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After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson. buff.ly/v8VwPYu

A novel approach to curb big money in political spending heads to the ballot. buff.ly/gQJ72wl

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

We should study data-center heat, but we can also use it. In Finland, waste heat from data centers is captured and fed into district-heating systems to warm homes and businesses. One major project is expected to supply about 40% of local heating demand. Instead of dumping the heat, use it.

Amid a record-breaking year of Western bear conflict, the historically tolerant Red Lodge community is grappling with opposing views on how to live with the species — and if a ‘fed bear’ really should be a ‘dead bear.’ buff.ly/wfv6lgy

Unless we stop the destruction of public education across the US through voucher scams and charter schools, the descent of the country will only accelerate. Oklahoma must allow taxpayer-funded religious charter school, judge rules | Reuters share.google/JBaNB7iB18Ut...

A federal court ruled that Oklahoma cannot prevent a Jewish charter school from operating in the state, paving the way for the nation’s first taxpayer-funded religious charter school. The school had previously been blocked from operating in Oklahoma.

Josh Johnson isn't sure Mitch McConnell’s return to the Senate dispelled the “secretly dead” rumors

Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵

New reporting from my colleagues: Ectopic-related deaths in abortion banned states are increasing. One expert said deaths from ectopic pregnancies should “really be a never event.” www.propublica.org/article/ecto...

YETI co-founder is helping Trump destroy Big Bend. www.kut.org/news/2026-06...

Incarcerated for Life in Trump’s War on the Left Autumn Hill had already gone home when a protest outside an ICE facility in Texas turned violent. She was still sentenced to 50 years in prison, over twice as long as any Jan. 6 defendant. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

The thing is, doing sports like Norway (focused on fun, companionship, team spirit) rather than the US (focused on intensity, suffering, competition, which individual is "best") isn't just healthier & more pro-social, it produces *better athletes*.

AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

41C in the UK? In 2015 the IPCC warned world leaders not to breach 1.5C as it would unleash “frequent & severe droughts, heatwaves & rainfall.” We’re now on track for 2C in years, 3C in decades & 4C in our children’s lifetimes. The most spectacular failure of leadership in history.

Suraj has a point.

"In 1992 New York tried to create a review board for NYPD officers accused of misconduct Thousands of off duty cops responded by smashing car windows, chanting racial slurs, breaking barricades outside of city hall, attacking journalists, pedestrians, and blocking traffic across the Brooklyn Bridge"

Dear user interface designers: if you rejigger things so that the option I click 20 times a day is in a new place and clicking in the old place does something I don’t want to happen, please know that I hate you

NEW: U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, who previously ran a company that provides aircraft for fighting wildfires, has proposed ending Forest Service inspections of those aircraft. One of the company’s aircraft failed an inspection because of a crack in its wing.

2026: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 2003: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1991: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1982: I am struggling in a

We've reached the point where just selling you a thing and not a subscription to a thing is an act of rebellion.

1/ You might assume that investigative journalists are cynics. In reality, we’re optimists. We immerse ourselves in the details of harm and abuses of power because we believe that once people know the truth, they will demand better. And they do.

Responding to a question about credit card delinquency with "well, the credit card company CEOs are fine with that" is... honestly a perfect distillation of this administration's economic policy.

Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

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Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Programming still sucks. « AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. » #resistIAgen

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

What a f*cking waste of lives and money. 😠