“Dirtbag,” “Savages,” “Subhuman”: A Border Agent’s Hateful Career and the Crime That Finally Ended It
This story was originally published by ProPublica. It was late November 2017, and Matthew Bowen, a veteran Border Patrol agent, was seething. A fellow Border Patrol agent in Texas had just been found dead in the field, and Bowen was certain someone who’d been crossing the border illegally was responsible for murdering him. “Snuffed out…
An Ebola Doctor Explains the Good News and Bad News of the New Treatment Breakthrough
Women wash their hands at an Ebola screening station as they enter the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Rwanda on July 16, 2019 in Goma.John Wessels/AFP/Getty Congo’s health ministry said Friday that the second-largest Ebola outbreak has spread to a third province in the country. The latest cases identified in South Kivu province follow…
Anti-Immigration White Supremacy Has Deep Roots in the Environmental Movement
Theodore Roosevelt stands with naturalist John Muir on Glacier Point, above Yosemite Valley.Bettmann/Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The environmentalist, white nationalist, and influential anti-immigration activist John Tanton died less than three weeks before the El Paso shooting. Tanton lived to see…
2020 Candidate Michael Bennet Wants to Sanction Russia for Its Memes
Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via Zuma Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is making Russian election meddling a new focus of his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. On Wednesday he released Dividing America: How Russia Hacked Social Media and Democracy, a book examining attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election by manipulating social media platforms including…
Let’s Make the Military Into a Trump Reelection Machine!
U.S. Navy/ZUMA Over at the Washington Post, Hugh Hewitt gives Donald Trump some advice about how to win reelection: tell the Navy to build more stuff in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. I’m not joking or exaggerating. Hewitt is very explicit about the whole thing: A focus on Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin need not be limited…
Behold the Return of the Amazing New Zealand “Owl Parrot.” Look at It Dance!
Kākāpō Recovery/New Zealand Government It’s Sunday, and before we begin another long week, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate some good news we discovered after going down a fascinating recent Twitter hole: the kākāpō, the world’s fattest parrot, long on the verge of extinction, is making a glorious comeback. Fluffy and flightless, these…