curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Hilary Beaumont @ Guardian:
Trump boosted half of US coal plants with taxpayer dollars and ‘free passes to pollute’
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The analysis, which looked at the 184 operating coal plants that are connected to the grid, found that 90 received support from the Trump administration through “cash handouts, free passes to pollute, and requirements to stay online past their retirement dates”.
The administration provided $950m in taxpayer dollars to 24 coal plants and handed Clean Air Act exemptions from toxic pollution limits to 70 coal plants, according to the EDF analysis.
“It’s extending the life of these coal plants,” said Surbhi Sarang, director and senior attorney at the Environmental Defense Fund. “The administration has leveraged a multitude of tools to prop up coal plants, and ultimately all of that is harming Americans even more by increasing electricity costs, by increasing pollution – it’s like Americans are getting hit twice.”
John Ainger, Eric Roston @ Guardian:
Brazil Puts Forward Global Plan to Wean World Off Fossil Fuels
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Teddy Rosenbluth @ NY Times:
She Trusted ChatGPT With Her Medication Decisions. It Cost Her Everything.The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors.
…Over a video call, they saw the friends perform chest compressions. They were still watching when the police wrapped their daughter’s body in a blanket and took her away.
(Teddy Rosenbluth @ NY Times more…)
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Katelyn Jetelina @ Your Local Epidemiologist:
Election stress and your heart, early flu, another CDC leader leaves, and a mom’s hard question about vaccine injuryGideon M-K:
Is Long COVID Less Of A Problem Than We Thought?
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Michael Thomas:
The Third-Largest Data Center in America Is One You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
(Michael Thomas more…)Reyk Knuhtsen, Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros, Dylan Patel @ SemiAnalysis:
SpaceX Will Be The World’s Biggest AI Cloud
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Christopher Flavelle, Irena Hwang, Adam Sella, Alan Blinder, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Benjamin Mueller, Michael C. Bender @ NY Times:
How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research MachineThe system that has driven life-altering discoveries and helped make the United States a superpower is now under intense strain.
(Christopher Flavelle, Irena Hwang, Adam Sella, Alan Blinder, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Benjamin Mueller, Michael C. Bender @ NY Times more…)
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:
Knowledge Is Better Than Ignorance“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
― Isaac Asimov
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Natalie Note @ Democracy Docket:
DOJ election monitors target Democratic strongholds, Black voters
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Michele Hornish:
The Great Owners are Nervous
The January 6Memory Project
ICE Detention Expansion Tracker
A field guide to claims
Last Days in Two Nations
Climate.us
formerly Climate.gov
Climate Solutions Explorer
Have I Been Flocked?
Cleanview Data Center Traker
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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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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