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Progress is often slow and painful, but it happens when dedicated groups of people tirelessly organize and fight to enact change.

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Vote YES on Proposition 50

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Israel’s war on #Gaza has dragged on far too long. Over the past two years, Israeli forces have killed over 66,000 people, including 15 of our staff.

We call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire, an end to the siege and access for independent humanitarian aid at scale.

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Happy World Teachers' Day. Thank you to all educators who help build a better world through quality education.

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On October 4, 1965, classes at UC Irvine open with 1,589 students.

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Sean Combs sentenced to over four years in prison for prostitution-related charges

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Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House.

They chose to shut down the government BECAUSE they didn't want to keep health care costs from rising for Americans.

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"A shutdown falls on the president's lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak."

Donald J. Trump, 2013

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MSF strongly condemns the killing of Omar Hayek by Israeli forces this morning in #Gaza. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues.

Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.

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Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE's push to cut Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back β€” and spending more money than before.

Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE's push to cut

www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

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Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.

The Trump administration is blaming Democrats for the likely government shutdown in internal federal agency communications as well as on at least one public website in what experts say could be a violation of federal ethics laws.

www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

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A maternity hospital should be a place of hope and new beginnings. Yet in Gaza, that hope is clouded by stress and uncertainty. Even amid an offensive, hospitals should be protected.

We call for an immediate end to the violence and for concrete measures to protect civilians.

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The Chicago Eight (later Seven) conspiracy trial United States v. Dellinger et al. opened on September 28, 1969, and lasted five months. It was called "the political trial of the century."

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Palestine: MSF forced to suspend activities amid intensified Israeli offensive in Gaza City | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... The relentless Israeli offensive in Gaza City has forced Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend essential medical activities in the area due to the rapidly deteriorating sec...

🚨 MSF FORCED TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES IN GAZA CITY 🚨

Our clinics are now encircled by Israeli forces.

There are continued airstrikes & tanks advancing closer & closer to our healthcare facilities.

This is an intolerable level of risk for our @msf.ca staff.

I am outraged, and you should be, too.

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Former special counsel Jack Smith warns that rule of law is 'under attack' In his first public remarks since leaving the Justice Department, Smith said he's sad and angry about the dismissals of career public servants and the loss of credibility the DOJ has suffered.

Former special counsel Jack Smith warns that rule of law is 'under attack' www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...

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These rooms should be filled with newborn cries, the beeping of monitors, pregnant women being cared for, patients finding relief amid a genocide.

Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza.

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The president of the United States was forced to walk up a single flight of stairs and demanded that someone be arrested for it.

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FBI Director James Comey indicted on criminal charges stemming from 2020 testimony Comey faces one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice in connection.

The Justice Department has leveled charges against former FBI Director James Comey, after President Trump demanded prosecutors speed up their pace in an investigation targeting one of his most prominent critics.

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September 25, 1961 Β· Liberty, Mississippi
Herbert Lee, who worked with civil rights leader Bob Moses to help register Black voters, was killed by a state legislator who claimed self-defense and was never arrested. Louis Allen, a Black man who witnessed the murder, was later also killed.

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When are the book signings?

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Hear Ramiro Garcia, MSF Project Medical Referent in #Gaza, share what it was like inside Nasser Hospital when it was bombed on Aug. 25.

Two strikes killed at least 20 people and injured 50 more. The perpetrators remain unaccountable and without justice, the attacks won’t stop.

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5 Upcoming Eclipses List of 5 upcoming lunar and solar eclipses, their dates, timelines, and visibility maps. Find out whether you can see them from your location!

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Israel is deliberately depriving people of aid in #Gaza.

MSF’s new report shows how restrictions blocked medical supplies, sometimes even forcing our teams to perform procedures without anesthesia.

Read the report: ow.ly/YZ8v50WZFBs

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