Koch network’s flagship super PAC pours big money into 2024 elections https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/koch-network-flagship-super-pac-pours-big-money-into-2024-elections/

Recommended Reading: Reports of the Death of Project 2025 Are Greatly Exaggerated https://www.radicalreports.org/p/recommended-reading-death-of-project-2025

Extremists Links: Five years after a White Supremacists murder 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, the community is 'still coming to grips with the consequences of that attack.' https://www.radicalreports.org/p/extremists-links-five-years-after

J. D. Vance and the Right’s Call to Have More Babies https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/j-d-vance-and-the-rights-call-to-have-more-babies

"...the equations of quantum mechanics tell us that at any moment the world is composed of many such coexisting states, a tension that has long troubled physicists." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experiments-prepare-to-test-whether-consciousness-arises-from-quantum/

Scientists Find Water Molecules in Lunar Rock Sample for the First Time https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/Scientists-Find-H2O-Molecules-in-Change-5-Lunar-Samples-180984844/

Fear, Loathing and Desperation: Observations on the right-wing's collective temper tantrum and epic meltdown in response to Joe Biden's decision and Kamala Harris' ascension, and what may be next. https://www.radicalreports.org/p/fear-loathing-and-desperation

"The current unrest on Reykjanes—we can say that there are probably 80 percent probability that we will have an eruption, so eruption’s very likely, but we don’t know when it’s going to be. And yet we are not—we cannot nail down where it’s going to be." https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/science-is-solving-icelands-dangerous-volcanic-mystery/

Hidden Underground Magma Pools Fueled Iceland’s Volcanic Eruptions, Study Suggests https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hidden-underground-magma-pools-fueled-icelands-volcanic-eruptions-study-suggests-180984818/

Self-Managed Abortions Have Increased Since Fall of ‘Roe’ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/self-managed-abortions-have-increased-since-fall-of-roe/

Morning Briefing: A New York state lawmaker was the target of bomb threats, and a Minnesota lawmaker's home was the target of racist graffiti. https://www.radicalreports.org/p/morning-briefing-state-lawmakers-threats

Why Were There So Many Skeletons Hidden in Benjamin Franklin’s Basement? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-were-there-so-many-skeletons-hidden-in-benjamin-franklin-basement-524521/

“Again, it’s fucking weird. These dudes are just very weird.” https://gizmodo.com/trumps-army-of-online-losers-keep-making-everything-weird-2000481732

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Parker Molloy, Charlotte Clymer, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Sian Norris, Lyz Lenz, Melissa Ryan, and Kristin Du Mez https://www.radicalreports.org/p/recommended-reading-unmasking

"Musk has manipulated the X algorithm to make sure his deceitful content gets seen far and wide—even beyond his now-193 million followers." https://unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/elons-war-on-america/

Some Trees ‘Hold Their Breath’ During Wildfires https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/some-trees-hold-their-breath-during-wildfires/

Why Are Giant, Ancient Tropical Trees Dying? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-are-giant-ancient-tropical-trees-dying-180984812/

Why Trump Can’t Banish the Weirdos https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/trump-project-2025-director-weird/679321/

Who are the 117 organizations currently or previously listed as members of Project 2025’s Advisory Board?

Today at 5:00pm EDT, explore this interactive visualization, and discover the right-wing groups and the funders behind Project 2025.

Details: https://fundrazr.com/mappingproject2025

Extremists Links: Neo-Nazis are 'openly promoting hate speech and real-world recruitment on TikTok,' and 'its algorithm is amplifying their reach,' according to a new report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. https://www.radicalreports.org/p/extremists-links-tiktok-neo-nazis