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<\/a><\/p>\nPaul Krugman:
\nthe cost of climate change is getting serious<\/a><\/h2>\nLast Friday extreme heat forced early closure<\/a> of Donald Trump\u2019s Great American State Fair. Fortunately, the fair was sparsely attended. … Even so, 44 people received health assistance and 11 were taken to hospitals due to the heat.<\/p>\n… the disruption of Trump\u2019s festivities is a harbinger of many disruptions to come. The brutal heat wave in the northeastern US \u2014 an event that would have been \u201cvirtually impossible<\/a>\u201d without climate change \u2014 followed an even more brutal heat wave in Europe.<\/p>\nThese disasters represent the leading edge of serious damage \u2014 social, human, and economic \u2014 from a warming planet.<\/p>\n
Projections of future climate change are often expressed in terms of averages: By 2050 average global temperatures are expected to be above pre-industrial levels by around 2.5\u00b0 C<\/a> \u2014 4 \u00bd degrees Fahrenheit, while sea levels will be 10 inches higher.
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\n(Paul Krugman more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\n![\"Russia\u2019s](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Putin.webp\" "\\"Russia\u2019s")
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Jay Kuo:
\nUkraine\u2019s latest campaign against Russian oil facilities has begun to affect the harvest.<\/a><\/h2>\nOn July 6, Ukrainian drones struck Russia\u2019s largest oil refinery<\/a>, in the Siberian city of Omsk, some 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine. Until that night, the Omsk facility was one of only two of the country\u2019s top ten refineries Ukraine had not yet hit. Ukraine\u2019s General Staff called it<\/a> the last of the country\u2019s 11 largest gasoline producers to fall.<\/p>\nThe same week, Ukrainian drone units struck 21 vessels<\/a> near occupied Crimea, including 19 sanctioned tankers from Russia\u2019s shadow fleet hauling gasoline to the peninsula.<\/p>\nThe effect of Ukraine\u2019s escalated attacks on Russia\u2019s oil infrastructure is already visible. Gas lines<\/a> and fuel rationing have spread across nearly all of Russia\u2019s 83 regions. Yet shortages at the pump are only the beginning. The fuel crunch is now moving into Russia\u2019s farm fields, where the harvest is underway, and from there to Russian dinner tables.
\n(Jay Kuo more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Heather Delaney Reese: Trump invented 15 million beheadings, and no one around him blinked<\/a><\/h2>\n
![\"newswatchers\"](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newswatchers.webp\" "\\"newswatchers\\"")
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Mitch Jackson:
\nYou Are Being Told What to Care About<\/a><\/h2>\nSomebody decided what you would think about this week. It worked, and most Americans never noticed.<\/em>
\n(Mitch Jackson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 9, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nToday marks the anniversary of a dramatic reworking of the U.S. constitutional order.<\/p>\n
On July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S. Constitution for the fourteenth time, adapting our foundational document to construct a new nation that brought the principles of the Declaration of Independence to life. They required the federal government to protect the equal rights of all American men.<\/p>\n
In 1865 the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution had prohibited slavery on the basis of race, but it did not prevent the establishment of a system in which Black Americans continued to be unequal. …
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Julie DiCaro:
\nThe men who defended Platner against all comers dominate left-wing media<\/a><\/h2>\nI really don\u2019t want to write, yet again, about Graham Platner and all the ways he\u2019s revealed himself to be problematic, starting with an inexplicably forgiven Nazi tattoo and ending with the inevitable sexual<\/a> assault allegations. And yet, the conversation, once again, dominated political discourse yesterday, so I feel compelled to keep talking about it. …<\/p>\nAnd yet, if women don\u2019t keep screaming about the rape culture we tread water in every day, the stories go ignored. Most of the fawning profiles of Platner came from big-ish media outlets, and most of the criticism and gesturing at multiple red flags came from women writing independent newsletters or blogs. That\u2019s a problem.
\n(Julie DiCaro more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJennifer Rubin: Which Democrats are getting it right<\/a><\/h2>\n
![\"An](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-rotated-e1783454142783.webp\" "\\"An")
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A.D. Chilcote, C. Frances @ Intercept<\/em>:
\nFBI Raided Texas Activist\u2019s House \u2014 Then Offered Her $200,000 to Become Antifa Informant<\/a><\/h2>\nFederal agents asked about links between the woman and the Prairieland case \u2014 suggesting a sprawling conspiracy that fits with Trump\u2019s attacks on antifa.
\n(A.D. Chilcote, C. Frances @ Intercept<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce Vance: DOJ: Not Doing Justice<\/a><\/h2>\nNo one is safe<\/em><\/p>\n
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Elad Nehorai: You Can’t Have a Moderate Democracy<\/a><\/h2>\n
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James Eagle: US under-40 households cannot keep up with home prices<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n![\"(un)affordable](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/unaffordable-housing.webp\" "\\"(un)affordable")
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\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMarlon Weems: Fed Discovers \u201cAverage American\u201d Is No Longer an Economic Category<\/a><\/h2>\nThom Hartmann: What Happens When Trump Voters Realize They Want the Same Thing Progressives are Working For?<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Tyler Pager, Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Eric Lipton @ NY Times<\/em>: Security Precaution Led Trump to Use Old Air Force One in Leaving Turkey<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Secret Service is said to have asked that the president not use the Qatari-donated jet when he left Ankara. The swap deepens questions about the retrofitting of the new plane.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Rebecca Crosby, Noel Sims: RFK Jr., Scientology, and the war on antidepressants<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Decoding Fox News: A condensed overview of 25 hours of Fox News for the week ending 7\/5\/26<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n![\"Woody](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Woody-Guthrie-and-the-Ghost-of-Tom-Joad-Today.jpg\" "\\"Woody")
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\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nBrockovich AI Data Center Reporting<\/a><\/h2>\nresources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak<\/a><\/h2>\nApocalypse Early Warning System<\/a><\/h2>\nAl Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nMike Ludwig @ truthout<\/em>: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That\u2019s an Undercount.<\/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- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo<\/a>\n
- June 4: Mamuka Artmeladze<\/a>\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 … trying to ‘unbury the lede’ Paul Krugman: the cost of climate change is getting serious Last Friday extreme heat forced early closure of Donald Trump\u2019s Great American State Fair. Fortunately, the fair was sparsely attended. … Even so, 44 people received health assistance and 11 were taken to hospitals […]<\/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-11138","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\/11138","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=11138"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11187,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions\/11187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
… the disruption of Trump\u2019s festivities is a harbinger of many disruptions to come. The brutal heat wave in the northeastern US \u2014 an event that would have been \u201cvirtually impossible<\/a>\u201d without climate change \u2014 followed an even more brutal heat wave in Europe.<\/p>\n These disasters represent the leading edge of serious damage \u2014 social, human, and economic \u2014 from a warming planet.<\/p>\n Projections of future climate change are often expressed in terms of averages: By 2050 average global temperatures are expected to be above pre-industrial levels by around 2.5\u00b0 C<\/a> \u2014 4 \u00bd degrees Fahrenheit, while sea levels will be 10 inches higher. On July 6, Ukrainian drones struck Russia\u2019s largest oil refinery<\/a>, in the Siberian city of Omsk, some 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine. Until that night, the Omsk facility was one of only two of the country\u2019s top ten refineries Ukraine had not yet hit. Ukraine\u2019s General Staff called it<\/a> the last of the country\u2019s 11 largest gasoline producers to fall.<\/p>\n The same week, Ukrainian drone units struck 21 vessels<\/a> near occupied Crimea, including 19 sanctioned tankers from Russia\u2019s shadow fleet hauling gasoline to the peninsula.<\/p>\n The effect of Ukraine\u2019s escalated attacks on Russia\u2019s oil infrastructure is already visible. Gas lines<\/a> and fuel rationing have spread across nearly all of Russia\u2019s 83 regions. Yet shortages at the pump are only the beginning. The fuel crunch is now moving into Russia\u2019s farm fields, where the harvest is underway, and from there to Russian dinner tables. Somebody decided what you would think about this week. It worked, and most Americans never noticed.<\/em> Today marks the anniversary of a dramatic reworking of the U.S. constitutional order.<\/p>\n On July 9, 1868, Americans changed the U.S. Constitution for the fourteenth time, adapting our foundational document to construct a new nation that brought the principles of the Declaration of Independence to life. They required the federal government to protect the equal rights of all American men.<\/p>\n In 1865 the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution had prohibited slavery on the basis of race, but it did not prevent the establishment of a system in which Black Americans continued to be unequal. … I really don\u2019t want to write, yet again, about Graham Platner and all the ways he\u2019s revealed himself to be problematic, starting with an inexplicably forgiven Nazi tattoo and ending with the inevitable sexual<\/a> assault allegations. And yet, the conversation, once again, dominated political discourse yesterday, so I feel compelled to keep talking about it. …<\/p>\n And yet, if women don\u2019t keep screaming about the rape culture we tread water in every day, the stories go ignored. Most of the fawning profiles of Platner came from big-ish media outlets, and most of the criticism and gesturing at multiple red flags came from women writing independent newsletters or blogs. That\u2019s a problem. Federal agents asked about links between the woman and the Prairieland case \u2014 suggesting a sprawling conspiracy that fits with Trump\u2019s attacks on antifa. No one is safe<\/em><\/p>\n The Secret Service is said to have asked that the president not use the Qatari-donated jet when he left Ankara. The swap deepens questions about the retrofitting of the new plane.<\/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 … trying to ‘unbury the lede’ Paul Krugman: the cost of climate change is getting serious Last Friday extreme heat forced early closure of Donald Trump\u2019s Great American State Fair. 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\n(Paul Krugman more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\nJay Kuo:
\nUkraine\u2019s latest campaign against Russian oil facilities has begun to affect the harvest.<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Jay Kuo more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nHeather Delaney Reese: Trump invented 15 million beheadings, and no one around him blinked<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nMitch Jackson:
\nYou Are Being Told What to Care About<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Mitch Jackson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – July 9, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nJulie DiCaro:
\nThe men who defended Platner against all comers dominate left-wing media<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Julie DiCaro more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJennifer Rubin: Which Democrats are getting it right<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nA.D. Chilcote, C. Frances @ Intercept<\/em>:
\nFBI Raided Texas Activist\u2019s House \u2014 Then Offered Her $200,000 to Become Antifa Informant<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(A.D. Chilcote, C. Frances @ Intercept<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce Vance: DOJ: Not Doing Justice<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nElad Nehorai: You Can’t Have a Moderate Democracy<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nJames Eagle: US under-40 households cannot keep up with home prices<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center>
\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMarlon Weems: Fed Discovers \u201cAverage American\u201d Is No Longer an Economic Category<\/a><\/h2>\n
Thom Hartmann: What Happens When Trump Voters Realize They Want the Same Thing Progressives are Working For?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nTyler Pager, Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Eric Lipton @ NY Times<\/em>: Security Precaution Led Trump to Use Old Air Force One in Leaving Turkey<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nRebecca Crosby, Noel Sims: RFK Jr., Scientology, and the war on antidepressants<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nDecoding Fox News: A condensed overview of 25 hours of Fox News for the week ending 7\/5\/26<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nBrockovich AI Data Center Reporting<\/a><\/h2>\n
resources 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
Mike Ludwig @ truthout<\/em>: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That\u2019s an Undercount.<\/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
\n