INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes.
We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Extreme heat kills more people in the US every year than all other severe weather events combined, and the US is facing another deadly summer.
Meanwhile, Trump has eliminated scores of crucial heat prevention programs.
His agenda isn’t just cruel. It’s deadly.
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Republicans just BLOCKED Sen. Richard Blumenthal's attempt to get Veterans their retirement pay WITHOUT cutting disability benefits. Republicans will write blank checks to the military, then penny pinch when it's time to support our vets.
We’re the bad guys.
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The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.
Good morning with good news: Gas' global market share peaked in 2020 at 23.89%, fell to 21.75% in 2025, and declined for 5 straight years.
Coal peaked in 2007 at 40.84%, falling to 33% in 2025.
What rose?
RE rose from 18% in 2007 to 33.76% in 2025.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky
Texas data centers: brought to you by Republican corruption.
"Another...campus...planned by former Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s company...could need up to 11,000 MW of power — enough to power 2.75M homes...more than the number of households in Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio combined."
#sheshed
Sharp rise in hospital visits will in turn drive up annual healthcare costs for heat-related conditions to over $1bn
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
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A Texas Tribune analysis identified at least 248 planned data center projects. Opponents fear the projects will spike Texans’ electric bills and make the grid less reliable. But industry representativ...
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
Hedy Lamarr, a famous Hollywood actress from the 1940s, was also a remarkable inventor. She co-invented a frequency-hopping system during World War II to prevent enemies from intercepting torpedoes. This invention laid the groundwork for today's Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth technologies. #HedyLamarr
