Aunt Melida
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If lawmakers genuinely care about young people's wellbeing, they should invest in education, support parents with better tools, and address the actual root causes of harm online. What they shouldn't do is wage war on privacy itself. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual
www.eff.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If lawmakers genuinely care about young people's wellbeing, they should invest in education, support parents with better tools, and address the actual root causes of harm online. What they shouldn't do is wage war on privacy itself. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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You do not have to hand it to the Catholic bishops. In the same meeting, they banned gender affirming care at all Catholic hospitals nationwide.
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
You do not have to hand it to the Catholic bishops. In the same meeting, they banned gender affirming care at all Catholic hospitals nationwide.
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
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Please share with your networks: The California Policy Lab is hiring a Researcher/Senior Researcher focused on health & safety net: capolicylab.org/careers/rese...
October 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Please share with your networks: The California Policy Lab is hiring a Researcher/Senior Researcher focused on health & safety net: capolicylab.org/careers/rese...
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Rep. Sykes reintroduced the Safer Homes and Families Legislative Agenda to help survivors of domestic violence leave a hard situation, and ensure that they have the support they need once they do. Congress must act to protect survivors.
October 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Rep. Sykes reintroduced the Safer Homes and Families Legislative Agenda to help survivors of domestic violence leave a hard situation, and ensure that they have the support they need once they do. Congress must act to protect survivors.
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Where users face threats to their privacy and security online, EFF’s technology tools are there to defend them. www.eff.org/tools
Tools from EFF's Tech Team
EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. Where users face threats to their privacy and security
www.eff.org
October 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Where users face threats to their privacy and security online, EFF’s technology tools are there to defend them. www.eff.org/tools
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"He quoted Hannah Arendt's 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' in asserting that the world needs free and objective information."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"He quoted Hannah Arendt's 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' in asserting that the world needs free and objective information."
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on the local media's lawsuit against the federal government for firing tear gas canisters and pepper balls at them:
"It's a sad state in America when reporters have to go to court to not get shot at by the federal government."
"It's a sad state in America when reporters have to go to court to not get shot at by the federal government."
October 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on the local media's lawsuit against the federal government for firing tear gas canisters and pepper balls at them:
"It's a sad state in America when reporters have to go to court to not get shot at by the federal government."
"It's a sad state in America when reporters have to go to court to not get shot at by the federal government."
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On WCPT 820, Tennessee Democratic U.S. House candidate Justin J. Pearson:
"All these millionaires in Congress now, they're talking about, 'I'm not gonna take my check during the shutdown.' But you don't need a check in the first place, right? ... So no, you shouldn't be getting a check."
"All these millionaires in Congress now, they're talking about, 'I'm not gonna take my check during the shutdown.' But you don't need a check in the first place, right? ... So no, you shouldn't be getting a check."
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
On WCPT 820, Tennessee Democratic U.S. House candidate Justin J. Pearson:
"All these millionaires in Congress now, they're talking about, 'I'm not gonna take my check during the shutdown.' But you don't need a check in the first place, right? ... So no, you shouldn't be getting a check."
"All these millionaires in Congress now, they're talking about, 'I'm not gonna take my check during the shutdown.' But you don't need a check in the first place, right? ... So no, you shouldn't be getting a check."
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The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.
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Don't underestimate the effect of the arts—music, dance, visual, gardening, crafts, theater—for promoting health, a systematic review
@naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The arts for disease prevention and health promotion: a systematic review - Nature Medicine
The arts, according to a systematic synthesis of data from 95 studies (across 26 countries), may support non-communicable disease prevention by providing opportunities for increased physical activity,...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Don't underestimate the effect of the arts—music, dance, visual, gardening, crafts, theater—for promoting health, a systematic review
@naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
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"The labor participation rate for women with children younger than 5 had the biggest midyear drop in more than 40 years during the first six months of 2025."
September 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"The labor participation rate for women with children younger than 5 had the biggest midyear drop in more than 40 years during the first six months of 2025."
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Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
September 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
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Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them:
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
September 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them:
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
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NEW: The Posse Comitatus Act comes for Trump's authoritarianism.
Trump's efforts to go after U.S. cities — first Los Angeles and D.C., with, it appears, Chicago next — are alarming. A lot happened, as to all three cities, on Tuesday.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Trump's efforts to go after U.S. cities — first Los Angeles and D.C., with, it appears, Chicago next — are alarming. A lot happened, as to all three cities, on Tuesday.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
The Posse Comitatus Act comes for Trump's authoritarianism
Trump's efforts to go after U.S. cities — first Los Angeles and D.C., with, it appears, Chicago next — are alarming. A lot happened, as to all three cities, on Tuesday.
www.lawdork.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
NEW: The Posse Comitatus Act comes for Trump's authoritarianism.
Trump's efforts to go after U.S. cities — first Los Angeles and D.C., with, it appears, Chicago next — are alarming. A lot happened, as to all three cities, on Tuesday.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Trump's efforts to go after U.S. cities — first Los Angeles and D.C., with, it appears, Chicago next — are alarming. A lot happened, as to all three cities, on Tuesday.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
n.pr
September 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
August 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
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BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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A federal judge in Maryland struck down Education Department orders from Trump that threatened to withhold federal funding from school districts unless they removed lessons on race and dismantled student support programs serving particular communities.
Federal Court Blocks Trump’s Effort to Censor Schools, End Equity Programs
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A federal judge in Maryland struck down Education Department orders from Trump that threatened to withhold federal funding from school districts unless they removed lessons on race and dismantled student support programs serving particular communities.
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Nature: Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility
go.nature.com/3HDx4wD
cc Jay Bhattacharya
go.nature.com/3HDx4wD
cc Jay Bhattacharya
August 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Nature: Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility
go.nature.com/3HDx4wD
cc Jay Bhattacharya
go.nature.com/3HDx4wD
cc Jay Bhattacharya
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I think this is the first time I've ever seen a Prime Minister use an active wildfire to call for climate action let alone a national climate pact?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Spain’s Sanchez Calls for National Climate Pact as Fires Rage
Spain’s Pedro Sanchez called for a nationwide pact uniting all levels of government to combat what he called an accelerating climate emergency as wildfires raged in several regions of the country.
www.bloomberg.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I think this is the first time I've ever seen a Prime Minister use an active wildfire to call for climate action let alone a national climate pact?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.
July 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.
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The summary is that they are trying to criminalize every aspect of homelessness so they can arrest & forcibly commit unhoused people. Currently(/before), there are not enough mental health & substance use treatment beds/facilities, and this does not add anything, which only leaves imprisoning people
The president just issued an executive order to curb "Crime and Disorder on America's Streets"
Its primary target: unhoused people share.google/1JD7LxJ9oW2r...
Its primary target: unhoused people share.google/1JD7LxJ9oW2r...
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
share.google
July 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The summary is that they are trying to criminalize every aspect of homelessness so they can arrest & forcibly commit unhoused people. Currently(/before), there are not enough mental health & substance use treatment beds/facilities, and this does not add anything, which only leaves imprisoning people
Congress’ Medicaid Cuts Projected to Cause More than 16,500 Adult Deaths Annually: New Harvard/CUNY/Public Citizen Study www.citizen.org/news/congres...
Congress’ Medicaid Cuts Projected to Cause More than 16,500 Adult Deaths Annually: New Harvard/CUNY/Public Citizen Study - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The massive Medicaid cuts called for in the Trump Budget Bill passed by the House on May…
www.citizen.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Congress’ Medicaid Cuts Projected to Cause More than 16,500 Adult Deaths Annually: New Harvard/CUNY/Public Citizen Study www.citizen.org/news/congres...