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For Indian communities, fishmeal factories bring pollution, danger and protests
Your salmon and prawns depend on this industry. It's bonkers to catch fish, turn them into fishmeal to feed other fish. Don't eat farmed salmon, in particular.
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For Indian communities, fishmeal factories bring pollution, danger and protests
A proposed fishmeal plant in Cuncolim on India’s southwestern coast has reignited opposition to an industry accused of pollution, unsafe working conditions, and unsustainable fishing practices. An Outlaw Ocean Project investigation found at least 30 Indian fishmeal plants linked to environmental violations or other legal infractions between 2018 and 2024, as well as 18 episodes of civil unrest. The industry provides jobs and tax revenue, but also diverts fish from local food supplies, exposes…

Donald Trump’s use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune
has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues
by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefitting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more,
while federal oversight of his actions has waned.
Trump last year raked in at least
$1.4bn from his crypto ventures according to financia…

Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ presidency
Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level

“Many…have argued against voting for the worst offenders on this list even where it means a Republican takes the seat. A Republican victory costs the community one seat for one term. A worst-offender victory teaches the party’s consultant class…that throwing transgender people under the bus is a winning strategy, and that lesson would be applied everywhere… One seat can be won back. Losing both parties cannot.” Sound analysis.

The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.

A look at AI news website RuntimeWire, which costs $100/day to run and "beat" human reporters to OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure, favoring quantity over quality (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-newsrooms-are-breaking-news-now-ha…

Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.

Social media posts: incoming WH press secretary Katie Zacharia echoed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, made pedophilia accusations against Democrats, and more (Andrew Kaczynski/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/politics/kfile-katie-zacharia-deleted-tweets…

New White House press secretary has a history of conspiracy-laced social media posts
President Donald Trump’s incoming White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, repeatedly made baseless accusations of pedophilia against prominent Democrats and shared conspiracy-related content, including claims that echoed the debunked “Pizzagate” theory and that Hollywood elites were pedophilic cannibals, according to a CNN KFile review of her social media posts.

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In newly unearthed audio,
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate
Mike Rogers (Michigan)
appears to dismiss voter's concerns over affordability.
In a radio interview from January, Rogers blasted Democrats for highlighting the fact that Americans are facing higher consumer prices on myriad goods and services.
“They [Democrats] say,
‘Trump caused high prices’
— people go nuts, they lose their mind.
I do believe there is this Trump derangement,…

Leaked Audio Features Michigan GOP Candidate Mike Rogers Mocking Voters’ Affordability Concerns
Rogers minimized worries about rising costs due to Trump administration policies as “derangement.”…

A look at AI news website RuntimeWire, which costs $100/day to run and "beat" human reporters on OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure, favoring quantity over quality (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-newsrooms-are-breaking-news-now-ha…

Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.

In the last 35 years, Democrats have won the presidency five times to the Republicans’ four,
a number that includes the two times (George W. Bush in 2000 and Donald Trump in 2016) the party lost the popular vote but won the anachronistic Electoral College.
Coupled with the fact that control of Congress has been evenly split,
it’s not as though the GOP has had their fingers on the American pulse this whole time.
Instead, they have built a massive partisan media infras…

Mike Rogers is the real radical in the Michigan Senate race
While Abdul El-Sayed works to unite Democrats, the GOP nominee is embracing dangerous parts of the MAGA agenda

Lisa Demuth, the Republican speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives,
secured the Republican nomination for governor,
-- edging out pillow salesman Mike Lindell, who had received Trump’s endorsement in the race.
Demuth became speaker last year in an evenly divided House, becoming the first Black person in the role.

Minnesota progressive wins Senate primary over anti-ICE sentiments, as Wisconsin governor’s race remains close – live
Peggy Flanagan sweeps Minnesota Senate primary; in Wisconsin, moderate David Crowley and Democratic socialist Francesca Hong face tight race to be Democratic nominee for governor