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The public should be camping out in front of the Nat’l Park White House to stop this ⛺️

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

NEW: Internal National Park Service records obtained by MeidasTouch’s Scott MacFarlane reveal more than $400 MILLION has been steered toward Trump’s White House and D.C. projects, while funding for major national parks is being slashed.

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The Trump admin just changed the definition of "harm" to animals under the Endangered Species Act, in what environmentalists called the biggest erosion of protections for wildlife in 50 years. @nytimes.com gift link to the story w/ @catrineinhorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

nytimes.comTrump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.

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BP not only funded the research behind the influential “Wedges” climate science paper, but company execs even tried to revise versions of it. “Chaps, I have had a go at rewriting the paper,” a BP climate adviser wrote the researchers at one point.

propublica.orgHow BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global PolicyBP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

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Pioneering photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White was born #OTD in 1904. * 1st American female war #photojournalist * 1st staff photographer at Fortune magazine * 1st female photojournalist at LIFE & its first-ever cover photo was hers Pic: 61st floor of the Chrysler Building, NYC #photography

#IDme and its founders #BlakeHall & #MatthewThompson Today, for 12 hrs yur spinning wheel said 1 hour wait time. Same on Friday. The best is the "make-an-appointment" option that has u click dates that are all unavailable. My 99-year-old grandmother will be dead before you help her. Yur truly evil.

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ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)

propublica.org“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.

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A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

apnews.comWorms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention centerWhen ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.

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"The Ice Memory Foundation ensures that future generations of researchers will be able to study past climate conditions using technologies that may not yet exist" — Prof Carlo Barbante, Ca' Foscari University of Venice ▶️ www.cbc.ca/news/science...

cbc.caNew sanctuary preserves ice cores from melting glaciers | CBC NewsScientists on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth's atmosphere in an Antarctic vault for future generations to study as global ...

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NEW: Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

propublica.orgWe Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off BreathingCivilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

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MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: At least four leaders of a Justice Department unit that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the Trump administration's handling of the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer, according to three people briefed on the departures.

ms.nowA new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shootingAt least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

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A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

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This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

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Donald Trump is now reposting videos on Truth Social suggesting that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had Melissa Hortman assassinated. This is objectively evil, and calling it out should not be political.

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Three quarters of gulper shark species are threatened with extinction, targeted for liver oil, which is particularly rich in a chemical compound known as squalene that's commonly used in cosmetics. But new international trade protections could provide hope for the species. https://cnn.it/48qkvOB

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In a sea of renewable energy technology, wave power hasn’t yet made a splash. Reporter Jes Burns shares the latest on a massive wave energy testing site in Oregon, and an ocean engineer explains what’s going on with the tech elsewhere.

buff.lyWhy Hasn’t Wave Energy Gotten Its Sea Legs Yet?It’s hard to convert energy from the ocean into electricity, thanks to a tough regulatory environment and, well, the ocean.

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A lot of people get into law enforcement because they are emotionally incontinent and it’s a great opportunity to piss over everyone, violence-and-threatswise

Daniel Connerton@lordnad.bsky.social

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

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Breaking news: The Trump administration announced it is moving forward with a controversial land deal to allow for the construction of a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a pristine stretch of coastal wildlands in southwest Alaska.

wapo.stTrump administration will allow controversial road through Alaskan refugeInterior Secretary Doug Burgum also announced the reopening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development.