They Make Viral Gun Videos—With Hardline Christian Values

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At the start of a slickly produced 19-minute YouTube video titled “How T.Rex Arms Got Started,” Lucas Botkin, the company’s 30-year-old founder, runs through an obstacle course. A guitar-­heavy soundtrack plays as Botkin, decked out in tactical gear and filtered through overwrought video effects, picks off targets with a variety of handguns and rifles. We […]
Lila Hassan

Sinking Shores and Rising Seas Will Inundate 24 US Coastal Cities

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Flooding could affect one out of every 50 residents in 24 coastal cities in the United States by 2050, a study led by Virginia Tech researchers suggests. The study, published this month in Nature, shows how the combination of land subsidence—in […]
Moriah McDonald

What to Know About Donald Trump’s New $60 Bible

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One month after releasing a line of gilded high-tops for $399, Donald Trump revealed on Tuesday a new item: the Bible. “All Americans need a Bible in their home, and I have many,” the former president explained in a video promoting the country singer Lee Greenwood’s version of a King James translation, the “God Bless […]
Inae Oh

In Alabama, Abortion and IVF Helped Flip a Red Seat in a Special Election

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On Tuesday, Alabama provided even more evidence of what we already know to be true: Abortion rights win elections.  Democrat Marilyn Lands won a special election for an Alabama state House seat, flipping a Republican-held seat by campaigning on abortion rights in the deep-red state that bans abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. […]
Julianne McShane

Two Birders Claimed a Key Record on the Same Day—and Feathers Flew

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In late 2023, 70-year-old birder Peter Kaestner was within striking distance of a goal that had never been accomplished: seeing more than 10,000 different species of birds in the wild. Such a record had previously been unthinkable, but with new technology […]
Kari Paul

This Terrifying Book Is a Must-Read for Every World Leader

1 day 9 hours ago
Nuclear war is a topic few care to think about. We sometimes call it unthinkable. But we need to think carefully, and to talk—particularly with high-ranking foreign officials whose motives we may have reason to distrust, just as they distrust ours—about how we can collectively avoid launching a weapon that would end our civilization.  Pulitzer […]
Michael Mechanic

Will RFK Jr. and Other Third-Party Candidates Help Doom Democracy?

1 day 9 hours ago
In the summer of 2000, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the Democratic Party dynasty, took time out of his schedule as an environmental attorney to write an op-ed for the New York Times. In the piece, Kennedy hailed consumer advocate Ralph Nader as his “friend and hero,” but he lambasted him for mounting […]
David Corn

America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.

1 day 9 hours ago
This article was adapted from Nuclear War: A Scenario, published March 26, 2024, by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright 2024 by Annie M. Jacobsen. Nuclear war is madness. Were a nuclear weapon to be launched at the United States, including from a rogue nuclear-armed nation […]
Annie Jacobsen

Ken Paxton Is Going to Take Some Classes on How to Be More Ethical

1 day 20 hours ago
On Tuesday, nine years after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted for securities fraud, and just a few weeks before he was finally set to go on trial, prosecutors struck a deal with the powerful Republican to call the whole thing off. Under the terms of the pre-trial agreement, as reported by Texas Tribune, […]
Tim Murphy

A List of Weird Stuff the Right Connected to the Baltimore Bridge Collapse

2 days ago
Early Tuesday morning, a massive cargo ship struck a structural pillar of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, collapsing the 1.6-mile-long bridge into the Patapsco River. The stunning collapse shut down the Port of Baltimore, one of the country’s busiest, and launched a search for at least six construction workers believed to be missing.  Amid the […]
Arianna Coghill

Justice Samuel Alito Falsely Implies Mifepristone Could Cause “Very Serious Harm”

2 days ago
Justice Samuel Alito implied that mifepristone—one of the two drugs used in medication abortion, which the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to restrict in what has been billed as “the biggest abortion case since Dobbs“—may cause “very serious harm.” But there’s just one problem: more than 100 scientific studies show that abortion pills […]
Julianne McShane

Supreme Court Appears Unlikely to Roll Back Access to Medication Abortion

2 days ago
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard its most consequential abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago. This time, the question facing the justices was whether to significantly restrict access to mifepristone, a drug commonly used in medication abortions. Though the Republican-appointed majority clearly does not approve of abortion, most of […]
Pema Levy

Florida Bill Would Purge State Laws of Climate Change Mentions

2 days 1 hour ago
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Florida, the effects of climate change are hard to ignore, no matter your politics. It’s the hottest state—Miami spent a record 46 days above a heat index of 100 degrees last summer—and many homes and businesses are clustered along beachfront areas […]
Kate Yoder

Meet the Influencer Who “Reverses” Lupus—With Smoothies

2 days 9 hours ago
One Saturday night, I saw a post in a Facebook group for my autoimmune disorder: Thanks to Dr. Brooke Goldner’s vegan smoothie diet, the poster said, she’d been able to stop all medicines for our shared chronic illness. Goldner, a practicing psychiatrist, has garnered a strong social media following, thriving book sales, and business success around […]
Julia Métraux

New York Appeals Court Gives Donald Trump a $300 Million Break

3 days ago
Donald Trump received mixed legal news in New York Monday morning, with an appeals court handing the former president an enormous financial break in his civil fraud case. At nearly the same time, however, a different New York judge scheduled an unrelated criminal case against Trump to go to trial next month. The appeals court […]
Russ Choma

The Supreme Court Abortion Pill Case Is Based on Imaginary Patients and Shoddy Science

3 days 1 hour ago
The last time lawyers from the Alliance Defending Freedom argued before the Supreme Court, their case was entirely hypothetical. The conservative Christian legal advocacy group—the force behind some of the most important anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ litigation in recent history—was representing a Colorado graphic designer who claimed to be starting a wedding website business, and wanted […]
Madison Pauly

From Laddie Mag Model to RNC Co-Chair: Lara Trump, Nepo-Spouse

3 days 9 hours ago
On March 8, the Republican National Committee gathered for its spring meeting and ushered in big leadership changes. Among those voted into a top spot in the party was Lara Trump—the daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump—who was elected RNC co-chair. “With Eric by my side, I’ve done things I never imagined possible,” Lara said […]
Stephanie Mencimer

Can a Tribe’s Religious Freedom Claims Halt a Major Copper Mine?

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to stop the construction of a copper mine in Arizona on land sacred to the San Carlos Apache Tribe as well as other Indigenous nations. Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, also known as Oak Flat, […]
Taylar Dawn Stagner
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