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Photos of border wall lighting infrastructure at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, San Pedro River National Conservation Area, Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, San Bernardino Valley and San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge are available for media use with appropriate credit. Please credit Russ McSpadden / Center for Biological Diversity

The Feds Have Thousands of Stadium Lights on the Border. Switching Them On Would Devastate Desert Ecosystems.

The powerful lights mounted on the border wall threaten the dark skies that make southern Arizona a biodiversity hotspot.

DF - BRASILIA - 05/30/2023 - BRASILIA, MEETING OF LATIN AMERICAN PRESIDENTS - The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, gestures to journalists upon his arrival at the Itamaraty Palace, in Brasilia, on May 30, 2023. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is welcoming fellow South American leaders on Tuesday for a "retreat" aimed at strengthening ties in a region where leftist governments are back in fashion. Photo: Mateus Bonomi/AGIF (via AP)

Group of Global Leftist Leaders Warns “Soft Coup” Is Underway in Colombia

A prominent set of progressive leaders are coming to the defense of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro, whose administration is facing a cascading series of struggles.

Intercepted Podcast

Monetary Blowback: How U.S. Wars, Sanctions, and Hegemony Are Threatening the Dollar’s Reserve Currency Dominance

A growing number of countries are preparing to shift from using the U.S. dollar in trade, which could undermine the greenback’s global supremacy.

Protestors reacts before the council members voted 11 to 4 to approve legislation to fund the training center, on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Atlanta. (Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

No One Believes in Cop City. So Why Did Atlanta’s City Council Fund It?

Protesters gather outside Atlanta City Hall ahead of a council vote over whether to approve public funding for the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center, Monday, June 5, 2023. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

DHS Intel Report on Cop City Protesters Cribbed Far-Right Activist Andy Ngo

Ken Klippenstein

Imran Khan, Pakistan's former prime minister, at an interview in Lahore, Pakistan, Jan. 24, 2023.

Deconstructed Podcast

Imran Khan: U.S. Was Manipulated by Pakistan Military Into Backing Overthrow

Ryan Grim, Deconstructed

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of Oath Keepers, speaks during a gun rights rally at the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, Conn., April 20, 2013. Rhodes has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was sentenced Thursday after a landmark verdict convicting him of spearheading a weekslong plot to keep former President Donald Trump in power. (Jared Ramsdell/Journal Inquirer via AP)

Oath Keepers Leader Stewart Rhodes Says He’s a Political Prisoner. Republicans Are Listening.

Podcasts

People in line to vote in Bartow County, Nov. 26, 2022 in Cartersville, GA.

Deconstructed Podcast

A Dmitri Rebuttal by Messaging Expert Anat Shenker-Osorio

Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., holds a news conference on the debt ceiling negotiations in National Statuary Hall in the Capitol, May 24, 2023.

Deconstructed Podcast

Economist Stephanie Kelton on the Debt Limit, a Potential Catastrophe We’re Risking for No Reason

Voices

The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, June 2, 2023. The Senate passed legislation to suspend the US debt ceiling and impose restraints on government spending through the 2024 election, ending a drama that threatened a global financial crisis. Photographer: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Debt Limit Bill: Yet Another Triumph for Bipartisanship

Simi Valley, CA - February 06:Dr. Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA, Monday, February 6, 2023. Kissinger was on hand for the 112th birthday celebration of former President Reagan. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

Henry Kissinger, History’s Bloodiest Social Climber

Politics

STERLING, VIRGINIA - MAY 28: Members of Torque GC celebrate after winning the team portion of the LIV Golf Invitational - DC at Trump National Golf Club on May 28, 2023 in Sterling, Virginia. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)

GOP Lobbyist Claimed to Be “Empowering Women” — but Worked for Saudi Theocracy’s LIV Golf

Ken Klippenstein

Biden Embraces Antisemitism Definition That Has Upended Free Speech in Europe

Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) speaks at a press conference on gun violence on the front steps of the Capitol. The event comes in the wake of the country's 13th school shooting of 2023, at Covenant School in Nashville, TN, on March 27, 2023. Congressional Democrats continue to call for an assault weapons ban, but Republican Senators and Representatives continue to block legislation banning or regulating these types of guns. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP)

U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Preempt State-Level Bans on Foreigners Buying Property

Murtaza Hussain

What We’re Reading and Watching

Justice

Police block traffic in the block of a house in the Edgewood neighborhood where three key organizers who have been aiding protesters against the city's proposed public safety training center were arrested on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, Atlanta, Georgia The three are officers of the group that runs the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which has bailed out people arrested during protests against the project, which opponents derisively call "Cop City." (AP Photo/Kate Brumback)

Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters

Natasha Lennard

CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA - DECEMBER 2: North Dakota national guardsmen stand guard on Turtle Island watching activists and native americans at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 3, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Native Americans and activists from around the country have been gathering at the camp for several months trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The proposed 1,172-mile-long pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois. on December 1, 2016 in Cannon Ball North Dakota, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Oil and Water

Pipeline Company Spent Big on Police Gear to Use Against Standing Rock Protesters

Alleen Brown, Naveena Sadasivam

The Evolv Express weapons detection system flags a weapon that an Evolv Technology employee, wears, May 25, 2022, in New York.

Profits Skyrocket for AI Gun Detection Used in Schools — Despite Dubious Results

People attend a protest in Manhattan to show support for abortion rights in the United States on May 3, 2022 in New York City.

The End of Roe

U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr

National Security

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - 2023/02/11: Julian Assange supporters dress in costumes and hold a large banner during a procession in Westminster London to protest against his continued imprisonment. Free speech and human rights organizations including Amnesty, Reporters Without Borders, Big Brother Watch, National Union of Journalists, and more oppose Julian Assangeís extradition which they say is a threat to press freedom around the globe. Julian Assange faces a potential 175-year sentence if extradited to the United States for his publishing work. Free speech and human rights organizations including Amnesty, Reporters Without Borders, Big Brother Watch, National Union of Journalists, and more oppose Julian Assanges extradition which they say is a threat to press freedom around the globe. Julian Assange faces a potential 175-year sentence if extradited to the United States for his involvement in publishing the Wikileaks documents. (Photo by Loredana Sangiuliano/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

FBI Reopens Case Around Julian Assange, Despite Australian Pressure to End Prosecution

WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE WITH ANDY COHEN -- Episode 19163 -- Pictured: Rachel Maddow -- (Photo by: Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images)

Jamie Raskin and Rachel Maddow, Brought to You by Peter Thiel and Lockheed Martin

In this photo released by the U.S. military's Central Command via the Israel Defense Force, American and Israeli aircraft fly over Israel as they take part in the joint exercise Juniper Oak Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to build "several" nuclear weapons if it chooses, the United Nations' top nuclear official is now warning. But diplomatic efforts aimed at again limiting its atomic program seem more unlikely than ever before as Tehran arms Russia in its war on Ukraine and as unrest shakes the Islamic Republic. The Juniper Oak exercise comes amid the tension. (Israel Defense Force/U.S. military's Central Command, via AP)

Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” If Israel Plans to Bomb Iran

Ken Klippenstein

WASHINGTON, D.C. - AUGUST 25: SIXTY MINUTES episode with Henry Kissinger (walking at left) and the President of the United States of America, Richard M. Nixon. Image. dated August 25, 1970. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

Kissinger’s Killing Fields

Transcripts of Kissinger’s Calls Reveal His Culpability

World

Police cammandos escort former Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan (C) as he arrives at the high court in Islamabad on May 12, 2023. Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was granted bail by the Islamabad High Court on May 12, after his arrest on corruption charges this week sparked deadly clashes before being declared illegal. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP) ( QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images)

In Secret Meeting, Pakistani Military Ordered Press to Stop Covering Imran Khan

Ryan Grim, Murtaza Hussain, Waqas Ahmed

DOOLOW, SOMALIA. JANUARY 12: Displaced Somali women carrying gathered wood for burning in the nearby IDP settlement on January 12, 2023 in Doolow, Somalia.(Photo by Giles Clarke for The New York Times via Getty Images)

Climate Change and Conflict Are Wreaking Havoc in Somalia

May 18, 2023, Mexico City, Mexico: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the daily morning conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo credit should read Luis Barron / Eyepix Group/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

The U.S. Is Unhappy That Mexico Is Spending Money on Its Own Citizens

A section of the rubber plantation town of Snoul, Cambodia, smolders in early May 1970, after nearly 90 percent of the town was destroyed in air strikes and heavy fighting between U.S. forces and North Vietnamese troops. By May 6, the U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment occupied the town. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)

Kissinger’s Killing Fields

U.S. Blamed the Press for Military Looting in Cambodia

Technology

Is Bluesky Billionaire-Proof?

Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) walks through the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2023.

Joe Manchin Rents Office Space to Firm Powering FBI, Pentagon Biometric Surveillance Center

Daniel Boguslaw

Can the Pentagon Use ChatGPT? OpenAI Won’t Answer.

Chris McLaughlin, a vice president with Evolv Technology, test the company's body scanner at Union Station subway station in Los Angeles Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. Passengers boarding subway trains in Los Angeles may soon be shuffled through airport-style body scanners that are aimed to detect firearms and explosives. A two-day pilot program by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Metro began Wednesday at Union Station. Officials say the machines can scan about 600 people per hour. (AP Photo/Mike Balsamo)

AI Tries (and Fails) to Detect Weapons in Schools

Environment

Tidal wetlands are seen in this aerial photograph taken near Newark, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. California and environmental groups say the Trump administration misinterpreted federal law when it classified San Francisco Bay Area salt ponds as beyond the scope of the Clean Water Act. Photographer: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images

In a Gift to Polluting Industries, Supreme Court Rolls Back Clean Water Act Protections

Ed and Clare Lahey at their home in Lee, MA. Both Clare and Ed suffer from several illnesses that they feel came from the PCB contaminants in the Housatonic River, which runs by their home. Lee, Massachusetts

A Massachusetts Town Is Suing Monsanto for Its Cancer-Causing PCBs

Aoife Murphy, left, and David Strader of Luminalt work to install solar panels on the roof of a home in Menlo Park, Calif., on July 13, 2022. California utility regulators will consider a proposal on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, to remake financial incentives for people who install rooftop solar panels on their homes. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

The “Electrify Everything” Movement’s Consumption Problem

NORTH DAKOTA, UNITED STATES - 2017/02/22: Defiant Dakota Access Pipeline water protectors faced-off with various law enforcement agencies on the day the camp was slated to be raided. Many protesters and independent journalist, who were all threatened with multiple felony charges if they didn't leave were met with militarized police on the road abutting the camp. At least six were arrested, including a journalist who reportedly had sustained a broken hip. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Oil and Water

After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest “Counterinsurgency” to Other Oil Companies

Alleen Brown, Naveena Sadasivam