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November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM

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Surge in antisemitism investigations at US universities after October 7 attacks, data shows bit.ly/3JmCEoc

Text Shot: “In effect, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is no longer being used to address racial discrimination in higher education,” said Aslı Bâli, president of the Middle East Studies Association. “Instead, Title VI has been repurposed as part of the administration’s broader effort to remake higher education in line with its rightwing political and cultural agenda.”

November 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM

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China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
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from The Economist

November 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM

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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? nyti.ms/47JDzXY

Text Shot: The clearest sign that a democracy has died is that a leader and his party make it impossible for their opponents to win an election and hold power. Once that stage is reached, however, the change is extremely difficult to reverse. And aspiring authoritarians use other excesses, like a cowed legislature and judiciary, to lock in their power.

November 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM

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Pentagon Orders National Guard to Establish Quick-Reaction Forces for Civil Unrest, Riots on.wsj.com/4nzMzVc

Text Shot: The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create “quick reaction” forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S., according to internal Defense Department memos.

November 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM

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Future Sea-level Rise Is Certain, but the Amount and Speed Are Uncertain bit.ly/4nBHoEi

Text Shot: A recent study indicates that global warming needs to be stabilized well below 1.5 °C above pre-industrial, to avoid damaging (multimetre) levels of sea-level rise over the next few centuries (Stokes et al. 2025). Paleoclimate archives show in response to 1.5 °C and 2.5 °C of global warming, sea levels rose up to +9 m and +20 m, respectively, occurring over centuries.

November 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM

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Carcinogenic effects of long-term exposure from prenatal life to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides in Sprague-Dawley rats - PubMed bit.ly/3JfzP8l

Text Shot: Conclusions: Glyphosate and GBHs at exposure levels corresponding to the EU ADI and the EU NOAEL caused dose-related increases in incidence of multiple benign and malignant tumors in SD rats of both sexes. Early-life onset and mortality were observed for multiple tumors. These results provide robust evidence supporting IARC's conclusion that there is "sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity [of glyphosate] in experimental animals". Furthermore, our data are consistent with epidemiological evidence on the carcinogenicity of glyphosate and GBHs.

November 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM

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Missouri gives ‘one of the biggest millionaire tax cuts’ this year, report says thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025/1…

Text Shot: Capital gains are profits made from selling assets like stocks and real estate. Eliminating the tax on those profits will overwhelmingly benefit the state’s millionaires, according to a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a left-leaning economic think tank.

According to ITEP’s analysis, more than 66% of the tax savings under the new law will go to the top 1%, or those with incomes averaging $1.9 million or more per year. The average millionaire — defined as a family with more than $1 million in annual income — will save $43,000 annually, more than 529 times the $80 savings for the average non-millionaire.

October 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM

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US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Text Shot: The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons.
The Human Rights Reporting Gateway (HRG) acted as a formal "tip line" to the US government.
It was the only publicly accessible channel of its kind for organisations or individuals to inform it directly of potentially serious abuses by US-armed foreign forces.

October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Organised crime making millions from illegal waste dumping in UK, says committee www.theguardian.com/environment/20…

Text Shot: Members of the public first reported fly-tipping at the site in 2020, but it took until January 2024 for the Environment Agency to obtain a restriction order. By that time, more than 30,000 tonnes of household and construction waste had been dumped there, in mounds up to 4.5 metres (15ft) high.

October 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM

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The world needs topsoil to grow 95% of its food – but it's rapidly disappearing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/m…

Text Shot: half of the most productive soil has disappeared in the world in the last 150 years, threatening crop yields and contributing to nutrient pollution, dead zones and erosion. In the US alone, soil on cropland is eroding 10 times faster than it can be replenished.

If we continue to degrade the soil at the rate we are now, the world could run out of topsoil in about 60 years, according to Maria-Helena Semedo of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Without topsoil, the earth’s ability to filter water, absorb carbon, and feed people plunges

October 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM

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INTERPOL crackdown leads to 83 arrests across six African countries, exposes $260 million in terrorism financing africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyl…

Text Shot: A coordinated INTERPOL-led law enforcement operation targeting terrorism financing and related criminal activities has resulted in 83 arrests across six African countries, including Angola, Cameroon, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, and South Sudan; and identified 160 individuals of interest.

October 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM

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Assad-era plot to hide dead bodies turned Syria desert into mass grave reut.rs/4qwOa0W

Text Shot: More than 160,000 people disappeared into the deposed dictator’s vast security apparatus and are believed to be buried in the dozens of mass graves he created, according to Syrian rights groups. The government has estimated the missing since the Assad family’s rule began in 1970 at up to 300,000

October 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM

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Adelita Grijalva can force a vote on the Epstein files, but she's still not sworn in n.pr/4qxtSo7

Text Shot: Johnson is facing accusations from both sides of the aisle that he's trying to avoid a vote to compel the release of files from the Justice Department's investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

October 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM

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GOP Congressman Calls for the IRS to Be Shuttered and the Constitution to Be Amended Amid Report Trump Is Targeting Left-Wing Groups bit.ly/4nd8QrD

Text Shot: A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.

October 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat https://politi.co/48xw1tk

October 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM

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"The Tony Blair Institute project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an "Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”.

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October 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM

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Appeal Could Make It Easier for Companies to Spread Drilling Fluids on Pennsylvania Roadways - Inside Climate News https://bit.ly/4pSjZkn

Text Shot: Most concerns raised about roadspreading are about the content of the wastewater itself. A 2022 Pennsylvania State University study, conducted for the DEP in a laboratory, found that brine produces runoff with problematic levels of chlorides, sodium and cancer-causing radium

October 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM

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OMG!! This is really happening ?

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September 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM

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How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt European election - BBC investigation https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g5kl0n5d2o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Text Shot: The network, we concluded, is made up of at least 90 TikTok accounts - some masquerading as news outlets - which have posted thousands of videos totalling more than 23 million views and 860,000 likes since January. Moldova's population is just 2.4 million.

September 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM

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Brendan Carr is a dummy

September 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM

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This is the joke that got Jimmy Kimmel fired.

Trumps’s chair of the US media regulator, Brendan Carr, threatened retaliation so he’s gone.

Free speech in America is dead

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