curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Nick Turse @ Intercept:
Iran War Has the U.S. Military on the Brink of a “Breakdown”
As the U.S. military faces relentless attacks on its bases, the Iran conflict is “ultimately unsustainable,” one U.S. official told The Intercept.
(Nick Turse @ Intercept more…)
Jared Malsin, Summer Said, Shelby Holliday @ WSJ:
The U.S. Is Burning Through Its Supply of Interceptors to Counter Iran’s Attacks
The U.S. had to expend 70 or more Patriots and Thaads to blunt a recent attack on Jordan
Task & Purpose:
The larger warning is that if Iran could create these problems without being considered a peer military, a future conflict against a more capable opponent could expose them on a far more dangerous scale.
Tatiana Carter @ NewsNation:
Hormuz shipping traffic hits new low as Iran standoff deepens
WSJ:
Trump Lectures Ukraine, not Russia
He tells Kyiv to stop hitting Russian diesel, while Putin bombs civilian targets.
Anastasiia Malenko @ WSJ:
Russia, Ukraine Trade Aerial Strikes After Trump’s Claim of Truce
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Ali Walker @ Politico:
Alarm in Denmark after Russian ship fires at military helicopter“It is part of the pattern we see throughout Europe,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned on Tuesday morning.
(Ali Walker @ Politico more…)
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Zahra Hirji, Eric Roston, Lili Pike @ Bloomberg:
1 gigaton of Trump rollbacksPresident Donald Trump’s broad rollbacks of federal greenhouse gas rules since January 2025 have altered the trajectory of US energy use and helped set back cuts to planet-warming pollution by about a decade.
The latest turnabout came on Monday when the Environmental Protection Agency eliminated requirements that fossil fuel power plants install technical controls to curb their emissions. The move came alongside a proposal to permanently release the nation’s largest industrial source of greenhouse gas emissions from federal oversight.
Each of these actions, which come just as data centers are sending US power demand surging, is set to boost emissions by a sizable chunk. For example, the EPA estimates the power plant repeal will result in an additional 533 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2040, which is more than most countries’ annual carbon footprint.
But it’s the collective effect of these and other administration moves that’s reshaping America’s carbon footprint.
(Zahra Hirji, Eric Roston, Lili Pike @ Bloomberg more…)
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Borowitz:
Trump Says AI Far Less Likely to Destroy Humanity Than He Is
Trump Offers Supreme Court $5000 Each to Change Mail-in Voting Decision
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Jennifer Rubin:
49 Days to the Midterms
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Jess Piper:
Rural Republican voters are coming around
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Mitch Jackson:
If They Try to Steal the House, It Could Become a Criminal Case
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Katelyn Jetelina @ Your Local Epidemiologist:
Respiratory increasing, while Covid-19 peaking? Also, the air after 9/11 killed more than the actual attack
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – September 15, 2026Seven years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started …
…If you are tired from the last seven years, you have earned the right to be.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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
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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- 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
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- 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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