curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Jocelyn Timperley @ BBC:
‘It’s offensively cheap’: How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear
After defying projections, solar’s dramatic growth means it is now overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar’s success, and where it might go from here.
- An underestimated force
- ‘Offensively cheap’
- Global uptake
- Unreliable fossil fuels
- Battery revolution
- Electrify everything
- Expanding tech
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James Eagle:
Big Tech has spent $1.6 trillion on capex in three years
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Decoding Fox News:
Trump’s CBS 60 Minutes Interview: What Aired and What Was Cut – 11/8/26In the broadcast version of this interview entire sections were moved around to help condense the longer interview.
For the purpose of this transcript I simply indicate what was included and what was cut from the broadcast version. The interview was heavily edited.
It appears that CBS may have purposefully removed some of Trump’s exaggerations and fabrications involving the U.S. economy, immigration, and his false claims about the 2020 election.
In other cases the network clipped Trump’s excessively long answers. His rambling and incoherent responses are sometimes reduced to a quick soundbite.
(Decoding Fox News more…)Broad Daylight News:
Trump on 60 Minutes: What He Said and What the Record ShowsHafiz Rashid @ TNR:
Trump Crumbles Trying to Defend How Much Money He’s Made as PresidentDonald Trump couldn’t explain why he hadn’t divested of his businesses, among other things.
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Luke Broadwater, Zolan Kanno-Youngs @ NY Times:
President Trump, who initially said he would accept the midterm results, renewed his unsubstantiated claims that voting was manipulated.Jason Easley:
While Donald Trump was blaming voting machines for the Republican midterm election loss, his vice president JD Vance was admitting that his party lost.
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Andy Borowitz:
Stephen Miller Doesn’t Want You to Read This…
According to ARLnow, a site covering local news in Arlington and Falls Church, Virginia, Miller freaked out after peaceful protesters wrote a series of messages in chalk on the pavement outside his Arlington home, including “Stephen Miller is destroying democracy,” “stop the kidnapping,” we [love] immigrants,” “hate has no home in Arlington,” “no white nationalism,” and “trans rights are human rights.”Miller called the messages “terroristic threats,” and, in an act of extreme chalkophobia, put his house up for sale.
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Claire Trickler-McNulty:
What Can the New Congress Do to Constrain ICE?The short version on what Congress can do in the next two years:
- Conduct oversight. Hearings, subpoenas, depositions, and transcribed interviews with agency officials and contractors can put how this money is being spent under a microscope. Officials and executives would have to explain their decisions under oath, and that alone could discourage misconduct. Companies signing deals now should expect to answer for them.
- Write the funding bills. Congress can attach restrictions to any appropriations bills it passes, setting rules for how all of ICE’s money is spent, though those restrictions would still have to survive a veto.
- Use confirmations. The Senate can also press commitments from nominees to lead DHS and ICE about how the money will be spent.
- Show what the money could do instead. Even bills that get vetoed can show voters what Democrats would do with these billions of dollars, such as fund healthcare, education, or legal access.
- Work beyond Congress. Communities have blocked or scaled back several ICE warehouse projects, but states, localities, and investors lose much of their leverage once facilities pass into federal hands.
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Michael Wriston, Em Chapin, Mia Barragán @ Project Salt Box:
ICE environmental assessment finds 1,500-bed Surprise detention center would cause ‘no significant’ environmental harmGardaWorld, the company hired to convert and run the site, prepared the assessment. Before opening, the facility would owe the city about $8.9 million for a new well, added water and sewer treatment.
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Rook T. Winchester:
EIGHT YEARS OLD. THIRD GRADE. FEDERAL CUSTODY.
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Vincent D’Onofrio:
You Should Be Filling Yourself Up With Art
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Hans Christensen:
Reindeer Migration Crosses Open Water
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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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- September 18: Carlos Josue Marchena Marchena
- August 31: Pierre Damas Bel
- August 1: Edwin Lopez-Cornejo
- July 19: Jose Chajon-Raxon
- July 14: Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran
- July 13: Joan Sebastian Guerrero
- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
- June 4: Mamuka Artmeladze
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
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- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
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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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