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When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Megyn Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now she’s splitting hairs about men “into the barely legal type.”
Megyn Kelly suddenly finds pedophilia very hard to define
When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now she's splitting hairs about men "into the barely legal type."
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The comment period for a sham “climate science” report commissioned by the DOE closed earlier this week, and the verdict is in: the scientific community has overwhelmingly and resoundingly rejected the report. UCS submitted comments on the report, and here are the four key points we made:
A Resounding Rejection of the US DOE’s Sham “Climate Science” Report
It is rife with inaccuracies and disinformation.
blog.ucs.org
September 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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If a proposed rare-earth minerals mine goes forward in northern Sweden, it could ruin the lives of Sami Indigenous herders whose reindeer have roamed this land for thousands of years.
Sweden's plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders
An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ancient reindeer migration routes.
bit.ly
September 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Sparked in part by an influx of disabled Civil War veterans, ugly laws fined poor, disabled people for begging, or just existing, on city streets.

And they never entirely went away.

Pushes to police or drive out unhoused and disabled people have been a constant in American life.
Ugly laws: The blueprint for Trump’s anti-homeless crusade
DC’s crackdown is just the latest in a long war on being poor and disabled in public.
www.motherjones.com
August 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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ICYMI: @propublica.org wanted to know how much federal health agencies had been gutted. The administration wouldn’t tell us, so we figured it out our own way.

Lots of charts and deep reporting on what this means for you:
projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
projects.propublica.org
August 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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You heard the Captain:
NO KINGS IN AMERICA!
#NoKingsDay
June 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Over 80,000 Protesters in Philly’s No Kings protest now.
June 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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My favorite protest sign so far.

🔥

NO KINGS!
June 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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No Kings Chicago Style. We like Democracy Neat - no ICE
June 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
June 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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15 Stunning Underwater Photos from the United Nations World Oceans Day Contest | PetaPixel
15 Stunning Underwater Photos from the United Nations World Oceans Day Contest
It happens each year on June 8.
petapixel.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Lab grown stipeless bull kelp to reduce tangling in tumble culture. Removal of the stipe before the internal cavity inflates results in the cut sealing over to form a "knot" instead of the usual pneumatocyst + stipe
#phycologyfriday #kelp #marinebiology #science #algae #seaweed
June 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The Boston Globe interviewed more than two dozen young scientists since March who say they are weighing whether to leave the United States — or abandon scientific research entirely — because of the Trump administration’s widening assault on scientific research.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/m...
Trump cuts to medical research spark fears of ‘massive brain drain’ of young scientists - The Boston Globe
Many students say they may leave the country or abandon scientific research entirely as their career options shrink.
www.bostonglobe.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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US President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 calls for unprecedented cuts to scientific agencies that, if enacted, would deal a devastating blow to US science, policy specialists say.

https://go.nature.com/4jYv3IP
Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science
Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.
go.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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At least 500 Awajún Indigenous community Earth Defenders stormed and seized Station 5 of the Norperuvian Pipeline in protest of repeated oil spills by state-run Petroperú. The rivers and land are being poisoned. They demand urgent aid and justice. #3E #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide
April 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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“If the government can disappear anyone it wishes, dump him in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid,” two constitutional scholars write in a guest essay.
Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Where is our humanity?
April 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Breaking News: A senior Justice Department lawyer was put on leave after questioning the administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador.
Justice Dept. Lawyer Who Criticized Administration in Court Is Put on Leave
Erez Reuveni is the latest in a series of career officials who have faced punitive action after refusing to comply with a directive they deemed illegal or unethical.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Canadians' desire to visit the U.S. is absolutely tanking, new data suggests.

Advance bookings for Canada-U.S. flights in April-September are down over 70% compared to this time last year, per aviation data firm OAG.
Canadians' demand for U.S. travel is cratering
Advance bookings for Canada-U.S. flights in April-September are down 70% or more.
www.axios.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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If you live in Wisconsin or in the 6th congressional district of Florida you’ll have a chance to do something the rest of us only dream about doing...

[It's also an election day in many other parts of the country, too.] https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-you-live-in-wisconsin-or-floridas
April 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The Atlantic on Wednesday released more of the group chat among senior Trump administration officials in which they discussed U.S. military plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen. Here’s the latest.
Trump Officials' Signal Chat Transcript Is Published as Criticism Mounts Over Leak: Live Updates
Tulsi Gabbard, the national intelligence director, and John Ratcliffe, the head of the C.I.A., are before the House Intelligence Committee. Both were on group chat that mistakenly included the editor ...
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM