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<\/a><\/p>\nLloyd Doggett, Michael Shank @ Guardian<\/em>:
\nThe Iran war reminds us: we\u2019ll never be energy-independent with fossil fuels<\/a><\/h2>\nEnergy security comes from using local, renewable resources to power, heat and cool communities, as Ukraine is doing<\/em><\/p>\nDonald Trump\u2019s unjustified war on Iran and the resulting global fuel crisis is a continuing reminder that true energy security and independence will continue to elude us so long as we remain dependent on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
Whether it\u2019s wars over oil and gas resource access or attacks on fossil fuel power plants and energy grids, this reliance on finite resources only worsens a country\u2019s threat profile. News this month of Russia\u2019s deadly attacks<\/a> on Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure, Russian drones swarming<\/a> Ukrainian power stations and Kyiv running out of time<\/a> to prepare for another winter of attacks on its energy grid illustrates this urgency.<\/p>\nNo country will be energy-secure or independent as long as its fuel supply remains finite and fossilized and its power plants and energy grids centralized and fossil fuel-dependent. Those are sitting ducks, targets very vulnerable to attack by adversaries.<\/p>\n
James Eagle: Solar is winning the growth race, but gas is still in it<\/a><\/h2>\nMarisa Kabas: Hating AI is good, actually<\/a><\/h2>\nEmily Biuso, Akshat Rathi, Olivia Rudgard @ Bloomberg: How Cities From Tokyo to Nairobi Are Becoming Flood-Proof<\/a><\/h2>\nThe business of adaptation\u2014investing in climate resilience\u2014is projected to be a $1.3 trillion market<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n
\n\n![\"cotton](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6aca2aac-c5da-4dfd-a322-b01c96bfd1e1_5444x3649.webp\" "\\"cotton")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Deuce Davis: On Cotton…<\/a><\/h2>\n…and the American operating system.<\/em><\/p>\nI\u2019ve been thinking a lot about cotton and about how the commodity that made America rich is also the commodity that explains why America still can\u2019t figure out whether it owes anything to the people who picked it, or to their descendants, or to anyone at all. Cotton is the early structure behind the American economic miracle, and it is explanatory of the American political pathology.<\/p>\n
Tobacco came first. The Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland grew rich on it, and Europe acquired a taste for it, as it had already acquired a taste for sugar and would soon acquire a taste for tea. Rice and indigo built the Lowcountry of South Carolina as sugar built Louisiana. The antebellum South was a portfolio of extractive monocultures long before cotton was the only stock anyone wanted. What turned cotton from one item on the slate into the slate itself was two things: Eli Whitney\u2019s gin, patented in 1793, and the violent clearing of the Mississippi Black Belt that followed Andrew Jackson\u2019s removal policies four decades later. The Louisiana Purchase gets the diplomatic credit, but France didn\u2019t have anyone living on that land to consult, and the United States still had to evict the people who did. The cotton kingdom wasn\u2019t bought from Napoleon. It was taken from the Choctaw and Cherokee, to the Creek and Chickasaw, and then planted by people who had been bought from Virginia.<\/p>\n
The cotton gin is worth dwelling on because it sets a pattern. Whitney\u2019s machine handled seed separation, the original bottleneck. But with that bottleneck cleared, picking became the new bottleneck, and picking required hands. So the technology that, by any reasonable logic, should have made enslaved labor less necessary instead made it more profitable. …
\n(Deuce Davis more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 20, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nMetropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges and former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn sued President Donald J. Trump, acting attorney general Todd Blanche, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent today to block the creation of the fund to pay off those convicted of crimes related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The lawsuit begins: \u201cIn the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century, President Donald J. Trump has created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name.\u201d<\/p>\n
The suit continues: \u201cThe fund\u2026is illegal. No statute authorizes its creation, the settlement on which it is premised is a corrupt sham, and its design violates the Constitution and federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both Hodges and Dunn defended the Capitol and the lawmakers in it on January 6. Hodges was the man in the infamous photograph of the rioters crushing a police officer between metal doors. The officers claim the standing to sue because they have had to live with death threats and harassment since January 6 from MAGA Republicans and the plan to pay off rioters \u201cwill both compensate and empower the very people making those threats. Militias like the Proud Boys will use money from the Fund to arm and equip themselves. The Fund will grant their past acts of violence legal imprimatur. And, most chillingly, the Fund will signal to past and potential future perpetrators of violence against Dunn and Hodges that they need not fear prosecution; to the contrary, they should expect to be rewarded.\u201d
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
\n![\"January](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/January-6.webp\" "\\"January")
<\/p>\nSherrilyn Ifill: Trump’s Insurrectionist Payout Scheme Violates the 14th Amendment<\/a><\/h2>\n\u201cBut neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States\u2026.\u201d – Section 4, 14th Amendment<\/em><\/p>\nGarrett Haake @ NBC<\/em>: Longtime Trump ally Michael Caputo files first known claim for \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Michael Fanone: Trump’s DOJ Just Sued to Make Its Own Lawyers Untouchable<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nRead that again.<\/em> The agency that\u2019s supposed to enforce the law is in court trying to stop other people from enforcing the law on its own employees.<\/p>\nThis happened yesterday. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the number three official at the DOJ, Stanley Woodward, filed a lawsuit against the D.C. Bar \u2014 the body that handles complaints when lawyers in Washington behave unethically. That\u2019s its entire job. A lawyer does something shady, somebody files a complaint, the Bar investigates, and if the lawyer broke the rules they get disciplined. Sometimes suspended. Sometimes disbarred.<\/p>\n
That system has been around forever. Every state has one. It\u2019s how the legal profession polices itself.<\/p>\n
And the Trump DOJ just decided they don\u2019t want to be policed.
\n(Michael Fanone more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Tom Nichols @ Atlantic<\/em>: Why Does Donald Trump Refuse to Defend America?<\/a><\/h2>\nThe president has long articulated a moral equivalence between the country\u2019s interests and those of dictatorships.<\/em><\/p>\nSome of Donald Trump\u2019s favorite world leaders have been scoundrels, bullies, and dictators. He keeps a picture of himself with the Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin on the wall of the White House. He claims to have fallen \u201cin love\u201d with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He publicly supported Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n, who has been chased from power, and Brazil\u2019s Jair Bolsonaro, who is now under house arrest for the next two decades. He just returned from China and gushed about how the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, is a \u201cgreat leader\u201d whom he\u2019s honored to have as \u201ca friend.\u201d
\n(Tom Nichols @ Atlantic<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Farnaz Fassihi, Ronen Bergman @ NY Times: Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran\u2019s Leader<\/a><\/h2>\nTim Bray<\/a>: Declining America<\/a><\/h2>\n
![\"Rep.](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/26562023-29be-4828-ab96-5e410835a8ab_540x484.webp\" "\\"Rep.")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin @ Contrarian<\/em>:
\nRepublicans Might Finally Consider Their Legacy<\/a><\/h2>\nLosing loyalists could use their remaining time in office to do the right thing<\/em>
\n(Jennifer Rubin @ Contrarian<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Carlos Greaves: TACO, NACHO, and More Trump Acronyms<\/a><\/h2>\nFAJITA — Forget About Jurisprudence If Trump’s Around<\/em><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Decoding Fox News: Step Right Up and Get Your Very Own Handshaking Trump Doll!<\/a><\/h2>\nA condensed overview of 22 hours of Fox News for the week ending 5\/17\/26<\/em><\/p>\n
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\n![\"was](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/was-your-flag-pole-damaged.jpg\" "\\"was")
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\nresources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak<\/a><\/h2>\nApocalypse Early Warning System<\/a><\/h2>\nAl Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nICE Accountability Project<\/a><\/h2>\nSergio Mart\u00ednez-Beltr\u00e1n, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR<\/em>: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt<\/a>\n
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano<\/a>\n
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez<\/a>\n
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil<\/a>\n
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam<\/a>
\nApril 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide<\/a><\/p>\n- January 24: Alex Pretti<\/a>\n
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez<\/a>\n
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz<\/a>\n
- January 9: Parady La<\/a>\n
- January 7: Ren\u00e9e Good<\/a>\n
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz<\/a>\n
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres<\/a>\n
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos<\/a>\n
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n
Suffering Under President Obama<\/a><\/h2>\nNACDL Criminal Case Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTexas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\nWalk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nMargaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\nNPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\nAccountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Lloyd Doggett, Michael Shank @ Guardian: The Iran war reminds us: we\u2019ll never be energy-independent with fossil fuels Energy security comes from using local, renewable resources to power, heat and cool communities, as Ukraine is doing Donald Trump\u2019s unjustified war on Iran and the resulting global fuel crisis is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10413"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10448,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413\/revisions\/10448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Donald Trump\u2019s unjustified war on Iran and the resulting global fuel crisis is a continuing reminder that true energy security and independence will continue to elude us so long as we remain dependent on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
Whether it\u2019s wars over oil and gas resource access or attacks on fossil fuel power plants and energy grids, this reliance on finite resources only worsens a country\u2019s threat profile. News this month of Russia\u2019s deadly attacks<\/a> on Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure, Russian drones swarming<\/a> Ukrainian power stations and Kyiv running out of time<\/a> to prepare for another winter of attacks on its energy grid illustrates this urgency.<\/p>\n No country will be energy-secure or independent as long as its fuel supply remains finite and fossilized and its power plants and energy grids centralized and fossil fuel-dependent. Those are sitting ducks, targets very vulnerable to attack by adversaries.<\/p>\n The business of adaptation\u2014investing in climate resilience\u2014is projected to be a $1.3 trillion market<\/em> …and the American operating system.<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about cotton and about how the commodity that made America rich is also the commodity that explains why America still can\u2019t figure out whether it owes anything to the people who picked it, or to their descendants, or to anyone at all. Cotton is the early structure behind the American economic miracle, and it is explanatory of the American political pathology.<\/p>\n Tobacco came first. The Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland grew rich on it, and Europe acquired a taste for it, as it had already acquired a taste for sugar and would soon acquire a taste for tea. Rice and indigo built the Lowcountry of South Carolina as sugar built Louisiana. The antebellum South was a portfolio of extractive monocultures long before cotton was the only stock anyone wanted. What turned cotton from one item on the slate into the slate itself was two things: Eli Whitney\u2019s gin, patented in 1793, and the violent clearing of the Mississippi Black Belt that followed Andrew Jackson\u2019s removal policies four decades later. The Louisiana Purchase gets the diplomatic credit, but France didn\u2019t have anyone living on that land to consult, and the United States still had to evict the people who did. The cotton kingdom wasn\u2019t bought from Napoleon. It was taken from the Choctaw and Cherokee, to the Creek and Chickasaw, and then planted by people who had been bought from Virginia.<\/p>\n The cotton gin is worth dwelling on because it sets a pattern. Whitney\u2019s machine handled seed separation, the original bottleneck. But with that bottleneck cleared, picking became the new bottleneck, and picking required hands. So the technology that, by any reasonable logic, should have made enslaved labor less necessary instead made it more profitable. … Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges and former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn sued President Donald J. Trump, acting attorney general Todd Blanche, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent today to block the creation of the fund to pay off those convicted of crimes related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The lawsuit begins: \u201cIn the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century, President Donald J. Trump has created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name.\u201d<\/p>\n The suit continues: \u201cThe fund\u2026is illegal. No statute authorizes its creation, the settlement on which it is premised is a corrupt sham, and its design violates the Constitution and federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n Both Hodges and Dunn defended the Capitol and the lawmakers in it on January 6. Hodges was the man in the infamous photograph of the rioters crushing a police officer between metal doors. The officers claim the standing to sue because they have had to live with death threats and harassment since January 6 from MAGA Republicans and the plan to pay off rioters \u201cwill both compensate and empower the very people making those threats. Militias like the Proud Boys will use money from the Fund to arm and equip themselves. The Fund will grant their past acts of violence legal imprimatur. And, most chillingly, the Fund will signal to past and potential future perpetrators of violence against Dunn and Hodges that they need not fear prosecution; to the contrary, they should expect to be rewarded.\u201d \u201cBut neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States\u2026.\u201d – Section 4, 14th Amendment<\/em><\/p>\n … This happened yesterday. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the number three official at the DOJ, Stanley Woodward, filed a lawsuit against the D.C. Bar \u2014 the body that handles complaints when lawyers in Washington behave unethically. That\u2019s its entire job. A lawyer does something shady, somebody files a complaint, the Bar investigates, and if the lawyer broke the rules they get disciplined. Sometimes suspended. Sometimes disbarred.<\/p>\n That system has been around forever. Every state has one. It\u2019s how the legal profession polices itself.<\/p>\n And the Trump DOJ just decided they don\u2019t want to be policed. The president has long articulated a moral equivalence between the country\u2019s interests and those of dictatorships.<\/em><\/p>\n Some of Donald Trump\u2019s favorite world leaders have been scoundrels, bullies, and dictators. He keeps a picture of himself with the Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin on the wall of the White House. He claims to have fallen \u201cin love\u201d with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He publicly supported Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n, who has been chased from power, and Brazil\u2019s Jair Bolsonaro, who is now under house arrest for the next two decades. He just returned from China and gushed about how the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, is a \u201cgreat leader\u201d whom he\u2019s honored to have as \u201ca friend.\u201d Losing loyalists could use their remaining time in office to do the right thing<\/em> FAJITA — Forget About Jurisprudence If Trump’s Around<\/em><\/p>\n A condensed overview of 22 hours of Fox News for the week ending 5\/17\/26<\/em><\/p>\n Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" curated news excerpts & citations Lloyd Doggett, Michael Shank @ Guardian: The Iran war reminds us: we\u2019ll never be energy-independent with fossil fuels Energy security comes from using local, renewable resources to power, heat and cool communities, as Ukraine is doing Donald Trump\u2019s unjustified war on Iran and the resulting global fuel crisis is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10413"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10448,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413\/revisions\/10448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}James Eagle: Solar is winning the growth race, but gas is still in it<\/a><\/h2>\n
Marisa Kabas: Hating AI is good, actually<\/a><\/h2>\n
Emily Biuso, Akshat Rathi, Olivia Rudgard @ Bloomberg: How Cities From Tokyo to Nairobi Are Becoming Flood-Proof<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/p>\n
\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\nDeuce Davis: On Cotton…<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Deuce Davis more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 20, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a>
\n<\/p>\nSherrilyn Ifill: Trump’s Insurrectionist Payout Scheme Violates the 14th Amendment<\/a><\/h2>\n
Garrett Haake @ NBC<\/em>: Longtime Trump ally Michael Caputo files first known claim for \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nMichael Fanone: Trump’s DOJ Just Sued to Make Its Own Lawyers Untouchable<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nRead that again.<\/em> The agency that\u2019s supposed to enforce the law is in court trying to stop other people from enforcing the law on its own employees.<\/p>\n
\n(Michael Fanone more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nTom Nichols @ Atlantic<\/em>: Why Does Donald Trump Refuse to Defend America?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Tom Nichols @ Atlantic<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Farnaz Fassihi, Ronen Bergman @ NY Times: Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran\u2019s Leader<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tim Bray<\/a>: Declining America<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nJennifer Rubin @ Contrarian<\/em>:
\nRepublicans Might Finally Consider Their Legacy<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Jennifer Rubin @ Contrarian<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCarlos Greaves: TACO, NACHO, and More Trump Acronyms<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nDecoding Fox News: Step Right Up and Get Your Very Own Handshaking Trump Doll!<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nresources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak<\/a><\/h2>\n
Apocalypse Early Warning System<\/a><\/h2>\n
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ICE Accountability Project<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sergio Mart\u00ednez-Beltr\u00e1n, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR<\/em>: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\nApril 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide<\/a><\/p>\nSuffering Under President Obama<\/a><\/h2>\n
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\n
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\n
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\n
Accountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\n
GriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
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