Saturday, July 18, 2026

Canadian wildfires burn out of control, driving a climate advocate to demand “Nuremberg trials for big oil” and declare that “climate change isn’t a tragedy, it’s a crime. The fossil fuel industry are arsonists at a global scale. It’s their pollution that’s fueling these horrific wildfires.” Republicans respond not by confronting the arsonists but by threatening tariffs on Canada for “exporting” smoke, ignoring experts’ warnings that climate change is supercharging the fires. The flames make visible what capital has long treated as externality.

Zeteo documents Trump laying groundwork to steal future elections in its Week 78 roundup tracking authoritarianism’s growth in his second term. A Trump amicus brief advances a “slave tourism” legal theory that would let foreigners bring enslaved people into the U.S., flagged by legal expert Paul Gowder during a Legal AF podcast interview on Richard Epstein’s argument.

In Victoria, the Committee for Public Education urges teachers to vote “no” on a rushed union ballot, denouncing a government-AEU conspiracy against educators’ rights. Meanwhile, Mamdani’s initiative jumpstarts an essential discussion about the need to address a potentially deadly problem — heat protection for workers.

The FTX bankruptcy grinds on three and a half years after collapse, customers still locked out while Sam Bankman-Fried serves his fraud sentence. Journalist Fortesa Latifi plunges into the dark world of family vlogging. Corporate media’s elegiac coverage of Lindsey Graham didn’t just whitewash his record — it illustrated the affinity and symbiosis between him and the press corps, a reminder that Democrats keep refusing to name the corporate interests standing in the way.