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Losing American data
Nathan Yau, Flowingdata.com
For Bloomberg, Molly Smith reports on the state of government data: But Trump has made it clear that some data collection simply didn’t align with White House “priorities” that no longer include “w…
Jan 14, 2026, 12:04 PM
Microsoft scrambles to quell fury around its new AI data centers
Justine Calma, The Verge
It looks like the wave of campaigns against data centers are getting under big tech companies' skin - and Microsoft is the latest giant to promise to address frustrations on the ground in communities around their data centers. The company announced a five-poi…
Jan 13, 2026, 3:33 PM
Links 1/11/2026
Haig Hovaness, Nakedcapitalism.com
Our strategic daily links: Culinary art, weird robots, heating oceans, Venezuela mess, Chinese missiles, Greenland grab, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and w…
Jan 11, 2026, 11:55 AM
Links 1/10/2026
Yves Smith, Nakedcapitalism.com
Our boisterious daily links: In search of the perfect anus, plastic v. ocean CO2 uptake, moar ICE murder, China licks Venezuela wounds, EU-South America trade pact, US planes to Middle East? Trump Venezuela oil sales pitch, Russia hit NATO officers? recession…
Jan 10, 2026, 11:55 AM
Links 12/25/2025
Yves Smith, Nakedcapitalism.com
Our festive daily links: Christmas truce, climate change v. food, water woes, China weak demand, EU-US censorship, Trump battleship fantasy, UK shoplifting, ICE bounty hunters, Israel diamonds & IDF, new food classism? Bari Weiss wobbles, Algeria v. colonizat…
Dec 25, 2025, 11:55 AM
Scientists push back on Trump plan to break up a critical climate and weather center
Scott Neuman, NPR
The White House plans to break up a key weather and climate research center in Colorado, a move experts say could jeopardize the accuracy of forecasting and prediction systems.
Dec 19, 2025, 6:25 PM
BBC Inside Science
BBC News
President Trump continues to shake up science. We look at the impact it’s already having.
Dec 18, 2025, 5:00 PM
Why a Critical Orca Community Is Slipping toward Extinction
Kendra Pierre-Louis, Kelso Harper, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Jeffery DelViscio, Scientific American
A scientist, a journalist and a remarkable scent‑detecting dog race to learn what’s endangering the last southern resident orcas
Dec 17, 2025, 11:00 AM
Judge rules Trump unlawfully ended FEMA disaster prevention programme
Joseph Stepansky, Al Jazeera English
Twenty states had challenged the end of the programme, meant to make localities more resilient to natural disasters.
Dec 11, 2025, 11:33 PM
The Scramble for the Seafloor
Rebecca Egan McCarthy, The New York Review of Books
Since 1779 photosynthesis has been the standard-issue explanation for the continuation of life on earth: plants absorb sunlight, which fuels their metabolism, and create oxygen as waste. This is such basic, grade-school science that it normally wouldn’t bear …
Dec 10, 2025, 6:24 PM
EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading
SETH BORENSTEIN, Yahoo Entertainment
The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the...
Dec 9, 2025, 9:30 PM
End of an Epoch: Understanding the Global Crisis with William I. Robinson
Tiernan Cannon, Jezebel
The biosphere itself cannot endure yet another round of capitalist expansion, he argues, so the capitalist system itself must instead be dismantled.
Dec 9, 2025, 10:57 AM
The Trump administration’s data center push could open the door for new forever chemicals
Molly Taft, WIRED, Grist
The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals — with limited oversight.
Dec 7, 2025, 2:00 PM
Links 12/7/2025
Haig Hovaness, Nakedcapitalism.com
Our strategic daily links: giant crystals, the time on Mars, climate disasters, China train, Modi meets Putin, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, scams, and wret…
Dec 7, 2025, 11:55 AM
The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica
As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers.
Dec 6, 2025, 10:00 AM
Floods and Storms Are Ravaging the Jersey Shore. Why Do We Keep Building It Back?
Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone
The government has spent more than $3 billion on beach replenishment over the last four decades. But with worsening climate change, experts say more dramatic change is in order
Dec 5, 2025, 1:00 PM
The Leopard Has Come For A Small Town Kansas Mayor & Its Residents
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
I suppose we might all be tiring of the whole “the leopard you voted for eventually comes to eat your face” cliche at this point, but when the allegory fits you have to use it. And in this case, it fits so well that it would be comical if not for just how hea…
Dec 3, 2025, 4:16 AM
Bongino 'Something Of A Clown'...
Rhian Lubin, The-independent.com
Bongino 'Something Of A Clown'... (Second column, 7th story, link) Related stories:Damning Report Labels FBI 'Rudderless Ship' Under Patel... Tantrum Exposed in Bombshell Dossier... Drudge Report Feed needs your support! Be…
Dec 1, 2025, 2:43 PM
The most powerful news photos of the year
Talia Lakritz, Business Insider
The most powerful news photos taken by Getty Images photographers in 2025 captured political unrest, natural disasters, and other major news events.
Dec 1, 2025, 1:37 PM
Hawaiʻi’s green fee is the latest climate effort challenged by Trump
Marcel Honoré, Honolulu Civil Beat, Honolulu Civil Beat
The Department of Justice wants to join the cruise ship industry’s lawsuit against the state over a new tax on passengers visiting the islands.
Nov 30, 2025, 2:00 PM
Links 11/30/2025
Haig Hovaness, Nakedcapitalism.com
Our strategic daily links: subway drumming, robot trek, long COVID, Tehran pollution, China space program, EU squabbles, Mideast horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, an…
Nov 30, 2025, 11:55 AM
AI Is Keeping Coal on Life Support
Mike Pearl, Gizmodo.com
The technology of the future that no one seems to want, brought to you by the energy of the past.
Nov 30, 2025, 10:00 AM
The Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That.
Aaron Regunberg, The New Republic
I don’t have access to Big Oil’s internal emails about this. But they sure look wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change. Oil companies are doing wha…
Nov 28, 2025, 11:00 AM
A Photo Appreciation of America’s National Wildlife Refuges
Alan Taylor, The Atlantic
Since 1903, the United States has established more than 580 National Wildlife Refuges, designating a diverse array of lands and waters as protected areas for plants and wildlife.
Nov 26, 2025, 2:00 PM