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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

Journalism Fail: This implies there is a donut shop aflame in Portland, Oregon right now but the photo is
1) Not Portland
2) Not 2025

It's a 33 YEAR OLD FILE PHOTO. You have to open the story & read the fine print to find out it's Los Angeles in 1992.

Come on @cnn.com. Do better.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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taber @kvetch.gay · 5d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Anisha Steephen @asteephen.bsky.social · 6d

(1/3) Trump promised cheaper energy. But today his DOE is pulling $8B from projects that would lower costs and strengthen the grid, just as AI data center demand soars. That chills investment, slows construction, and leaves families & small businesses facing higher power bills and weaker reliability

White House cancels nearly $8B in clean energy projects in blue states

The Trump administration has announced the cancellation of $7.6 billion in funding for clean energy projects across 16 states.

www.pbs.org

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D @wildfirediva.bsky.social · 12d

GAO: Forest Service upgrades to wildfire communications and tracking imperiled by Trump’s workforce downsizing www.govexec.com/oversight/20... via @GovExec

GAO: Forest Service upgrades to wildfire communications and tracking imperiled by Trump’s workforce downsizing

The U.S. Forest Service neither agreed nor disagreed with a recommendation to develop a strategic plan for upgrading systems to track wildfire fighting resources, instead taking issue with the title o...

www.govexec.com

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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 7d

You can read it here: www.levernews.com/taking-the-c... You can also hear directly the daughter trying to hold oil companies accountable after record-breaking floods in France killed her mother - and my own 2021 heat dome experience - in this companion podcast: www.levernews.com/when-will-th...

Taking The Climate Killers To Court

As deaths mount from extreme heat and other climate disasters, legal and scientific experts are joining forces on a bold new tactic: Charging polluters with homicide.

www.levernews.com

Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 7d

Thrilled to have my reporting on how fossil fuel companies are starting to be tried for murder in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing "Notables." It's wonderful to be included with writers I’ve looked up to for years, and still learn from all the time!

Coming soon! The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025

Discover the 2025 Best American Science & Nature Writing anthology, curated by Susan Orlean and featuring exceptional science writing that explores the wonders of our natural world.

jaimealyse.beehiiv.com

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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 7d

Your electric car needs graphite. Do you know where it comes from? This story explores how the push for climate solutions is colliding with Indigenous rights, as a proposed mine in Alaska advances without tribal consultation. grist.org/indigenous/i...

In Alaska, a graphite mine races toward approval without the required tribal consent

A project in Alaska is being fast-tracked in a process that has not yet included legally required consultations with Inupiaq communities.

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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 8d

That speed raises red flags, and reduces public input. It could set precedent for Indigenous rights and federal oversight across the American West. As one tribal leader summed up his concerns: “After the fact doesn’t count.”

Read more @grist.org : grist.org/indigenous/i...

In Alaska, a graphite mine races toward approval without the required tribal consent

A project in Alaska is being fast-tracked in a process that has not yet included legally required consultations with Inupiaq communities.

grist.org

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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 8d

A massive Alaskan graphite mine is being fast-tracked—even though federally required tribal consultations haven’t been held with local Inupiaq communities. The acceleration is tied to Trump-era moves to streamline federal permitting. Some environmental reviews could be done in as little as 30 days.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 10d

According to Oregon, Trump got the idea that Portland is on fire because Fox News illustrated a September 5 story on protests of ICE with video from the George Floyd riots in 2020.

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

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 13d

NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

www.wired.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18d

And note that the lede reporter on the Homan scoop ended her 25-year career at the Washpost just last month, decamping to NBC News.

Will Lewis, the Post’s CEO, had urged people to leave if they didn’t “feel aligned” w/ the company’s “significant reinvention journey”

www.thewrap.com/carol-leonni...

Carol Leonnig Exits Washington Post After 25 Years, Joins MSNBC as Senior Investigative Correspondent

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is one of several who is leaving the Jeff Bezos-owned paper after buyouts.

www.thewrap.com

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Shannon Bond @shannonbond.bsky.social · 20d

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.

www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 20d

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi.

This is *not* normal.

I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 20d

I find this extremely chilling:
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 20d

Genuinely never cease to be amazed at the bad media decisions.

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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 23d

Despite these unprecedented climate threats, Republicans just voted to permanently repeal Alaska’s land management plans — which ironically throws the region’s oil and mining leases into uncertainty. grist.org/politics/rep...

Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections

Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 23d

Do you like hiking on public lands? You’re going to want to know what Congress is voting on this week👇

Grist @grist.org · 23d

Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections.

Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.

grist.org/politics/rep...

#Republicans #Democrats #Politics #Alaska

Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections

Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.

grist.org

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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 23d

It has serious consequences for Alaskan food security. Karma Ulvi, chief of the Native Village of Eagle, said the repeal threatens the ability of tribes to have a meaningful voice in managing the lands they rely on. Read more @grist: grist.org/politics/rep...

Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections

Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.

grist.org

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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 23d

It ignores a decade of public process for the purpose of development. “We are in uncharted territory here,” Representative Sarah Elfreth, a Democrat from Maryland. Experts called it a dangerous expansion of the CRA and other federal agencies could face challenges to long-standing regulations.

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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 23d

Congress passed the Congressional Review Act (CRA) in 1996 to let lawmakers overturn recent federal regulations/regulatory “rules.” For the first time, the House just voted to overturn the federal management plan for 13 million acres in Alaska—an area four times the size of New York—permanently.

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Lois Parshley @loisparshley.bsky.social · 23d

Remember the public lands giveaway fight this spring? It’s quietly happening again. Republicans are using the Congressional Review Act to permanently undo federal land management plans—overturning public process and opening millions of acres to drilling & mining.

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 26d

The Trump administration is asking a court to kill drinking water limits on four types of PFAS.

They are part of the Biden-era rule that set the EPA's first enforceable limits on PFAS in drinking water.

Trump admin asks court to kill 4 PFAS drinking water limits

The prior administration failed to follow a procedural step in the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA attorneys said in a new filing.

www.eenews.net

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