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Pacific island states urge rich countries to expedite plans to cut emissions

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Researchers say moms and babies are ‘going to get hurt’ by federal pregnancy data team cuts, reports Kelcie Moseley-Morris, @kelciemmorris.bsky.social, of @statesnewsroom.com, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/04/25/r...

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House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.

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Chris Van Hollen has pointed out that because El Salvador is a member of the ICC, not allowing Abrego Garcia access to legal representation is a violation, and places ES dictator, Bukele, in possible legal jeopardy, as well as possible legal sanctions.

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Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

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My eldest daughter Claudia once asked me why there isn’t a provision that says that convicted felons can’t be president and this was exactly my answer

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I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.

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BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

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Robert Wolf on Fox News: "I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of 'liberation day' was pathetic."

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At least we could get through the first four years by laughing at them. Like real life bloopers. Now it’s hard to find humor when the country’s on fire.

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Autism

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Two headlines in the New York Times today.

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I hope she sues him into oblivion. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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They’re afraid to rein him in.

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How did I know they would completely defund Headstart? They wrote it down in Project 2025 .

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Everyone paying attention here, folks? Safety inspections of milk doesn't sounds like waste or fat to me. WTF?

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W. Kamau Bell has a reputation for doing things some people say he shouldn’t do.

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Flight arrivals from western Europe plummeted by 17% in March, as part of a global negative US travel trend. Is there a tourism boycott going on? #EuropeInMotion

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While Meta’s CEO gets paid a $1 annual salary, filings reveal the company shelled out $24 million last year for his personal security and private jet travel. www.levernews.com/meta-foots-z...

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Most federal workers don't live and work in the D.C. area. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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“As a member of the Oversight Committee, what oversight are you imposing on Elon Musk and DOGE?” a constituent asked. The question was followed by a round of cheering and applause.

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Wall Street veteran Kelly Loeffler is gutting diversity, equity and inclusion at a federal agency that Congress designed to help disadvantaged businesses

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Fight this authoritarian regime. Never give up! Our kids, grandkids, and future generations’ freedoms depend on our stamina and conviction. 🇺🇸 #SheShed

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The White House has been hearing a "chorus of ideas" for persuading Americans to "get married and have more children". Everything except for paid medical/parental leave, affordable childcare, and affordable health care for parents AND children. Great job, dudes.

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Every single service member and veteran, if they’re being honest, will all tell you the exact same thing: We’d be immediately burned at the stake if we treated classified intel the way Pete Hegseth has treated it.

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Ten assaults a day on asylum seekers in Home Office care, figures reveal

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⚡️Update: Russia violates Easter 'truce' nearly 3,000 times, Zelensky says. The military reported 96 Russian assaults on Ukrainian positions, 1,882 instances of shelling, and 950 uses of Russian FPV drones throughout the temporary "ceasefire."

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Republicans are trying to strike down the VRA’s Section 2 the same way they dismantled Section 5. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/rep...

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"A strong economy that commodifies poverty creates innovative new ways to fleece the poor, so working hard and keeping one’s head down leads to ruin." www.liberalcurrents.com/working-home...

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About 70% of Americans approve of same-sex marriages. Despite this, Republican lawmakers in 5 states introduced symbolic bills calling on the Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. A scholar explains: buff.ly/ht3jChs Paul M. Collins Jr. @umassamherst.bsky.social

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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposed a swap in which more than 200 Venezuelan migrants deported there from the US would be traded for the same number of political prisoners held by Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

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@krassenstein.bsky.social thank you for sharing this!!! He probably thought that no one will notice how he spends our tax money. Let’s make this viral!!!

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This administration has decided that rather than focusing on addressing the needs of Americans, they'd prefer to focus on violating people's constitutional rights by sending people to a foreign prison without due process..........and spend $15 million in tax payer dollars to do it. #MomSky

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“Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of Hell. God’s economy, on the other hand, does not kill, discard or crush. It is lowly, faithful to the earth,” Pope Francis

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Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.