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Today in @thenation.com: a beautiful piece from Hend Salama Abo Helow about her family's olive trees in Gaza—and how both the trees and their harvesters have refused to surrender to Israeli genocide. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Israel Wants to Destroy My Family's Way of Life. We'll Never Give In.
My family's olive trees have stood in Gaza for decades. Despite genocide, drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning, they're still here—and so are we.
www.thenation.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Today in @thenation.com: a beautiful piece from Hend Salama Abo Helow about her family's olive trees in Gaza—and how both the trees and their harvesters have refused to surrender to Israeli genocide. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Starting in October 2026, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will shift billions in SNAP costs from the federal government onto states, some of whom could be forced to deeply cut or even shutter their SNAP programs altogether.
Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis
President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, the...
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Starting in October 2026, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will shift billions in SNAP costs from the federal government onto states, some of whom could be forced to deeply cut or even shutter their SNAP programs altogether.
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We discovered a Goodreads page linked to the email address of a top Pentagon official featuring pornographic books about “Asian wife sharing.”
The story gets wilder from there.
The story gets wilder from there.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We discovered a Goodreads page linked to the email address of a top Pentagon official featuring pornographic books about “Asian wife sharing.”
The story gets wilder from there.
The story gets wilder from there.
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Groundbreaking Report by National Center for Charter School Accountability - Support for charter schools has dropped dramatically, from 7 in 10 Americans in 2013 to 46% today. Part II of the Charter School Reckoning report explains why. networkforpubliceduc...
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Groundbreaking Report by National Center for Charter School Accountability - Support for charter schools has dropped dramatically, from 7 in 10 Americans in 2013 to 46% today. Part II of the Charter School Reckoning report explains why. networkforpubliceduc...
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Soccer Without Borders' teams are free to join, and can offer players, who hail from 74 countries, some semblance of safety, camaraderie, and even normalcy as they navigate Trump’s deportation crackdown.
“The game becomes a medicine. There’s a built sense of belonging.”
“The game becomes a medicine. There’s a built sense of belonging.”
This young soccer squad has never faced a rival like Donald Trump
Winning is substantially more challenging with ICE running interference.
www.motherjones.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Soccer Without Borders' teams are free to join, and can offer players, who hail from 74 countries, some semblance of safety, camaraderie, and even normalcy as they navigate Trump’s deportation crackdown.
“The game becomes a medicine. There’s a built sense of belonging.”
“The game becomes a medicine. There’s a built sense of belonging.”
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NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
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The Trump administration has given free rein to some of the most polluting industries in the country. We created an interactive map showing 546 industrial sites across the US and Puerto Rico deemed eligible for exemptions from their Clean Air Act requirements. #DirtyDeeds (🧵)
December 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Trump administration has given free rein to some of the most polluting industries in the country. We created an interactive map showing 546 industrial sites across the US and Puerto Rico deemed eligible for exemptions from their Clean Air Act requirements. #DirtyDeeds (🧵)
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UCS analyst Darya Minovi explains how the map works and breaks down President Trump’s #DirtyDeeds: Using legally dubious exemptions to give hazardous polluters a two-year free pass from their Clean Air Act responsibilities.
How Trump’s Free Pass to Polluters will Harm Americans
More than one-third of coal plants, chemical manufacturers, coke ovens, and other facilities have been largely exempted from multiple clear air rules that were put in place to protect communities from...
blog.ucs.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
UCS analyst Darya Minovi explains how the map works and breaks down President Trump’s #DirtyDeeds: Using legally dubious exemptions to give hazardous polluters a two-year free pass from their Clean Air Act responsibilities.
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Demand that your members of Congress ensure the EPA complies with the Clean Air Act and implements science-based rules to protect communities.
Urge Congress: Enforce the Existing Clean Air Act Rules—without Exception
Congress must ensure the Environmental Protection Agency complies with the Clean Air Act and implements science-based rules to protect health and to ensure our communities’ safety over polluters’ prof...
secure.ucs.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Demand that your members of Congress ensure the EPA complies with the Clean Air Act and implements science-based rules to protect communities.
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Read @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social's 2023 investigation into Gregg Phillips here:
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Read @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social's 2023 investigation into Gregg Phillips here:
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If we want AI systems to be safe, trustworthy, and non-discriminatory, the AI Civil Rights Act is how we start ⬇️
AI systems are making decisions about who gets a loan, receives a job offer, is eligible for parole, and more — and often in ways that have a disparate impact on protected groups.
To ensure safety, trustworthiness, and non-discrimination, Congress must pass the AI Civil Rights Act.
To ensure safety, trustworthiness, and non-discrimination, Congress must pass the AI Civil Rights Act.
AI is Infringing on Your Civil Rights. Here’s How We Can Stop That | ACLU
By supporting the AI Civil Rights Act of 2025, Congress can take a monumental step to protect our civil rights in the digital age.
www.aclu.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
If we want AI systems to be safe, trustworthy, and non-discriminatory, the AI Civil Rights Act is how we start ⬇️
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🚫 College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
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December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
🚫 College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
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Want to travel to the US? You might have to give the Trump administration the last five years of your social media history.
US wants five years of some tourists' social media to enter the country
Digital rights advocates say it’s an affront to civil liberties.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Want to travel to the US? You might have to give the Trump administration the last five years of your social media history.
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Immigration agents stayed in a sick Salvadoran woman's hospital room around the clock, pressuring her to say she was well enough to leave.
She said it was like "being tortured."
ICE has no place in hospitals, period.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
She said it was like "being tortured."
ICE has no place in hospitals, period.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
How an ICE hospital incident sparked alarm about the patient rights of immigrants
ICE agents monitored the private medical conversations of a detained Salvadoran woman. Such incidents prompted L.A. County to approve new protections for patients.
www.latimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Immigration agents stayed in a sick Salvadoran woman's hospital room around the clock, pressuring her to say she was well enough to leave.
She said it was like "being tortured."
ICE has no place in hospitals, period.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
She said it was like "being tortured."
ICE has no place in hospitals, period.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Sharing a great article on why you can still trust CDC’s data. One reason is health data move from local and state health departments to the CDC making federal interference more difficult. Just sad that we even have to talk about this at all. 😥💔😩
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/why-cdc-he...
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/why-cdc-he...
Why CDC health data are still reliable
...even amid challenges to communications and integrity
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Sharing a great article on why you can still trust CDC’s data. One reason is health data move from local and state health departments to the CDC making federal interference more difficult. Just sad that we even have to talk about this at all. 😥💔😩
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/why-cdc-he...
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/why-cdc-he...
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#MiamiMayor
Miami elects 1st Dem mayor in 30 years! 🌟 MAGA is toast.
Miami elects 1st Dem mayor in 30 years! 🌟 MAGA is toast.
December 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
#MiamiMayor
Miami elects 1st Dem mayor in 30 years! 🌟 MAGA is toast.
Miami elects 1st Dem mayor in 30 years! 🌟 MAGA is toast.
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You will get the science and healthcare you demand.
Current NIH policy under Bhattacharya (at the behest of Project2025 architect Russell Vought) is killing the next generation of researchers.
If you value research, tell your members of Congress that the NIH needs more than funding. It needs sound leadership.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
If you value research, tell your members of Congress that the NIH needs more than funding. It needs sound leadership.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs
Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs.
www.statnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
You will get the science and healthcare you demand.
More news coverage from "War torn" Portland Oregon. www.facebook.com/reel/8435110...
18K views · 545 reactions | On Friday night, thousands of people filled parking garages and nearby streets to watch this year’s 75-foot Douglas fir light up, standing central in the square at over 9,0...
On Friday night, thousands of people filled parking garages and nearby streets to watch this year’s 75-foot Douglas fir light up, standing central in the square at over 9,000 pounds.
Around 6:15...
www.facebook.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
More news coverage from "War torn" Portland Oregon. www.facebook.com/reel/8435110...
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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro withdrew from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI (pronounced “Reggie”), a cap-and-trade program that establishes a regional limit on carbon emissions from power plants located in the Northeast.
Critics say he “got rolled.”
Critics say he “got rolled.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro takes flack for ditching a regional carbon pact
He pulled out in a compromise to get a budget passed. Critics say he “got rolled.”
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro withdrew from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI (pronounced “Reggie”), a cap-and-trade program that establishes a regional limit on carbon emissions from power plants located in the Northeast.
Critics say he “got rolled.”
Critics say he “got rolled.”
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Civil asset forfeiture continues to be a major motivating force in drug policy across the country.
Episode Eight: Legalized Takings
Donald Scott was killed in his home by a team of raiding cops who were looking for marijuana — but the larger prize may have been his 200-acre Malibu ranch.
interc.pt
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Civil asset forfeiture continues to be a major motivating force in drug policy across the country.
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📚 GOP Wants to Mandate “Fetal Development Education.” It’s Anti-Abortion Nonsense.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
📚 GOP Wants to Mandate “Fetal Development Education.” It’s Anti-Abortion Nonsense.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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WOW! THANK YOU!! — GCN
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
WOW! THANK YOU!! — GCN
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The Vancouver, WA Police Department is investigating after a cellphone video circulated by community members showed a man being struck by an ICE agent’s vehicle while being arrested.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
ICE agents under scrutiny after man’s legs allegedly crushed in Vancouver arrest
The Vancouver Police Department is investigating after a man appeared to have his legs run over by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement truck while being detained Thursday.
www.opb.org
December 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The Vancouver, WA Police Department is investigating after a cellphone video circulated by community members showed a man being struck by an ICE agent’s vehicle while being arrested.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...