Karina Ramírez

Is it possible for me to watch a movie on a streaming service that doesn’t have ads?? You made the theatre expensive so I can no longer go there. I pay for a streaming service so I can watch a movie without an ads. Yet they still show up. #annoyed

CBS News just gutted its climate team Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.

Of the six-person team, four lost their jobs, effective Friday. A fifth person may yet be reassigned to non-climate stories, my sources believed. National environment correspondent David Schechter kept his job.
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"When you think of #Melissa, think Andrew in South Florida, Maria in Puerto Rico, Ivan in Grenada, or Dorian in the Bahamas. It's a humanitarian event." — Marlon A. Hill on @wlrn.org

You want to help #Jamaica and the Caribbean directly? See www.sflcaribbeanstrong.org

#HurricaneMelissa Does anyone know if there are organizations helping families in the states find their loved ones in #Jamaica? Please let me know.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules via @apnews.com

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What is the chikungunya virus now transmitted in the US for the first time in years? A mosquito-borne virus more common in South America has been detected in the United States. Health officials say the chikungunya virus has been identified in a patient living in the suburbs of New York City who began experiencing symptoms in August.

A mosquito-borne virus more common in South America has been detected in the United States.

Karina Ramirez giving closing remarks at Citizens' Climate Lobby conference.

"Be you. Bring your most beautiful self to these meetings. Bring your CCL values to these meetings. And thank you for standing up for climate." -- @karinaframirez.bsky.social
#CCL2025

Live updates: Tsunami strikes Japan and Russia after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake, warnings issued for Hawaii and Alaska A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake early Wednesday.

Japan Meteorological Agency says a tsunami of 50 centimeters was detected at the Ishinomaki port, the highest detected so far with 16 other locations reporting a tsunami as high as 40 cm as the waves moved south along the Pacific coast.

Follow AP's live updates.

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This. 😢 “A lot of people in the bush communities in Alaska are kind of numb to that stuff because they’ve been through this so much in the past, where things just go away and they just never come back.” thehill.com/homenews/hou... @thehill.com #PBS #NPR

Tariff cartoons. #rant #teacher #teachersoftiktok #education #money TikTok video by Unlearn16

What is a tariff? Here’s an excellent explainer from @unlearn16.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6Ff6JyW/

Millions of children at risk as global vaccine rates fall, study finds — Guardian US Persistent health inequalities, disruption caused by Covid-19, and soaring levels of misinformation and hesitancy are behind fall, say study’s authors

Misinformation is part of the reason. apple.news/AOl4vnuP-TVe...

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

Yesterday I saw a rainbow. It gave me a bit of joy.

How’s my Sunday? I’ve been traveling since last night. #Delta canceled my original 8 am flight and rebooked me in another one for two hours later. I only knew when I checked the Delta app at 5:30 a.m. A text would have been nice. I’m getting home in the mid-afternoon now.

YouTube video by BuzzFeed Celeb Jackie Chan: The Puppy Interview

Having one of those not-so-good Mondays? This will make you feel better, I promise. #jackiechan @buzzfeed.com 🐶 interview ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X0X...

Home - PBS Foundation

😊 I joined pbs.org in Hawai’i!! @sesamestreetdigest.bsky.social and what used to be 3-2-1 Contact made it possible for me to learn English when I was a kid. Now as an adult I can give back! You can find your local PBS station if you wish to support or go to foundation.pbs.org#viewerslikeme #PBSKids

The FDA approves first U.S. at-home tool as a Pap-smear alternative Women can use a wand to collect a vaginal sample, then mail it to a lab that will screen for cervical cancer. The device will be available by prescription through a telehealth service.

Women can use a wand to collect a vaginal sample, then mail it to a lab that will screen for cervical cancer. The device will be available by prescription through a telehealth service.
By @jenniferludden.bsky.social

#caturday someone just wants to be involved in everything.

YouTube video by Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Mother's Day: Kids Explain What Their Moms at the Natural History Museum Do for Work

SO CUTE. Listen as kids explain what their scientist moms do at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum 💚

#MothersDay

Whoever translated the title to KarolG’s @netflix.com special needs to go back and listen to the “Mañana será bonito” lyrics. Nothing about that songs says “Tomorrow was beautiful.” SMH #translationfail

Felt the need to quote Residente:
"América no es solo U.S.A., papá
Esto es desde Tierra del Fuego hasta Canadá
Hay que ser bien bruto, bien hueco
Es como decir que África es solo Marrueco"
#geography

Cardinal Prevost on Focusing on Climate Change Prevost is outspoken about the need for urgent action on climate change. He recently stressed that the Church must move “from words to action,” warning against the “harmful” consequences of unchecked…

"Like Francis, Prevost has repeatedly spoken in favour of decisive action against climate change" collegeofcardinalsreport.com/evidence/car... #catholic #climate via #modernghanaweb

#PopeLeo Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

We have a Pope! Ive been watching and it’s been great to see people celebrate. Now we wait to learn who it is. apnews.com/live/conclav...

House Judiciary sets Wednesday markup of immigration policies in GOP agenda bill The panel will seek to make major changes to immigration law and also the inner-workings of the federal government.

This is why we don't have immigration reform. Take a look at the proposed fees:

- a minimum $1,000 asylum application fee
- a $1,000 fee for parolees
- $3,500 fee for unaccompanied children sponsors

The "right way" costs money. It always has.

www.politico.com/live-updates... via @politico.com

I’ve been watching for a while now. Thank you @booker.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social.

Just sharing a photo of a sleepy cat.

Chart shows between 70% and 86% support for tax credits related to clean energy production, clean energy investment, home electrification / efficiency, new and used electric vehicles, and EV charging stations

The University of Maryland has a new national survey of Americans about support of key tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act.

It finds that the clean energy tax credits are overwhelmingly popular among Americans in general, including Republican voters.

Hubble’s 35th anniversary with stunning images across space: Upper left: Frosty Mars with thin water-ice clouds. Upper right: NGC 2899, a moth-shaped planetary nebula. Lower left: Dark gas clouds in the Rosette Nebula. Lower right: NGC 5335, a flocculent spiral galaxy with bright star-forming arms and a central bar. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI

Hubble’s 35th anniversary with stunning images across space:

Upper left: Frosty Mars with thin water-ice clouds.
Upper right: NGC 2899, a moth-shaped planetary nebula. Lower left: Dark gas clouds in the Rosette Nebula.
Lower right: NGC 5335, a flocculent spiral galaxy.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI