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"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

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Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

submitted 10 days ago • 1719 comments

The absolute scum bags Alaska gold exploration threatens Cook Inlet's last 331 beluga whales and pristine Alaskan waterways Cook Inlet's belugas are already teetering on the brink of extinction. Once 1,300 strong, the population has crashed to 331 www.courthousenews.com/environmenta...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Trump plans to eliminate most of our National Parks. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will be promoting this plan at the Senate on Tuesday.

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

☎️ TAKE ACTION: Join friends & allies for a #Prop123 Power Hour — together, we’ll call our lawmakers and tell them AZ voters demand a voucher-free Prop 123! We’ll be on Zoom, jump in any time: Tues from 9-10am Wed from 4-5pm Thur from 5-6pm ✍️ Sign up - our goal is 1000 calls! bit.ly/123PowerHour

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Oklahoma Education Commissar Ryan Walters announces new academic standards for the coming school year. Among other things, all students will be required to learn Trump's version of the 2020 election.

submitted 36 days ago • 210 comments

UPDATES: Barnard turned over personal info to feds. Almost every prof got this text. “The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister,” said Barnard prof. Debbie Becher, who is Jewish & got the text. theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...

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The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

submitted 44 days ago • 1045 comments

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

submitted 50 days ago • 135 comments

“The new proposal from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service offers a new interpretation of the of the 1973 Endangered Species Act, which would strike habitat destruction from regulations.” 4/17/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 50 days ago • 12 comments

Trump Opens Marine National Monument to Commercial Fisheries www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/c... | I wish I could say this was unprecedented. But it’s happened once before in history- the last time Trump was President. Sigh.

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

submitted 58 days ago • 449 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 58 days ago • 1519 comments

Make no mistake: The Trump administration will chop down every tree, pollute every waterway, and spew toxins into every community if it makes polluting corporations even a cent richer

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

submitted 60 days ago • 255 comments

This is very cool that ODESZA did this. #severance open.spotify.com/album/7bNj7h...

submitted 63 days ago • 70 comments

"The Republican controlled House of Representatives in an effort to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression passed the Smoot-Hawley Act which raised tariffs... It did not work and the US sank deeper into the Great Depression."

submitted 65 days ago • 19 comments

In one low-income Phoenix ZIP code, ProPublica estimates that only one voucher was used per 100 kids. That’s compared to a wealthy ZIP code where an estimated 28 vouchers were used per 100 kids. (Published Oct. 2024)

submitted 67 days ago • 57 comments

As universities increasingly make decisions that make their students less safe and that compromise academic freedom, I hope their alumni remember that they can do something about it -- through their voices, their actions, and their wallets.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Personal Responsibity under Dictatorship - Hanna Arendt grattoncourses.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 74 days ago • 329 comments

Because of 23andMe’s recent bankruptcy filing, I urge Arizonans to invoke their rights under Arizona law to request deletion of their genetic data. More here: www.azag.gov/press-release/attorney-general-mayes-issues-consumer-alert-23andme-customers

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Generations of dedicated public servants have, unseen by the general public, done all kinds of extraordinary things that benefit all of us—like preserving the genetic diversity of crop species that sustain humanity. Musk is blindly slashing it all. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

submitted 76 days ago • 32 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 76 days ago • 1554 comments

John Roberts is not "rebuking" Donald Trump. He's bending the knee. If you listen to what Roberts is not saying, you'll see he's telling Trump exactly what he wants to hear. We've seen this before from another Chief Justice, in Marbury v. Madison. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 79 days ago • 81 comments