What does the military do with the weapons and munitions it doesn’t use? Blow them up. 🎧 Investigative journalist and filmmaker @abbymartin.bsky.social explains the military’s little known “million-dollar minute."

SCOTUS just heard Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil’s case on whether states should have the power to sue fossil fuel companies for pollution. 🎙️@elienyc.bsky.social explains it all in the new episode of A People’s Climate, dropping this Saturday.

“Over hundreds of years, eugenics transformed into policy, practice & law, as illustrated by today’s immigration quotas, surveillance systems, detention centers & instances of modern-day slavery.” The experiences of pregnant women in ICE detention show that eugenics remains, Edith Romero reports.

Just days before the Supreme Court hears Boulder’s landmark climate case against Big Oil, a New Jersey county filed the latest climate suit against the industry.

Dental care is in crisis in Gaza due to Israel's blockade on supplies, Esraa Abo Qamar reports in a new dispatch from Palestine. As Israel blocks healthcare supplies & anesthesia, patients are going without the dental care they need or living with debilitating tooth pain.

Throughout history, Black and Indigenous people have maintained a kinship with horses that exists beyond the imagination of the empire.

Thank you for this reporting.

NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.

"The Environmental Justice Movement is not going anywhere. It is something that is born out of people and communities, and that it is not predicated on the existence or non-existence of an executive order.”

Samuel Alito has made up to $2.9 million from fossil fuel investments since joining SCOTUS in 2005. Even though he's recused himself from the case, the Court's decision will impact dozens of states trying to hold Big Oil liable for fueling climate change.

🌆 NYC Climate Week just wrapped, and we're loving this piece from Whitney McGuire: "Every September, New York becomes a temporary capital of climate urgency... But somewhere underneath all of that activity is a much quieter question: Who gets to be sustained while we build the future?"

We took a brief hiatus, but now we're back 🦋 In case you don't know us, we're Counterstream — a women-of-color-led movement media nonprofit producing journalism and storytelling on climate and environmental justice 🌱 Follow us for stories and perspectives the mainstream media often miss ✊️