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Lower Manhattan's economy has gotten an almost billion-dollar boost in just the first month of congestion pricing. Public transit has rebounded south of 60th Street faster than it has in the rest of the city. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/27/m...

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Lol. This is such a strange sentiment found online. Random folks commenting on an article (that deserves a lot of critical commentary) getting equated with Dem strategists. Ms Cooper isnt a disconnected voter. She &her folks tune into the right wing media. She also knows he treats women badly.

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Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.

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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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After the first measles death of a child HHS Secretary Kennedy seemed to downplay the Texas outbreak saying outbreaks were "not unusual," and the 18 kids hospitalized were "mainly for quarantine." A pediatrician on the ground said they couldn't breathe. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Babies, children and teens getting measles. The stupidity of the adults responsible for the well being of these kids is unforgivable. So much unnecessary suffering.

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It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes!

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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

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25 years ago measles was declared eliminated in the United States due to the success of vaccination. In 2024, there were outbreaks in 33 states, 90% of which were in the unvaccinated.

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Katherine Rundell:”There’s a willed optimism inherent in the act of writing for children…To write those books is to insist tht though the world burns,& there is more fire to come,it will always be worth teaching children to rejoice…worth showing them hw to build an internal blueprint for happiness.”

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“As the old prop of trickle-down economics lost its credibility, a new prop was needed to sustain the neoliberal regime politically. The solution came in the form of an alliance between globally integrated corporate capital and local neofascist elements.”

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Amitav Ghosh: “You can’t say that the West doesn’t have a plan for climate change. Catastrophe is the plan…It is a well-thought-out decision to continue to sow chaos and believe that the consequences won’t hit in your lifetime.” theprint.in/feature/arou...

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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

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One impact of the NSF freeze: They fund the small nonprofit, EarthScope, that manages seismic and GPS stations used worldwide to detect and warn of earthquakes and navigate autonomous vehicles. EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.

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“I feel like I am safe in saying that we are not thriving on our changing planet...But I’m not filled with despair...Even if thriving isn’t possible..protecting what is most important..ensuring a decent life for our kids can be possible &is worth working towards as best as we can.”—Ben Hamlington

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In 2025, New York state has the opportunity to improve working conditions for prison laborers—and maybe even end prison slavery for good. But will legislators act? hellgatenyc.com/ending-vesti...

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“I see a difference, definitely,” said Tony, who has spent 18 years as a bus operator for the MTA. “There have been no delays the entire week, and when I look to my left and right down the avenues I can see all the way down – I’ve never seen it like that.” nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/10/m...

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Pico Iyer & Caryl Phillips on migration, Walcott, Naipaul &home. “home is the place, for me, where, when you arrive, they don’t want to take you in…even the most undefended refugee shares many of the questions that we carry…”—Pico Iyer granta.com/in-conversat...

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Comments (mostly from young folks) on a simple post abt the cost benefits of cooking at home vs ordering in is another reason why climate change will not be “solved” by the West. Ways of living that’ll seem to be a “major reset” for folks here, is daily life for most in the Global South.

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It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

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Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination of Kniphofia foliosa (Ethiopian red hot poker) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Back in March, Ipsos released its annual Women's Day poll, which showed that roughly half of American men--and even larger percentages of Gen-Z and Millennial men--are skeptical of women's rights and blame efforts toward gender equality for the struggles of men. 🧵1/ www.ipsos.com/en-us/millen...

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Twitter never was a town hall for the Global South—at least not for those who live there. Twitter was always a western focused soc platform that folks in Global South used to reach folks in the Global North. In India Facebook/WhatsApp/Youtube/Instagram are where online communities exist.

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The measles vaccine has saved 94 million lives over the past 50 years, and it plus vaccines against 13 other pathogens have cut infant mortality by 40 percent and saved 154 million lives. 154 MILLION LIVES 🧪 Anti-vaxxer RFKJ is a menace to global health www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

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It's amazing that we've had the two hottest years in the last 125,000 and it's barely registered in our collective consciousness. A few thoughts on the role journalism is playing (or not) www.cjr.org/analysis/bil...

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People do care about extinct species, but not for long This social empathy, both long and short lived, may aid in conserving species as conservation funding is fundamentally based on wide public support, either through direct funding or policy change. www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-bio...

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As of November 5, 2024, 43.4% of the U.S. and Puerto Rico and 51.89% of the lower 48 states are in drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor—the greatest number since records began. www.drought.gov/current-cond...

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About 125 years ago, four Lakota nuns enlisted as Army nurses, traveling from North Dakota to Florida, to Georgia and eventually Cuba to help wounded soldiers.The first known Native American women to serve in the United States military. 19thnews.org/2023/11/firs...

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The horrifying desiccation of the Amazon: sumauma.com/en/infografi... Photo: Severe drought has altered the landscape of the Solimões River in Manacapuru, Amazonas State, forcing the local population to make drastic changes to their way of life.

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From the global north’s vantage point, the climate crisis…has long been seen as a distant threat, affecting poor people in the global south. This misconception has perpetuated a false sense of security… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Humans tend to underestimate the pace of innovation and overestimate the inertia of incumbent technologies. Clean energy technologies have scaled much more rapidly than predicted by modellers.

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Apples are SO GOOD now! Here's how we got so many amazing varieties. Isn't it wonderful that you can hold a pinnacle of human achievement in your hand and take a bite? 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...

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