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Last one for Tax Day – NOAA 🌊 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $21/year to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 💡 NOAA turns science into safety — for coasts, communities, & the climate. It helps safeguard lives, property, and ecosystems from rising seas and extreme weather.

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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

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Dennis Lushch updated

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flash drives are so big for so cheap nowadays that it actually fucks me up. i don't want to put a single text file on a 128gb stick. it's too big. the file is going to get all rattled around and dinged up if i leave it in there by itself

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Quinoa is grown all over now but 20 years ago it was almost unknown. USAID, working with countries in the Andean region, helped develop and popularize the nutritious grain, thereby raising living standards and reducing food insecurity. It’s just one example of what we’ve lost.

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Videos — often taken to cartoonish extremes — offer a rare look inside a long-elusive industry and the narratives used by trafficking networks to fuel migration north.

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Palestinian children return to school in Gaza after months without classes due to Israel's war. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/hi4ilp

submitted 61 days ago • 16 comments

Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

submitted 65 days ago • 84 comments

Imagine the rioting and outrage from the other side if Kamala had won and Mark Cuban was in the Oval Office talking about everything he’s done to slash the government.

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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 80 days ago • 2796 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 81 days ago • 1679 comments

For a moment, silence fell over New Orleans’ St. Louis Cathedral as the audience felt history unfold. Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane—the first full-length opera by a Black American—was finally performed. It is absolutely beautiful.

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“Laila was the joy of the house.” The funeral of two-year-old Palestinian Laila al-Khatib, who was killed by an Israeli sniper while eating at home, was held in Jenin, occupied West Bank. 🔴 LIVE updates: http://aje.io/ab8bxo

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Targets Black Beyond Measure list, so you can support black owned businesses directly, regardless of DEI programs. drive.google.com/file/d/1pF-_...

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Elon Musk: "race mixing is bad. Italy for Italians!" woman next to him moves as far away as possible

submitted 89 days ago • 1484 comments

This is a slap in the face to American women. Pete Hegseth has a track record of disrespecting women service members, and multiple credible sexual assault allegations. Our troops deserve better.

submitted 91 days ago • 2436 comments

newrepublic.com/post/190337/...

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apnews.com/article/birt...

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www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

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Just heard about this website that tracks and allows anonymous reporting of ICE sightings: juntosseguros.com

submitted 92 days ago • 5 comments

This is written by the bishop who stood up to Orange Voldemort. Everyone should be buying this. It's available on Amazon for $14. I'm an atheist and I'm buying it. #booksky

submitted 93 days ago • 1455 comments

The Department of Justice has just DELETED its four-year-old webpage on the US Capitol riot investigations.

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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 92 days ago • 2505 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY

submitted 93 days ago • 417 comments

Love this quote from Rebecca Solnit: Be a brick or a dab of mortar. You don’t have to be the whole wall.

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

in one of my favorite books of all time - JUNO & JULIET, an Irish romcom by Julian Gough - one character explains to another that constantly pretending to be an asshole as a joke is meaningfully indistinguishable from actually being an asshole, and I've thought about that every day for 24 years

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