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Black Lives Matter movement to mark 10 years of activism, renews call to defund the police

The Black Lives Matter movement turns 10 years old on Thursday, marking the day in 2013 that the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin was acquitted in his death

The Independent UK

A mining company is hunting for lithium — right on the edge of wildlife refuge

LAS VEGAS -- The modern-day gold rush in the race to a greener economy is knocking on the door of a long-protected oasis in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Biden’s land grab would hurt Nevada

The Biden administration’s newest lands plan is bad news for Western states, and it will disproportionately hurt Nevada.

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Black Lives Matter 10-year anniversary: Why was it founded and what has changed?

The international movement took off after the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012

Evening Standard

Fraud lawsuit against Black Lives Matter foundation dismissed in California

A California judge has dismissed a civil lawsuit that grassroots racial justice activists from around the U.S. brought last summer against a foundation with stewardship of the Black Lives Matter movement’s charitable endowment worth tens of millions of dollars

The Independent UK

Court to hear appeal over Biden-backed Nevada lithium mine opposed by tribes, environmentalists

A U.S. appeals court is considering challenges to a huge lithium mine in Nevada that pits environmentalists and Native Americans against President Joe Biden’s plans to combat climate change

The Independent UK

House Republicans aim to block a BLM land management proposal - Roll Call

A House panel will mark up a bill Wednesday designed to block the BLM from making conservation a land use equivalent to other uses.

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Tribal activists see 'green colonialism' in Nevada mine Biden hails as key to clean energy

A huge lithium mine under construction in northern Nevada is at the center of a dispute over President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda

The Independent UK

Black Lives Matter street murals are fading away

The return of rush hours and declining support for BLM are both to blame.

Axios

Commentary: Is racism making us too tired to fight it?

June already has its share of monthly observances, including Pride, ALS awareness and African American Music Appreciation. Let me add one more to the list: It should be National Vigilance Month.

Los Angeles Times

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 review

Every year since 1769, the Royal Academy has hosted a Summer Exhibition, a “cave-of-wonders-cum-candy-shop-cum-car-boot-sale of works by known academicians and keen members of the public”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. And, as the saying goes, “it is what it is”. This latest iteration, stewarded by watercolourist David Remfry, features…

The Week

Rufus Norris to step down as National Theatre leader in spring 2025

Director says past eight years ‘most challenging time in history’ for sector, but audience figures finally back at pre-pandemic levels

The Guardian - UK

New survey shows support for Black Lives Matter movement lowest in 3 years

The sharp drop in backing for a movement tackling systemic racism comes amid a conservative backlash.

Axios

US judge yanks approval for Idaho mine after finding that federal agency violated environmental laws

A federal judge has yanked the U.S. government's approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho

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New Black Lives Matter tax documents show foundation is tightening its belt, has $30M in assets

A national Black Lives Matter nonprofit, whose philanthropic fortunes grew almost overnight during historic racial justice protests three years ago, raised just over $9 million in its last fiscal year, new IRS tax filings show

The Guardian - US

How solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’

Residents feel trapped and choked by dust, while experts warn environmental damage is ‘solving one problem by creating others’

Reason

Vivek Ramaswamy Thinks 'Wokeness Is a Cultural Cancer'

Why the businessman launched a long shot campaign for the presidency.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago cops’ racist social media posts detailed in new COPA report

It stems from an investigation into posts made amid a controversy over affordable housing in Jefferson Park that led to 3 cops quitting and 2 now fighting suspensions.

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The Guardian - US

‘Memorial to all who suffered’: survivors protest wind farm near Japanese American incarceration site

About 13,000 people were held at the Minidoka camp during the second world war. Now, a green energy project threatens the ‘sacred’ place

Reason

College Subjected Student to 'Extended Inquisition' Into Her Political Beliefs, Lawyer Claims

Morgan Bettinger might sue the University of Virginia for violating her First Amendment rights.

Salon

The GOP war on youth is literally armed

Republicans encourage paranoid, angry men to buy guns — young people are the ones paying the price

Advnture

Your guide to camping in Colorado

Get the down and dirty on camping in Colorado, from when to go to what you’ll need to stay safe and keep the stoke high

Reason

It Took 15 Years for the Feds To Approve a 700-Mile Electric Line

It'll be another five years before it's operational.

The Independent UK

Racist messages by Army sergeant who killed BLM protester revealed as Texas governor looks to pardon him

‘It is official, I am a racist because I do not agree with people acting like animals at the zoo,’ Daniel Perry wrote in a post less than two months before killing Garrett Foster

The Independent UK

Judge affirms stricter interpretation of federal mining law

Another judge has adopted a U.S. appellate court’s stricter interpretation of a century-and-a-half-old mining law in a new ruling that blocks a metals mine in Nevada

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