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Democracy Now!
- "Digital Doppelgangers": Naomi Klein Corrects the Record on Viral AI-Generated Quote
During Thursday’s segment about the risks of artificial intelligence, we shared a quote from author Naomi Klein that we later discovered was AI-generated. Klein has written about the proliferation of the fake quote on her Substack and joins Democracy Now! to discuss the growing difficulty of verifying online information. “These companies are creating digital doppelgangers of us, trying to monetize our identities,” says Klein. “One wonders how we’re ever going to get out of this house of mirrors unless companies are forced to label AI-generated work.”
- "Zero Accountability": Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passengers to drug trafficking. Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman in the city of Manta. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived, many of them recounting alleged torture by American gunmen in U.S. military uniforms aboard a U.S.-flagged patrol ship. The allegations of U.S. boat strikes and torture Bravo was investigating “are a reflection of the growing U.S.-backed military dictatorship in Ecuador,” says Camila Lourdes Galarza, an investigative […]
- "Assault, Misogyny, Verbal Threats": Mother Jones Exposé on Allegations Against GOP Rep. Max Miller
Democrats are calling for an ethics investigation into Republican Congressmember Max Miller of Ohio, who is facing allegations of domestic abuse as he runs for reelection. Miller’s ex-wife Emily Moreno, daughter of Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, claims that Miller burned her by throwing hot water at her, held a gun to her head and fractured their 2-year-old daughter’s collarbone. Miller is also accused of abuse by former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, who was in a relationship with Miller prior to his marriage to Moreno. Mother Jones obtained around 2,000 pages of court filings and police reports pertaining to Miller, which include allegations dating back to high school. “There is an established pattern […]
- Rep. Ro Khanna on Blanche Nomination, Epstein Accountability and His Detention by Israeli Settlers
President Trump said Thursday he may temporarily withdraw his nomination of Todd Blanche for attorney general after two Republican senators, John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, said they would not vote to advance Blanche’s nomination until they received written assurances that he would limit some of the terms in the controversial deal reached between the Department of Justice and President Trump to settle his personal lawsuit against the IRS. Blanche, currently acting attorney general, is “refusing to make a clear commitment that American tax dollars aren’t going to go to the rioters of January 6th,” says Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna. “He’s refusing to make a clear commitment that Trump’s family […]
- Headlines for July 31, 2026
Trump Claims Hamas Has Agreed to “Complete Disarmament” in Gaza, But Major Questions Remain, Senate Votes Down Iran War Powers Resolution After Fetterman Votes with GOP Majority, Saudi Arabia Forms New Military Alliance After Red Sea Attacks, Iran Clams Drone Attack on Egypt May Have Been False Flag, Oil Giants Report Huge Profits Due to Rising Gas Prices from Iran War, Trump May Temporarily Withdraw Blanche Nomination to Be AG, Climate Change Has Sparked “Major Intensification” of Fires in Europe: Report, 34 Die as Thousands of Migrants Crossed from Morocco to Spanish Enclave of Ceuta, Trump Thanks Morocco’s King for Naming Highway in Occupied Western Sahara After Him, U.S Displays Wildly Inaccurate Map of Africa, Misplacing […]
Anthropocene
- A spritz of nanoparticles could save tomatoes from salty soil
Scientists sprayed stressed tomato plants with a combination of manganese and an ingredient from crustacean shells with striking effects for tomato survival.
- MIT researchers have designed a recyclable alternative to spandex
This new polyethylene yarn matches spandex's stretch—and unlike spandex, it can be melted down and re-spun repeatedly.
The Guardian
- Across the US, progressives are upending Democratic primary races. Will it happen in Missouri?
On Tuesday, voters will choose between ex-congresswoman Cori Bush, or pro-Israel incumbent Wesley BellThe pastor of a historically Black church on St Louis’s north side, Rodrick Burton, has watched with bewilderment as the congressional race in his district has drawn national attention not about the bloodshed in his community, but rather in Gaza.“As a pastor who’s had eight members murdered, violence over there is terrible,” Burton said of the conflict in the Middle East. Continue reading...
- ‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention
Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show medical procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood drawsHomeland security officials under the Trump administration have quietly attempted to subject at least 10 hunger strikers in US immigrant detention to involuntary medical procedures, including force-feeding, a Guardian investigation has found.In 2025 and 2026, officials had definitely performed the procedures on at least three detained immigrants and likely subjected two more to the forced treatment – widely considered torture by human rights groups. The other five people gave in and broke their hunger strike at the last minute as force-feeding procedures loomed.One Kurdish asylum seeker […]
- Are Trump’s most blatant authoritarian moves backfiring? | Jan-Werner Müller
The president’s methods, from ‘flooding the zone’ with scandals to prioritizing loyalty over competence, could ultimately weaken rather than strengthen himThe pattern is by now all too familiar: with every power grab Trump tries – from a fraudulent speech about voter fraud to appeals to his supreme court to let him rig the midterms – a debate kicks off about whether these moves are signs of strength or of desperation. Maybe we keep getting caught in this debate because the question is badly posed. So much of what is distinctive about Trump’s governance during his second term can serve the consolidation of an autocratic regime and at the same time create particular vulnerabilities for the regime. We have to become better at […]
- Abandoned by the US: Palestinian Americans trapped in a surge of Israeli settler violence
After visits by US ambassador Mike Huckabee to the nearby Israeli settlement of Shilo, Palestinian Americans in Turmus Ayya have witnessed a terrifying rise in attacksNo man’s land in Turmus Ayya lies where the US flags end and the Israeli flags begin. It is a few hundred metres of soil scorched by molotov cocktails where Israeli settlers have placed a boulder to tell the Palestinian villagers: this is our land now.On one side of that boulder are the white-stoned mansions where the Palestinian residents of Turmus Ayya live. About 80% of them are US citizens, members of the diaspora in New York, Chicago and Paterson, New Jersey, who return for the summers and bring their children here to experience Palestinian culture and learn Arabic. […]
- Blanche formally rescinds Trump’s $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization fund’ ahead of nomination hearing
Todd Blanche issues formal order terminating measure widely derided as a ‘slush fund’, in move that could clear path for his nomination as attorney generalActing US attorney general Todd Blanche issued a formal order late on Sunday terminating Donald Trump’s $1.8bn “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general.While Blanche has repeatedly said publicly that the fund was dead, the justice department had resisted formally confirming that in writing. That had drawn concern from lawmakers that it could be revived in some form, especially after Trump expressed continued support for the […]
The Conversation
- Why Arbaeen – the Shiite Muslim pilgrimage of mourning – has a deep significance that brings millions to Iraq each year
Each year, millions of Shiite Muslims walk to Karbala to honor Husayn, the prophet’s grandson, whose death continues to shape their faith.
- The Catholic principle guiding popes through tech upheavals, from the Industrial Revolution to AI
Pope Leo is one of many popes to respond to technological change by drawing on a Catholic principle called ‘subsidiarity.’
- What a western Pennsylvania ’90s-style Pizza Hut reveals about nostalgia
A Carnegie Mellon University marketing researcher explains why the love of a retro Pizza Hut has more to do with the relationships attached to it than pizza.
- Leaving vehicle engines idling is unhealthy, expensive – and often illegal
Idling vehicles are easy targets for enforcement – they’re often left running for no good reason.
- 58 years of attacks on the media by powerful leaders trying to deflect criticism, from Nixon to Trump
American faith in news is at an all-time low, aided by a president hostile to the press. But presidents have long attacked journalists as biased. What does objectivity really mean?
Inter Press Service
- Female Genital Mutilation: Winning the Argument, Losing the Funding
Last August, a one-month-old girl in The Gambia bled to death after being subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that had been illegal in the country since 2015. FGM is a human rights violation, whatever the appeals to faith or tradition made in its defence, but now the Gambian Supreme Court is being
- Accepting What It Cannot Control, CARICOM Focuses on What It Can
Unable to influence wars, global fuel prices or supply chain disruptions, Caribbean leaders are focusing on strengthening the systems that will make the region more resilient.
- Who picks up the tab for AI’s unbridled genius?
For the last few years, Artificial intelligence has been making increasingly intrusive demands for our attention. It burst onto the scene like a child prodigy, enthralling us with feats of brilliance. With consummate ease, it removed drudgery from our tasks and began helping us achieve our personal and workplace objectives. But AI has now grown
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
- Is the recycling symbol free speech? A judge just ruled it could be.
The ruling pauses California's effort to limit the recycling symbol to products that are actually recycled, setting up a new First Amendment fight over environmental marketing.
- This Texas coal mine will soon be home to a 1.2GW solar farm
Panamint Capital broke ground on a $1.7 billion solar and storage project at the Calvert coal mine. The mine and an adjacent coal plant will stay online.
- How wildfire smoke is reshaping childhood
Smoky summers are becoming the new normal across the American West, forcing a generation of children to grow up indoors.
Truthout
- Family Members Demand Investigation of Michigan Prison After Deaths of 5 Women
As severe medical issues and deaths increase, advocates and families are pressing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to take action.
- 5 States Will Vote on Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives This November
The fights are pitting right-wing billionaires against transgender people and allied organizations.
- Israel Is Targeting and Deporting Foreign Activists Resisting Settler Violence
Activists have long provided a protective presence for Palestinians in the West Bank. Now Israel is pushing them out.
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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