Pipeline inspectors who’ve worked across the US said their warnings were ignored by pipeline companies

“If they refuse to be ignored, they say, they can be fired”

By Mike Soraghan threads:mike_soraghan
politico.com/news/2024/05/0…

A new report found that 99% of campus protests over Palestine at US colleges have been peaceful, despite remarks from Biden characterizing such demonstrations as violent.

Gloria Oladipo reports on the latest data from Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project:
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…

At the peaceful UCLA protest, police arrested demonstrators, shot 'less lethal' munitions at them at close range, and fired sound concussive devices
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'It's dystopian. I think it's antithetical to what a university should be and what it should look like”

Los Angeles-

Happening now at UCLA: counter protestors are clashing with pro-Palestinian demonstrators, attempting to tear down the Gaza encampment.

Today marks 10 years since the start of the Flint Water Crisis.

A decade later, kids are still sick, the city is not done replacing lead pipes and families still haven’t seen a cent from settlement funds theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

The Flint water crisis 10 years later:

-Kids are still sick from lead poisoning
-Families still waiting for settlement funds
-The city isn't done replacing lead service lines
-Criminal charges dropped

'It's like an open sore'

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

A company made $14m by selling water rights to the Colorado River in the middle of a drought

Thinking about how Phoenix is planting trees to prepare for global heating while Atlanta is busy chopping down a forest to build Cop City 🤯

By Nina Lakhani
theguardian.com/environment/20…

NEW: Climate change is driving demand for payday loans

“When you throw in climate change, and the fact that 2023 was the hottest year in the recorded history of the planet, the unaffordability problem can be expected to grow more dire”

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

'Utility bills are among the most common reasons that people take out payday loans.' theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Heatwaves & cold snaps linked to surges in payday lending, keeping people in debt and harming communities of color says @hilarybeaumont

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

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Humbly requesting y’all consider donating to my legal defense fundraiser.

I'm currently facing two lawsuits from the City of Los Angeles — all because that same city now regrets fulfilling a public records request.

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Violet Soosay was ‘elated, sad, angry and relieved’ when her DNA was used to bring her missing aunt’s remains home. But experts warn that advances in DNA tech could put Indigenous people at risk. Martha Troian + Hilary Beaumont report for High Country News bit.ly/3OxdKBm

NEW from me & David Folkenflik:

Chevron since 2009 has been building a network of news seeming sites from Ecuador to Richmond, CA to, most recently, the Permian Basin.

npr.org/2024/03/28/123…

Using footage of its streets, San Jose is training algorithms to detect unwanted objects--including tents and cars with people living inside.

This experiment with automated surveillance of homelessness is the first of its kind in the country:

theguardian.com/technology/202…

Wow. On the left, deaths from 2011 to 2020. On the right, deaths from 2021 through 2023. Shows how much Title 42 and the build-up of enforcement on both sides of the border drove people into the mountains and caused a spike in deaths.

NEW: America’s decarbonization is underway, but non-cost barriers are slowing the transition

'For clean electricity, we have reached a tipping point where it’s not a question of whether we’ll decarbonise – it’s how fast'
aljazeera.com/economy/2024/3…