Archives & History — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

In our most recent update, Archives & History has the latest on five lawsuits against the administration. Thanks to our case tags, you can create a filtered view to see just the entries specific to a single case, like this: unbreaking.org/issues/archi...

America’s allies, stung by soaring energy costs due to Washington’s attacks on Iran, are confronting an uncomfortable truth:

The escape route from fossil fuel shocks leads straight into China’s arms.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/how-...

Maybe he meant La Follette-Wheeler? I’d mostly be ok returning to that!

Palantir tech bros saying we shouldn’t be afraid to judge cultures that “have proven middling, & worse, regressive and harmful.” I’m game. How many demerits does a subculture get if it has to rely on rapacious extractivism that threatens extinction of life on Earth in the blink of a geological eye?

Indiana Republicans Aligned With Hungary's Orbán Face a Reality Check Indiana Republicans aligned with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán face a political reckoning after Hungary’s decisive election result.

Sadly, the idea of new quarry jobs is the least probable of these three. I’m sure there IS some Sellersburg diner where our Orban-loving, election-denying whack job Secretary of State Diego Morales is fanboying Dreher over a tenderloin the size of his head. pro.stateaffairs.com/in/columns/v...

With Trump Novices, Can the U.S. Win the ‘Art Olympics’?

The commissioner, who recently owned a pet food store, has no museum experience. The curator left the art world after an exhibit that was criticized for being racially insensitive. The artist? He’s actually based in Mexico.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/a...

Hard to tell if Alma Allen is as big a grifter as Parido or just deeply clueless? I’m reminded of Budd Schulberg’s famous account of arresting Leni Riefenstahl: "She gave me the usual song and dance. She said, 'Of course, you know, I'm really so misunderstood. I'm not political'.”

Sam Stein on Twitter: “here we go again. Trump's leverage point once more is the aching terror inside most rational human beings that he may not be bluffing THIS time around.”

The President of the United States started his Sunday by threatening the people of Iran with more war crimes.

Trump is deeply unwell and Congress must reassert its power to end the regime’s illegal war. Demand that your elected officials act with urgency: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

The simple truth is that there are few solutions open to Venice at 2° of global warming. Venice could be a global icon of the urgent need to decarbonize but their addiction to carbon-intensive tourism halts them. A tragic irony.

“You won’t have a lagoon. You won’t have a city.”

Thank you Pacific colleagues for keeping it real.

“Declare the 1.5°C threshold as non-negotiable, recognising the…scientific evidence that the survival of our Pacific peoples—our genealogies, our spiritual and cultural identity—depends on maintaining global heating below 1.5°C”

#climateheritage

Genocide: Conditions of life calculated to bring about its destruction. "Lemkin understood conditions of life to include not only the infrastructure that enables biological existence but social and cultural continuity too: religious buildings, schools, libraries, heritage sites" An exceptional read:

Anti-EACOP activists face sentencing after over eight months in remand - EnviroNews - latest environment news, climate change, renewable energy The Buganda Road court in Kampala, Uganda, will on Friday, April 17, 2026, sentence eight anti-EACOP activists after convicting them on a nuisance on road charge last week. The activists, some of…

"These eight activists should be free, and the banks and fossil fuel interests benefiting from this climate of fear must be named and held accountable,” said Kumi Naidoo, President of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

A Diné Perspective on Chaco Canyon Organizer Cheyenne Antonio shares what it means to protect Chaco's land, language, and community ties in the present day.

"I wonder, 'Why do they want to drill here?' They could just leave it alone. We need a diversity of economic opportunities for the people, other than just exploiting the land, because of the connection that we have to it." www.newmexicomagazine.org/blog/post/vo...

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Don’t forget the Houstons, Sam and Whitney

We're Making Housing Harder to Preserve Than It Should Be — Shelterforce To maintain older housing stock, addressing deterioration before it is severe offers big payoffs, preserving both homes and affordability.​​

“What has yet to be developed is operational guidance that moves across the housing programs, lenders, retrofit administrators, and contractors to shape everyday repair decisions.”

shelterforce.org/2026/03/31/w...

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Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"

TELEVISION; Shedding Light on Evil Men and a Sinister Time (Published 1989)

Feeding my fantasy of replating The Indianapolis Times (1888–1965), my hometown's daily known for courageous, progressive journalism, winning a 1928 Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Ku Klux Klan's influence in Indiana. So epic, they made a movie about it. www.nytimes.com/1989/11/05/a...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES, Plaintiff, Civil Case No. 25-4316 (RJL) V. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, et al., Defendants. ) ) MEMORANDUM OPINION April 16 * 2026 [Dkt. #65, 71] On March 31, 2026, I granted the motion of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States ("National Trust') for a preliminary injunction to halt construction of a ballroom on White House grounds as ultra vires. In recognition of the national security and presidential security concerns raised by the ongoing construction project, I excluded from the scope of the injunction "actions strictly necessary to ensure the safety and security of the White House and its grounds, including the ballroom construction site, and provide for the personal safety of the President and his staff." Defendants now seek to turn this exception on its head and unreasonably insist that the entire ballroom project may proceed. Based on the record before me, I cannot possibly agree, but I will clarify the scope of the injunction as described below.

NEW: Judge Leon reaffirms his order blocking ballroom construction.

"Defendants now seek to tum this exception on its head and unreasonably insist that the entire ballroom project may proceed. Based on the record before me, I cannot possibly agree ...."

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Geoff Mulgan April 14th, 2026 The myth of STEM only growth holds back the UK

‘Why did the USSR, with its fantastic scientists and engineers and heavy investment in STEM, nevertheless stagnate?’
Excoriating from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social on the undervaluing of social science and humanities research
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

The solution to the problem of higher and rising gasoline prices and falling oil and gas supply is not increased U.S. production, it is to end the war and implement policies that support energy efficiency, including the use of alternatives to fossil fuels in energy, transportation, fertilizers, etc.

Votes like this remind us all that, because of the R-dominated math in the Senate, Congress cares little for our country's iconic heritage & most special places. It cares only whether the mining and extraction oligarch bosses keep pillaging the environment for profit & power.

An Taisce commends local authorities on current regeneration efforts for towns & villages and recommends extending tax relief to allow reuse of privately-held heritage buildings. Principal challenge facing Ireland's architectural heritage is dereliction.

www.antaisce.org/submission-t...
#Heritage

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime

www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

On top of loss of life, Eyal Weizman writes powerfully ⬇️ on how the Caterpillar D9 bulldozer is Israel’s tool of choice in laying waste to Gaza’s human environment & cultural heritage. Shame on Sens @schumer.senate.gov & Kristen Gillibrand for enabling these war crimes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra is being refreshingly blunt: there is “no workaround” for Europe’s energy price crisis.

Hoekstra’s message? The only way out is through: more electrification, more solar, more wind, more storage, more grid interconnection — and all of it faster.

Senator Martin Heinrich speaking in front of a display of farmworker movement leaders

We appreciate Senator Heinrich’s leadership on the Senate floor.

Abolishment is not the answer.

We need to learn from our history, rather than erasing it. We encourage the renaming of monuments to bring healing and understanding.

@heinrich.senate.gov