Trump airport branding deal opens new route to profit for family

Florida agreement grants US president control of licensing and merchandising at renamed airport, analysts say

The Guardian

The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything

Everything is gender, but to understand gender you must understand sex.

Liberal Currents

The Feed Is Fake

That “viral” song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama was probably the product of a stealth marketing campaign.

Vulture

That Political Video You Just Liked Is Probably an Ad

Candidates are paying influencers to back their campaigns without proper disclosure.

The Bulwark

Suspect killed after firing shots near White House security checkpoint, Secret Service says

A man who opened fire Saturday near a White House security checkpoint is dead after being shot by officers who returned fire, the U.S. Secret Service said. It was the third incidence of gunfire in the vicinity of President Donald Trump in the past month.

PBS

Ken Paxton Wanted to Crack Down on Forum Shopping. Now Lawyers Say He’s Improperly Seeking Out Favorable Courts.

“It looks like the attorney general’s office is interested in engaging in litigation games that it would otherwise decry if the shoe were on the other foot,” said Michael Ariens, a professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, who has studied laws regulating where lawsuits can be filed.

ProPublica

Proud Boys leader expects ‘tens of millions’ from Trump’s anti-weaponization fund

“Look, people don’t have to like me, but to say that I got 22 years correctly, is wrong,” Tarrio told CBS News Miami. “I was targeted, and I do believe that this fund does apply to me.”

Miami Herald

Religious leaders, lawmakers push for $1 billion to secure houses of worship

“We are not asking Congress to just protect Jews – we are asking Congress to protect every community of Americans that gathers to pray. And we are asking with the full weight of what we have just lived through behind us,” she said, referencing the March attack on her congregation of Temple Israel. 

NPR

Democrats vow a redistricting counterpunch but are facing hurdles Republicans don’t

In Colorado, New Jersey, New York and Washington, redistricting commissions draw boundaries that are not supposed to benefit either party. Democrats will have to gain voters’ permission to nullify those politically popular bodies and replace their balanced maps with ruthlessly gerrymandered ones to match what Republicans did after President Donald Trump last year demanded a sweeping redrawing in Republican-controlled states in an attempt to help his party keep its House majority.

AP News

Oldest Pearl Harbor survivor is keeping memory of the surprise bombing alive at 106

Freeman Johnson, who turned 106 in March, never witnessed the surprise attack. He never heard his shipmates firing antiaircraft guns at the attacking planes — shooting down a torpedo plane. By the time he was topside, the St. Louis, a light cruiser, had evaded midget submarines and safely set out to sea.

Chicago Tribune

Stopping the spread of A.I. data centers serves the common good

A.I. data centers have already driven up greenhouse gas emissions and further polluted communities across America. These centers require large parcels of land and access to water. In Fayette County, Ga., the development of such centers has tainted the Flint River and its tributaries. Fresh water that used to be clear is now cloudy, brown and orange, and some residents claim their well water has soured. Unending, high-pitched whines anger residents of Loudoun County, Va. Opposition to data centers brings together those on the political left and right. There is perhaps nothing more antithetical to traditional conservatism than destroying small towns and displacing residents.

American Magazine

Heavy caseloads, regrets and surprises: 5 judges who embody the courts’ rebuke of Trump’s ICE detentions

Judges have overwhelmingly rejected the administration’s new policy.

Politico

Ruptured Families: The U.S. Citizen Children Left Behind by Deportations

More than 800,000 Texan kids with citizenship depend on an undocumented parent. Trump’s immigration crackdown is tearing their households apart.

Texas Observer

Massie Delivers Trump a Major Warning After His Primary Defeat

The president has turned Thomas Massie into an even bigger enemy.

The New Republic

Bahrain jails nine defendants for life for ‘cooperating’ with Iran’s IRGC

Convictions handed down amid an intensified crackdown by Bahraini authorities on individuals accused of having ties to Tehran.

AlJazeera

More than 500 children have died in an outbreak that the world is virtually ignoring

“We’ve been crying out loud about this from the beginning, but it has been a silent situation,” says Hasina Rahman. “There hasn’t been much attention around it.”

She’s talking about a devastating measles outbreak in Bangladesh.

NPR

The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world. Though pushed by a minuscule number of people, the assault has been full-spectrum—government, courts, press, the health system, radicalised internet groups, and violent vigilantes—all working simultaneously towards the same goal.

Liberal Currents

Trump Decimated Our Global Health Network. Then Ebola Hit.

Scientists and officials don’t think it’ll become a pandemic. Here’s why they’re worried anyway.

The Bulwark

For third year in a row, Israel blocks Hajj pilgrimage for Gaza Muslims

As millions of Muslims gather in Mecca, Palestinians in Gaza face a third year of heartbreak as Israel has shut the border.

AlJazeera

Drought threatens myrrh tree key to luxury perfumes and African incomes

The critical note in some of the world’s most well-known perfumes is myrrh, a tree resin from the Horn of Africa that is under pressure from what experts say has been a historic drought.

PBS

Russia pounds Kyiv in powerful drone and missile attack

Russia pummeled Ukraine’s capital with a massive wave of missile and drone attacks early Sunday that sparked fires, and hours of explosions shook buildings.

NPR

‘Corpse Point’ In the Arctic Is Melting, Disturbing Centuries-Old Bodies

Whalers buried in the Norwegian Arctic in the 1600s and 1700s are thawing out of the permafrost, underscoring the threat of climate change to archaeological sites around the world.

404 Media

France bans Ben-Gvir: Which other Israeli leaders have been penalised?

France bans Israeli far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir after his ‘unspeakable’ behaviour against detained Gaza flotilla activists.

AlJazeera

Authorities investigate safety lapses after China coal mine blast kills at least 82

Authorities in northern China were investigating a coal mine operator with a focus on safety lapses, as rescuers searched for those missing in the country’s deadliest coal mine explosion in recent years that killed at least 82 people.

AP News

As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers

The beavers are part of an unlikely effort to bring back a vanished species and help Britain adapt to a very modern problem: climate change.

NPR