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Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

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NEWS: Earlier today, the Fourth Circuit denied a stay pending appeal (9-6) of the Social Security Administration/DOGE preliminary injunction from Judge Hollander — and set the appeal for initial hearing before the full court en banc (not a three-judge panel) with briefing over June and July.

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TRUMP DEPORTS 4-YEAR-OLD US CITIZEN WITH STAGE 4 CANCER

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The CDC has eviscerated divisions that oversee a database on accidental deaths and injuries and the team that maintains a tool for tracking sexually transmitted diseases. The EPA will stop requiring that industry measures greenhouse gas emissions.

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ICYMI: Georgetown Law students made a 853-row spreadsheet of Trump-caving firms. It drew national headlines. Recruiters noticed some talent looked elsewhere. Firms lobbied to change their designation. An organizer tells @www.AllRiseNews.com the background www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...

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This episode of our new audio miniseries is incredible, and we’d appreciate you sharing it on your social media feed and everywhere else. Go subscribe to the series for free by searching “Lever Time” on your podcast app right now. www.levernews.com/tax-revolt-p...

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Emergence and interstate spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) in dairy cattle in the United States

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WATCH | RFK Jr claims autistic children will never go on dates or pay taxes Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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The DC Circuit, late tonight, has blocked Judge Chutkan’s ruling requiring Citibank to disburse funds appropriated to Biden-era climate programs. Chutkan just issued her opinion (right), finding that the effort to claw back the funds violated the law and constitution.

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4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War Hackers claim to have obtained 4chan's code, emails of moderators, and internal communications. 🔗 www.404media.co/4chan-is-dow...

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Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

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The Senator will be my guest tonight on @allinwithchris.bsky.social

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1. The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a national "snitch form" to report gender affirming care providers. The last few times state Republicans did this, they were overloaded with memes and Bee Movie scripts. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Absolutely infuriating

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A paper in Nature reports on the discovery of the oldest known facial bones from a hominin from Western Europe, approximately 1.4–1.1 million years old. https://go.nature.com/3R4ZMaJ 🏺 🧪

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Han will immediately lose power if his impeachment is upheld, but will return as the interim leader of the country if the motion is rejected.

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A coalition of some of the largest Democratic grassroots groups want to use Substack to promote their pushback against Trump’s agenda.

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Anger in Greenland over visits this week by Usha Vance and Mike Waltz

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Here we go again: Fake audio is going around of JD Vance supposedly griping about Elon Musk, and some big accounts are sharing it. It's a bad, obvious, stupid fake. If you share it without clearly labeling it as fake, you're making yourself look gullible—and you're harming our politics. Quit it.

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After a month break, I describe U.S. march toward tyranny as a slow cooker, turned up by degrees from Salvadoran gulags to snatched students to detained tourists to big-ticket capitulations. Trump wants to boil the frog... ...But we are not yet cooked. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

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DEVELOPING: Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), says fate of besieged rescue workers in Rafah ‘unknown’ after 15 hours. Israel is refusing to coordinate a rescue after its forces besieged an emergency medical team on a mission to rescue the wounded in Rafah.

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Chinese Premier Li Qiang said the country is prepared for “shocks that exceed expectations” as the world braces for US President Donald Trump to announce more tariffs on its trading partners next month.

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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

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Meta really liked Chain of Title, they trained on it 4 times (once in Mandarin)

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Democrats have few options for challenging President Trump and GOP majorities in Congress. Some on the left say they had a chance over the government spending bill, but top Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer voted with the GOP and supplied the needed votes to pass the bill, angering many in his party.

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These 10 jailed journalists worked for U.S. outlets that Trump silenced. Several journalists are still detained in authoritarian states simply for doing their job, by @rezaian.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... via @postopinions.bsky.social #JournalismIsNotACrime #journalism

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"Measles is arguably the most contagious infectious disease that scientists know about…Researchers have estimated that you want to see vaccination rates in the 95 percent range to protect a community."

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OP/ED If #NLRB board members can be 🪓 by a president any time he objects to their votes, the rule of law is kaput, along with well-accepted principles of conflict resolution. Such a prospect is a ⛈️ over US labor, which lost ground even under Biden. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... via @latimes.com

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NEW: Bari Weiss’s University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary’s speech-suppressing regime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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The easiest way you can show solidarity right now is to wear a mask when you're doing your grocery shopping. Seriously. You're protecting people around you and normalizing community care. I wear a mask when I do my grocery shopping. Will you join me?

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This is so excellent I will add alt text so all can read it

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I could not in good conscience suggest to any non-citizen that they shld be trying to transit in and out of the United States at the present moment.

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Egg smuggling is a thing now

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The FDA has reportedly targeted a manufacturer of poppers, an inhalant drug that has gained increasingly mainstream popularity as an adjunct to clubbing and sexual activity.

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The tense one-hour debate in Milwaukee between liberal judge Susan Crawford and conservative judge Brad Schimel focused in large part on reproductive rights and the millions of dollars being spent on the race by high-profile billionaires in what's technically a nonpartisan election.

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19 March 1937 | French Jewish boy, Henri Flamenbaum, was born in Paris. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 17 August 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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Minoru Kariya's father, Kiyoshi, then 68, was killed in an abduction case involving the doomsday cult in 1995.

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When the history of this period is written, will you have been on the side of peace and humanity, or on the side of Israel and genocide? Will your descendants appreciate you? Or will they be ashamed of you and wonder how you lived with yourself?

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THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

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Regulator accused of letting hedge funds control Thames Water. TW shares worthless, shareholders won't invest. Lenders in control, want public money, will continue to extract cash. OFWAT approved price hikes, likely to suspend fines. Must nationalise to end crisis. archive.ph/vr4UK

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NEW: When ProPublica and @texastribune.org asked the Valere Public Schools board whether it had any plans to make changes to the pay that Salvador Cavazos receives on top of his base salary, the board sent a one-word response: “No.”

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The United States launched airstrikes on dozens of sites in Yemen over the last day, killing more than 30 people—many of them women and children. The Houthis responded by firing 18 ballistic and cruise missiles at the USS Truman. Read Drop Site’s latest story by Shuaib Almosawa for details ⬇️

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