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Techno-Science: ⚠️ A robot, missing for 9 months, resurfaces with an alarming message
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The discovery is more alarming for the Denman Glacier. The profiler clearly identified the presence of a layer of warmer water circulating beneath its floating part. This water is already causing melting at the base. Scientists believe the configuration is precarious: a slight increase in the thickness of this warm water layer could significantly accelerate the disintegration process, committing the glacier to a potentially irreversible retreat.
The stakes are high. The Denman Glacier alone contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by about 5 feet (1.5 meters) if it were to melt completely. Combined with the Totten Glacier, whose potential is estimated at 11.5 feet (3.5 meters), these two giants of East Antarctica represent a major long-term threat. Their confirmed vulnerability to warm ocean water requires integrating these new parameters into sea level rise forecast models.
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NY Times: Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
Chinese panels are now so affordable that businesses and families are snapping them up, slashing their bills and challenging utilities.
(NY Times more…)Skander Garroum: Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past
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Al Jazeera: How many countries has Trump bombed in 2025?
This week, United States President Donald Trump confirmed that the US had struck a docking facility in Venezuela, marking the first military action on the South American country’s land since it began targeting Venezuelan shipping in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific in September 2025.
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Daily Kos: Whoops! Trump’s attorney general caught accidentally praising Biden
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NY Times: Ukraine Did Not Target Putin’s Home, C.I.A. Finds
The assessment rebutted a claim that the Russian leader made to President Trump in a phone call this week.
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Rook T. Winchester: 200+ concentration camps
There are more than 200 concentration camps operating in the United States in 2025.
Not as metaphor. Not as shock language. Not hyperbole. As a matter of historical definition, legal structure, and what is happening right now to real people whose names people don’t bother to learn.
Historians define concentration camps as sites of mass civilian detention without trial, based on group identity. That definition predates Nazi Germany. It has been applied to Spanish reconcentración camps in Cuba, British camps during the Boer War, early Nazi camps in the 1930s, Japanese American internment, and the Soviet Gulag system. Extermination is not the threshold. It is what sometimes follows, after the machinery is normalized and the public learns how to look away.By that definition, the United States qualifies.
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Paul Krugman: Immigrant Derangement Syndrome
Blaming brown-skinned people for everything bad
Americans suffered a litany of horrors thanks to the Trump administration during 2025 – refusal to disburse emergency aid, soaring measles cases, collapsing small businesses, vindictive prosecutions, wanton destruction of the federal government, and (soon) soaring health insurance premiums. But few incidents were more shocking than the two-month siege of Chicago, in which America’s third-largest city was terrorized by a gang of violent, sadistic thugs.
The gang members in question were, of course, agents of the Trump administration, mainly although not all from ICE — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. …
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Joyce Vance: Unsealed: Abrego Garcia
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Karen Attiah: Snakes and Bushes: How to Build a Resistance School (Part 1)
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Brian Allen: What Jack Smith Said Under Oath And What the Deposition Actually Establishes
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Rebecca Solnit: People (Still) Have (Some of) the Power: Looking Forward to 2026
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Atlantic: The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work
Artificial intelligence is destroying the career ladder for aspiring artists.
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