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Democracy Now!
- Democracy Now! 2025-08-20 Wednesday
Headlines for August 20, 2025; Occupied D.C.? Six GOP States Send National Guard to Washington as Outcry Grows over Trump Power Grab; For-Profit Presidency: New Yorker Mag Reveals Trump Family’s Frenzy to Cash In on the White House; “Unprecedented and Not Normal”: ACLU Sues over Legal Black Hole at “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE Jail
Ensia
- Journalists, meet climate change
The headlines scream about war, crime, political strife, economic woes. But underlying it all — and more and more often bubbling to the top — is what future historians will likely look back and call the story of this century: Climate change. Recognizing the importance of this pervasive phenomenon, Covering Climate Now, Columbia Journalism Review, the Solutions Journalism Network, The Guardian […]
Aeon
- Border conversations
On call with the volunteers offering humanitarian aid to thousands of migrants from the Global South trying to enter into Europe - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Quanta Magazine
- The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable
A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push life’s limits of time and energy. The post The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Sludge
- Fossil Fuel Lobby Derails UN Plastics Treaty
Global talks to curb plastic pollution collapsed last week after industry lobbying and opposition from a handful of petrostates.
WhoWhatWhy
- FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address
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Grist
- Struggling to get in your daily steps? It may be your city’s fault.
Can urban design actually motivate people to walk more? New data says yes.
- Clearing debris after a storm is big business. For some communities, it’s also a burden.
How the necessary work of cleaning up can make an even bigger mess.
- After the Texas floods, when is the right time to ask what went wrong?
The rare window to ask tough questions opens after a disaster. Too often, it closes before accurate answers can emerge.
The Conversation
- Pediatricians’ association recommends COVID-19 vaccines for toddlers and some older children, breaking with CDC guidance
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, evidence continues to support the COVID-19 vaccine’s use in young and higher-risk children and adolescents.
- Colorado’s subalpine wetlands may be producing a toxic form of mercury – that’s a concern for downstream water supplies
Subalpine wetlands in the Rocky Mountains are warming, creating the perfect conditions for producing methylmercury, a potent neurotoxin.
- AI has passed the aesthetic Turing Test − and it’s changing our relationship with art
If a machine creates a video or a song that brings a person to tears, does it matter that the machine felt nothing?
- Most air cleaning devices have not been tested on people − and little is known about their potential harms, new study finds
Manufacturers often make bold claims about how well these technologies work. Better testing would allow consumers and institutions to pick the most effective ones.
- The Orwellian echoes in Trump’s push for ‘Americanism’ at the Smithsonian
Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history, including at one of the nation’s key sites of public history-making: the Smithsonian. George Orwell would recognize Trump’s impulse.
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