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The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.

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Kennell Staten filed a complaint with HUD, saying he was denied an apartment for being gay — a complaint the agency had long taken seriously. Two days later, HUD informed him that it did not view allegations like his as subject to federal law.

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The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.

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“A construction worker in south Alabama says he was forcibly detained Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who claimed his proof of U.S. citizenship was fake.” www.al.com/news/mobile/...

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Earlier, from Joelle DiPaolo: “If biological sex were as obvious as lawmakers keep insisting that biological sex is, we wouldn’t be here. You wouldn’t have to try so hard to legislate the gender binary into existence.”

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did some yapping about this youtu.be/9e6nJ8-9kms

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🚨Reports around the country today that some people who showed up for their immigration court hearings were told that ICE prosecutors had dismissed their cases — and then were arrested moments later by ICE officers and taken to detention centers for unknown reasons. Happening in multiple cities.

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SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

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Ken Paxton likely used a little known database that tracks RX records of controlled substances to target gender affirming care providers. Worse, he can access the prescription records of anyone without a warrant in over 37 states with an agreement with Texas. www.thedissident.news/texas-ag-ken...

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You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

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Yep it's not an education thing. Highly educated Republicans are more likely to be climate deniers than less educated Republicans. It's conservative ideology and far right media.

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Apologies for yelling, but— SCOTUS COULDN’T DO ITS JOB BECAUSE TOO MANY JUSTICES HAVE BOOK DEALS WITH A PARTY IN A CASE

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None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

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covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power

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Congress is abusing their power to provide a check on the judiciary in order to give more power to the executive 🤬

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The same people who say Adriana Smith should stay hooked up to machines so a fetus can gestate inside her dead body for 7 months because “it’s a sacrifice a mother would make” can’t fathom a mother crossing the border with her children in hopes of providing a better life for them.

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Someone just bombed a reproductive health clinic in California. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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An attempt by DOGE to assign a team to the independent Government Accountability Office was rejected Friday. The GAO is part of the legislative branch and not subject to DOGE's request.

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I want every gay person that doesn't realize that transgender rights and gay rights are interconnected to read this story. A far-right judge just erased your rights against harassment in the workplace along with ours. We are in this together and there's only one way out.

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It is astonishing to live through a moment when race science, eugenics, and some pseudo-scientific sexism are aggressively laundered and openly embraced by the Smart White Boy fraternity of self-identified arbiters of reason who are salivating at the chance of solidifying their status at the top.

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Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story www.ft.com/content/9019...

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"The family of a 30-year-old metro Atlanta mother and nurse said she was declared brain dead more than 90 days ago — but is still being kept alive because she’s pregnant...Her medical team is legally required [by Georgia's abortion ban] to maintain life support until the fetus reaches viability."

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Yes @karenattiah.bsky.social! As a science educator accused of “woke DEI activism” language matters. What is DEI to trump? Anti-white discrimination (i.e. politicized, BS). For those with terminated #NSF grants (>70% are from education)=Making science for EVERYONE! Science literacy is a civil right.

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RFK Jr. brought a disgraced anti-vaxxer, William Archer, to help lead HHS. Now Archer is reportedly preparing to roll back recommendations for several vaccines, a move that could limit insurance coverage and access to the shots. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

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Pepe Mujica, the anarchist guerilla who became president of Uruguay, has passed on. He leaves behind as good a legacy as it's possible to leave. So it goes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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NEW: At least two institutions have been directed to comply with Trump’s anti-trans executive order as a condition of getting NIH grants, according to letters I've seen. The policy marks a new front in the administration's efforts to reshape the science ecosystem. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

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Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer

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Meta has gone to great lengths to hide its content moderation operation, where workers are tasked with reviewing disturbing content Workers say they were instructed to tell no one, not even their families, about the nature of their work (1/4) www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

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"Not only would Google be unable to fully monitor or prevent Israel from using its software to harm Palestinians, but the report also notes that the contract could obligate Google to stonewall criminal investigations by other nations into Israel’s use of its technology."

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