The Doomscroll News Report
This week, hosts Amanda and Hanna continue to talk about the Iran-Israel conflict, and how the United States decided to jump in over the weekend, causing Iranian couterstrikes, and then a sudden ceasefire agreement a littler over a week after Israel's first strikes into the country. Then Amanda gets to an issue on american soil near-and-dear to her heart, about how Senate members are suggesting a sale of public lands in the U.S. to help fund Trump's domestic pocliy bill, or the "Big Beautiful Bill".
Read along with us:
Israel-Iran conflict: 1. The U.S. Bombed Iran. Now What? (Rachael Abrams and David Sanger, the New York Times podcast “The Daily”), 2. What we know about Iran's attack on US base in Qatar (Sean Seddon & Gabriela Pomeroy, BBC), 3. Fragile ceasefire appears to hold between Israel and Iran. Trump vents frustration with both sides (The Associated Press, CTV News), 4. Supreme Leader, in first appearance since ceasefire, says Iran would strike back if attacked (Jana Choukeir and Nayera Abdallah, Reuters)
Public land sales to fund the policy bill: 1. Proposed sale of millions of acres of public land under GOP budget bill prompts backlash (Jeremy Tanner, the Hill), 2. Trump's federal land sell-off proposal includes 5M acres in Washington (Sebastian Robertson, King5 News), 3. Idaho is on the verge of losing massive access to hunting and fishing (Chris Wood, The Idaho Statesman), 4. What to know as the senate tries to pass Trump’s agenda bill next week (Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris, CNN)