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So you know how the climate crisis is messing up crop yields? And how microplastics are now everywhere? NEW RESEARCH: : microplastics are sabotaging photosynthesis in food crops like wheat in ways that could throw 400 million people into starvation in next 20 yrs.🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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•••••BREAKING••••• The measles outbreak in western Texas is rapidly growing, with 25 new cases confirmed in just the last five days. In West Texas alone, there are now a total of 223 confirmed cases, according to new data released by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). Watch..

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Breaking News: Katie Porter will run for California governor. She is a prominent entrant to a race that Kamala Harris is also contemplating.

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President Trump said in a Truth Social post that he would impose an additional 25% tariff on steel and aluminum from Canada, doubling the levies he had planned.

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Among supporters and detractors alike, President Trump's transactional approach to foreign policy has upended old notions about the U.S. as a global leader.

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Five years after the WHO declared the Covid-19 pandemic, scientists are getting a clearer picture of how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes.

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Harvard University, one of the nation’s wealthiest schools, on Monday joined the list of universities across the country imposing hiring freezes, citing the uncertainty created by President Trump’s threats to slash funding for higher education.

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A new survey of the six leading publicly available AI voice cloning tools found that five have easily bypassable safeguards, making it simple to clone a person’s voice without their consent.

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Trump inherited an economy that was firing on all cylinders. Now, just weeks into his tenure, the outlook is far gloomier -- and the sudden deterioration is due almost entirely to his policies and the uncertainty they have created. @colbylsmith.bsky.social #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/b...

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I wrote a short explainer for my Substack of the biggest (but strangely under the radar) corruption of the Trump White House: the Trump crypto coin. A conduit for secret, shameless bribery of the President. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/trumps-big...

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News Analysis: Europe is in shock as the U.S., a nation whose core calling has been the defense of democracy against tyranny, has turned on its ally in Ukraine and embraced President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

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Business owners shared how President Trump’s tariffs could lead to higher costs and expressed frustration at the sudden uncertainty about policy. Read more: nyti.ms/3DghHIs

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In its 60 years, Medicaid has grown from a small program that provided medical care to poor Americans receiving cash assistance to the largest source of public insurance, covering 72 million people. Here is where enrollment in the program is highest. nyti.ms/4intZxz

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Canadians visiting the U.S. were responsible for $20.5 billion in spending last year. Some are now changing their travel plans. “I feel like Canadians have been slapped across the face by Trump.”

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I’m quietly meditating… yet there are 2 chilling thoughts keep haunting me— 📌1. Measles is not just highly infectious with R0 of 12-18, but it has a long 2 WEEK INCUBATION period—ie Texas outbreak could be in the HUNDREDS or more already, and we are seeing just the early tip of iceberg.

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Trump officials race to rehire bird flu employees. But the measures come as the USDA is struggling to rehire key employees working on the virus outbreak who were recklessly fired. Roughly a quarter of employees in a critical office for H5N1 were cut. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Outbreaks of measles in parts of Texas and New Mexico have sickened nearly 100 people, according to state health officials who warned that the number of cases was expected to rise.

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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled that President Trump cannot, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads a watchdog agency.

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Elon Musk and his team say they have saved the government $55 billion. Their “wall of receipts” is riddled with mistakes.

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Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁🍽

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Um, I'm making a whole chicken for Thanksgiving day. Sorry, not sorry. lol😅

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Last time Trump imposed tariffs on China They retaliated against American soybean farmers-who then lost all their Chinese buyers And the farmers had to get bailed out by subsidies So not only were the tariffs an abject failure They wound up costing the American people $23 billion in subsidies