curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Lucian K. Truscott IV:
We didn’t have Avenger air defense missiles in Kuwait and Jordan and Saudi Arabia, but Trump has them at his Bedminster golf club
This is a photo of Donald Trump playing golf at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey on Sunday, defended by an Army Avenger anti-missile system in case of an attack by an Iranian drone or missile. …
There were no Avenger anti-missile systems present in Kuwait on the second day of Donald Trump’s war of choice on Iran. Six Army soldiers were killed and 20 more were seriously wounded when an Iranian drone struck a logistics headquarters on an army base in Kuwait. …
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In all, since Trump’s war began, 642 soldiers, sailors, airmen and women and Marines have been seriously wounded, and eighteen have been killed. These figures have had to be dragged out of the Pentagon by a Freedom of Information request …
Here is something the Pentagon does not supply with its casualty figures. None of the soldiers were killed or wounded in what we think of as combat operations in the forward area of a war. All the casualties occurred in places that in previous wars would have been referred to as rear areas, behind the front lines of a war. In Trump’s war, there are no front lines, because he chose from the beginning to fight Iran exclusively from the air with missiles and bombs.
(Lucian K. Truscott IV more…)
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Katelyn Jetelina
@ Your Local Epidemiologist:
Executive order on childhood vaccines…
Yesterday, an executive order and a press conference announced changes to the routine childhood vaccination schedule. (So much for the administration pulling back on vaccine policy before the midterms. More than 80% of Americans still strongly support having access to vaccines.) As expected, it was a lot of craziness, so instead of refuting everything, I’m here to tell you what it means for you today: Not much. Families can still access all vaccines on the AAP schedule. Pediatricians should continue offering vaccines, and these vaccines remain covered without cost-sharing under current law.
(Katelyn Jetelina @ Your Local Epidemiologist more…)Terri Langford, Samanta Habashy @ Texas Tribune:
Despite federal efforts to drop some children’s vaccine recommendations, Texas requirements unchanged
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Borowitz:
Putin and Netanyahu Formalize Joint Ownership of TrumpBorowitz:
Other Places the Secret Service Can Hide TrumpWith sketches by Ann Telnaes.
Michael S. Schmidt @ NY Times:
President Trump has always dismissed as baseless political smears suggestions that he was a Russian asset.… the material does shed new light on an often overlooked aspect of the swirl of events surrounding Mr. Trump in his first months in office in 2017: the bureau’s remarkable decision to open a separate counterintelligence investigation into the president of the United States, and how that inquiry was sidetracked before it had much of a chance to get going.
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Lauren Rankin @ Truthout:
Abortion bans have always been about criminalizing the pregnant person.
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Morgaan Sinclair, Ph.D.:
The ice shelf that holds back the Thwaites “Doomsday Glacier” will disintegrate before New Years.
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Naureen S. Malik @ Bloomberg:
AI’s Volatile Power Demand Is Damaging Its Own Data CentersAI at times sees power usage spike as much as 50% above its design capacity.
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
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
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- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
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- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
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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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