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Technology

Saturday Hashtag: #DroneBrainWar

Sean Ogden 09/26/26

Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context.

Hacking, computer code, election equipment.
US Politics

Push Comes to Shove: The Unspeakable Threat to Election 2026

Jonathan D. Simon 09/26/26
Supreme Court Building, Washington DC, District of Columbia, Supreme Court Building
Courts Elections

SCOTUS Greenlights Use of Flawed Database to Determine Voter Eligibility

Klaus Marre 09/25/26
Dan Osborn, James Talarico, Jon Ossoff, Angie Nixon, Abdul El-Sayed, Josh Turek, Troy Jackson
Podcast

One Win Is Not a Lasting Majority

Jeff Schechtman 09/25/26
Donald Trump, Great American State Fair
Government Integrity

Republicans Are Not Beating the Cult Allegations This Week

Klaus Marre 09/25/26

Deep Dives

Donald Trump, supporters, rally

Trump Supporters Are Beginning to Question What They Enabled

Russ Baker
DC, Election 2020, campaign signs

Red State Legislators Work to Throttle Direct Democracy

Glenn Daigon
Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893-1910

All That Matters

Jonathan D. Simon
Block Island Wind Farm, foundations

The Workers Caught in Trump’s Offshore Wind Crackdown

Abigail Riely

Justice

Supreme Court Building, Washington DC, District of Columbia, Supreme Court Building
Courts

SCOTUS Greenlights Use of Flawed Database to Determine Voter Eligibility

Klaus Marre 09/25/26

While a Supreme Court decision allowing a controversial federal database to be used to determine the eligibility of voters should have a minimal impact on the midterms, it could be used in the future to disenfranchise countless eligible voters or make it more difficult for them to cast their ballots. 

Trump, Blanche, DOJ, “Just Us”
Courts Journalism & Media

Judge’s Block of Trump’s WH Press Ban Also Highlights Limits of US Legal System

Klaus Marre, Jon Richards 09/24/26
Donald Trump, brilliant idea, Triumphal Arch, Sniper nest, armory
Epstein Opinion US Politics

Coming Soon: The Mariana Trench Epstein Vault and Submarine Research Center

Klaus Marre 09/20/26

Elections

Supreme Court Building, Washington DC, District of Columbia, Supreme Court Building
Courts

SCOTUS Greenlights Use of Flawed Database to Determine Voter Eligibility

Klaus Marre
Todd Blanche, Mike Johnson, Great American State Fair
Elections

The Warning Signs for House Republicans Go Way Beyond the Polls

Klaus Marre
DC, Election 2020, campaign signs
Deep Dives

Red State Legislators Work to Throttle Direct Democracy

Glenn Daigon
United States Supreme Court, Washington DC
Elections

In Huge Win for Democracy, SCOTUS Blocks Trump’s Mail-in Ballot Suppression Plan

Klaus Marre

International

Cyril Ramaphosa, Emmerson Mnangagwa, tour, BeitBridge Border facilities
Environment

How Zimbabwe’s Regime Is Fueling a Dirty Lithium Boom

Andrew Mambondiyani 09/24/26

Oppressive tactics seek to suppress information and dissent, while communities face poisoned air and water.

Donald Trump, Trump Accounts, Wheeler High School, Marietta, GA
International US Politics

Trump Uses UN Speech for Self-Gratification

Klaus Marre 09/22/26
Chinese Matrix 300 drone
International Technology

Afghanistan’s Taliban Turns to Drone Warfare

Peyman Pejman 09/19/26

Economy

New Deal Art, mural, Charles Ward
Labor

Where’s the Labor in Labor Day?

William T. Dowell
Hands Off, Tariffs, Madison, WI
Economy

In Bid to Increase Costs for Americans, Trump Aims to Escalate Canada Trade War

Klaus Marre
Wealth Tax, Billionaires, tax dodgers
Cartoon

Oligarchs Warn Against Oligarch Tax

Ted Rall
TARIFFS ARE A TAX, Canada
Economy

US, Canada Trade Accusations Over Collapse of Tariff Talks

Klaus Marre

Editors' Picks

climate crisis, air pollution, data centers, gas generators, N.J., $1.1M fine

NJ Fines Data Center $1.1M After Drone Pics Expose 62 Gas Generators

Whowhatwhy Editors
climate crisis, global warming, energy, geothermal technology, $99M project funding

US Awards $99M for Geothermal Drilling, Technology Projects

Whowhatwhy Editors
U.S. labor, fair wages, DoorDash, N.Y.C., underpaid delivery workers, 131.5M settlement agreement

DoorDash Agrees to $131.5M Settlement for Shortchanging Workers

Whowhatwhy Editors
climate crisis, global heating, 2026 super El Nino, temperature record broken

‘Jaw-Dropping’ El NiÃąo Bursts Through Temperature Record Months Before Peak

Whowhatwhy Editors

Environment

Cyril Ramaphosa, Emmerson Mnangagwa, tour, BeitBridge Border facilities
Environment

How Zimbabwe’s Regime Is Fueling a Dirty Lithium Boom

Andrew Mambondiyani

Oppressive tactics seek to suppress information and dissent, while communities face poisoned air and water.

Lee Zeldin, EPA Administration, Republican Jewish Coalition,
Environment US Politics

Trump Topples the Last Pillar of Biden’s Climate Agenda

Jake Bittle 09/22/26
Climate change, light bulbs
Culture Environment

Al Gore Was Right

Jason Dove Mark 09/17/26

Health & Medicine

velociraptor, Jurassic Park, attraction, Universal Studios
Health & Medicine

Like the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park, RFK Jr. Is Learning

Paul Offit
arrogant doctor
Health & Medicine

Slipping Through the Cracks: How Medicine Has Gotten Betterâ€Ķ and Worse

Jon Bell
aftermath, Hurricane Helene, River Arts District
Environment

Floods Can Leave Communities Facing Higher Overdose Deaths for Years

Katie Myers
Anthony Fauci, donating plasma
Health & Medicine

Fauci Hearing Serves as a Testament to Senate Dysfunction

Klaus Marre

US Politics

Hacking, computer code, election equipment.
US Politics

Push Comes to Shove: The Unspeakable Threat to Election 2026

Jonathan D. Simon 09/26/26

What happens when a vulnerable election system meets a desperate dictator?

Donald Trump, Trump Accounts, Wheeler High School, Marietta, GA
International US Politics

Trump Uses UN Speech for Self-Gratification

Klaus Marre 09/22/26
Lee Zeldin, EPA Administration, Republican Jewish Coalition,
Environment US Politics

Trump Topples the Last Pillar of Biden’s Climate Agenda

Jake Bittle 09/22/26
Donald Trump, supporters, rally
Deep Dives US Politics

Trump Supporters Are Beginning to Question What They Enabled

Russ Baker 09/21/26
Ehud Barak, Macklemore, Ed Sheeran, Robert Kraft
Epstein Technology US Politics

Saturday Hashtag: #MacklemorePaperTrail

Sean Ogden 09/19/26

Podcast

Dan Osborn, James Talarico, Jon Ossoff, Angie Nixon, Abdul El-Sayed, Josh Turek, Troy Jackson

One Win Is Not a Lasting Majority

Jeff Schechtman
Antony J. Blinken, Israel's War Cabinet

In the War Room: How Israel’s Longest War Was Actually Conducted

Jeff Schechtman
September 11, 9/11, George W. Bush, January 6th, Trumpism

Reign of Terror: How 9/11 Armed Trump

Jeff Schechtman
Bond Market, madness

The Bond Market Always Gets the Final Vote

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

Trump, 1st Amendment, Dum Dum Dum, media

Trump Tries to Reduce Negative News by 600, 700, or even 1,500 Percent

Jon Richards
Donald Trump, Republican platform, racism, Christofascism, imperialism, corruption

Republicans Want to Scare Us Into Voting for Bigotry, Prejudice, and Division

DonkeyHotey
Military Industrial Complex, spent our fortune on bombs

Bombs Away

Ted Rall
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