NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate Clinical teams across the country are forming a five-year, $37 million consortium to research stillbirth, a long-neglected public health concern. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was...

NEW: The U.S. has long lagged behind other wealthy countries in reducing its stillbirth rate.

Now a new five-year, $37 million NIH consortium will prioritize this public health issue. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was intimately tied to this,” one expert said.

Only 1% of Workers at This Factory Made What Nike Says Is Typical Nike has made an expansive effort to convince consumers, investors and others that it is improving the lives of factory workers who make its products, not exploiting them. A rare view of wages at one ...

Nike says its suppliers pay workers 1.9 times the minimum wage on average.

But payroll records for one Cambodian factory revealed few people making that much, even after years on the job.

(Published April)

Never mind: Wall Street titans shake off qualms and embrace Trump Many high-dollar donors had turned their backs on Trump after the stolen election lie and Jan. 6, but now have returned.

A friend posted this article from 2024 and I am wondering if they have re-interviewed folks...

"Republicans have told her that “the threat to capitalism from the Democrats is more concerning than the threat to democracy from Trump.”

www.politico.com/news/2024/06...

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

headline from The Telegraph featuring a smiling, clean cut photo of the alleged killer The scholarship student with an all-American upbringing accused of killing Charlie Kirk Tyler Robinson, 22, grew up in a middle-class family in Utah, with both parents registered Republicans Connor Stringer Deputy US Editor Connor Stringer Related Topics Utah, Crime 12 September 2025 9:34pm BST

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

Let’s pivot to the real tragedy. Prayers to these babies 🙏🏽

House of Representative's attempt to hold a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk. Not going as expected though

a man in a white t-shirt is dancing in a living room . ALT: a man in a white t-shirt is dancing in a living room .

So you think black folks and POC weren’t worried about catching a hot one from the cops, the klan, or some random racist all this time? We’ve had 400 years of this stress.

We live here. Y’all are just visiting.

Not they proved him wrong on the first stop!

Critical condition???

Prayers DOWN

WHITE-ON-WHITE CRIME IS OUT OF CONTROL! WHERE ARE THE FATHERS?!?!

Nobody:

The sound everybody heard at that event in Utah:

OH!

Unfortunately, political violence is woven into this nation’s history. There are many instances of assasinations within our nation that were carried out by our government.

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

EPA Drops Legal Case Against the GEO Group, a Major Trump Donor, Over Its Misuse of Harmful Disinfectant in an ICE Facility A complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged that on more than 1,000 occasions in 2022 and 2023, the GEO Group had its employees use the disinfectant, which causes irreversible eye damage…

The EPA recently withdrew a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE facilities.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social‬ and @lisalsong.bsky.social‬

Police take back statement dismissing hate crime in gay actor’s killing Jonathan Joss, who acted in “King of the Hill” and “Parks and Recreation,” was shot in San Antonio by a man who yelled “homophobic slurs” at him, his husband said.

San Antonio police have walked back on a previous statement that there was no evidence of a hate crime in the killing of actor Jonathan Joss, with the police chief now calling the statement “premature.”

One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement. Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

#NeverForget

Left: $675,000 raised for a woman who called a child the N word—the comments on line were so racist they had to be deleted.

Right: Just found not far from my home in Los Angeles—I live in one of the most diverse parts of town.

We live in a deeply racist country, and it’s time to stop denying it.

YouTube video by Robert Reich The Solutions to the Climate Crisis No One is Talking About | Robert Reich

Your Earth Day reminder that the dual crises of economic inequality and climate change are no accident. Both are the result of decades of deliberate choices made, and policies enacted, by ultra-wealthy and powerful corporations.

But we can fix them both. Here's how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXU...

Ugh

Free Mahmoud Khalil

The Intelligence Community Is Spying on Student Protesters Congress is pressuring the FBI to infiltrate college protests with informants.

The intelligence community is spying on student protesters, I reported last year. Today, the Washington Post reports that Homeland Security officials had been "gathering intelligence" on Mahmoud Khalil’s activities
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-intell...

She’s on a Scholarship at a Tribal College in Wisconsin. The Trump Administration Suspended the USDA Grant That Funded It. Tribal colleges and universities, which ProPublica last year found are perpetually underfunded by Congress, say it’s illegal to withhold financial support from them. Their funding is protected by trea...

NEW: The Trump administration has suspended millions in USDA grants to tribal colleges and universities. It might force some students to drop out.

My story for @propublica.org

www.propublica.org/article/trib...