This story was originally published by High Country News. The images of towering clouds of black smoke rising from petroleum facilities in and around Tehran after U.S. and Israeli forces bomb them horrify observers who understand the toxic implications and consequences for the environment and the millions of people whoContinue Reading
The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and heContinue Reading
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Chromebooks are scattered all around the classrooms of Floyd M. Jewett Elementary School in Mesick, Michigan. Towers of them are teetering atop bookshelves. They’re piled up in corners of classrooms. They’ve even cropped up in one classroom’sContinue Reading
Just days after calling mail-in voting, “mail-in cheating,” President Traitor 47 explained why he decided to cast a mail ballot in the Florida special election., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Iraq is seeing the worst of the Middle East crisis as its heavily oil-dependent economy is now collapsing with the trickling oil revenues amid the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz. Iraq, OPEC’s second-biggest oil producer behind Saudi Arabia, has done very little in recent decades to diversify its heavy dependence on oil…Continue Reading
For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people’s mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide. For the first time, juries in two states took their side. In Los Angeles on Wednesday, aContinue Reading
LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators are investigating Snapchat over concerns the platform isn’t doing enough to protect kids and exposing them to risks such as increased vulnerability to child predators or recruitment by criminals. The 27-nation EU’s executive Commission said Thursday it was opening a formal investigation into SnapchatContinue Reading
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Critics on social media hit the laughing face emoji button hard in response to the The Traitor White House press secretary’s claim., Read MoreContinue Reading
commentary Unusually timed trades around The Traitor’s Iran announcement have raised questions about who knew what and when Published March 26, 2026 9:25AM (EDT) Oil futures trading soared on March 23 just before President Traitor 47 announced “productive” peace talks with Iran (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Twenty-two years ago aContinue Reading
Over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York on Monday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now! The acclaimed singer, songwriter and artist Michael Stipe performed his song “No Time for Love Like Now,” accompanied by musician and producer Aaron Dessner, a founding member ofContinue Reading
Age verification has suddenly become the most heated topic in the Linux world and it’s not slowing down anytime soon. Distributions are already picking sides. Void and Garuda Linux have outright rejected the idea. The privacy-focused Android distro GrapheneOS isn’t entertaining it either. Meanwhile, Fedora is exploring whether an Apple-styleContinue Reading
Dylan M. Taylor is not a household name in the Linux world. At least, he wasn’t until recently. The software engineer and longtime open source contributor has quietly built a respectable track record over the years: writing Python code for the Arch Linux installer, maintaining packages for NixOS, and contributingContinue Reading