California’s Huge Wildfires Will Likely Have “Serious Health Effects” All Over the West
Mark McKenna/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As climate change helps push up the number of wildfires in the western US, communities face losing lives and properties to the flames. But another threat also looms…
Hot Weather Strains the Grid. Here’s How We Could Fix That.
Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Electricity crackled and arced between wires as Los Angeles residents watched, filming with their phones. And then the power died. As temperatures have soared this summer,…
Trump’s Tweets Don’t Really Mean Anything
This is even better than the orginal G7 picture that made the rounds in August. Check out Shinzo Abe. This is an all-time classic eye roll.Pignatelli/Euc/Ropi via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember when Donald Trump got pissed off and decided to pull out of the G7 communique? Well,…
Are We No Longer Allowed to Mock White Men?
Welcome to the New York Times, Sarah! Now, instead of random fuckwits on Twitter, you have to put up with smarmy, extremely well-paid fuckwits on Fox News. Life is such a bowl of cherries, isn’t it?Fox News Channel Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The latest identity politics micro outrage is…
The Trump Administration Is Making Asylum Seekers Camp Out at Bridges. Now Advocates Say Mexico Is Removing Some of Them.
Luis Miguel Montimo, 32, waits on the Gateway Bridge in Matamaros, Mexico in July with his girlfriend and one-year-old-son. He said his ex-wife started dating a gang member and the gang torched his home killing his 2 children inside.Carol Guzy/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the early morning hours…
A Federal Judge Just Ordered the Trump Administration to Fully Restore DACA
DACA recipients and others at a rally in Washington, D.C.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge ruled Friday evening that the Trump administration must fully restore Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that shielded undocumented immigrants who came here as children from deportation. This doesn’t mean that the…