curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Evan Simon @ Floodlight:
NJ data center emitted staggering amounts of air pollution for nearly a year before regulators intervened
Newly obtained public records shed light on emissions caused by DataOne’s unpermitted generator fleet
… The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection last week fined the company over the fleet but didn’t disclose how long the generators had been operating nor how much air pollution they had released into the surrounding community over the past year.
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“Our best estimate is that the generators emitted about 140 tons of NOx,” said Xiaomeng Jin, an assistant professor at Rutgers Department of Environmental Sciences. Her analysis would rank DataOne in the state’s top five NOx polluters of 2025, per EPA data.
Paul Kedrosky:
Anthropic Is a Bank With a Money-Losing AI Side Gig
Maxine Joselow @ NY Times:
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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Regina Lam, Julián Reingold, Ayu Sulistyowati, Diana Wanyonyi @ Dialogue Earth:
Coral in Crisis: Stories From the Front LineFour globe-spanning snapshots of communities built on increasingly fragile ocean foundations, from Asia to Africa and the Americas.
(Regina Lam, Julián Reingold, Ayu Sulistyowati, Diana Wanyonyi @ Dialogue Earth more…)
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Marvin Olasky:
Why are some people homeless? Why aren’t more?How to foster compassion without overlooking personal responsibility
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Hannah Yoest:
Playing with nomenclature in America’s fractured reality
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Rebecca Solnit:
There Are Too Many Stories Like This: Rape Culture on the BallotDaniel Ruetenik @ CBS:
Classified material missing from Epstein files, documents suggest
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Ali Winston @ 404 Media:
ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US HistoryICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – October 28, 2026The story of how Flávio Bolsonaro arrived in the United States was odd and is becoming odder. …
While Trump allies are supporting those who share their authoritarian vision of government abroad, MAGA is showing signs of collapsing at home.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Borowitz:
Bolsonaro Accidentally Arrested by ICE Minutes After Arriving from Brazil
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Thom Hartmann:
Why Is Trump Fighting for Daylight Saving Time When Scientists Warn It Will Endanger Millions?The golf industry wants longer evenings, but sleep researchers say permanent daylight saving time would disrupt our biological clocks and expose children to darker school commutes
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Ken Klippenstein:
National Guard Mobilizes for ElectionJay Kuo:
The DOJ’s Attack on Our Elections Is Flailing
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Séamus Malekafzali @ Nation:
The attempt to strip Omar of her citizenship is part of a much bigger push for the mass denaturalization of American immigrants.
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James Eagle:
France’s debt-to-GDP ratio rises
(James Eagle more…)
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A field guide to claims
Last Days in Two Nations
Climate.us
formerly Climate.gov
Climate Solutions Explorer
Have I Been Flocked?
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
Mourning Those Who Have Died in ICE Custody
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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NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
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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