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In our Weekly Top 5: • Symbiosis steeped in irony @washingtonpost.com • The hidden lives of rocks @atmosmag.bsky.social • Journalism’s facts machine @yalereview.bsky.social • What’s up, sun? @noemamag.com • Puzzling through problems @theamscho.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/07/25/l...

longreads.comThe Top 5 Longreads of the Week - LongreadsSharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Sarah Blaskey, and Matt McClain; Daphne Chouliaraki Milner and Marcia Bjornerud; Susan Choi; Henry Wismayer; and Susannah Pratt.

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25 July 2025

1. “Abandoned by Trump, a Farmer and a Migrant Search for a Better Future” @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social, Sarah Blaskey, Matt McClain "To survive the administration’s cuts and cruelty, a Trump voter and an immigrant needed each other." www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

washingtonpost.comAbandoned by Trump, a farmer and a migrant search for a better futureWith grants canceled and billions of dollars in jeopardy, Trump’s cuts are devastating American farmers and plunging families into uncertainty.

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25 July 2025

2. "Why One Geologist Thinks We Should All Pay More Attention to Rocks" Daphne Chouliaraki Milner, Marcia Bjornerud "Bjornerud’s insights make me think about how we frame time, and how we teach it." atmos.earth/why-one-geol...

atmos.earthWhy One Geologist Thinks We Should All Pay More Attention to Rocks | AtmosProfessor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet—and as a call to protect its future.

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25 July 2025

3. "When Fact-Checking Meant Something" (Susan Choi) "But Choi’s piece is a Trojan horse, a book review with a personal essay hidden within . . . " yalereview.org/article/susa...

yalereview.orgSusan Choi: My Days as a Fact-Checker at The New YorkerSusan Choi reviews Austin Kelley's The Fact Checker —and recalls her own early career as a fact-checker at The New Yorker .

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25 July 2025

4. "The Unseen Fury of Solar Storms" @henrywismayer.bsky.social "He transforms solar physics into urgent, earthbound stakes." www.noemamag.com/the-unseen-f...

noemamag.comThe Unseen Fury Of Solar Storms | NOEMALurking in every space weather forecaster’s mind is the hypothetical big one, a solar storm so huge it could bring our networked, planetary civilization to its knees.

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