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Sarah Sax
Wrote about the only consistent principal among SCOTUS conservatives in voting cases is "we should disenfranchise Black voters at every opportunity." Without that single understanding, their actions over just the last few months (let alone years) makes no sense. But with it, it's very clear.
The first-ever Scientific American Summer Reading Challenge is here! 📚☀️
All summer long, we’re reading nonfiction deep dives, page-turning thrillers, and fiction that sparks scientific curiosity. (1/2)
#SciAmReading #SciAmSummerReading
I am among the more than 350 signatories who have put their names to support the “roadmap for eradicating poverty beyond growth”. Read the opinion piece: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center
www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
Some cautiously optimistic news out of Amsterdam on the Et/Greenpeace SLAPP suit www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/c...
Rest In Power
ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate change is also an education emergency.
Devastating account of the intersections of extreme heat+pregnancy+homelessness in Delhi www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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A third of world’s energy needs should come from electricity by 2035, says Turkish minister Murat Kurum, as he sets out priorities priority for this year’s UN climate summit
