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5 days ago | vox.com | Ian Millhiser

Top officials within the Justice Department, the State Department, and possibly even the White House may be barrelling toward a criminal conviction for contempt of court. It is far from clear, however, whether anything will happen to them even if they are convicted.

6 days ago | vox.com | Eric Levitz

Last year, a coterie of tech billionaires rallied behind Donald Trump’s candidacy. Many had not been lifelong Republicans. In 2016, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared Hillary Clinton the “obvious choice” for president, saying Trump’s immigration agenda “makes me sick to my stomach.” Elon Musk, meanwhile, had once been an Obama-supporting climate hawk. Yet they, and many others in their circles, found their way to supporting an openly authoritarian insurrectionist in 2024.

6 days ago | vox.com | Abdallah Fayyad

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University, went into a US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Vermont on Monday for his scheduled naturalization interview. But instead of being granted citizenship, he was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which started the process to deport him.

6 days ago | vox.com | Kenny Torrella

From 2017 to 2020, meat-free sausages and veggie burgers had a moment. Sales of plant-based meat doubled thanks to new startups — like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods — which collectively took billions of dollars in venture capital investment and invented much more meaty vegetarian products than their predecessors. The emerging sector was hailed as a potential silver bullet solution to the ills of factory farming: animal suffering, climate change, deforestation, and more.

1 week ago | vox.com | Benji Jones

Plant milkweed seedlings. Use any space you have, including a garden or a pot on your porch. Here’s a map of places that sell milkweed. Just make sure the milkweed is native to your region — this resource helps. Plant native milkweed seedlings or seeds — seeding is slightly more involved, but see here for guidance. And then also plant wildflowers that are native to your area, which provide nectar for monarchs. Xerces Society has a list of flowers specific to different regions.