Nitrate is quietly polluting rural drinking wells. How researchers are working to help Across the central U.S., nitrate from crop fertilizer and livestock facilities is seeping into water underground. Many family wells are no longer safe to drink from without pricey treatment.

www.kcur.org/environment-...

‘We wasted a lot of lives’: CIA spymaster’s caution over past Iran intervention resurfaces from beyond the grave A documentary about Peter Sichel – the ‘Jewish James Bond’, whose wine portfolio boasted Blue Nun – includes striking mea culpas about the cost and efficacy of US involvement in the Middle East

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Negative power prices reach all-time high on the Iberian Peninsula in Q1 Spain and Portugal recorded a surge in negative electricity prices in Q1, driven by strong solar generation and relatively low demand on the Iberian Peninsula. Further records are likely in 2026 as so...

www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/20/n...

With no end in sight to their deployment, National Guard troops roam Washington Eight months after President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the nation’s capital and called up the National Guard, more than 2,500 troops remain.

Those National Guard troops are still wandering around DC.

apnews.com/article/nati...

Rep. Nancy Mace introduces measure to expel fellow Republican Cory Mills from Congress Mills, who is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee in connection with allegations including sexual and financial misconduct, has denied wrongdoing.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines MAE HONG SON, Thailand — Saw Si Paw Rak Salween guns the wooden fishing boat’s engine and steers along the river that inspired his family name. He is ethnic Karen — his parents migrated from Myanmar’s...

Mining poisons Asian rivers

Environment

news.mongabay.com/2026/04/asia...

Community-scale solar offers $6.5 billion in savings, bypassing California gridlocks Localized distribution-level projects can cut out-of-state energy imports by 13% while providing a faster alternative to delayed transmission-scale infrastructure, said a report by Pathfinder Communic...

www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/20/c...

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

(Published 2021)

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Trump Hemmorhaging Support Among Critical Groups YouTube video by Raw News And Politics

Trump Hemmorhaging Support Among Critical Groups
youtu.be/MavOaskTpb8?...

Mercedes Benz

No and no.

A Trump economic adviser today said the economy is in the “Golden Age” of Trump. WTF is wrong with these people?

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

- Harry Truman

As Trump proves often, the reverse of this is also true.

It’s amazing how much you can fuck things up when the only thing you care about is getting the credit.

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

United States Iran War Updates - April 20, 2026 YouTube video by Raw News And Politics

United States Iran War Updates - April 20, 2026
youtu.be/4AXoOYAAqvY

RFK Jr.'s "Re-Parenting" Brain Worm Strikes Again He floated stealing Black kids from their families. Then lied about saying it. Then Terri Sewell read him his own quote.

"RFK Jr.'s 'Re-Parenting' Brain Worm Strikes Again" www.blueamp.co/p/rfk-jr-rea... I unloaded on his latest dipshittery & racism

"There are bad ideas, worse ones seemingly produced by that monster truck filled with congealed-month-old-cheese-whiz Trump calls an IQ, and then there’s RFK Jr. ... 1

Go See "Steal This Story, Please" #democracynow #amygoodman #journalism #documentary #progressivism YouTube video by UNFTR Media

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This war, kidnapping Maduro, bailing out the ME for our war & paying wind and solar projects to stop production sure seems cheaper than just investing in renewables.

Only the cheapest energy for us!

Dems Score More Wins, GOP Operatives Start To Publicly Panic YouTube video by Raw News And Politics

Dems Score More Wins, GOP Operatives Start To Publicly Panic
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Climate groups sue US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company’s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

✨ #Fiction… or #fact⁉️😏📚✨

#BlueSky🦋 #BookSky📚
#Skybrarians💳 #USPol🇺🇸
#TrumpLibrary💸

Trump Considers Bailing Out His Family’s Major Business Partner The Trump administration seems open to giving a massive lifeline to the UAE—which the country says it may need thanks to the war in Iran.

The Trump administration is considering a bailout for the United Arab Emirates over economic losses sustained as a result of the U.S. war with Iran.

newrepublic.com/post/209273/...

Seems to me like Trump is desperately begging Iran to sign a replica of the Obama JCPOA he tore up. All for the low low price of thousands dead, global instability, high energy prices, and a toll on ships through the once-free strait of Hormuz.

Cuba confirms meeting with US officials on island, wants energy blockade lifted Cuba’s government is confirming that it recently met with U.S. officials on the island. Tensions remain high over the U.S. energy blockade. Senior U.S.

Trump's goons are sizing up Cuba.

apnews.com/article/cuba...

IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first Solar led global energy growth in 2025 as electricity demand surged, driven by EVs and data centers, the IEA says.

electrek.co/2026/04/19/i...

‘Hormuz moment’ could herald decline of US dominance: analysts Drawing comparisons with UK’s watershed ‘Suez moment’ in 1950s, report says US now ‘wedged’ in strait and searching for a way out.

Comparing the situation to the “Suez moment” in the 1950s – when Britain lost control of the Suez Canal along with its global superpower status – Citic Securities analysts wrote on Saturday that a similarly consequential “Hormuz moment” could be a watershed for America’s global supremacy.

Small businesses like Chesapeake Coffee Roasters face complicated tariff refund process YouTube video by WUSA9

Small businesses face complicated tariff refund process (by design, naturally.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Zq...

Chart showing 2026 as the lowest ever snow water equivalent for Colorado.

Record low snow water equivalent in Colorado.

Climate Apocalypse

Trump’s scandal-ridden Labor Secretary resigns after misconduct allegations Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned in the wake of allegations of misconduct in office, marking the third high-profile departure from the president’s administration within ...

Trump’s scandal-ridden Labor Secretary resigns after reports of drinking and misconduct