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she/her, ally, lover of love in all forms, advocate, follower of Jesus Christ, Black mother, sister, gigi, best friend
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Congratulations to Antwain K. Hunter, whose book A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 was published by UNC Press last month!
uncpress.org/978146968989...
uncpress.org/978146968989...
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Congratulations to Antwain K. Hunter, whose book A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 was published by UNC Press last month!
uncpress.org/978146968989...
uncpress.org/978146968989...
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Tinsel is also terrible for wildlife once you dispose of the tree!
Other holiday dangers for cats:
Lillies (do not even bring them in your home!)
Poinsettias
Essential Oils (Lavender and others)
Grapes/Raisins
Garlic & Onions
Chocolate
Other holiday dangers for cats:
Lillies (do not even bring them in your home!)
Poinsettias
Essential Oils (Lavender and others)
Grapes/Raisins
Garlic & Onions
Chocolate
Seasonal reminder that ribbon and tinsel can be DEADLY for cats. Please keep ribbon stored safely and tinsel out of your home completely. ⚠️ hhvh.net/2018/01/13/w...
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Tinsel is also terrible for wildlife once you dispose of the tree!
Other holiday dangers for cats:
Lillies (do not even bring them in your home!)
Poinsettias
Essential Oils (Lavender and others)
Grapes/Raisins
Garlic & Onions
Chocolate
Other holiday dangers for cats:
Lillies (do not even bring them in your home!)
Poinsettias
Essential Oils (Lavender and others)
Grapes/Raisins
Garlic & Onions
Chocolate
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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From the breakout Brooklyn band Geese to the Puerto Rican star and soon-to-be Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny and dozens in between, NPR Music shares its picks for the best songs of 2025. n.pr/3XIS89A
The 25 Best Songs Of 2025
From the breakout Brooklyn band Geese to the Puerto Rican star and soon-to-be Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny and dozens in between, NPR Music shares its picks for the best songs of 2025.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
From the breakout Brooklyn band Geese to the Puerto Rican star and soon-to-be Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny and dozens in between, NPR Music shares its picks for the best songs of 2025. n.pr/3XIS89A
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The son of Cuban immigrants, Malo and his band blended country, rock and roll, folk, jump blues, Latin music and Cajun rhythms into a distinct sound anchored by his unmistakable voice. n.pr/44NlYxm
Raul Malo, lead singer of The Mavericks, has died at 60
The son of Cuban immigrants, Malo and his band blended country, rock and roll, folk, jump blues, Latin music and Cajun rhythms into a distinct sound anchored by his unmistakable voice.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The son of Cuban immigrants, Malo and his band blended country, rock and roll, folk, jump blues, Latin music and Cajun rhythms into a distinct sound anchored by his unmistakable voice. n.pr/44NlYxm
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A roundup of good advice from Life Kit's 10 most read stories of 2025. Find out which foods support better sleep, how to be happier and how to graciously accept compliments. n.pr/4rKkgHb
Useful tips from NPR's most popular self-help stories of the year
A roundup of good advice from Life Kit's 10 most read stories of 2025. Find out which foods support better sleep, how to be happier and how to graciously accept compliments.
n.pr
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A roundup of good advice from Life Kit's 10 most read stories of 2025. Find out which foods support better sleep, how to be happier and how to graciously accept compliments. n.pr/4rKkgHb
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Death cap mushrooms look harmless, but are responsible for the majority of the world's mushroom-related deaths. California officials say 21 people have been sickened in recent weeks, one fatally. n.pr/492ntdv
What to know about death cap mushrooms, blamed for poisonings in California
Death cap mushrooms look harmless, but are responsible for the majority of the world's mushroom-related deaths. California officials say 21 people have been sickened in recent weeks, one fatally.
n.pr
December 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Death cap mushrooms look harmless, but are responsible for the majority of the world's mushroom-related deaths. California officials say 21 people have been sickened in recent weeks, one fatally. n.pr/492ntdv
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You can find their reporting here as part of our series, Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing the World.
Population Shift
Examining what happens when families have fewer kids
www.npr.org
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
You can find their reporting here as part of our series, Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing the World.
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As the year wraps up, we bring you some final notable titles — including The Sea Captain's Wife and The Rest of Our Lives — publishing before 2025 comes to a close. n.pr/4rQKKGR
New books coming in December tell tales of the sea, colonialism and midlife
As the year wraps up, we bring you some final notable titles — including The Sea Captain's Wife and The Rest of Our Lives — publishing before 2025 comes to a close.
n.pr
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
As the year wraps up, we bring you some final notable titles — including The Sea Captain's Wife and The Rest of Our Lives — publishing before 2025 comes to a close. n.pr/4rQKKGR
Louis Lakeith. He's a big guy now.
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Louis Lakeith. He's a big guy now.
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Paramount has launched a hostile bid for the company that's home to Casablanca, Batman and CNN. Just Friday, Netflix and Warner Brothers executives were celebrating a deal they had struck. n.pr/4rAWzRk
Not so fast, Netflix. Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount has launched a hostile bid for the company that's home to Casablanca, Batman and CNN. Just Friday, Netflix and Warner Brothers executives were celebrating a deal they had struck.
n.pr
December 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Paramount has launched a hostile bid for the company that's home to Casablanca, Batman and CNN. Just Friday, Netflix and Warner Brothers executives were celebrating a deal they had struck. n.pr/4rAWzRk
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Do you know someone who is unconvinced about the fact that we need to do something about school shootings beyond "thoughts and prayers"?
Show them All the Empty Rooms, a documentary on Netflix. It is only 35 minutes.
It is heartbreaking and heartbreakingly necessary.
Show them All the Empty Rooms, a documentary on Netflix. It is only 35 minutes.
It is heartbreaking and heartbreakingly necessary.
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Do you know someone who is unconvinced about the fact that we need to do something about school shootings beyond "thoughts and prayers"?
Show them All the Empty Rooms, a documentary on Netflix. It is only 35 minutes.
It is heartbreaking and heartbreakingly necessary.
Show them All the Empty Rooms, a documentary on Netflix. It is only 35 minutes.
It is heartbreaking and heartbreakingly necessary.
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Few nursing homes can care for people who need help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS and other conditions. Insurers often deny payment for the best at-home machines, and innovative solutions are endangered by Medicaid cuts.
They need a ventilator to stay alive. Getting one can be a nightmare
Few nursing homes can care for people who need help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS and other conditions. Insurers often deny payment for the best at-home machines, and innovative solutions are endangered by Medicaid cuts.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Few nursing homes can care for people who need help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS and other conditions. Insurers often deny payment for the best at-home machines, and innovative solutions are endangered by Medicaid cuts.
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including complaints of medical-neglect, forced-drugging, abuse, due-process violations, and other civil-rights complaints in immigration detention in limbo or effectively abandoned.
Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn
Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harms
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December 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
including complaints of medical-neglect, forced-drugging, abuse, due-process violations, and other civil-rights complaints in immigration detention in limbo or effectively abandoned.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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"There’s so much pressure. The supervisors and the leaders and the managers and the directors cut so much of the staff, but then still want results and work done. That falls on the remaining people.” https://capitalbnews.org/black-federal-workers-layoffs/
In Their Own Words: Black Workers Reflect on Federal Service Amid Shutdown
The budget impasse and layoffs have disproportionately impacted Black Americans.
capitalbnews.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"There’s so much pressure. The supervisors and the leaders and the managers and the directors cut so much of the staff, but then still want results and work done. That falls on the remaining people.” https://capitalbnews.org/black-federal-workers-layoffs/
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If they are breathing, they are lying.
October 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
If they are breathing, they are lying.
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Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay. n.pr/4ngKyx3
It's supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they're getting nothing
Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay.
n.pr
October 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay. n.pr/4ngKyx3
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This isnt about protecting the children.
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This isnt about protecting the children.
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"Bullying - repeated, intentional aggressive behavior by a person or group against a less powerful person or group, resulting in harm."
(medlineplus.gov/bullyingandc...)
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(medlineplus.gov/bullyingandc...)
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October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"Bullying - repeated, intentional aggressive behavior by a person or group against a less powerful person or group, resulting in harm."
(medlineplus.gov/bullyingandc...)
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
(medlineplus.gov/bullyingandc...)
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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The past three summers have been the worst on record for Florida's coral reefs. To try to restore them, scientists are breeding corals that can handle heat better, using coral from other countries.
Scientists are using corals from other countries to save Florida's dying reefs
The past three summers have been the worst on record for Florida's coral reefs. To try to restore them, scientists are breeding corals that can handle heat better, using coral from other countries.
n.pr
October 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The past three summers have been the worst on record for Florida's coral reefs. To try to restore them, scientists are breeding corals that can handle heat better, using coral from other countries.