Nicole Parsons

Trump says he is 'going to look at' joining Saudi Arabia in the fight against Iran-backed Houthis after deadly airport strike

U.S. military involvement in the fight against the Houthis would stretch resources in the Middle East already committed to fighting Iran, analysts said.

DeSmog

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025

Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.

The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com

Benjamin Netanyahu: 'Only long-term solution for Hormuz crisis is rerouting pipes' | The Jerusalem Post

"Long-term solutions include rerouting energy pipelines westward, across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea and Mediterranean, bypassing Iran's geographic choke point," Netanyahu told Newsmax.

Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.

DeSmog

A Right-Wing Think Tank Is Behind the Controversial Great Barrington Declaration Calling for COVID-19 Herd Immunity

An open letter that emerged earlier this month opposing COVID-19 shutdowns and calling for a “herd immunity” approach to addressing the coronavirus — which already has claimed over 220,000 American lives — is one of the latest examples of how right-wing ideology and think tanks that have long cultivated climate science denial are now engaging in […]

POLITICO

Europe pans ‘disturbing’ Trump map that shows all of North America as US territory

Iceland and Greenland as well as French, British, Spanish and Dutch territories were shown under the U.S. flag.

How the GOP’s Trans Panic Has Shades of Putin’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Playbook

When it comes to trans rights, will Democrats be the willing handmaidens of the hard right?

Cambridge Core

Strategies to prevent Clostridioides difficile infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update | Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge Core

Strategies to prevent Clostridioides difficile infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update - Volume 44 Issue 4

the Guardian

The dirty dozen: meet America’s top climate villains

Few are household names, yet these 12 enablers and profiteers have an unimaginable sway over the fate of humanity

the Guardian

Private jets, parties and eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein's bizarre world of scientists

The billionaire financier and convicted sex offender famously mixed with presidents, models and film stars. But he also indulged his unorthodox beliefs by cultivating top scientists

the Guardian

How Bank of England 'helped Nazis sell gold stolen from Czechs'

Official account of what many believe was British central bank's most shameful episode revealed more than 70 years after event

Is Anthropic's Mythos a cybersecurity breakthrough, or just 'criti-hype'?

Anthropic says Mythos is too dangerous for general release — the AI model can find vulnerabilities in | Anthropic claims its Mythos AI model is too dangerous to release widely — but analysts say telcos should focus on security fundamentals, not the hype.

the Guardian

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

The Nation

Zohran Mamdani Takes on the Gig Economy’s Wage Thieves

New York City is suing a delivery app for stealing workers’ pay—signaling that under Mamdani, gig companies can no longer break the law with impunity.

Salon.com

"Most extreme white supremacists ever": Project 2025 contributors have a history of racism - Salon.com

An analysis from USA Today found that at least five of the manifesto’s contributors have made racist comments

the Guardian

In 1981 a ‘task force’ intimidated voters at the polls. Will Republicans revert to their old tactics?

Donald Trump has threatened to send in poll watchers to monitor voting on 3 November, but is the party capable of such a threat?

Fossil Fuel Industry Donors See Major Returns in Trump’s Policies

The Trump administration’s embrace of the oil and gas industry’s agenda provides another example of how wealthy special interests shape policies.

The American Prospect

Republican Senators Pretend to Constrain Trump - The American Prospect

John Cornyn caves and agrees to vote for Todd Blanche as AG, while Susan Collins orchestrates a loophole-ridden deal on OMB rules politicizing federal grants.

the Guardian

Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality among the elite | Moira Donegan

Epstein paints Trump as someone he knew intimately. But the documents also reveal how many powerful men confided in him

UnHerd

Why is the US government meddling in the Nathan Cofnas affair?

What began as a newsletter about a Cambridge professor has since morphed into an international scandal, with the US ambassador now weighing in. On Friday, US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White posted a statement on X condemning Ghent University for suspending Nathan Cofnas. Cofnas had accused Jason Arday of plagiarising parts of his PhD thesis, [...]Read More...

Straight Arrow

Trump admin ends probe of senator's coal companies accused of violating Clean Water Act

Trump administration officials ended a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice.

Mother Jones

Big Oil is getting sued for heat deaths. It's fighting back with an army of immunity laws.

As lawsuits near trial, oil companies race to win immunity in statehouses and Congress.

Unearthed

Revealed: the Trump donors and oil interests funding ARC

ProPublica

Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies

EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”

The Nerve

From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way

The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffernan

Bessent met with Russian counterpart at G20

The appearance of Russia's finance minister exposed a sharp divide between the U.S. and its European allies.