New York Times gift articles

Yes, this is like the Soviet Union. It also means that official numbers showing anything not really bad are now completely untrustworthy.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25539121

An appellate panel upheld a finding that federal agents appeared to rely exclusively on race and other factors, such as speaking Spanish, in making arrests.

The 12 Democrats accused the Trump administration of violating the law when it turned them away from immigrant detention sites and imposed a new policy limiting congressional access.

For context, the US EPA is busy dismantling the endangerment finding from 2009 which provides the legal basis for regulation of greenhouse gas emissions

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25465313

And the bribe was only $1 billion

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25417758

New tallies of the administration’s tax breaks and other incentives add up to tens of billions of dollars of benefits to the fossil fuel industry.

Sites including at least 15 coal plants sought exemptions from environmental rules using a new Trump administration system to fast-track requests, documents show.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25403505

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva issued a fierce rejection of President Trump’s demands for Brazil, but said he was ready for dialogue.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25423466

NISAR, built jointly by NASA and India’s space agency and launched on Wednesday, will use radar to monitor tiny changes across our planet’s land and icy regions.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25362533

A complaint said Judge James E. Boasberg, who has clashed with the Trump administration over deportation plans, made “improper public comments” about President Trump in a closed-door judicial conference.

The European Union pledged to buy billions of dollars’ worth of energy resources from the United States. Experts say that’s unrealistic and could hurt Europe’s climate goals.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25307978

After a five-year drought and decades of mismanagement, Tehran is at risk of running out of water in several weeks, the government warned.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25335122

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a splash in 2021 with her “Tax the Rich” dress. Then the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation.

The worst hit they can come up with is she paid too little for a "tax the rich" dress

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25146255

A joint statement promised new efforts to cut emissions at a time when China is positioning itself as the world’s one-stop shop for clean energy technologies.

Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, who was held in a prison in El Salvador, filed a claim Thursday against Homeland Security, accusing it of wrongful detention.