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Dean Blundell: Trump Regime Sends Letter To Canadian Ambassador Demanding Canada Control the Weather In The US
It’s Epstein File Distraction Day! What better way to celebrate than to blame Canada’s forest fires and “arson” for ruining summer for Americans
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CLAIM #1: Canadian Fires Are Caused by Arson
Tiffany and Finstad: “We’ve seen things like arson as another way multiple large wildfires have ignited in Canada.”
Reality Check: According to the Canadian National Fire Database (CNFDB), lightning is responsible for ~50% of Canadian wildfires but causes over 85% of the total area burned. Arson, when it happens, accounts for less than 10%. In 2023, over 93% of the area burned was lightning-caused. That’s not arson. That’s climate-fueled nature punching back.
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CLAIM #2: Poor Forest Management Is to Blame
The letter: “A lack of active forest management” is a key driver.
Reality Check: Canada has one of the most sophisticated wildfire monitoring and response systems in the world, coordinated through the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. Most of Canada’s forests are in remote, boreal regions with little to no human access, let alone active mismanagement. Meanwhile, the U.S. sees 70,000 wildfires annually (Canada, 8,000), often in populated areas and on federal lands that Trump himself underfunded.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 9, 2025
On July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S. Constitution for the fourteenth time, adapting our foundational document to construct a new nation without systematic Black enslavement.
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Thom Hartmann: Is Delusion the Right’s New “Weapon of Mass Destruction”?
Militia attacks on weather radars aren’t just crimes: they’re symptoms of a deeper sickness that rightwing media, foreign trolls, and the GOP are using to devastate our democracy via lies and hate…
In Oklahoma, a domestic militia calling itself “Veterans on Patrol” is systematically targeting weather radars. Their leader, Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, claims the military is controlling the weather through Doppler radar systems and that these machines are part of a divine affront—a “weather weapon” — that is “mocking God Himself.” He’s encouraging his followers to sabotage these radars under an operation he calls “Leaning Tower.” This isn’t just fringe paranoia: it’s part of a growing anti-reality insurgency that threatens our democracy itself.
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Marisa Kabas: Have you seen this man?
In the wake of deadly floods in Texas, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found.
(Marisa Kabas more…)NPR: Kerr County struggled to fund flood warnings. Under Trump, it’s getting even harder
Reuters: As FEMA aids Texas flood victims, Noem urges eliminating US agency ‘as it exists today’
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Ken Klippenstein: Jeffrey Epstein Had 1,000+ Victims
Industrial scale abuse enterprise far larger than previously believed is revealed in new document
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Lucian K. Truscott IV: Trump thought he could control Putin and Musk. They just strung him along.
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David Brooks: Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good?
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So of course many people don’t find Trump morally repellent. He’s just an exaggerated version of the kind of person modern society was designed to create. And Democrats, don’t feel too self-righteous here. If he was on your team, most of you would like him too. You may deny it, but you’re lying to yourself. Few of us escape the moral climate of our age. As MacIntyre himself put it, “The barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament.”
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CNN: He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to
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LiveScience: RFK’s proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn
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Jennifer Rubin: MAGA’s Ugly Budget at Odds with Its Creepy Pronatalism
Republicans’ legislation hurts kids and makes child-rearing more expensive
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Borowitz: Bondi Calls Epstein List as Non-existent as Trump’s Healthcare Plan
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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