deng @ Snopes: Trump admin plans to detransition incarcerated trans people. Is that ‘medical experimentation’?
- The claim that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration admitted to medically experimenting on trans people in prison stems from an independent journalist’s analysis of the administration’s proposal to end gender-affirming care in prisons.
- Factually, this policy rejects medically accepted standards of care and would forcibly detransition trans people in prison by withdrawing hormone treatments and social accommodations while prioritizing “psychotherapy.”
- The journalist, Aleksandra Vaca, used legitimate policy and court documents to argue that the proposal amounts to medical experimentation. She said the government “is throwing out existing medical standards and instead wishes to force arbitrary guidelines onto a captive population — all the while being fully aware of the risks and actively documenting the results.”
- Experts in bioethics and in psychiatry broadly agree the policy violates basic ethical principles in medical care. Some would not characterize it as medical experimentation because proper research has stronger patient protections.
- The policy originated with Trump’s January 2025 executive order ending the use of federal funds for gender-affirming care. The courts blocked the order from going into effect in prisons, but the administration then filed a more extensive proposal, which, as of this writing, is still being litigated over.
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
ICE Accountability Project
ICE deaths 2026 – They deserve remembrance and justice.
- 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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