U.S. to end coal leasing in nation’s largest coal-producing region (wapo.st)
Live updates: Stormy Daniels’s lawyer testifies in Trump’s hush money trial (wapo.st)
Trump rails against wind energy in fundraising pitch to oil executives | At a Mar-a-Lago dinner, Donald Trump doubles down on promises to derail a key form of clean energy (wapo.st)
“I hate wind,” Trump told the executives over a meal of chopped steak at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort in Florida, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation....
Leo rejects Senate subpoena from panel probing gifts to Supreme Court justices (wapo.st)
The conservative judicial activist called the move ‘politically motivated,’ and the committee chair said Leo had left them ‘no other choice’ but to move forward with the compulsory process
U.S. sends Ukraine seized Iranian-made weapons (wapo.st)
The Pentagon has provided Ukraine with thousands of Iranian-made weapons seized before they could reach Houthi militants in Yemen, U.S. officials said Tuesday. It’s the Biden administration’s latest infusion of emergency military support for Kyiv while a multibillion-dollar aid package remains stalled in the Republican-led...
Do you watch movies on VHS? (wapo.st)
I just learned that watching movies on VHS tape is still a thing. When did you last use a VHS player?
The climate refugee crisis is here | Catastrophic flooding in southern Brazil has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Many say they won’t go back. (wapo.st)
New rules will slash air, water and climate pollution from U.S. power plants (wapo.st)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8941168...
Meet the ‘pursuer of nubile young females’ who helped pass Arizona’s 1864 abortion law (wapo.st)
The Arizona Supreme Court has decided the law is still relevant. So let’s talk about the guy who led the body that passed it....
Claudia Sheinbaum is likely to be Mexico’s next president. Who is she? (wapo.st)
Mexico City’s water ‘Day Zero’ may come even for the wealthiest residents (wapo.st)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9918420...
The sky-high stakes of the Maryland Senate race (wapo.st)
Rare visit by House speaker to campus escalates tension at Columbia [WaPo gift link] (wapo.st)
As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters | Waves of layoffs and policy shifts are forcing campaigns to change tactics, potentially transforming the 2024 election (wapo.st)
I’ll note that “Politics” here also includes a variety of topics that are disfavored by Meta, including climate.
His job is to interpret the Constitution. Would he rather run the FDA? (wapo.st)
But Alito was the only justice who had voted on more than one case and whose record aligned perfectly with his ideological predispositions: There were zero cases in which he found that a conservative litigant lacked standing, and zero cases in which he found that a liberal plaintiff had standing to sue.
Kyrsten Sinema will not seek reelection in Arizona [gift link] (wapo.st)
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) announced she will not seek reelection this year, avoiding an unpredictable three-way race in the swing state that had many national Democrats worried about holding onto the seat.
Cookie Monster’s ‘shrinkflation’ woes get White House response (wapo.st)
I’ll note that Biden was already talking about the issue
Hunter Biden gives House Republicans the rebuttal they didn’t want (wapo.st)
Republican legislators and interviewers challenging the president’s son on the House majority’s behalf would throw out an allegation, often one that’s been worn smooth after tumbling around in the right-wing media universe for the past year or two. And Biden would invariably swat it away, stripping off the layers of...