Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns American Lung Association report comes amid Trump EPA’s expansive rollback of environmental protections

Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns

NEW REPUBLIC: “Where Did Millions in Funding Go?”

$63 MILLION companies paid in *settlements* to Trump appears to have vanished (into his pocket) and @SenWarren wants answers.

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The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Global Electricity Review 2026 | Ember Solar surge halts fossil generation rise as clean power meets all demand growth and renewables overtake coal

Read the full Global Electricity Review 2026 where we wrote about the trends in 2025 with a chapter dedicated to solar + batteries by @kostantsa.bsky.social

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Solar reached 8.7% of global electricity in 2025, but peak output is already significantly higher.

In May, solar met a quarter of global midday demand and well over 50% for some countries.

The good news: batteries are now cheap and are scaling fast to shift this output!

Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.

Pennsylvania's appellate court confirmed that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution.

This decision is a win for all Pennsylvanians.

The government shouldn't be making your healthcare decisions - you should.
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A Palestinian School Day Ended With Israeli Settlers’ Gunfire. A Boy Was Killed, Just as His Father Was 7 Years Ago Zeteo speaks to witnesses after Israeli settlers kill a 14-year-old Palestinian boy and a 32-year-old man in an attack on a boys school in the occupied West Bank.

"A Palestinian School Day Ended With Israeli Settlers’ Gunfire. A Boy Was Killed, Just as His Father Was 7 Years Ago"

Zeteo speaks to witnesses after Israeli settlers kill a 14-year-old Palestinian boy and a 32-year-old man in an attack on a boys school in the occupied West Bank.

Philip Bump: How recent is America's past? Things that Americans think of as having long ago were, in fact, within the lifespans of most of us.

The thing about Palantir’s cultural chauvinism is also the thing about the anti-woke rejection of the effects of explicit racism. In each case, the victors often cheated — and not even a lifetime ago.
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"America has made great strides since 1960 and certainly since 1964. Racism does not manifest as it once did. Now is in fact preferable to then. But to pretend that now is unaffected by then, to act as though where we are is independent of the path we took to get here, is naive."

We have to stay focused on what is in front of us.

We must win the midterms. But we must also have a vision for when we are in power to address childcare, housing, and health care and make life more affordable.

Sweet home, Alabama... where science is restricted. 🫠 silencingscience.org/actions/alab...

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Virginia Dems just won a major battle in Trump's redistricting war Voters don't like gerrymandering. But they seem to hate Trump even more.

Dems have fought GOP to a draw so far in Trump’s redistricting war. The central part of Trump’s plan to rig midterms falling apart after new maps approved by voters in VA & CA. They didn’t count on Dems fighting back www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump and Republicans have tried to rig the 2026 midterms. Today in Virginia, voters sent them a clear message: The power is with the people.

The victory in Virginia tonight reminds us that the people will defend democracy.

Virginians who care about fairness didn’t just win an election – they have stopped Trump’s attempt to steal the 2026 midterms.

A message to the White House: We will fight everywhere. And win.

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

Never too late

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

Two things can be true:

Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and

Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

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This sums the situation up perfectly i think bsky.app/profile/name...

THANK YOU

U.S. border protection officer charged with assault after southern Colorado ICE protest A federal agent is facing assault and criminal mischief charges in southern Colorado after he pushed a woman to the ground and took her phone during a protest outside a Durango ICE facility in October...

Really important to hold them responsible for their violent criminal actions

So in the short term, you fight fire with fire in order to win. And then, once you win, you implement fair rules across the board. Because democratic fair play is more important than policy wins, so long as everyone is committed to democratic fair play.

A Republican dark money group blankets Virginia with deceptive mailers ahead of redistricting vote Ads targeting Black voters compare Virginia's redistricting referendum to Jim Crow.

In spite of: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump LOSES again. The YES vote has won in Virginia, allowing Democrats to redraw congressional maps. In a huge FAFO story, this was all started by the corrupt, serial lying psychopath trying to rig the 2026 midterm elections by demanding red states gerrymander their districts.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Gunman who fired on tourists at Mexican pyramid carried materials related to 1999 Columbine massacre

Gunman who fired on tourists at Mexican pyramid carried materials related to 1999 Columbine massacre

Southwest Minnesota board says no to proposed $4 billion data center complex The CEO of Geronimo Power says the company is looking at alternative options in other communities.

The fate of a proposed $4 billion data center complex in Minnesota is in question after a county board voted against changing zoning to allow its construction.

Worldwide flu outbreak killed 45,000 American Soldiers during World War I In September 1918 there were two killers in the world. World War I, which would claim 20 million lives by its end, and the flu pandemic known as the Spanish Flu, is estimated to have killed between at...

~53,000 military personnel died in combat in WW1. ~45,000 other soldiers died from the flu. #PeteHegseth may be ignorant of history, careless about the lives of those in uniform, but the army remembers. www.army.mil/article/2104...