Click Here to Read: Houston to Investigate How ICE Agent Came to Kill a Mexican Immigrant: The agency said Lorenzo Salgado Araujo tried to ram agents with a van before one shot him dead. A lawyer for his passengers said that was untrue By Pooja Salhotra and Orlando Mayorquín in The New York Times on July 10, 2026.
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Click Here to Read: Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining: The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals by By Catrin Einhorn and Maxine Joselow in The New York Times on July 10, 2026.
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Click Here to Read: Lindsey Graham, Graham Platner, and the Benefit of the Doubt: White Supremacy’s most powerful tool is forgiving white men by W. Kamau Bell on his Who’s With Me Substack on July 14, 2026.
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Click Here to Read: Dystopian Trouble Needs Progress, Not Utopia: A McGilchrist-Influenced Reflection on Some Limitations of Idealistic Social Hope by Jamey Hecht on his substack on June 27, 2026.
Click Here to Read: The Center Must Hold: Response to A Comment on “Dystopian Trouble Needs Progress, Not Utopia” Jamey Hecht on his Substack on June 28, 2026.
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Click Here to Read: The Psychology of Presidential Corruption: Why Public Greed Damages the Human Psyche (Vol. 6; Issue 27) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind website on July 7, 2026.
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Click Here to Read: A mere 3,400 years ago, one of Egypt’s greatest, most enigmatic, and, to be polite, let’s say eccentric pharaohs got one of the most revolutionary ideas in history in his head by Candida Moss in the Stones and Bones newsletter on the National Geographic website on July 1, 2026,
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