And read @brittanytrang.com's great reporting on Medicare's AI plans here: www.statnews.com/2025/11/06/m...

Austin reapplied for two years. He lost his car. He had to beg strangers for diapers.

AI and related technologies are already influencing basic decisions for almost all 92 million low-income Americans.

Read more about the problems that's already causing: www.levernews.com/rage-against...

Robert Austin was living in a car with his baby daughter in El Paso. He applied for food stamps, Medicaid, and temporary aid—and was repeatedly denied.

He eventually learned Texas was using an automated verification system developed by Deloitte that had known errors.

Read the full story at National Geographic, thanks to editor extraordinaire @bresnick.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

It's a warning sign of how climate is affecting global waterways. Across the north “brownification” of water is slowing growth, fueling toxic algae blooms, and disrupting ecosystems. “What we can’t see matters as much as those bright orange rivers,” says geochemist Jean-François Boily.

Thawing permafrost is exposing bedrock, beginning a destructive process that releases sulfuric acid and oxidizes iron into a toxic cocktail remarkably similar to acid rock drainage. And “there’s simply nothing that can be done, other than fix climate change,” a biogeochemist told me.

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The Gwich’in name for the region translates to “the sacred place where life begins.” It’s where the Porcupine caribou herd gather to bear their young — a place central to the Gwich’in way of life, now caught in a costly bid to keep oil flowing. Read more @grist.org:

grist.org/politics/tru...

Officials said these new leases are proof “Alaska is open for business.” But so far, the only one buying is... Alaska.

One analysis found half of the state development corporation's investments have been worthless. The state would have had about $11 billion more if invested elsewhere.

I would add to this that as newscycle pressure and quick hits have become the norm, many editors no longer understand how much longer investigative reporting takes, much less compensate it.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

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