Opinion | Jason Aldean? Please spare me the small-town nostalgia. (wapo.st)
Ukraine is now the most mined country. It will take decades to make safe. (wapo.st)
Blue-state doctors launch abortion pill pipeline into states with bans (wapo.st)
At least 3,500 doses have been shipped to antiabortion states since mid-June, a process enabled by new shield laws
Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows joked about Trump’s election claims (wapo.st)
In a text, Meadows wrote that his own son was unable to find more than a handful of votes potentially cast in the name of dead voters, people familiar with message say
Three Pulitzer-winning cartoonists let go in one shocking day (wapo.st)
McClatchy, citing ‘continuing evolution’ for the cuts, says its newspapers will no longer publish daily opinion cartoons
Opinion | Alexei Navalny, a voice of conscience, refuses to be silenced (wapo.st)
Maine governor reaches offshore wind deal with labor unions (wapo.st)
Years after a border separation, a family’s reunion was in a judge’s hands (wapo.st)
The advertising blitz behind Biden’s hydrogen tax credits (wapo.st)
Basically: the Inflation Reduction Act has a tax credit for ‘clean’ hydrogen to encourage the chemicals industry (eg: nitrate fertilizer manufacturing) from using methane as a hydrogen source to using renewable energy + electrolysis of water to as their hydrogen source....
The advertising blitz behind Biden’s hydrogen tax credits (wapo.st)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/871435...
Florida approves Black history standards decried as ‘step backward’ (wapo.st)
The updated standards say students should learn that enslaved people “developed skills” that “could be applied for their personal benefit,” and that in teaching about mob violence against Black residents instructors should note “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.”
Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll (wapo.st)
“The jury’s finding of sexual abuse therefore necessarily implies that it found that Mr. Trump forcibly penetrated her vagina,” Kaplan wrote, calling it the “only remaining conclusion.”
Opinion | How a song threatens the Chinese Communist Party’s grip (wapo.st)
Influential activist Leonard Leo helped fund media campaign lionizing Clarence Thomas (wapo.st)
Rich lode of EV metals could boost Taliban and its new Chinese partners (wapo.st)
The Pentagon dubbed Afghanistan ‘the Saudi Arabia of lithium.’ Now, it is American rivals that are angling to exploit those coveted reserves.
For clean energy, miners want a road in one of the most remote national parks (wapo.st)
A proposed copper mine near two national parks is turning into a test of values — how to protect wilderness while supplying critical minerals
LED lights are meant to save energy. They’re creating glaring problems (wapo.st)
Tommy Tuberville pledged to ‘donate every dime’ to veterans. He hasn’t. (wapo.st)
These US State governors said no thanks to federal climate money (wapo.st)
Five animals that have evolved to cope with wildfires (wapo.st)
Animals have long learned to live alongside wildfires, but those coping skills are being tested as Earth enters the Pyrocene
U.S. blacklists spyware companies, citing security threats (wapo.st)
Intellexa and Cytrox were added to a federal “entity list” that prohibits American companies from engaging in certain trade activities with them