- Opinion: Climate change is about greed. It’s time for big oil to pay us back — “America’s test, therefore, has come down to the question of honesty, honor and survival. Can we overcome corporate greed and a broken political system to save our nation and our world?” (CNN)
- June Was Hottest on Record for North America, Fourth Hottest Globally (New York Times)
- Climate change: US-Canada heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ without warming (BBC News)
- We Are Not Ready — “On the climate crisis and other hyperobjects” (Charlie Warzel - Galaxy Brain)
- Biden Defends Ending a War He’s Not Fully Ending (David Swanson: Let’s Try Democracy)
- Biden Drafting Executive Order to Promote ‘Right to Repair’ (PCMag)
- Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump — “…He relies on two internal metrics, known internally as GFW, Good-for-the-World, and CAU, Cares-about-the-world. Facebook constantly polls its own users on whether they saw Facebook as one or both of those things. Both the numbers plummeted, and remained low, after the revelations about Russian election interference and data harvesting by Cambridge Analytica. For years, they failed to rise, no matter how many promises Facebook made to do better and how many new security programs the company started.” (New York Times)
- Tucker Carlson sought interview with Putin at time of NSA spying claim (Axios)
- Delta variant said to be far more widespread than federal estimates — “The reality on the ground is likely much higher because states and private labs are taking weeks to report testing results to the CDC.” (POLITICO)