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… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Laura Millan, Kyle Kim, Armand Emamdjomeh, Ishika Mookerjee @ Bloomberg:
How Switzerland Is Adapting to Melting Glaciers
Climate change is leading to the melting of glaciers and the thawing of permafrost worldwide.
A year ago, the Swiss town of Blatten was destroyed after part of a glacier collapsed. Today’s newsletter looks at how Switzerland faces difficult decisions over the risks and costs of mountain living in an era of dangerous climate change.
It is springtime in the Lötschental Valley, and yellow dandelions are blooming under the shadow of the Swiss Alps. The landscape is an idyll of snowcapped peaks and meltwater streams, but the changing season brings with it dangers.
Heavy rains in late April caused a mudslide that damaged the foundations of a 35-meter (115-foot) bridge hanging across a nearby gorge. It could take two or three years to fix …
(Laura Millan, Kyle Kim, Armand Emamdjomeh, Ishika Mookerjee @ Bloomberg more…)
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Dean Blundell: Trump Is Going To Headline His Own Birthday Concert Because Literally Nobody Else Will
The “GOAT” who allegedly draws “larger audiences than Elvis in his prime” is now opening for Vanilla Ice, doing the Ninja Rap. Polls have Trump at 31%. Historians have him 45th out of 45. Strap in.
Robert Reich: A Truly Amazing Exercise of Justice
Terrence Goggin: What’s Trump Really Doing? He killed the “OLD GOP” this week; What does its death mean for the Age of Obama
Heather Delaney Reese: Donald Trump is the biggest loser
Joyce Vance: Trump’s Past Is Catching Up With Him
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Marianne Dhenin, truthout: Disability Rights Are at Risk as 7 States Back Case Attacking Key Protections
Advocates for disability rights are fighting the lawsuit, which would push more people to be warehoused in institutions.
(Marianne Dhenin, truthout more…)
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Hans Christensen: Norwegian PM: ‘Damned Tech Companies’
A series of cases in Norway, with ties to international networks, where children have been molested online, is now prompting the Norwegian prime minister to react.
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Anne Applebaum: The tiny nation that keeps standing up to Russia
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NoKings.org: The Next 250 Starts With Us. [June 14]
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Heather Cox Richardson: Week One in 250 to 250
This was the first week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. We’ve been trying to spread them all over social media, but I figure it’ll be worthwhile to do a roundup of that week’s videos every weekend in case some get overlooked.
We designed these to emphasize the agency of Americans—mostly everyday Americans—to change the country. Each falls into a category that defines what it means to be an American, including community, democracy, innovation, mobility, civil rights, education, conservation, and creativity.
https://www.youtube.com/@twofiftytotwofifty
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 30, 2026
Life was good in 1889 for the more than fifty wealthy industrialists who belonged to Pennsylvania’s South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. …
At two and a half miles long and a mile wide, the lake was big enough to run the club’s two steam yachts or to enjoy on sailboats or canoes. It covered about 450 acres and was 70 feet deep. It held about 20 million tons of water. The club’s wealthy industrialists and financiers centered their summer relaxation around the artificial lake.
…There were 30,000 people, mostly Welsh and German immigrants, living in Johnstown, a factory town in the valley below Lake Conemaugh, about fourteen miles downstream from the South Fork Dam. The economy that had made fortunes for the men of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was built on the labor of workers like the men in Johnstown. …
Until May 30, 1889, Decoration Day, when a torrent of rain began to fall.
…As 20 million tons of water spilled downstream, it picked up houses, trees, bridges, railroad cars, animals, and people. The water measured at least 35 feet high and traveled at 40 miles an hour. As it traveled, it became a wall of debris, grinding through more than $4.4 billion of property in today’s dollars. It swept locomotives from their tracks, discarding some nearly a mile away.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
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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
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