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** THE WEEKLY REVEAL
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Saturday, January 3, 2026


** The Black Market for a Lifesaving Cat Drug
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In 2023, Marlena Arjo adopted a one-eyed kitten with a penchant for destruction. She named him Otto, and over the next eight months, Otto grew into his own little chaotic personality.

“ He’s laying on houseplants, he’s tearing books out of the bookshelves, ripping the calendar off the wall…I wasn’t prepared for having a criminal in my home,” Arjo joked.

Within months, Otto got sick and stopped eating. Arjo rushed him to a vet and learned he had feline infectious peritonitis, better known as FIP, a disease that kills nearly all cats that contract it.

The vet said there was nothing the clinic could do. But there was something Arjo could do.

“I shouldn’t tell you this,” Arjo recalled the vet telling her. “But by the way, you can get drugs for this if you go to this Facebook group.”

This week on Reveal, in partnership with the Hyperfixed podcast, we tell the story of the cat drug black market, why it was even necessary, and how cat lovers fought for big changes to make the black market obsolete.
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** How a Climate Doomsayer Became an Unexpected Optimist
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Bill McKibben isn’t known for his rosy outlook on climate change.

Back in 1989, the environmentalist wrote The End of Nature, which is considered the first mainstream book warning of global warming’s potential effects on the planet. His writing on climate change has been described as “dark realism.” But McKibben has recently let a little light shine through thanks to the dramatic growth of renewable energy, particularly solar power.

In his latest book, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization, McKibben argues that the planet is experiencing the fastest energy transition in history from fossil fuels to solar and wind—and that transition could be the start of something big.

On this week’s More To The Story, in an update of an episode that originally aired in October, McKibben sits down with host Al Letson to examine the rise of solar power, how China is leapfrogging the United States in renewable energy use, and the real reason the Trump administration is trying to kill solar and wind projects around the country.

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** 🎧 Trump’s Gilded White House Makeover Is All About Power ([link removed])
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Artists are boycotting the Kennedy Center after the president renamed it to include himself. Plans for his White House ballroom are still pushing forward. Why did Donald Trump even bother with all these vanity projects?

As art historian Erin Thompson tells us, it’s all about power.

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** 🎧 A Decade of Reveal ([link removed])
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Let’s kick off 2026 right with a look at our standout investigations from the past 10 years. On this special episode, we celebrate a decade of Reveal.

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Activist Catherine Coleman Flowers examines how the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks could supercharge the movement to protect the planet.

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** 🎧 Fancy Galleries, Fake Art ([link removed])
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It was the largest art fraud in modern US history, totaling more than $80 million. We look at how it happened and why almost no one was ever punished by the authorities.

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This issue of The Weekly Reveal was written by Arianna Coghill and edited by Nikki Frick. If you enjoyed this issue, forward it to a friend ([link removed]) . Have some thoughts? Drop us a line (mailto:[email protected]) with feedback or ideas!

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