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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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Your politics or marital status should never determine whether you get care. But at VA hospitals, that’s now allowed — thanks to Trump’s rollback of anti-discrimination rules. A gross betrayal of the very veterans who served this country. zurl.co/ljZDI #veterans #VA #StandUpForScience

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If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

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We're excited to begin introducing the jurors for the 2025 Landscape Awards, now open for submissions! First up is Zack Pitchford, owner of Wilcox Nursery and Landscape and a passionate advocate for sustainable, Florida-native landscapes. Learn more about the Landscape Awards at buff.ly/uKelp58.

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#booksky

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The analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office also found that the version of the bill passed by the House last month would lead to nearly 11 million people going uninsured.

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NEW: For years, a powerful ‘Big Ag’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. WIRED went through hundreds of records that reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a legitimate terrorism threat. Unpaywalled as part of our FOIA-based coverage.

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We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.

submitted 30 days ago • 335 comments

Help save the Blushing Scrub Balm! A critical piece of Florida's natural heritage is at risk. We have been monitoring the Federally Endangered mint Blushing Scrub Balm (Dicerandra modesta) in Polk County since 2018.

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