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 $25 million a year to screen individuals and entities for various offenses and identify those violating US laws. / The Week The US and China are in a race to outdo each other in providing drone support to Everest mountaineers. “The contest has geopolitical
Oil prices fall after a pause in Donald Trump’s war on Iran. Why the pause? The United States is running out of missiles again. / Semafor, The Week Ukraine and Russia trade strikes on civilian sites associated with supply chains, including a Kyiv arms exhibition and warehouses belonging to Russia’
The United States military completes its 12th straight night of strikes on Iran. / Al-Monitor Surprising no one, President Trump is really upset that his war isn’t over yet. / The Wall Street Journal [$] If the White House decides to bomb Mali, it’ll be the eighth nation Trump has
The CDC is investigating a new cyclospora outbreak, adding to at least three other clusters currently active in the United States. / Yahoo! News Behind the scenes for how Taco Bell has responded to the outbreak. “You have one shot to get it right.” / The Wall Street Journal [$] Even as RFK
Recent days in the US/Israeli war on Iran show a return to Iran’s “counterforce” tactics. / Forever Wars President Trump repeats his threats against Iran’s civilian infrastructure. / NPR Gabe Fleisher: if Trump was running his own operation intent on destroying the Republican Party, what would he be doing
