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- Trump Says Images of Bombed Iran School Could Be "AI" But Study Confirms U.S. Killed 140+ in Strike
On February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, missiles landed on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the Iranian city of Minab, in a civilian area near the Strait of Hormuz. At least 121 schoolchildren were killed along with 26 teachers. Forensic Architecture and Sky News analyzed the attack, finding that the neighborhood was bombed a second time while families and rescuers were still on the ground. The Trump administration has repeatedly refused to take responsibility for the school strike, with President Trump even suggesting that images of the destruction were AI-generated. “There were images and videos available from the time of the strikes,” says Samaneh Moafi, assistant director of research at Forensic […]
- "Unlimited Money for Bombs": Democrats Slam Hegseth for Seeking $67B for Iran War
The U.S. is continuing to strike Iran for an 11th straight day. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday revealed the cost of the war on Iran has soared to over $37 billion during an appearance before the Senate Appropriations Committee. However, independent estimates and media reports based on internal leaks suggest the true figure is much higher. Hegseth is now seeking $80 billion more from Congress, including $67 billion for the war on Iran. “You’re requesting billions of dollars in supplemental funding for a war that you said would last for weeks and that the president has no plan or ability to end,” said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, during the hearing. “You are asking for unlimited money for bombs […]
- "Empire of Abuse": MAGA Influencers Andrew & Tristan Tate Arrested on Rape & Sex Trafficking Charges
Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami after British authorities issued new rape and sex trafficking charges against them. The brothers, dual British-U.S. citizens, are prominent in the far-right, hypermasculine online community known as the “manosphere.” They previously lived in Romania, where in 2023 prosecutors filed a criminal indictment against them for human trafficking, while Andrew faces a rape charge. Despite the charges, they were freed from travel restrictions in Romania early last year after White House officials reportedly took an interest in their case. “Andrew Tate has become a really important political force for the MAGA movement,” explains Heidi Blake, a reporter for The New Yorker. Despite the Tate […]
- Headlines for July 22, 2026
Defense Secretary Hegseth Testifies U.S. War on Iran Has Cost $37.5 Billion, Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Warn Shipping Companies Against Using Saudi Arabian Ports, Israeli Military Builds Giant Barrier Separating the Portion of the Gaza Strip It Controls, Three Villages in Southern Lebanon Begin to Implement Phased Withdrawal of Israeli Forces, Appeals Court Overturns Decision to Release Palestinian Rights Activist Mohsen Mahdawi, Trump Administration Arrests Record Number of Immigrants in June, Federal Judge Prohibits DHS from Deporting Key Witness in Fatal Shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin from Revoking Work Permits of Immigrants with Temporary Protected Status, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Ends […]
- "A Company That Trades Privacy for Profit": ACLU on Flock's Growing Nationwide Surveillance Network
The tech company Flock, makers of traffic cameras that automatically record and log car license plates for law enforcement agencies, is facing increasing scrutiny over accusations that its vast, AI-sorted database has created a new, nationwide mass surveillance system. With few regulations or oversight on its use, Flock’s data can be sold to third parties or shared with federal agencies such as ICE, says the ACLU’s Chad Marlow, who works on efforts to regulate and cancel Flock’s contracts with local law enforcement. Because Flock’s indiscriminate system records information on all cars and drivers that pass its cameras, “we have a company working to record the comings and goings of every single person in the country,” in what […]
The Guardian
- ‘Why do I feel crappy?’: women are learning about their luteal phases - and Maha is weaponizing it
People have found language for moodiest part of their menstrual cycles, and the right has seized on itEmily Rae Detrick, a health coach, wants women to be more in touch with their menstrual cycle in its entirety. This, she said on an October episode of Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, a podcast popular among “Make America Healthy Again” (Maha) adherents, is “a way that you honor God and the way we were created”. It also serves her self-assigned mission to help “make America fertile again”.In the episode and on social media, Detrick speaks at length about the luteal phase, the 14-ish days between ovulation and menstruation when women are more likely to experience irritability, bloating and food cravings. If a woman does not […]
- Amish Shah wins in Arizona Democratic House primary in blow to establishment
Shah will face Republican Jay Freely, a Trump-backed former NFL kicker, in November for battleground seatAmish Shah won the Democratic primary on Wednesday in a hotly contested congressional district in Arizona, delivering another defeat to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which backed a rival, as more voters reject the preferences of party leaders in Washington.Shah, an emergency physician, will face Republican Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker who was endorsed by Donald Trump in his primary, in the fall. Before becoming political opponents, Feely and Shah were part of the same team — the New York Jets. Shah was a doctor on the sidelines, while Feely was the kicker. Continue reading...
- Why New Jersey’s erroneous noncitizen enrollment is far from proof of election fraud
Republicans have latched on to the announcement after Trump’s lie-laden speech, but experts say DHS’s data is ‘designed to create a false argument’Donald Trump and his allies quickly seized on an announcement from Mikie Sherrill, the New Jersey governor, on Tuesday that 6,600 noncitizens had registered to vote because of a software error, and fewer than 400 of them voted, using thedisclosure to escalate false claims that there are scores of noncitizens on the voter rolls.Trump seized on the news days after he said in a primetime speech that the Department of Homeland Security identified 278,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls in New Jersey and three other states. But a Guardian review of the letters DHS sent the states shows the […]
- US senator accuses Barclays of ‘failure’ to investigate ex-CEO’s ties to Epstein
Exclusive: Elizabeth Warren claims bank did not ‘meaningfully investigate’ Jes Staley’s links with sex offenderThe leading US senator Elizabeth Warren has called for urgent answers from Barclays over what she claimed was its “apparent failure to meaningfully investigate” ties between the bank’s former boss, Jes Staley, and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.In a letter sent privately to Barclays’s chair, Nigel Higgins, and seen by the Guardian, Warren – the most senior Democrat on the US senate banking committee – said it was “deeply unclear how Barclays, supposedly investigating Staley’s connection to Epstein, failed to uncover this decades-long relationship”. Continue reading...
- Democratic lawmakers propose bank funded by China tariffs to boost US manufacturing
Exclusive: Ro Khanna says ‘reindustrialization’ effort would provide grants, loans and investments to smaller businessesDemocrats in the US Congress have laid out plans for what they say would be the “boldest” bid to revitalize the country’s industrial heartlands since the second world war – using revenue raised by tariffs on China.A bill introduced this week would create a new bank to strengthen domestic manufacturing, provided with up to $15bn in funds each year. Continue reading...
The Conversation
- New Trump administration rules on federal science funding could make American research slower, costlier and harder to share
Beyond deprioritizing scientific merit, the Trump administration’s proposal also restricts researchers’ ability to share their findings and collaborate with each other.
- College professors face an emerging challenge: We know students are no longer reading entire books
Some teachers increasingly are shifting their approach to reading, assigning fewer books than they once did.
- Detroit wants to elevate youth voices in leadership – that means giving them real power
Building relationships and creating equitable opportunities are critical to engaging Detroit’s young people in safe and positive activities.
- The US has acknowledged Bears Ears and Grand Staircase as sacred for over a century, but keeps stripping away protections
Native religions are tied to living landscapes, not points on a map. A scholar of Indigenous studies explains why reducing the protected area has profound religious and cultural consequences.
- Mail ballot mirages aren’t fraud, but mail ballot fraud isn’t a complete myth
Shifting counts have a boring cause: who votes by mail, and when those votes get counted. That doesn’t mean all fraud claims are false, though.
Inter Press Service
- Human-Caused Climate Change, Not El Niño, Drives Most Coral Bleaching Events – Research
Every morning, as the Indian Ocean retreats from the reef off Zanzibar’s Jambiani village, Chiku Chande steps into the knee-deep lagoon carrying bundles of ...
- Trump’s Authoritarian Gambit to Muzzle the Foreign Press
For nearly a century, foreign correspondents have come to the United States precisely because this country prided itself on welcoming scrutiny. Now, the Trump administration proposes to turn that legacy on its head—by transforming visas for international journalists into instruments of control
- Don’t Cry for Milei, Argentina
Sunday’s World Cup final focused world attention on the stench of corruption, past and current, surrounding some of its main protagonists, including Argentina, and ...
Sludge
- Dark Money Group Led by Corporate Lobbyists Funds Pro-Stevens Super PAC
A new FEC filing show nearly all of the $13 million spent so far by the pro-Haley Stevens super PAC A Stronger Michigan came from Center Forward, a dark money group led by lobbyists for Northrop Grumman and funded in part by PhRMA.
Grist
- The secret to a better grid? Electric vehicles.
Despite fearmongering that EVs will crash the grid, an emerging technology will help them support it by providing backup power.
- How war in Myanmar is driving a deadly rare earth mining boom
Decades of conflict have left Myanmar vulnerable to a secretive industry that is polluting communities and endangering workers.
- The deadly experiment that could save the American elm
Researchers in Vermont infected 5,300 American elms with a lethal dose of Dutch elm disease. Those that survive could help them build the most genetically diverse, disease-resistant population yet.
Labor Notes
- Viewpoint: What Amazon Workers Can Learn from the Successes (and Failures) of the Fight for 15
If the labor movement is to maintain and raise standards, then we must organize Amazon—one of the largest employers and most powerful corporations in the U.S. today.
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