DARK SECRETS: 9 - The Real Truth

The Crypto Racket

Bitcoin mining afflicts locals with noise pollution, threatens water supplies, and receives generous public backing.

Texas Observer · May 5, 2025

For the record

Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Witney/Stanton Harcourt | Mars images | US history | Recipe for sausages and black-eyed beans

The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2025

Texas Police Are Slowly Joining What Could Be a ‘Giant ICE Army’

New 287(g) task force agreements are trickling in as the Lege considers mandating ICE cooperation and some counties await federal training.

Texas Observer · Apr 24, 2025

The supreme court has carefully ringfenced protections for women. That’s all we wanted

Last week’s ruling clarified the legal safeguards of the Equality Act. However, it was a travesty that the battle needed to be fought at all

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2025

Robin McKie gave prescient warnings about climate change

In terms of Earth, we are a dangerous species

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2025

Miliband in blistering attack on Farage’s UK net zero ‘nonsense and lies’

The energy secretary has accused Reform UK’s leader of peddling dangerous falsehoods about renewable power

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2025

‘I saw cars on fire. People were lying at my feet’: Ukrainian survivors describe Russia’s attack on Sumy

Alla Shyrshonkova was on a bus when Russian missiles hit the city. Now a toy bear and hippo mark the spot where 35 people, including two children, were killed

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2025

ICE won't say if it employs a "fascist"

Rep. Marc Veasey told Salon that ICE has been stonewalling him over its reported employment of a white supremacist

Salon · Apr 17, 2025

What I’ve learned after 40 years as the Observer’s science editor

Almost as amazing as the knowledge we have gained in the past four decades is the fact that some people continue to deny the damage we are doing to our world

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2025

Greenland documentary forces Danes to confront their colonial heritage

As Donald Trump threatens to take over the territory, film claims its cryolite mine was plundered by Denmark

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2025