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Health emergencies have not paused since January but news informing the public about them has. www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

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(Reuters) - Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

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Threatening social media posts targeting US judges have increased by more than 300 percent since last year, a new report shows.

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The rule change the Trump administration quietly proposed could green-light the destruction of protected species’ habitats, making it nearly impossible to protect endangered species. The public, which has long supported the Endangered Species Act, has until May 19, 2025, to comment on the proposal.

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At the outset of the playoffs, I was convinced that the Eastern Conference Finals would be Celtics - Cavaliers. The basketball gods had other plans. #nba #NBAPlayoffs

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The FDA has not published more than a dozen letters that flagged hazards at food companies, including potential contamination, two sources said.

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There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, denounced on Thursday what she described as "relentless attacks" on judges, and an environment of harassment that "ultimately risks undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."

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“Shipping ports are empty across the United States. Nothing is coming in. Businesses have cancelled the remainder of their 2025 orders.” (h/t FreightWaves)

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Analysis of nearly 500 bird species across North America has found that three-quarters are declining across their ranges, with two-thirds of the total shrinking significantly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

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A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Pay attention: DOJ removes managers, closes all cases in voting enforcement office responsible for preventing voter discrimination: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Three prosecutors: The DOJ “has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington.”

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(WSJ) - The Trump rout is taking on historic dimensions. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. The scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been detained by ICE, facing deportation instead of receiving asylum.

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Trump is wrapping up 100 days of historic failure. My @postopinions.bsky.social column looking back at a period of destruction unlike any other in American history. Gift link: wapo.st/3RWUWg8

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INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Alarming. 'Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure.' www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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The exchange at the Oval Office before the press pool entered: Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough." Bukele: "We got space." Everyone laughs. youtu.be/myFL_QyW4QY

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Consumer sentiment plunged 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the University of Michigan said in its latest survey released Friday, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952.

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🆕 GLOBAL SOLAR POWER GENERATION IS DOUBLING EVERY THREE YEARS ☀☀☀ A beautiful graph from @ember-energy.org as always, from their new Global Electricity Review 👇 ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Someday hopefully we will see Paige and Ju Ju trading buckets as opponents in a big game but not this year, alas. Such special talents. USC bout to run into a UConn buzz saw. #ncaawbb #wnba

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USDA had previously allocated $500 million in deliveries to food banks for fiscal year 2025 through The Emergency Food Assistance Program. Now, food bank leaders say many of those orders have been canceled. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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AP Exclusive: Trump administration workforce cuts at the federal agencies that oversee the nation's dams are jeopardizing their ability to provide reliable electricity, provide water for irrigation and control flooding, workers and dam-safety experts warn. apnews.com/article/dams...

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“Deadly diseases don’t bother with borders; no wall will keep them out. If America stays the course, 'Something went wrong' will become the epitaph of a great country, one that once led the world in global health preparedness,” Craig Spencer writes:

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I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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"Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Exactly this from @brianbeutler.bsky.social: At a minimum, Dems need to be procedurally aggressive enough to ensure that "their role in the constitutional system be upheld" www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

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Do you have republican reps? Now is the time to call. They only need to flip 3 to keep Musk out of your most sensitive data. Right now he may have access not only to your SSN and tax records, but also potentially whatever bank accounts you use to pay taxes/receive refunds.

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LISTEN: Judge Coughenour condemns Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship. It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.” Part 1:

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Jamelle Bouie hits it out of the park. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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Competence about to become the new sexy.

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Dems can: -oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn -deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings -vote no on all cloture -force quorum calls at every chance It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.

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Garth’s passing hits hard. youtube.com/watch?v=tBc_...

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This is an excellent place to start. zeteo.com/p/what-to-do...

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It’s official: 2024 was the hottest year on record, breaking the previous record set in 2023 and pushing the world over a critical climate threshold, according to new data from Europe’s climate monitoring agency Copernicus.

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Current Congress should seek to pass a law requiring full background checks on all PAS and senior nat sec appointments. Make GOP go on the record voting against our national security. Block where possible nominees without background checks.

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Among the many things the second Trump admin will teach us is that Democrats have not been nearly ambitious enough in their use of state power to achieve their stated goals. Just block out the noise and do the work.

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