President Trump orders a reduction in joint military exercises with South Korea, citing its unwillingness to help in the Iran war and his “very good relationship” with Kim Jong Un. / The Associated Press Watch: A documentary on how North Koreans are getting jobs as IT workers at American companies and
ICE plans to equip officers with shock gloves that can incapacitate people, and it’s obvious from the manual that some of those people will be badly injured or worse. / 404 Media At least two Florida sheriff’s offices have purchased Meta glasses, but it’s not entirely clear how
Construction on President Trump’s wall in Texas will bulldoze the site of the Porvenir massacre, “a hundred-year-old crime scene” and a sacred place for the victims’ descendents. / Texas Monthly An interactive overview of plans for how the gaps will be filled in Trump’s border wall. / The
The US oil embargo causes another blackout in Cuba, with people sleeping by the sea for relief from the heat. / Associated Press Unrelated: “The expansion would make Stargate one of the largest fossil fuel power plants in [Texas] ... emitting more annual greenhouse gases than nearly 2 million cars.” / The Texas
ICE claims it’s surveilling social media to protect agents, but the reality is closer to an intimidation campaign against Americans. / The Wall Street Journal [$] See also: ICE collected more than a million people’s DNA last year, many of whom never committed a crime, and those records are going
London has recorded its first month with no significant rainfall since 1871. / London Centric “It kind of undermines a child’s faith in the world.” How wildfire smoke is reshaping childhood. / Inside Climate News “Taylor Farms, the agricultural company widely believed to be behind the cyclospora outbreak currently raging throughout
As the midterms approach, new polling shows two-thirds of US adults are worried politicians will “[pressure] election officials to change election outcomes.” / Gallup See also: “Elon Musk is firing up the vote-buying machine again.” / Gizmodo The Trump administration’s cuts to Medicare Part D, which subsidizes prescriptions for
ICE added new contract terms that “state laws shall not apply” to its detention centers a day after a federal judge ordered a facility be opened to state health inspectors. / WIRED “A larger question is whether the GOP should be explicitly Christianist or, as it did when it embraced the
It can take less than a year to build a new data center, but “building new energy generation to meet that data center's power needs could take a decade.” / 404 Media See also: Data centers are expected to comprise more than 10% of US electricity usage by 2030,
ICE is paying Thomson Reuters data brokers $25 million a year to screen individuals and entities for various offenses and identify those violating US laws. / The Week The US and China are in a race to outdo each other in providing drone support to Everest mountaineers. “The contest has geopolitical
