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Since May 2021, Rebecca Dotson has navigated type II diabetes with the help of mutual aid. Without the right resources—monitoring devices, insulin, and other medications—unmanaged diabetes can, at worst, kill people; it can also lead to expensive hospital stays and complications including amputations. Insulin is seven to 10 times more expensive in the United States than abroad, on average, which can be disastrous for uninsured and underinsured people. A few months after she was first diagnosed, Dotson, a former registered nurse, reached out to a group called Mutual Aid Diabetes, which distributes funds and supplies like insulin pens around the US to those who need them—like Dotson, who now receives insulin and funds to help with insurance co-pays from the group as often as twice a month. Dotson, who lives in Pennsylvania, has also been battling advanced bone cancer, which leaves her in a lot of pain.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 50,000 people have died prematurely in California over a decade due to exposure to toxic particles in wildfire smoke, according to a new study. Wildfires create smoke containing PM2.5, tiny particles roughly one-thirtieth the width of a human hair that can embed themselves deep in the lungs and enter the bloodstream.

New York Times: “Trump spent much of the rally complaining: about the heat, the apparently malfunctioning teleprompters, his legal troubles. He heaped blame upon Democrats, hoping a tale of bad things happening to him would be just as motivating to his base as the charmed version of his life story.” “It was a good bet.

“Justice Samuel Alito Jr.’s wife, Martha-Ann, recently told a woman posing as a conservative supporter that she wanted to fly a Catholic flag at the couple’s Virginia home in response to a Pride flag in her neighborhood,” the New York Times reports. Said Mrs. Alito: “You know what I want? I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month.”

“On the face of it, there is little logic in calling an election from a position of great weakness. But that is what President Emmanuel Macron has done by calling a snap parliamentary election in France on the back of a humiliation by the far right,” the New York Times reports. “After the National Rally of Marine Le Pen and her popular protégé Jordan Bardella handed him a crushing defeat on Sunday in elections for the European Parliament, Mr.

“Utah’s 2024 U. S. Senate Republican primary election debate was mostly a ho-hum affair,” the Salt Lake Tribune reports. “That is until the final seconds of the hourlong debate when Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs insinuated that Rep. John Curtis was guilty of insider trading, drawing an angry response from the congressman.”