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Old man shouting at the clouds.
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Location: Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
Date: December 23

During a protest by VHP-Bajrang Dal against the killing of Dipu Chandra Das in Bangladesh, members raised the slogan “tel lagago dabur ka, naam mita do babur ka” (Apply Dabur’s oil, erase Babur’s name).
December 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Your 'doom quote' for today:

"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society would choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing."

www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-not...
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer-updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irrep…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Rand Paul: "We've never in our past decided just to shoot smugglers who are unarmed without even proof they're smuggling anything. So I think this is a horrendous thing that should stop. I think it's illegal & immoral... the kids in the military - I'm not for sending them down there to die for oil"
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Skagit County has issued a GO NOW evacuation order for all residents in the 100-year flood plain. Find out if your home is affected: www.skagitcounty.net/Maps/iMap/?m...
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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The Environmental Protection Agency has altered and removed information from its web site that connected climate change to the burning of fossil fuels.
https://cnn.it/3YofNw4
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The association said that its members had in recent days faced intimidation, including direct threats and “vicious online campaigns aimed at silencing their perspectives” for expressing their professional assessment of a film.

Read more: scroll.in/latest/10892...

#Dhurandhar
December 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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REMINDER: SR 203 and SR 202 both have full road closures in the Carnation/Fall City area. Check your route before you go!
Real-time travel map: wsdot.com/Travel/Real-...
December 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Pollution been an issue for so long in New Delhi that the city’s famous Red Fort is turning black, an outward sign of a growing health and political crisis that’s now bringing angry residents onto the streets. https://cnn.it/4oiebPc
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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When Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old from Texas, asked doctors about terminating her high-risk pregnancy to save her life, they assured her she had nothing to worry about.

Then she died of preeclampsia.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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India’s #E20 policy forces millions of vehicles to use petrol they weren’t built for, increases water use for sugarcane, diverts foodgrain to distilleries & expands executive control without Parliamentary review, writes Nilotpal Datta

article-14.com/post/india-s...
India’s Quiet Rollout Of A New ‘Clean’ Fuel Bypasses The Law, Hobbles Vehicles, Impacts Environment & Food Supply
India’s hasty switch to E20 petrol—fuel with 20% ethanol—five years ahead of schedule was hailed as an environmental milestone, but it came through government orders, not law. The policy forces millio...
article-14.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Today on Scroll:

newsletter.scroll.in/post/1392321...

-‘It was like a ball of fire’: An eyewitness recalls Delhi explosion

-Anand Teltumbde: The Opposition’s Bihar delusion and the illusion of democracy

-Why Prashant Kishor might end up hurting the BJP in Bihar

More⤵️
Daily Brief: ‘It was like a ball of fire’: An eyewitness recalls Delhi explosion, and more
The Daily Brief is free. But it takes money, labour and time to produce the journalism you see here. Do consider signing up as a Scroll member if you haven’t already.
newsletter.scroll.in
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Stubble burning contributes just about 3% to Delhi’s PM 2.5 levels throughout the year, but dominates headlines and policies.

While the transport sector that contributes between 18% & 40% of the city’s PM 2.5 levels, seldom gets the focus it needs to tackle #airpollution.

Vaishnavi Rathore reports
Delhi’s failure to act against the biggest source of its air pollution – vehicles
The transport sector contributes the most to the national capital’s toxic air but is consistently overlooked when it comes to policy discussions and actions.
scroll.in
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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SEATTLE!!!

We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Schumer was as ready for this moment as Merrick Garland was to be Attorney General - not at all. And it's going to cost all of us, and set us back for years to come. Shameful leadership by Schumer. Just shameful.
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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You are about to see harrowing footage of a father in Fitchburg, MA being brutalized by masked ICE agents while holding his terrified, crying baby.

The Trump admin and every ICE agent who terrorizes our communities must be held to account for their inhumane, illegal actions.
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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WARNING: The violence and cruelty is hard to watch, but impossible for families to endure.
 
This is a sickening example of Trump and ICE's blatant disregard for humanity as they terrorize our families and communities.
 
It is shameful, cruel, and it must end.
November 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”

A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Large scale election fraud is happening in India and most of the media is asleep.

www.youtube.com/live/kh0RwKE...
LIVE: Special press briefing by Shri Rahul Gandhi | Vote Chori - The H Files | AICC HQ, New Delhi.
YouTube video by Indian National Congress
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Sujata Ghadke was wheeled into an operation theatre at a Pune hospital to remove a benign tumour. The surgery was successful. Yet in a few days, she died.

So what went wrong?

Scroll investigates what hospitals are not telling you about killer bugs in their wards.

Watch:
What hospitals are not telling you about killer bugs in their wards
YouTube video by Scroll.in
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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#ICYMI: A State Department inspector general report says U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson dismissed an embassy contractor at Salvadoran President Bukele’s request.

The contractor had talked to a journalist about a suspected government pact with the MS-13 gang.

(Published Sept.)
The Trump-Appointed Diplomat Accused of Shielding El Salvador’s President From Law Enforcement
A previously undisclosed State Department report and interviews reveal accusations that U.S. Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson shielded Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforc...
www.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
October 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM