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NJ has new regulations to protect against flooding — but Hollywood gets a pass newjerseymonitor.com/2025/07/30/n...
NJ has new regulations to protect against flooding — but Hollywood gets a pass • New Jersey Monitor
NJ wants people in flood-prone areas to build with future sea-level rise in mind — but certain movie studios are exempt.
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July 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
NJ has new regulations to protect against flooding — but Hollywood gets a pass newjerseymonitor.com/2025/07/30/n...
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"This is the person who the founders tried to put a system in place to prevent from coming to power." Eric Holder encourages members of the legal community to stand up to Donald Trump's authoritarianism.
April 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"This is the person who the founders tried to put a system in place to prevent from coming to power." Eric Holder encourages members of the legal community to stand up to Donald Trump's authoritarianism.
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Reuters reporting that scientists with the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off
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Exclusive: US NIH scientists barred from attending conferences on their own time and dime
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off, three current and former NIH scientists told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reuters reporting that scientists with the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.
April 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.
March 19, 2025
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March 19, 2025
On the Fox News Channel’s The Five yesterday, the panel of Fox personalities expressed outrage that federal judge James Boasberg had ordered the Trump administration to stop its deportation of migrant...
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March 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
March 19, 2025
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The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston is temporarily closed after Elon Musk fired members of its staff.
February 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston is temporarily closed after Elon Musk fired members of its staff.
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The Trump administration is using loopholes to maintain spending freezes despite court orders, with political appointees invoking legal authority to justify the pauses while distancing them from Trump’s directives.
February 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The Trump administration is using loopholes to maintain spending freezes despite court orders, with political appointees invoking legal authority to justify the pauses while distancing them from Trump’s directives.
February 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025
On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.
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February 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
February 11, 2025
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My mother, née Caridad San Pedro passed away November 26, 2024. These are four pics from our trip to France in June and July of 2024
February 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My mother, née Caridad San Pedro passed away November 26, 2024. These are four pics from our trip to France in June and July of 2024
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Civics 101: infrastructure with Pete Buttigieg
My strategy for mentally surviving the next 4 years is to listen to podcasts with Pete Buttigieg.
It's like oxygen for your brain:
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It's like oxygen for your brain:
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Secretary of Transportation with Pete Buttigieg
Podcast Episode · Civics 101 · 01/07/2025 · 24m
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January 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Civics 101: infrastructure with Pete Buttigieg
Home made pasta and good wine!
January 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Home made pasta and good wine!
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New: The right-wing Supreme Court majority is now looking to potentially overturn the Affordable Care Act’s policy that makes cancer screenings, heart statins, and HIV prevention free.
Supreme Court to review Obamacare’s no-cost coverage of cancer screenings, heart statins and HIV drugs | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court said Friday it will review the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s no-cost coverage mandates for certain preventive care services, putting the landmark health care law in ...
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January 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
New: The right-wing Supreme Court majority is now looking to potentially overturn the Affordable Care Act’s policy that makes cancer screenings, heart statins, and HIV prevention free.
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Remember, it’s not okay to talk about gun control after a mass shooting because that’s ’politicizing it.’
But it IS okay for conservatives to lie about a climate change catastrophe as it’s happening and blame it on ‘DEI.’
Hey, I don’t make up these rules. They do.
But it IS okay for conservatives to lie about a climate change catastrophe as it’s happening and blame it on ‘DEI.’
Hey, I don’t make up these rules. They do.
January 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Remember, it’s not okay to talk about gun control after a mass shooting because that’s ’politicizing it.’
But it IS okay for conservatives to lie about a climate change catastrophe as it’s happening and blame it on ‘DEI.’
Hey, I don’t make up these rules. They do.
But it IS okay for conservatives to lie about a climate change catastrophe as it’s happening and blame it on ‘DEI.’
Hey, I don’t make up these rules. They do.
Our daughter moved out of the house today.
“…their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
“…their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
January 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Our daughter moved out of the house today.
“…their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
“…their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
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Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
January 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does
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Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record.
Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January.
But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil.
What planet are they living on?
Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January.
But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil.
What planet are they living on?
LA's wildfires sparked by rare collision of climate factors
Extremely dry conditions and an hurricane force winds are overlapping unusually late in the year.
www.axios.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record.
Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January.
But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil.
What planet are they living on?
Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January.
But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil.
What planet are they living on?
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‘He wasn’t quite a social novelist, except he was. He wanted opposing parts of society to work together in his books, and these novels offer places where public and private life are seen magically to coalesce.’
Andrew O’Hagan on Christopher Isherwood: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan on Christopher Isherwood: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan · Disguise-Language: Christopher Isherwood’s Artifice
In a way, Isherwood was pre-acclimatised to American unreality. ‘He holds the future of the English novel in his...
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January 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
‘He wasn’t quite a social novelist, except he was. He wanted opposing parts of society to work together in his books, and these novels offer places where public and private life are seen magically to coalesce.’
Andrew O’Hagan on Christopher Isherwood: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan on Christopher Isherwood: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The content-moderation changes at Meta are repulsive, and seem specifically designed to foment hate and discrimination against LGBT people.
www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...
www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...
Here are some of the horrible things that you can now say on Instagram and Facebook
New rules.
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The content-moderation changes at Meta are repulsive, and seem specifically designed to foment hate and discrimination against LGBT people.
www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...
www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...