Morning Briefing: Multiple Hispanic-owned businesses in the north central Iowa town of Hampton were targeted with 'Illegal immigrant hunting permit' stickers. https://www.radicalreports.org/p/morning-briefing-hunting-permits

Extremists Links: The New Columbia Movement, the far right anti-LGBTIQ Christian Nationalist group, has filed a lawsuit targeting anti-fascist organizers. https://www.radicalreports.org/p/extremists-links-christo-fascists

Elon Musk's Ambition: Repopulating the planet and 'destroying the woke virus' https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/08/13/elon-musk-s-ambition-repopulating-the-planet-and-destroying-the-woke-virus_6714239_4.html

“‘But, but Charlie, I don’t think Trump is a very good role model for our church.’ I have no patience for you any more, people. I am sick of this.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/charlie-kirk-trump

How US Religious Groups are Exporting Conversion Therapy to Europe https://bylinetimes.com/2024/08/14/us-religious-groups-conversion-therapy-europe/

Atlantic Ocean Conveyor Likely to Collapse Before 2050, Say Climate Scientists https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/atlantic-ocean-conveyor-likely-to-collapse-before-2050-say-climate

Slow-Motion Ripples in Earth’s Mantle Built Mysterious and Stunning Highland Landscapes, Study Finds https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/slow-motion-ripples-in-earths-mantle-built-mysterious-and-stunning-highland-landscapes-study-finds-180984860/

They survived an apocalypse—by sleeping through it https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/water-bear-tardigrade-fossil-amber-evolution

This Ancient, Toothy Sea Beast Sustains Ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-pacific-lampreys

“... an old forest is not one thing but a mosaic of old trees and young, deep woods and sunlit openings, the product of long steady growth but also moments of small-scale destruction.” https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2024/0809/forest-timber-climate-change-ecology

No, You Can’t See the Great Wall of China from Space https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-you-cant-see-the-great-wall-of-china-from-space/

“...the most important factor that diminishes Americans’ support for political violence is responsible leadership from party leaders: a decrease in their violent rhetoric and a rise in anti-violence messaging.” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/how-prevent-spiral-political-violence-america

The Election Cycle as Counter-Insurgency https://itsgoingdown.org/the-election-cycle-as-counter-insurgency/

Morning Briefing: Members of Blood Tribe, the White Supremacist neo-Nazi group, staged a protest while 'carrying swastika flags and rifles while wearing ski masks' in Springfield, Ohio. https://www.radicalreports.org/p/morning-briefing-neo-nazis-flags-and-rifles

“Too burdensome for the state to continue carrying, prohibitively expensive for most real estate prospectors and tainted by history, Berlin has given up on selling or developing it.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/world/europe/joseph-goebbels-germany-nazi-house.html

Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union: Britain’s Second World War Conservatives and their utopian dream of world government. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/radical-conservatives-and-federal-union

Newly Deciphered, 4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets Used Lunar Eclipses to Predict Major Events https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/newly-deciphered-4000-year-old-cuneiform-tablets-used-lunar-eclipses-to-predict-major-events-180984871/

“...believed that Christ stood unequivocally with the oppressed — that social justice wasn’t an aspect of Christianity but its very essence.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/08/09/circle-hope-reckoning-american-church-eliza-griswold-review/

Project 2025 Is Coming for Your Rights: The wholesale capture of the state is the ultimate goal of its Christian nationalist architects. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/project-2025-is-coming-for-your-rights/

“Prince and the other enslaved men had no fondness for their fetters and felt acutely the contradiction between American ideals and their condition.” https://commonplace.online/article/what-freedom-meant-to-prince-whipple/