curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Olivia Rudgard, Laura Millan @ Bloomberg:
Tallying the Toll of Europe’s Summer of Deadly Extreme Heat
Europe’s summer of extreme heat caused an estimated 50,000 deaths in cities across the region — the highest number on record — and wiped roughly 0.17% from European Union GDP from April through September, or close to €17 billion ($19 billion).
Those findings, from two separate studies, reveal the extent of Europe’s vulnerability to rising temperatures in what’s likely to be one of the hottest years in modern history.
The estimated mortality toll comes from a study released Friday, led by scientists at Imperial College London, which determined that almost two-thirds of the deaths linked to high summer temperatures would not have happened without climate change. A recent study from Bloomberg Economics, meanwhile, measured the hit to Europe’s GDP at two-and-a-half times the average loss for the period over the previous decade.
The overall mortality level, triggered by a series of record-breaking heat waves, was far higher than those in the next most deadly years. …
(Olivia Rudgard, Laura Millan @ Bloomberg more…)
Christopher Mims @ WSJ:
I Took a Chevy Bolt Into America’s ‘Charging Desert’ and Lived to Tell the Tale
… even this trip turned out to be only a little less convenient than it would have been in a gas vehicle.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:
The America That Never WasLangston Hughes dreamt of a better America, but politicians like Vivek Ramaswamy and JD Vance are intent on dragging it through the mud.
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
—Langston Hughes (1901-1967), American poet and activistMarisa Kabas:
Vivek Ramaswamy and the Grand Old Rape PartyHeather Delaney Reese:
Trump INEXPLICABLY defends the most disturbing Republican ad imaginable
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Daniel Terrill @ Military Times:
“Public lands do not become military installations simply because the president says so”A group of nonprofits alleges the federal government illegally transformed more than 100,000 acres of public land along the New Mexico-Mexico border into a military installation so U.S. troops could assist in immigration enforcement.
(Daniel Terrill @ Military Times more…)
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Robert Reich:
Trump’s attack on the 2026 election officially began todayCharlie Savage @ NY Times:
No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.
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Joyce Vance:
The BBC Strikes Back
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Alexandra Glorioso, Jeremy Schwartz, Misty Harris, Zach Despart @ Texas Tribune & ProPublica:
Ken and Angela Paxton invested $600,000 in a convicted fraudster’s business
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Marcy Wheeler:
there is a core of it we know to be trueMatthew Cole @ Vanity Fair:
The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in TransfersMitch Jackson:
A New Report Ties Jared Kushner to $2 Billion in Secret Foreign Accounts. Here Is What the Law Says.David McAfee @ RawStory:
Jared Kushner’s scandal denial spectacularly backfires as Dems demand answers ‘under oath’
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James Eagle:
Child mortality rates have fallen globally
(James Eagle more…)
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Richard Poplak @ NY Times:
The Map of Africa Is Being Redrawn. It’s a Trap.…
As it stands, the global moment of rupture is being defined in Africa by African elites designing the future in presidential palaces and high-end hotels. But they’ll find, as their forebears did, that this new map is not the territory. It’s a trap. The only way out is for Africans to disassemble it together.
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Sarah Jones:
Police in Northern California are conducting a criminal investigation into a crash after ICE lied about allegedly hitting a legal observer in a town north of Sacramento.
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Ségolène Le Stradic @ NY Times:
France Plans to Bolster Police Presence, Expecting New Protests
(Ségolène Le Stradic @ NY Times more…)
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – October 23, 2026…
An article published tonight by Anton Troianovski and Eric Lipton in the New York Times sheds a spotlight on the oil deals that lie behind Trump’s rush to normalize relations with Russia at Ukraine’s expense, as well as repeated statements from him and his cronies that they want to open up business transactions with Russia as incentives for Russia’s president Vladimir Putin to stop his war on Ukraine—an argument that, on its face, never made sense.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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