RIP Jane Goodall, Updates on NSPM-7, Boat Strikes, and College Loyalty Tests
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RIP Jane Goodall, Updates on NSPM-7, Boat Strikes, and College Loyalty Tests

More on the administration’s new authoritarian measures including NSPM-7, which enables domestic terror designations and financial surveillance of nonprofits, churches, and unions. The White House is also using vague "designated terrorist organization" labels to justify lethal Caribbean drone strikes on civilians while pressuring elite universities to sign ideological loyalty compacts for federal funding access. Meanwhile, Morocco's Gen Z protests highlight global youth movements demanding accountability, as declining media trust and Pentagon crackdowns on whistleblowers threaten democratic transparency.

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The fattest bear, AI slop, and some quick government shutdown guides
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The fattest bear, AI slop, and some quick government shutdown guides

Updates on Google blocking AI searches on Trump and dementia, SAG-AFTRA condemning an AI “actress,” data centers raising electricity bills, shutdown impacts, polls on Trump and the Supreme Court, tariffs, EV credits, and GB clean-power records. Built for progressive communicators tracking risks, potential actions, and further reading across tech, courts, immigration, and energy.

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The list of words the Trump administration is afraid of grows, and inside the Alaska pipeline fight
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The list of words the Trump administration is afraid of grows, and inside the Alaska pipeline fight

The Trump administration is: ending the ODNI “Global Trends” report, pushing an antifa “terrorist” narrative with troop deployment to Portland, and advancing Project 2025–style agency overhauls. Climate coverage splits: WSJ highlights Christiana Figueres’ claim that cheap clean energy now outcompetes fossil fuels, Columbia’s CGEP recaps Climate Week priorities ahead of COP30, and Rolling Stone spotlights the fight over Trump’s Alaska LNG pipeline. Culture and politics rounds include pressure on the Smithsonian’s exhibits, op-eds urging the Supreme Court to rein in climate lawsuits, and shutdown warnings.

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Drunk bats, reanimated dodos, & further Orbanification of America
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Drunk bats, reanimated dodos, & further Orbanification of America

Trump’s new “midterm convention,” Kamala Harris picking Pete Buttigieg as VP, Susan Collins clashing with Chuck Schumer on funding, and ICE’s push for hundreds of new offices. Stephen Miller’s quota-linked raids on Korean workers, South Korea’s diplomatic response, and age-verification battles for adult sites in the UK. Canada’s record heat wave tied to climate change, Exxon’s CEO criticizing EU ESG rules, and rebuttals to fossil fuel “tax fairness” messaging. OpenAI’s research into deceptive AI, Elon Musk’s Grok claims about rewriting Wikipedia, Reddit’s labeling bug, humanoid robots in healthcare, and startups using AI to revive Whitney Houston and even the dodo bird, and more.

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