Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

The New York City Tree Alphabet is an alphabetical planting palette, inviting us to plant secret messages with real trees. You can also write/type with the NYC Trees font, find it here: www.katieholten.com/new-york-cit... #naturewriting #booksky #trees 🌿

NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, on Standing with Immigrants Oct. 21, 2025 My dear brothers and sisters, today I speak to you as your shepherd, but also as a fellow pilgrim who shares the pain of many of our immigrant communities. Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, and communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants. We stand with a mother who crosses borders to feed her children. We stand with the father who labors in silence to build a better future. We stand with the young person who dreams of safety and a better future. Our parishes and schools will not turn away those who seek comfort, and we will not be silent when dignity is denied in the enforcement of the law, it is essential that we respect the dignity of every human being. Now I want to say something directly to those immigrants without documents. Most of you have been here for years. You have worked hard. You have raised families. You have contributed to this nation. You have earned our respect. As the Archbishop of Chicago, I will insist that you be treated with dignity. Americans should not forget that we all come from immigrant families. You are our brothers and sisters. We stand with you. God bless you all.

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."

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World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

Headed out to a #NoKings protest today? Know your rights before you go and share with your friends and family attending!

John Pavlovitz's No Kings Day Playlist

As a reminder, I put together a No Kings Day Playlist on Spotify to help keep you focused, encouraged, and positive, not just today but every day we fight against authoritarianism and for the people and place we love.

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Top 10 Rally Reminders for #NoKingsDayOct18th

Here’s Why Intolerance and Extremism Happen — and What We Can Do About All the Anger and Division - Teri Kanefield Hi, and welcome to Why Intolerance and Extremism Happen — and What We Can Do About All the Anger and Division. Here I explore some big questions: • Why do some people spiral into extremism? • Why does...

This is well worth the time to read. TLDR: Get off hyperpartisan social media, ditch "entertainment" news designed to incite, look to art that reveals truths about ourselves, recognize the ways we are manipulated by media. Find reliable, unbiased news sources.

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Study finds no link between mRNA #COVID vaccines early in pregnancy and birth defects

No increased risk of congenital abnormalities was seen overall, by organ system, or for any of the 75 individual defects studied.

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

Does anyone remember how many *years* ago I started talking about risks compounding each other? That C19 is a risk factor for nasty complications… and it would add… or multiply with other risk factors?

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency. Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

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Therapists Warn This Normalized Trump Behavior Is Causing Real-World Harm People often look up to the president — and in this case, that’s clearly a problem.

Therapists Warn This Normalized Trump Behavior Is Causing Real-World Harm

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Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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I know that America is not a Christian nation because if it were, we’d welcome immigrants, there’d be a job of foot washer at the boarder, Citizens United wouldn’t exist, the rich would be chased, the hungry would be fed, the homeless housed. Truth would be spoken to power. The last would be first.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need.

Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

Must be something wrong with me because damned if I can tell if some is undocumented in an emergency room, or anywhere else for that matter by simply looking at them.

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.

They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.

We must fight back.

EXCLUSIVE: Vulnerable Republican Rob Wittman was caught fundraising at an expensive D.C. restaurant instead of doing his job to stop a government shutdown.

He also claimed Republicans were working today, but they weren’t on the floor.

Educator, ACLU Sue University After Firing Linked to Kirk Criticism An Indiana educator, along with the ACLU, is suing after being fired from Ball State University over posts criticizing Charlie Kirk.

Educator, ACLU fight neo-McCarthyism in Indiana. My latest:

RFK Jr's war on vaccines is about shaming women, not helping kids The MAHA movement regards all childhood ailments as a sign that moms are failing

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women.

The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers.

This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny.

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You mean a platform made entirely by young white males ignores the #health concerns of anyone who are not young white males?

The anti-fascist character used by American troops in WW2 called Kilroy appears on a wooden post.

The anti-fascist character used by American troops in WW2 called Kilroy appears on a trailer.

During the European campaign of WW2, American troops would leave this character to let the NAZIs know that they were everywhere.
Kilroy is beginning to pop up in public spaces. He is the call for & promise of liberation. He is hope. He is everywhere.
Kilroy was here.

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

We are paying the price of politics with the lives of children We do not need more thoughts, prayers or empty hope. We need laws that reflect the value of children’s lives over the power of interest groups and lobbyists. We need leaders who refuse to accept gun v...

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The effect of race-specific vs race-neutral equations on the calculation of ppFVC. The average ppFVC was calculated in ten-year age brackets using race-specific (NHANES III, GLI 2012) and race-neutral (GLI Global) equations for male and female individuals with SSc. For each age bracket, ppFVC is calculated using the same average FVC and height based on either a race-neutral or race-specific equation. The solid lines represent calculation of ppFVC with the GLI 2012 and NHANES III equations for Black race. The small, dashed line represents ppFVC calculated using the GLI 2012 and NHANES III equations for White race. The green line with larger dashes represents ppFVC as calculated by GLI Global.

Use of race-specific vs race-neutral pulmonary function test reference equations may lead to clinically significant differences in classification of restrictive lung disease severity among Black and White individuals with systemic sclerosis

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Addressing youth machete crime Youth crimes involving edged weapons have been on the rise in Melbourne, with a state government ban on the sales and possession of machetes coming into full force next month. A youth services organis...

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