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In one fell swoop, Trump has successfully achieved his goal of fucking up voting by mail.
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Happy holidays to everyone who's in solitude today. You get to decide what this post-solstice 24 hours is like! You could mourn or reflect, give gratitude or binge-watch, join your chosen family or cozy up with your animals. You may not be surrounded by people, but a lot of us are in the same place.
December 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for two weeks.

He bundled her into a rented canoe and paddled toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away.

Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Trump’s Education Department is ignoring discrimination against Black students. The department’s civil rights office has not entered into a single new agreement requiring schools to address racial harassment of students, my colleagues & I @propublica.org found. / News Tips: ProPublica.org/tips
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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No judge. No jury. Just the Secretary of War.
December 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
December 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.

They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Rolling Stone teamed up with Wildlife Investigative Reporters and Editors (WIRE), a nonprofit journalism organization exposing wildlife crime and exploitation of nature.

Watch the mini-doc made in association with RS Films here: youtu.be/460m3L9Xwxo
November 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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NEW: Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak.

Here’s how we did.

By @natlash.bsky.social
How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland
Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
⚡️YES!!!!⚡️
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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No more puppies will be bred for useless experiments 🎉

After years of churning out thousands of beagles, confining them to stacks of cages in a windowless shed, keeping them in filth with untreated wounds, & nearly 275 dying on site each year, Ridglan’s breeding days are over. peta.vg/44oi
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Monkeys can carry diseases transmissible to humans and Tulane National Primate Research Center, where they were trucked from, has had disease outbreaks in its monkey colony. It’s also a tragedy for the monkeys, whose only moments of freedom were the result of a truck crash.
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:
Opinion | You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator
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October 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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RIP Dr. Mu'ath Abu Rukba, the veterinarian who was shot and killed when he tried to return home to #Gaza. 💔
He was only thirty years old, with a wife and three young children. This GoFundMe was established last year and is linked to on his Instagram so as far as I know it's the confirmed way to support them: www.gofundme.com/f/help-dr-mu...
Donate to ‏Help Dr. Muath and his family in Gaza, organized by Muath Talat
It is with a heavy heart that I begin this fundraiser. I have I have exhausted … Muath Talat needs your support for ‏Help Dr. Muath and his family in Gaza
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October 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining.
Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened species
Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining.
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October 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The Chicago Sun-Times has been paywall-free for 3 years! Independent journalism for all Chicagoans is only possible thanks to reader support.

Celebrate with us — and join thousands of readers who keep nonprofit journalism strong in Chicago.

Donate: trib.al/Pjnew4b
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Remember like 10 years ago the mysterious clowns lurking in the suburbs? Simpler times.
October 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻
October 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Welcome to Heaven, Dr. Jane Goodall. You made the world a better place.
October 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM