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NPR: Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
The data the two missions collect is widely used, including by scientists, oil and gas companies and farmers who need detailed information about carbon dioxide and crop health. They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n
It is unclear why the Trump administration seeks to end the missions. The equipment in space is state of the art and is expected to function for many more years, according to scientists who worked on the missions. An official review<\/a> by NASA in 2023 found that “the data are of exceptionally high quality” and recommended continuing the mission for at least three years.<\/p>\nBoth missions, known as the Orbiting Carbon Observatories, measure carbon dioxide and plant growth around the globe. They use identical measurement devices, but one device is attached to a stand-alone satellite while the other is attached to the International Space Station. The standalone satellite would burn up in the atmosphere if NASA pursued plans to terminate the mission.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – August 4, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nPresident Donald J. Trump\u2019s firing of the commissioner of labor statistics on Friday for announcing that job growth has slowed dramatically has drawn a level of attention to Trump\u2019s assault on democracy that other firings have not. Famously, authoritarian governments make up statistics to claim their policies are working well, even when they quite obviously are not.
\n…<\/p>\n
Summers shot down Trump\u2019s claim that the commissioner had rigged the numbers in the jobs report to make him look bad. “These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds of people following detailed procedures that are in manuals,\u201d he said. \u201cThere’s no conceivable way that the head of the [Bureau of Labor Statistics] could have manipulated this number.\u201d
\n…<\/p>\n
Today Trump quietly backed away from his demand for Murdoch\u2019s deposition, and both sides put off discovery\u2014the process of disclosing information and evidence to the other party\u2014at least until after the motion to dismiss has been decided.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Heather Cox Richardson Enters the History of \u2018Lincoln Portrait\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\nCox Richardson, the historian behind the newsletter Letters From an American, discusses preparing for the narrator role in Aaron Copland\u2019s piece.<\/p>\n
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James Eagle: History’s biggest companies vs. Mag 7<\/a><\/h2>\nToday’s tech titans may seem unstoppable, but history suggests otherwise. When you adjust for inflation, the Mississippi Company of 1720 reached $8.4 trillion \u2013 dwarfing Apple’s current $3.2 trillion valuation. This French trading venture, engineered by Scottish gambler John Law, promised untold riches from Louisiana’s gold and silver. Instead, it created history’s first stock market bubble, with shares rocketing from 500 to 10,000 livres in just one year before spectacularly collapsing.<\/p>\n
Law had convinced France to swap its entire national debt for company shares, essentially making the firm too big to fail \u2013 until it did. The Dutch East India Company hit $10.2 trillion in 1637, while Britain’s South Sea Company reached $5.5 trillion before its infamous crash. All three companies enjoyed government-backed monopolies and promised endless growth from colonial ventures.<\/p>\n
Sound familiar? Today’s Magnificent Seven control 30% of the S&P 500’s value, echoing these historical extremes. The lesson? When companies become proxies for national economic policy and their valuations detach from reality, the reckoning can reshape entire civilisations.
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\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\nFortune: Top analyst says the next 5 years could see \u2018no growth in workers at all\u2019 and sends a warning about the fate of the U.S. economy<\/a><\/h2>\nAXIOS: AI talent lottery<\/a><\/h2>\nHoward Yu: What Netflix\u2019s Real Origin Story Teaches Us About Conquering the AI Storm<\/a><\/h2>\nHistory\u2019s real disruptors often hide beneath the user interface. Reed Hastings taught us where untapped data hides.<\/p>\n
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404 Media: Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google<\/a><\/h2>\nA researcher has scraped a much larger dataset of indexed ChatGPT conversations, exposing contracts and intimate conversations.<\/p>\n
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Noah Berlatsky: Pritzker Models Solidarity<\/a><\/h2>\nNo red, no blue; just fighting fascism
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\n\u201cThere are no red states or blue states, just the United States,\u201d President Barak Obama famously declared<\/a>. Since Obama, the US has only become more partisan, and the differences between right and left leaning states only seem more stark. At the same time, though, the ongoing fascist crisis, and Trump\u2019s assault on the Constitution, has made the need for solidarity between people of every state more and more important.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Borowitz: How to Identify Fugitive Democrats<\/a><\/h2>\nBy Texas Governor Greg Abbott
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\nThe following are tips to help you identify Democrats in your midst:<\/p>\n\n- Democrats are often seen carrying tote bags featuring the logos of PBS, NPR, Doctors Without Borders and other subversive organizations.\n
- Democrats can be found in Starbucks, ordering beverages with oat milk, or salads with quinoa. (Note: Democrats are the only people who like quinoa.)\n
- Democrats do not eat cats and dogs, but they do rescue them.\n
- Someone driving a car with a bumper sticker that says RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES could be a Democrat, but it could also be a member of QAnon. If the car stereo is playing Bruce Springsteen, it\u2019s a Democrat.\n<\/ul>\n
If you see someone with any of these identifying characteristics, remember: Democrats are dangerous. Some may be armed with concealed pocket Constitutions.<\/p>\n
To help bring these fugitives to justice, immediately report your sighting to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. He will be standing by at one of his three primary residences.
\n(Borowitz more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Ken Klippenstein: \u201cNFL\u201d Shooting Wasn\u2019t Random<\/a><\/h2>\nAnother manifesto gets censored in a case that needs transparency
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Jennifer Rubin: Who, us? “Not official policy”<\/a><\/h2>\nWords & Phrases We Could Do Without<\/p>\n
On Friday evening, a 9th Circuit panel<\/a> denied the Trump regime\u2019s request for a stay of the district court\u2019s order preventing masked ICE agents from engaging in racial profiling in their Los Angeles raids. The government denied there was any \u201cofficial policy\u201d to stop people without reasonable suspicion. Well, that\u2019s a phrase that now should be met with suspicion.
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TNR: Democrats Have Found Their Message\u2014and Trump Is Freaking Out<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Sarah Jones: CNBC Tries And Fails To Explain Basic Economic Facts to ‘Scared’ Trump<\/a><\/h2>\nA CNBC interviewer tried to explain to the President of the United States how jobs numbers work as Elizabeth Warren calls Trump ‘scared’.<\/p>\n
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Daily Beast: Trump Rewrites History by Putting Up Confederate Statue<\/a><\/h2>\nPRIDE OF PLACE
\nThe bronze likeness of Gen. Albert Pike will be put on a plinth around a mile away from the White House.<\/p>\n
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Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims: Trump supports ethics laws as long as he is exempt<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Mary Geddry: Redactions, Resistance, and the Epstein Firewall<\/a><\/h2>\nHow Allison Gill\u2019s lawsuit could crack open the DOJ\u2019s secret handling of Trump\u2019s ties to Epstein one training video at a time.<\/p>\n
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\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/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
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Both missions, known as the Orbiting Carbon Observatories, measure carbon dioxide and plant growth around the globe. They use identical measurement devices, but one device is attached to a stand-alone satellite while the other is attached to the International Space Station. The standalone satellite would burn up in the atmosphere if NASA pursued plans to terminate the mission. President Donald J. Trump\u2019s firing of the commissioner of labor statistics on Friday for announcing that job growth has slowed dramatically has drawn a level of attention to Trump\u2019s assault on democracy that other firings have not. Famously, authoritarian governments make up statistics to claim their policies are working well, even when they quite obviously are not. Summers shot down Trump\u2019s claim that the commissioner had rigged the numbers in the jobs report to make him look bad. “These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds of people following detailed procedures that are in manuals,\u201d he said. \u201cThere’s no conceivable way that the head of the [Bureau of Labor Statistics] could have manipulated this number.\u201d Today Trump quietly backed away from his demand for Murdoch\u2019s deposition, and both sides put off discovery\u2014the process of disclosing information and evidence to the other party\u2014at least until after the motion to dismiss has been decided. Cox Richardson, the historian behind the newsletter Letters From an American, discusses preparing for the narrator role in Aaron Copland\u2019s piece.<\/p>\n Today’s tech titans may seem unstoppable, but history suggests otherwise. When you adjust for inflation, the Mississippi Company of 1720 reached $8.4 trillion \u2013 dwarfing Apple’s current $3.2 trillion valuation. This French trading venture, engineered by Scottish gambler John Law, promised untold riches from Louisiana’s gold and silver. Instead, it created history’s first stock market bubble, with shares rocketing from 500 to 10,000 livres in just one year before spectacularly collapsing.<\/p>\n Law had convinced France to swap its entire national debt for company shares, essentially making the firm too big to fail \u2013 until it did. The Dutch East India Company hit $10.2 trillion in 1637, while Britain’s South Sea Company reached $5.5 trillion before its infamous crash. All three companies enjoyed government-backed monopolies and promised endless growth from colonial ventures.<\/p>\n Sound familiar? Today’s Magnificent Seven control 30% of the S&P 500’s value, echoing these historical extremes. The lesson? When companies become proxies for national economic policy and their valuations detach from reality, the reckoning can reshape entire civilisations. History\u2019s real disruptors often hide beneath the user interface. Reed Hastings taught us where untapped data hides.<\/p>\n A researcher has scraped a much larger dataset of indexed ChatGPT conversations, exposing contracts and intimate conversations.<\/p>\n No red, no blue; just fighting fascism By Texas Governor Greg Abbott If you see someone with any of these identifying characteristics, remember: Democrats are dangerous. Some may be armed with concealed pocket Constitutions.<\/p>\n To help bring these fugitives to justice, immediately report your sighting to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. He will be standing by at one of his three primary residences. Another manifesto gets censored in a case that needs transparency Words & Phrases We Could Do Without<\/p>\n On Friday evening, a 9th Circuit panel<\/a> denied the Trump regime\u2019s request for a stay of the district court\u2019s order preventing masked ICE agents from engaging in racial profiling in their Los Angeles raids. The government denied there was any \u201cofficial policy\u201d to stop people without reasonable suspicion. Well, that\u2019s a phrase that now should be met with suspicion. A CNBC interviewer tried to explain to the President of the United States how jobs numbers work as Elizabeth Warren calls Trump ‘scared’.<\/p>\n PRIDE OF PLACE How Allison Gill\u2019s lawsuit could crack open the DOJ\u2019s secret handling of Trump\u2019s ties to Epstein one training video at a time.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" curated citations to news sources NPR: Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. 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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – August 4, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n…<\/p>\n
\n…<\/p>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Heather Cox Richardson Enters the History of \u2018Lincoln Portrait\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nJames Eagle: History’s biggest companies vs. Mag 7<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\nFortune: Top analyst says the next 5 years could see \u2018no growth in workers at all\u2019 and sends a warning about the fate of the U.S. economy<\/a><\/h2>\n
AXIOS: AI talent lottery<\/a><\/h2>\n
Howard Yu: What Netflix\u2019s Real Origin Story Teaches Us About Conquering the AI Storm<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n404 Media: Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nNoah Berlatsky: Pritzker Models Solidarity<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n\u201cThere are no red states or blue states, just the United States,\u201d President Barak Obama famously declared<\/a>. Since Obama, the US has only become more partisan, and the differences between right and left leaning states only seem more stark. At the same time, though, the ongoing fascist crisis, and Trump\u2019s assault on the Constitution, has made the need for solidarity between people of every state more and more important.
\n(Noah Berlatsky more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nBorowitz: How to Identify Fugitive Democrats<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nThe following are tips to help you identify Democrats in your midst:<\/p>\n\n
\n(Borowitz more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nKen Klippenstein: \u201cNFL\u201d Shooting Wasn\u2019t Random<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Ken Klippenstein more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nJennifer Rubin: Who, us? “Not official policy”<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nTNR: Democrats Have Found Their Message\u2014and Trump Is Freaking Out<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nSarah Jones: CNBC Tries And Fails To Explain Basic Economic Facts to ‘Scared’ Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nDaily Beast: Trump Rewrites History by Putting Up Confederate Statue<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nThe bronze likeness of Gen. Albert Pike will be put on a plinth around a mile away from the White House.<\/p>\n
\nJudd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims: Trump supports ethics laws as long as he is exempt<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nMary Geddry: Redactions, Resistance, and the Epstein Firewall<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/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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