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NEW: Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon The administration has canceled a deal, signed under President Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon. With @opb.org

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Covid vaccination protects against severe kidney damage, study suggests A new study finds that patients hospitalized for Covid were less likely to suffer severe kidney damage if they were vaccinated.

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BREAKING: New COVID Variant NB.1.8.1 Linked to Severe ‘Razor Blade Throat’ Symptom, Experts Warn.

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Workers are "terrified" as immigration agents sweep farms, the president of United Farm Workers says, adding that Americans should think about the "human loss" as well as "crops rotting" in the fields.

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58 years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled on the side of our clients Mildred and Richard Loving, legalizing interracial marriages nationwide. This Loving Day, we honor the generations of families who were torn apart by anti-miscegenation laws and celebrate the couple that changed history.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ousting all members of a key CDC vaccination advisory committee and replacing them with his own picks. The move appears to contradict a pledge he made during his confirmation process.

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Today we remember D-Day, when Allied troops stormed the beaches of France to liberate Europe from fascism. We honor the lives given so that Europe may live free. Honor them by keeping America free, no matter the cost.

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Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

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Didn't get the firefighter job simply because I told them I'm pro-fire. These purity tests are divisive and will get us nowhere

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It makes me so unbelievably sad how much progress on mRNA vaccines is going to be delayed. Arguably the most impactful applied biochemistry breakthrough since CRISPR-Cas9 and the full benefits are going to end up unnecessarily delayed for a decade

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if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights

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This is Bodie. He’s here to celebrate the start of Pride Month. Been working on this pose for weeks. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)

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npr Diseases are spreading. CDC isn't warning the public like it was before. CDC's newsletters have stopped being distributed, alerts about disease outbreaks to health professionals haven't been dispatched, and most of the agency's social media channels have gone more than a month without posting.

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On this day in 1921, white supremacist burned down the Greenwood district of Tulsa, known as Black Walk Street. Reparations are owed to Black American descendants of slavery, not just for the harms of slavery, but for everything that followed as well.

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Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

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More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce in President Trump's massive government downsizing.

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White folks didn't read Project 2025, didn't heed any of the warnings, now we are here, and it's only going to get worse. Ignorance is NOT a valid excuse. They did vote for all of this, he did say he was going to do all of this. They get no pass, they get no sympathy.

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if you zoom in on the golden key to the white house that trump gave musk you can see it has the reddit logo on it

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Five years after George Floyd's murder, the Trump administration is ending federal oversight of police departments across the country known to violate civil rights and target people based on race. We're taking action to protect our communities from police violence.

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JUST IN: The move to grant a stay in the case means that the Cubans, Haitian, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who were granted temporary parole under the program known as CHNV would lose their temporary legal status to be in the U.S.

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Nobody's child should be turned into a political pawn. Trans youth deserve the freedom to be themselves — on and off the playing field.

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Black voters deserve the opportunity to elect lawmakers of their choice.

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😱😭🤬Replace insulin with cooking classes??? Who has the ⌚or 💵for that. Diet is important but in many cases insulin is REQUIRED. Especially if you're diabetic because your body doesn't make insulin. So unless you're cooking up some INSULIN, those classes won’t help. www.rawstory.com/trump-throwi...

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As a child, the U.S. government forced George Takei and his parents to live in an American internment camp during WWII. After the war, his family was left without a home or any resources to get by. He went on to become an award-winning actor and a lifelong advocate for immigrants' rights.

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a few months ago while writing at a bar some guy near me was also working, before he left i asked what he was working on. he told me he was programming for an ai company. i asked him if he enjoyed what he did. he looked at me and told me “we aren’t ready for what this will become”

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BREAKING: We're going to court to defend pregnant people's right nationwide to get lifesaving abortion care when they're facing a medical emergency.

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new republican healthcare plan just dropped

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Who let the bird flu out? Us! We did. Because HHS just cancelled their contract with Moderna for an H5N1 pandemic bird flu vaccine, effectively hobbling our ability to combat the disease when (not if) it begins spreading like wildfire. #birdflu www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Warm Weather Finally Allows Man To Get Outside, Explore New Ways To Sweat theonion.com/warm-we...

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Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Victoria Rose describes the types of injuries, particularly suffered by children, that she has treated during volunteer medical missions in Gaza's remaining hospitals.

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they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this

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if the democratic party wasn’t a gerontocracy this would have failed. gerry connelly staying in office til he died allowed this to pass. this is echoes of RBG not retiring. when will democrats fucking learn

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Mehmet Oz just said on Fox News that: “It is your patriotic duty to be as healthy as you can”.

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This is Jumbo. She just got her very first bath. Doggy paddle officially activated. 12/10

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Worried about picking up extra germs at the ER? 🦠That’s exactly what infection control helps avoid. In yet another reckless move, the Trump Administration just eliminated the CDC committee that sets hospital safety standards.

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BREAKING: The Chicago City Council has voted to create a city-owned nonprofit housing developer. The city will now move ahead with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to build affordable, mixed-income, sustainable housing.

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It’s not a difference of opinion. It’s not a nuanced scientific debate. What RFK Jr. is doing is ushering in the complete destruction of US public health infrastructure.

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