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April 7, 2026 ❧ Israel pushes Shiites out of south Lebanon, a tourist on trial for racism in Brazil, and Texans protest border wall construction.

Plus: What Trump's new budget tell us, Thomson Reuters is sharing data with ICE, Mr. Noem likes to cross dress and that's okay, medical examiner rules ICE committed homicide, and ground hogs are squirrels, actually.

March 31, 2026 ❧ Texas town runs out of water, Cuba gets a fuel delivery, IOC bans trans women athletes, and new branch of life discovered!

Plus: Israeli settler increases in West Bank, Mathematicians boycotting their most important conference, and Meta and YouTube lost in court, but there's a catch.

March 24, 2026 ❧ "Tax the Rich" gains momentum, UAE keeps sending weapons to Sudan, and ABC staff strikes.

Plus: Anti-AI MAGA and leftists make "strange bedfellows," tax protest gets traction, 41.2 percent of agricultural workers in Wash. have Long COVID, and Big Oil knew it was destroying the Louisiana coast.

March 17, 2026 ❧ Current Affairs is going to Cuba!, Anti-ICE protesters convicted of supporting terrorism, and South Asia is rationing oil

Plus: We talk to Nathan and Alex before they depart, Embarrassing DOGE staffer testimonies, Florida's new anti-communist curriculum, Peter Thiel lectures on the Antichrist in Rome, memory chip workers threaten to strike in South Korea, and shrimp that can shoot bubble bullets.

March 10, 2026 ❧ Botox at Planned Parenthood, GOP suppresses the vote in Dallas, AI Man Camps, and Chimps who love crystals!

Plus: Mamdani politics go to the U.K., who actually fired Kristi Noem, and meat packing workers on strike, and the dangers of a new internet ID law.

March 3, 2026 ❧ Some military leaders see biblical end times in Iran, an extreme anti-trans bill in Kansas, sex workers unionize, and caribou snack on their horns!

Plus: The Peace Corps launches “Tech Corps,” Greece prosecutes author of Technofeudalism on frivolous charge, big loop holes in the GOP anti-corporate landlord bill, Argentina passes a very anti-labor labor law, and the culture war comes to power grids.

February 24, 2026 ❧ Justice for Keith LaMar, an ICE shooting coverup, pro-Israel politics cost Dems in 2024, armadillos can pause pregnancy!

Plus: Residents block data center construction in New Jersey, FCC wants broadcasters to "Pledge America," striking nurses reach an agreement in NYC, and the Philippines' troll industry.

February 11, 2026 ❧ ICE is leaving death cards, mass graves in Sudan, immigrants propped up the U.S. government financially, fancy cat saved Brooklyn’s borough hall.

Plus: Meet Coalie, the world’s worst mascot; X offices raided in France, Marco Rubio lies about talks with Cuba, and someone dares to ask the question: should poshness be a protected characteristic?

February 3, 2026 ❧ The dismal state of the U.S., big tech is in cahoots with ICE, AI agents get a social platform, and rats have an imagination!

Plus: The Rafah Crossing's limited re-opening in Gaza, Chicago Police will start investigating ICE agents, Dr. Phil's son's NYPD reality show, and a pizza worker attempted to break Luigi Mangione out of jail.

January 27, 2026 ❧ INTERVIEW: How to handle the fear, EPA to stop animal testing, Palestinians go on general strike, and your cat thinks you’re a klutz.

Plus: Ye apologizes for his Nazism again, TikTok claims apparent censorship was caused by a power outage, and the government repeals workplace protections because they protect trans people.

January 20, 2026 ❧ The “new world order,” a secret federal bank bail out, Eric Adams’ crypto scam, and hopeful gorilla twins!

Plus: Mamdami and Trump are texting, Ugandan president cuts internet during election, Trump’s new Board of Peace, and Nike’s tone-deaf MLK Day basketball shoe.

January 13, 2026 ❧ The story behind ICE’s terror in Minnesota, pro-Palestine protesters face felony charges, climate change is sinking posh London homes, and horses have 360 vision!

Plus: ICE is using commercial data to figure out where people live, nurses strike in New York City, no one is buying public land in Colorado, and Trump probably won't stop institutional investors.

January 6, 2026 ❧ INTERVIEW: A DSA way to look at Mamdani, a grocery store chain tracking biometric data, a hockey labor win, and nose bubbles that keep echidnas cool

Plus: Protesters becoming government PR, and a dance video that might have sent Trump over the edge and into Venezuela

December 23, 2025 ❧ The Right asks “Are we Nazis?”, LA Governor assigned to Greenland, landmines return, and a polar bear adopts a cub!

Plus: Maryland explores what reparations might look like, RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz try to ban youth gender affirming care, and New Yorkers gain access to medical euthanasia.

December 16, 2025 ❧ News media turns to gambling, D.C. turns into Silicon Valley, Turning Point USA coming to every Texas high school, and a new pumpkin toadlet enters the chat

Plus: Healthcare risks a death spiral, an odd nativity scene in Italy, Amtrak executives give their bonus to their employees, U.S. now charging noncitizens $5000 apprehension fee.

December 10, 2025 ❧ Trump's pardons: Where are they now, chicken rescuer jailed, another ceasefire collapses, octopi have nine minds?

Plus: Sean Duffy can suck on these pajamas, FBI compiling a list of American extremists, Alligator Alcatraz is torturing inmates, and Texas Techs clamps down on race, gender and sex in class

December 2, 2025 ❧ ICE is in hospitals, a city ties wages to rent, Mohammed Ibrahim released!, elephant seals snooze on the job.

Plus: A new, non-profit humanitarian airline, AI is training on prisoner phone calls, another senator endorses Medicare For All, and the national guard is coming to New Orleans

November 25, 2025 ❧ American child abused in Israeli prison, Mamdani is agenda-first, IOC may ban trans athletes, and a crab Christmas miracle

Plus: Meta wins anti-trust case, ICE may raid churches this holiday season, a COP3o cop out, and Bernie Sanders in Jeffery Epstein’s inbox.

November 18, 2025 ❧ Reverse migration, Starbucks strikes, domesticating raccoons, and did Trump blow Bubba?

Plus: RIP Alice Wong, drought may force Tehran to evacuate, and Trump wants fat people out of the U.S.

November 11, 2025 ❧ Progressive wins way beyond NYC, a potential ceasefire in Sudan, more Epstein news, and sea cucumbers fight dirty

Plus: Trump claims Christian genocide in Nigeria, a legal win for renters in Los Angeles, and a strike win for newspaper workers in Pittsburgh!

November 4, 2025 ❧ The health dangers of EPA deregulation, MAGA for Mamdani?, U.K. renters get more rights, and baby elephant trunk binkies

Plus: A News Briefing exclusive interview with an environmental scientist who resigned because of censorship, cancer in the Corn Belt, and China's Fourth Plenum

October 28, 2025 ❧ Millions lose SNAP benefits, the Redistricting Wars continue, and there are too many Nazis

Plus: No more Trump bibles in Oklahoma classrooms, the corporate overlords funding Trump’s ballroom, and New Yorkers get pissed at ICE agents in Chinatown

October 21, 2025 ❧ DOJ’s busy month of indictments, Trump poops on protesters, George Santos freed, and a lizard performs miracles

Plus: Marc Benioff goes ICE bootlicking, the shaky ceasefire in Gaza, and the new risk to your old Twitter handle

October 14, 2025 ❧ Ceasefire-ish in Gaza, Texas troops in Chicago, U.S. bails out Argentina, and very very good numbats

Plus: Gen Z protests fell two more governments, a QAnon supporter agrees with democrats

October 7, 2025 ❧ Global Sumud Flotilla intercepted, ICE raids in Chicago, and Gen Z protests around the world

Plus: Trump asks Netanyahu “Why are you always so f--king negative?”

September 30, 2025 ❧ Trump orders troops to Portland, Russia buys off Moldovan priests, and Eric Adams drops out

Plus: A News Briefing exclusive interview with Laura Jedeed, the rapture, and a poem from the late Assata Shakur

September 23, 2025 ❧ Charlie Kirk’s Memorial, Consequence Culture, and India Sanitation Works Strike

Plus: Meta is allegedly stealing porn to train its AI, and a letter from a journalist detained by ICE

September 16, 2025 ❧ ICE sorts workers by race, Israel bombs Qatar, and Trump’s judge lies to Congress

Plus: A breakthrough for Indigenous rights in Australia, Russian drones in Poland, and good news for koalas with STDs

September 9, 2025 ❧ Greta Thunberg’s boat attacked, Milei’s new corruption scandal, and SCOTUS approves racial profiling

Plus: The cops’ hiring standards get even lower, good news for animals in Colombia, and indestructible squirrels!

September 2, 2025 ❧ The plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, the GOP attacks Wikipedia, and death by cow manure

Plus: The latest gerrymandering shenanigans, an uprising in Indonesia, and sheep’s facial recognition skills

August 26, 2025 ❧ Trump bans trans healthcare, the Dems fight Omar Fateh, and bats like to hug!

Plus: A leftist oysterman runs for Senate, Trump also bans burning the flag, and good news for dogs in India!

August 19, 2025 ❧ Canadian airlines on strike, felony charges for throwing a sandwich, and one year since Grants Pass

Plus: Vladimir Putin’s bathroom habits, fake AI colleges, Zambian funeral feuds, and education among the cockatoos

August 12, 2025 ❧ Trump destroys international aid, Britain arrests protesters, and a breakthrough for HIV vaccines

Plus: The latest on the Supreme Court’s dysfunction, a bill to ban congressional stock trading, and more...

August 5, 2025 ❧ Our 200th News Briefing!

Plus: The latest on DC restaurant worker's wages, voting rights shenanigans, and something that might be a bug...

July 29, 2025 ❧ Faulty Guns Kill; SCOTUS Has Robe Rage; and Yes, Bret, It Is A Genocide

Plus: The latest on the genetically engineered mosquitoes protecting birds, missionaries using spyware to convert indigenous Brazilians, and voting dogs!

July 22, 2025 ❧ ICE lawyers hide their names, SCOTUS operates in the shadows, and the NFL's player union president resigns

Plus: A socialist runs for mayor of Minneapolis, the British Prime Minister expels leftists from Labour, and fiendish foxes snatch footwear.

July 15, 2025 ❧ Kansas organizers fight private prisons, Congress shuts down DC's toilets, and the far right usurps EU climate policy

Plus: The Brazilians protesting Trump's interference in the country, FEMA's flood mismanagement, and information on cows' BFFs!

July 8, 2025 ❧ Thai Prime Minister suspended, union wins against factory farming, and the New York Times cites a eugenicist.

Plus: Updates on Netanyahu's corruption trial, the governors rejecting a free lunch, and the items hidden in Trump's Big Beautiful law!

July 1, 2025 ❧ The IDF shoots hungry civilians, a shady Congo peace deal, and Ohio legislators try to re-criminalize abortion

Plus: The restaurants fighting Trump’s deportations, whales’ skincare routines, and Current Affairs’ Supreme Court term roundup!

June 24, 2025 ❧ Airlines Selling Data to ICE, Moroccan Government Slaughtering Docs, and Florida Funds the War in Iran

Plus: The latest on Nestle's slavery, goat communication, and Current Affairs' new Ten Commandments!

June 17, 2025 ❧ Huge protests in Kenya, Bukele made deals with gangs, and the LAPD’s rubber bullets can kill

Plus: The latest on Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil, Trump slashes EPA regulations, and lesbian lizards!

June 10, 2025 ❧ Greta Thunberg abducted by Israel, a bizarre centrist conference, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to the U.S.

Plus: A Pride flag rebellion in Montana, Kabul is running out of water, and a duck who makes a wonderful sound

June 3, 2025 ❧ RFK’s fake health studies, Israel shoots civilians seeking Gaza aid, and Jared Polis’s awful vetoes

Plus: Driverless big rigs on the streets, surveillance cameras in cacti, two defeats for Jeff Bezos, and a big week for Bee News

May 27, 2025 ❧ A rapper charged with “terrorism,” Slotkin scuttles California’s car ban, and Bernie and AOC still won’t back Mamdani

Plus: India’s assault on Maoists, a mayor seizes a church for pickleball, Trump’s latest scams, and a high-speed aerial frog

May 20, 2025 ❧ Gaza’s last cancer hospital closes, Republicans rob the poor to help the rich, and a bubble rebellion in New Orleans

Plus: Labor struggles in Ukraine, freedom for Badan Khan Suri, monkey kidnappings, and the bowerbird’s impressive nests

May 13, 2025 ❧ Ceasefires in Yemen and Kashmir, the feds interrogate Hasan Piker, and Gavin Newsom’s anti-homeless crackdown

Plus: Trump welcomes white South Africans, the Catholic clergy wants to keep child abuse secret, and a funky-smelling bird with claws

May 6, 2025 ❧ Demanding justice for Hind Rajab, Trump “unleashes” the cops, and good news for the axolotl

Plus: A white woman says a slur and makes $700K, the John Fetterman saga gets dark, and a sea lion dances better than us

April 29, 2025 ❧ A Frenchman on trial for tweets, Trump deports a child with cancer, and George Santos faces the music

Plus: A guy dressed as a huge bird, new forms of food-related debt, and possibly the weirdest fish we’ve ever seen

April 18, 2025 ❧ The fight to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia, GOP vote tampering in North Carolina, and Ecuador’s disputed election

Plus: A scientist works for Big Syrup, ICE agents on the rampage, censorship at Meta, and hermit crabs’ ideas about property

April 11, 2025 ❧ A judge rules against Mahmoud Khalil, Javier Milei needs a bailout, and DeSantis expands child labor

Plus: A win for trans rights in Colorado, Keir Starmer breaks a strike, and are dire wolves back? (Not really, no.)

April 4, 2025 ❧ British police raid a Quaker meeting house, the fight for paid leave in Nevada, and Trump’s tariff chaos

Plus: Bondi wants to execute Luigi, Cory Booker talks for a very long time, two special elections, and squirrels reforest the world

March 28, 2025 ❧ Mass protests in Turkey, another student kidnapped by ICE, Trump’s war on unions, a homeless candidate for mayor of Seattle, AND MUCH MORE...

Plus: A homeless candidate for mayor, a lynx takes on the IDF, and gorillas sing about their supper

March 21, 2025 ❧ Bernie says to run independent, Trump deported a youth soccer coach, and a terrible court verdict for Greenpeace

Plus: Mexico City bans “violent” bullfighting, a popcorn baron goes rogue, some melancholy Woody Guthrie, and International Seal Day!

March 18, 2025 ❧ Israel resumes Gaza onslaught, Musk attacks Social Security, and Trump's lawless deportations

Plus: Monarchy may return to Nepal, Zeldin guts the EPA, Democrats turning on Chuck Schumer, and man's best bird friend

March 14, 2025 ❧ Another student protester arrested, Trump says it’s illegal to boycott Tesla, and Duterte at the Hague

Plus: The cops arrest Starbucks organizers, Saudi Arabia buys Pokémon Go, Albert Einstein’s birthday, and “mystery giraffes” in Mexico

March 11, 2025 ❧ Trump disappears Palestine protester, Hegseth cancels the Enola Gay, and a student uprising in Serbia

Plus: Montana shoots down anti-trans bills, a new Canadian prime minister, mechanical elephants in India, and parrotfish's bubble force fields

March 7, 2025 ❧ Sudan accuses the UAE of genocide, Gavin Newsom gets transphobic, and some good news for labor

Plus: Wildfires in Japan, a new poll on Palestine, Musk’s latest schemes, and the superb lyrebird’s vocal talents

March 5, 2025 ❧ A big win for public housing, the Supreme Court approves raw sewage, and Trump suspends Ukraine aid

Plus: An interview with Dr. Cornel West, U.S. companies’ role in Sudan’s civil war, an AI “bias meter,” and a very furry mouse

February 28, 2025 ❧ Cuban doctors under sanction, Bezos censors the Washington Post, and a measles death in Texas

Plus: Loan sharks in Indiana, a peace deal in Turkey, Fairlife milk abuses cows, and a tiny deer’s tiny tears

February 25, 2025 ❧ Big Oil tries to bankrupt Greenpeace, Israel rolls tanks into the West Bank, and Bernie takes on ‘oligarchy’

Plus: A T. Rex against monarchy, the Left surges in Germany, Trump covers up police misconduct, more Hitler salutes at CPAC, and a large moth's sneaky disguise

February 21, 2025 ❧ Bolsonaro indicted in assassination plot, Chavez-DeRemer goes anti-union, and new horrors from CPAC

Plus: Trump wants Ukraine’s minerals, Niger moves toward democracy, and prairie dogs’ linguistic skills

February 18, 2025 ❧ Javier Milei’s crypto scandal, the Trump administration blackmails Eric Adams, and union-busting in Utah

Plus: Atlanta protesters disrupt the Border Patrol, an environmental org supports polar bear hunting, RFK Jr.'s “wellness farms,” and a strong shrew spine

February 14, 2025 ❧ Shell gets sued for causing oil spills, Pelosi has a left-wing opponent, and the so-called “Gulf of America”

Plus: Two horrifying stories about homelessness, RFK Jr. is confirmed, social media surveillance, and a modern Jonah

February 11, 2025 ❧ Eric Adams gets away with it, Trump’s Gitmo deportation camp, and a Palestine and Sudan protest at the Super Bowl

Plus: A bad day for neo-Nazis, fossil fuels on trial, Israel raids bookstores, and Palmerston the cat becomes a colonial official

February 7, 2025 ❧ The Super Bowl police state, Trump’s plans for Gaza, and Colombia’s president

Plus: 10,000 grocery workers on strike, a blind man with a gun, and a really weird fact about platypuses

February 4, 2025 ❧ Seattle's public housing referendum, Elon takes over the Treasury,

Plus: El Salvador wants to imprison American citizens, an uninspiring new DNC chair, conservatives are obsessed with Djibouti, and penguins take 10,000 naps per day. and LA protests ICE

January 31, 2025 ❧ A plane crash in D.C., the IMF extorts Zimbabwe, and Trump sending deportees to Guantanamo

Plus: Whole Foods gets a union, hearings for Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr, a huge green energy project, and Serbian donkey cheese

January 28, 2025 ❧ China’s AI breakthrough, Al Sharpton goes to Costco, and Trump’s latest horrible deeds

Plus: Gustavo Petro puts Trump in his place, student journalists battle censorship, and a parrot makes death metal albums

January 24, 2025 ❧ “Mass deportations” begin, More tax cuts for the rich, and Rubio pushes regime change in Venezuela

Plus: Israel assaults the West Bank, Turkey negotiates with the Kurds, Corbyn questioned by police, and a cannon for salmon

January 21, 2025 ❧ Displaced Gazans return home to rubble, Jeff Landry persecutes the homeless, and Trump is back

Plus: Leonard Peltier comes home, Syrians resist HTS's economic plans, and a funky-looking weevil

January 17, 2025 ❧ TikTok Ban, More UnitedHealth scandals, Journalist dragged from State Dept. briefing

Plus: Faiz Shakir runs for DNC chair, Vivek runs for Ohio governor, soup-flavored cough drops, and a monkey with a mustache

January 14, 2025 ❧ California’s incarcerated firefighters, a possible ceasefire in Gaza, and the effort to stop RFK’s confirmation

Plus: The Supreme Court considers PrEP, hunt saboteurs save wolves, and rats drive tiny cars!

January 10, 2025 ❧ Wildfires in L.A., genocide allegations in Sudan, and 6 years in prison for stealing bread

Plus: A tenant union victory, Jimmy Carter’s funeral, Democrats fail to protect the NLRB, and a caterpillar with a bizarre hat

January 7, 2025 ❧ Trudeau to step down, Tech elites suck up to Trump, and more stock trading in Congress

Plus: Credit Suisse's Nazi ties, a ski resort strike, Andrew Tate's political party, and cuttlefish see in 3-D!

January 3, 2025 ❧ A terror attack in New Orleans, Amazon linked to human trafficking, and an Indian labor leader on hunger strike

Plus: Honduras defies Trump, Bernie’s new committee role, a shocking spike in homelessness, and elephant pranks!

December 20, 2024 ❧ Elon Musk shuts down the government, Amazon workers strike, and Mr. Beast goes tomb-raiding

Plus: Honduras defies Trump, Bernie’s new committee role, a shocking spike in homelessness, and elephant pranks!

December 17, 2024 ❧ Privatizing the mail, a potential strike at Amazon, and RFK’s lawyer wants the polio vaccine gone

Plus: More mysterious drones, Australia arrests climate protesters, Trump settles a lawsuit, and rats wearing tiny backpacks

December 13, 2024 ❧ Biden’s pardons, insurance industry propaganda, and Tories vs. sandwiches

Plus: A “free market” Syria, a SpaceX company town, stock buybacks, and innovations in whale fashion

December 10, 2024 ❧ Luigi Mangione arrested, Assad falls in Syria, and the cops make crack

Plus: Trump jokes (?) about annexing Canada, Jonestown is back, Daniel Penny gets away with it, and the Tasseled Wobbegong is a weird shark

December 6, 2024 ❧ UnitedHealth’s CEO gets shot, the French government collapses, and RFK is at it again

Plus: Bad news for Elon Musk, ending capital punishment in Indiana, a special poem, and smelly bearcats

December 3, 2024 ❧ Joe pardons Hunter, martial law in South Korea, and prisoners burn themselves in protest

Plus: Two big labor strikes, a socialist in Georgia, Trump threatens the BRICS, and cats on horseback!

November 29, 2024 ❧ Ceasefire in Lebanon, Sheinbaum tangles with Trump, and a new Secretary of Labor

Plus: Another ICC prosecution, Irish nationalist rappers, stats on the failed Harris campaign, and symbolic turkeys

November 22, 2024 ❧ Land mines to Ukraine, Gaetz bows out as A.G., and a “potato cartel”

Plus: Justice for Botham Jean, The ICC indicts Netanyahu, cats vs. geese in Hawaii, and the Darth Vader Beetle

November 19, 2024 ❧ Trump appoints Dr. Oz to run Medicare, Ukraine strikes Russia with U.S. missiles, and huge NYPD salaries

Plus: Texas censors abortion websites, Bernie agrees with Trump on something, “woke sandwiches,” and World Anteater Day

November 15, 2024 ❧ Musk leads the DOGE, RFK “runs wild” on public health, and Israel ignores Biden’s aid deadline

Plus: Amazon union updates, victory for Abu Ghraib detainees, a “Rent is Too Damn High” protest, and a flock of goats in a tree

November 12, 2024 ❧ Little Marco Rubio, COP29 off to a bad start, and the Dems’ money woes

Plus: Putin’s “ministry of sex,” more disasters in Cuba, Anthony Weiner returns, and dogs can drive!

November 8, 2024 ❧ Trump’s first staff picks, Israel admits ethnic cleansing, and an app for boycotts

Plus: Bernie blasts the Dems, Nigeria frees protesters, more ballot measures, and monkeys on the loose!

November 6, 2024 ❧ Election results special!

Trump has won, but all is not lost.

November 1, 2024 ❧ The U.S. Archives censor history, the GOP wants to crush Palestine activism, and catastrophic floods in Spain

Plus: A lawsuit over Abu Ghraib, Biden bites a child, Canadian postal workers prepare to strike, and a Hindu dog festival

October 29, 2024 ❧ Marijuana workers fight for a union, Ritchie Torres has awful donors, and Evo Morales almost gets assassinated

Plus: Trump’s racist rally, Bezos pulls strings at the Washington Post, and a frog with a strange weapon

October 25, 2024 ❧ A worrying poll on immigration, the BRICS summit ends, and California votes on prison slavery

Plus: Tucker Carlson says something creepy, the Boeing strike continues, and oarfish are basically sea serpents

October 22, 2024 ❧ Trump’s bizarre housing plans, Cuba’s blackouts, and the scam of “clean carbon”

Plus: Israeli killdozers, scurvy is back, Elon pays voters, the death of Gülen, and a “bootylicious” mouse

October 18, 2024 ❧ Betsy DeVos donates millions, Texas prisons ban a book, and Israelis plan to settle Gaza

Plus: The latest from the Pyongyang Times, India builds bullet trains, the death of Yahya Sinwar, and a very ambitious Egyptian dog

October 15, 2024 ❧ Kamala’s pitch to Black men, Southeast Asian workers on meth, and Colin Allred gets transphobic

Plus: New atrocities from Israel, Josh Hawley’s private jets, calling the cops on Burger King, and pikas puff up

October 11, 2024 ❧ Walz wants to abolish the Electoral College, Saudi Arabia at the UN, and America’s deadly factories

Plus: Netanyahu’s latest threat, the Chippendales unionize, trouble at the Internet Archive, and MANY RACCOONS.

October 8, 2024 ❧ Gaza one year later, Oklahoma's “Trump Bible” scam, and the GOP sabotages hurricane recovery

Plus: Hurricane Milton, MTG's weather conspiracy, Kamala embraces big business, Trump embraces eugenics, and some birds are poisonous.

October 4, 2024 ❧ War brewing in the Middle East, Vance and Walz debate, and Minnesota’s medical debt reforms

Plus: A tentative deal in the port strike, a “weird” typhoon hits Taiwan, and NYC rats are on birth control

October 1, 2024 ❧ Harris “underwater” in Michigan?, Britain quits coal, and dockworkers on strike

Plus: Hurricane Helene, more horrible Newsom vetoes, a secret island in the Indian Ocean, and the “Pablo Escobar of Beavers”

September 27, 2024 ❧ Blinken lied about Gaza aid, Florida bans sex ed, and Eric Adams gets indicted

Plus: Marcellus Williams' last message, an uprising on Martinique, the J.D. Vance Files, and a very large penguin

September 24, 2024 ❧ Labor protests in India, RFK Jr.’s sexting scandal, and Texas cops' scary surveillance tech

Plus: Marcellus Williams on death row, AMLO blames the U.S. for cartel violence, and octopi have wild size differences

September 20, 2024 ❧ Israel’s terror attacks, U.S. healthcare in bad shape, and Mark Robinson calls himself a “Black Nazi”

Plus: Kentucky bans conversion therapy, a “historic parking lot” blocks a food bank, and an amazing bipedal bear

September 17, 2024 ❧ J.D. Vance’s racist lies, China’s green energy boom, and the NYPD kills four people on the subway

Plus: Trump dodges another assassin, a strike brewing at the New York Times, and EXTREMELY small lizards

September 13, 2024 ❧ Rupert Murdoch’s latest scheme, bankers dying on the job, and Israel kills a U.S. citizen

Plus: Trump’s bizarre debate performance, updates on abortion rights around the states, and sharks love jazz!

September 10, 2024 ❧ Kamala finally has policies, Louisiana's prison rodeo, and Macron puts the French far-right in power

Plus: The GOP spreads malicious anti-migrant lies, Jill Stein kicked off the ballot in Nevada, an anti-landlord activist runs for office in Australia, and Burmese communists protect elephants

September 6, 2024 ❧ Half of U.S. elections have one candidate, socialists on trial in Florida, and India threatens Wikipedia

Plus: Russia dumps truckloads of money into right-wing Youtube, another blow to the Internet Archive, Santa Maduro, and Soviet space tortoises!

September 3, 2024 ❧ Labor news spectacular!

The latest from workers’ struggles in the US, UK, Namibia, Sri Lanka, China, Israel-Palestine, and Australia - plus songs, poems, and MUCH MORE!

August 30, 2024 ❧ Kamala wants to build the wall, huge reforms in Mexico, and the ACLU sues over campus Palestine protests

Plus: New data on police violence, RFK abducts a dead whale, and a “suspicious incident”

August 27, 2024 ❧ Biden’s phony fossil-fuel numbers, Kentucky prisoners hack their tablets, and a “right to disconnect”

Plus: Rent control in Mexico City, Israel destroys a historic mosque, and armadillos always have EXACTLY four babies

August 23, 2024 ❧ The DNC snubs Palestinian speakers, Ron DeSantis loses big, and the Ukraine war spills into Africa

Plus: RFK Jr. drops out, a landlord tries to extort a dead woman, and Swedish crows collect cigarette butts

August 20, 2024 ❧ Labor & Palestine at the DNC, Missouri funds anti-abortion groups, and Mexico's “dirty war”

Plus: Remembering Phil Donahue, Purdue Pharma, Perdue chicken, a parliament fight in Turkey, and a bird with a massive mouth

August 16, 2024 ❧ Kamala's price gouging plan, middlemen killing Alabama pharmacies, and new elections in Venezuela?

Plus: The wonders and horrors of “Grok,” Liz Truss gets ambushed with lettuce, and frogs and tarantulas are friends

August 13, 2024 ❧ Extreme heat kills 47,000, “No Tax on Tips,” and Greg Abbott’s horrible new hospital policy

Plus: Ukraine enters Russia, J.D. Vance does drag, and you can now buy "Seagull Insurance"

August 9, 2024 ❧ Kamala scolds Gaza protesters, a national tenants' union, and trans rights in Nepal

Plus: How to fight Wall Street with a cello, LA's homeless deaths, free diapers in Tennessee, AIPAC buys another primary, and a house fit for a mouse.

August 6, 2024 ❧ Tim Walz gets the VP nod, racist riots in the UK, and climate denial in Congress

Plus: A bear cub, a bear market, landlords make the heat crisis worse, a police “surveillance tower,” and some truly excellent Chinese animal names

August 2, 2024 ❧ Harris abandons progressive policies, the Amazon Labor Union gets new leadership, and the IMF is meddling with Egypt again

Plus: Climate protests in Uruguay, Elon Musk wants to fistfight Maduro, and... can chimps talk?

July 30, 2024 ❧ New Israeli war crimes, Kamala's VP search, and climate protestors take on J.D. Vance

Plus: New York bans graphic school-shooter training, Venezuela's disputed election results, and the sharks are on coke now

July 26, 2024 ❧ Heat wave voters, Biden bows out, Anti-whaling activist arrested

Plus: South Africa's new climate law, an important request from the Starbucks workers' union, and swimming armadillos

July 23, 2024 ❧ Heat wave voters, Biden bows out, Anti-whaling activist arrested

Plus: Des Moines cracks down on the homeless, Netanyahu goes to Washington, U.K. votes on child poverty, and beekeeping dogs!

July 19, 2024 ❧ GOP vs. Weather, LA Sheriffs Gangs, and Biden's limp rent control policy

Plus: Samsung on strike, New reports that Biden may drop out, proposed Supreme Court reforms, and more wombat butt facts!

July 16, 2024 ❧ Trump gets shot, J.D. Vance runs for VP, and police body cams are a fraud

Plus: A Kenyan beekeeper fights deforestation, China holds its big economic meeting, and leeches can jump now. Oh dear.

July 12, 2024 ❧ Furries vs. fascism, Eric Adams' $1m trash can, and private equity may be a bubble

Plus: New York may be competitive in 2024, Trump may have a "secretary of retribution," new reporting on Gaza, and incredible swimming lions!

July 9, 2024 ❧ Victory for French leftists, the Gaza death toll may be under-reported, and LA's homelessness failure

Plus: You can buy bullets in a vending machine now, Iran gets a new president, and there are MANY kinds of "fancy pigeon."

July 5, 2024 ❧ The Biden train wreck continues, the Tories get routed, and Jeff Landry is cool with AI deep fakes

Plus: Some 4th of July wisdom, the Heritage Foundation gets scary, and the bees are back in town!

July 2, 2024 ❧ The Supreme Court gives presidents immunity, Gavin Newsom gets "tough on crime," and the French far-right scores another win

Plus: India's draconian new penal code, Nigel Farage becomes a sex symbol, and what's wrong with alley cats anyway?

June 28, 2024 ❧ Biden's debate debacle, Bowman felled by dirty politics, and another coup attempt in Bolivia

Plus: Flipping off the cops, Kenya in revolt, some more mostly awful Supreme Court rulings, and how much fish can cats lift?

June 25, 2024 ❧ Julian Assange goes free, SCOTUS on trans rights, and a big golf protest

Plus: The end of InfoWars, water is woke now, and Przewalski's Horse makes a triumphant return

June 21, 2024 ❧ The IRS lets rich people off the hook, Italian Pride reclaims "frociaggine," and Louisiana puts the Ten Commandments in school

Plus: Norfolk Southern's toxic cloud spread across the land, Europe kept Sudanese refugees in danger, an Ohio man throws Filth Cans, and the search for the world's gayest animal!

June 18, 2024 ❧ The U.S. military's secret anti-vax campaign, Trump's awful idea about tariffs, and South Africa's new government

Plus: John Fetterman drives like a maniac, Florida Republicans ban a book about book bans, and clownfish change their gender.

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June 14, 2024 ❧ SCOTUS rules on abortion and unions, Tennessee's prison labor scandal, and Wallace & Gromit get political

Plus: New York might ban masking, Hakeem Jefferies declares war on NY socialists, the EU punishes Hungary's cruelty to migrants, and an antelope with a floppy nose!

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June 11, 2024 ❧ Leonard Peltier's chance at freedom, California's free grocery store, and worrying gains for the European far right

Plus: New York scraps traffic reform, the UAE supports violence in Sudan, Friedrich Engels rolls in his grave, and spiders are mostly harmless.

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June 7, 2024 ❧ Bird Flu, Biden stops asylum, and the TRUTH about the Epoch Times

Plus: Texas builds its own stock exchange, more hulking police vehicles, how the U.S. right is pushing hate in Africa, and giant pangolins are back!

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June 4, 2024 ❧ China's diabetes cure, elections in India and Mexico, and Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington

Plus: Alabama is hiding death-penalty records, North Korea sends "filth balloons" flying, and Corgis are the new greyhounds

May 31, 2024 ❧ Convict Trump, the Collapsed Gaza Aid Pier, and Workers vs. Dollar General

Plus: Americans clamor for climate accountability, South Africa holds its elections, Biden considering a dangerous escalation between Ukraine and Russia, and chickens are on the rampage!

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May 28, 2024 ✰ Our 100th Briefing Extravaganza!

Presenting our first ever Current Affairs Briefy Awards!

May 24, 2024 ❧ Outrageous CEO Pay, spying on protesters, and Florida's "Freedom Summer"

Plus: What would Trump's deportation plan actually look like?, the Supreme Court upholds racial gerrymandering, microplastics in your balls, and a bird you ought to know about.

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May 21, 2024 ❧ The U.S. accuses a Chinese family of spying, Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC, and Assange wins in court

Plus: Adorable polar bears, a crippling cheese addiction, prison labor in the food system, and Louisiana schools somehow get even worse

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May 17, 2024 ❧ The feds interrogate a historian for his Palestine views, union busting in Alabama, and the truth about "woke" colleges

Plus: Clearing up the confusion about the Gaza death toll, Tony Blinken's embarrassing jam session, some boring headlines from foreign newspapers, and thieving foxes

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May 14, 2024 ❧ Virtual DNC, Germans storm a Tesla factory, and Republicans for child marriage

Plus: NYPD cracks down on smoke shops, Milei's anti-LGBTQ policies, a bill to send protesters to Gaza, robo-dating, and a micro mouse

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The archive of briefings up to May 10, 2024 can be found on Substack.