Reposted by Michel Smyth
Following Trump's Monday freeze on foreign aid, a subsequent memo calls for for a stop-work order for current grants and contracts.
U.S. puts virtually all foreign aid on 90-day hold, issues 'stop-work' order
Following Trump's Monday freeze on foreign aid, a subsequent memo calls for for a stop-work order for current grants and contracts.
www.npr.org
January 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Following Trump's Monday freeze on foreign aid, a subsequent memo calls for for a stop-work order for current grants and contracts.
Meanwhile, this is what Trump wants to send Haitians who lawfully entered the US to endure. He and Vance lied, and the US is not providing the financial support it can to help restore order and address human suffering.
www.npr.org/2025/01/23/g...
www.npr.org/2025/01/23/g...
U.N. chief warns gangs could overrun Haiti's capital without additional support
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report that gangs in Haiti could overrun the capital, leading to a complete breakdown of government, without additional international support.
www.npr.org
January 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Meanwhile, this is what Trump wants to send Haitians who lawfully entered the US to endure. He and Vance lied, and the US is not providing the financial support it can to help restore order and address human suffering.
www.npr.org/2025/01/23/g...
www.npr.org/2025/01/23/g...
Bilingualism is associated with a bigger brain. Similar to other cognitively demanding skills, it leads to dynamic subcortical structural adaptations which can be nonlinear, in line with expansion-renormalisation models of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity
www.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Reposted by Michel Smyth
Bilingualism is associated with a bigger brain. Similar to other cognitively demanding skills, it leads to dynamic subcortical structural adaptations which can be nonlinear, in line with expansion-renormalisation models of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity
www.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Bilingualism is associated with a bigger brain. Similar to other cognitively demanding skills, it leads to dynamic subcortical structural adaptations which can be nonlinear, in line with expansion-renormalisation models of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
These reviews are SOP when a new administration arrives. The article states the delay is worsened by there not being a very smooth transition. Trump did not engage in threshold actions, such as setting ethics guidelines, that would allow the transition to go smoothly.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications
In a memo obtained by NPR, acting Health Secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from "a presidential appointee."
www.npr.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
These reviews are SOP when a new administration arrives. The article states the delay is worsened by there not being a very smooth transition. Trump did not engage in threshold actions, such as setting ethics guidelines, that would allow the transition to go smoothly.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
She seems like a person really trying to atone for what she did. Good for her.
This is so unlike the rioters who at sentencing expressed regret for their "unfortunate choices that really do not reflect who I really am" and now crow about their pardons. Give me a break.
This is so unlike the rioters who at sentencing expressed regret for their "unfortunate choices that really do not reflect who I really am" and now crow about their pardons. Give me a break.
January 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
She seems like a person really trying to atone for what she did. Good for her.
This is so unlike the rioters who at sentencing expressed regret for their "unfortunate choices that really do not reflect who I really am" and now crow about their pardons. Give me a break.
This is so unlike the rioters who at sentencing expressed regret for their "unfortunate choices that really do not reflect who I really am" and now crow about their pardons. Give me a break.
In a new memo, a Justice Department official seeks to realign the department's positions on immigration with President Trump's executive actions — and threatens local officials who don't cooperate.
DOJ threatens to prosecute local officials for resisting immigration enforcement
In a new memo, a Justice Department official seeks to realign the department's positions on immigration with President Trump's executive actions — and threatens local officials who don't cooperate.
www.npr.org
January 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I have family who should be afforded refugee status as gang violence in Haiti continues. My cousin was found to be on a hit list because he would not join a gang.
The USA needs to honor Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent treaties.
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...
The USA needs to honor Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent treaties.
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...
Flights canceled for refugees who were slated to travel to US | CNN Politics
Refugees who were slated to travel to the United States after a years-long and often cumbersome process have had their flights canceled, according to a State Department memo to resettlement partners o...
www.google.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I have family who should be afforded refugee status as gang violence in Haiti continues. My cousin was found to be on a hit list because he would not join a gang.
The USA needs to honor Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent treaties.
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...
The USA needs to honor Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent treaties.
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...
Sometimes circumstances call for clergy to comfort the afflicted. Other times circumstances call for clergy to afflict the comfortable.
Bishop confronts Trump during sermon at inaugural prayer service
At a sermon preached to President Trump at Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann Budde asked him to "have mercy" on people who are "scared," including LGBTQ children.
www.npr.org
January 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Sometimes circumstances call for clergy to comfort the afflicted. Other times circumstances call for clergy to afflict the comfortable.
The looks say it all.
January 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The looks say it all.