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The EPA is accepting comments through August 7 about the plan to repeal the Endangerment Finding (which helps regulate greenhouse gas emissions). This is an EASY way for you to take a stand for public health, the environment, and science! Please comment!

Food cannot flow quickly enough to Gaza right now, says WCK founder @chefjoseandres.bsky.social in a personal essay for @nytopinion.nytimes.com. #ChefsForGaza

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SNAP cuts set to strain KY budget, may impact schools Kentucky faces deep cuts to a key food support program with the passage of the budget reconciliation bill.

Kentucky Republicans in Congress voted to cut SNAP knowing it would rip school meals away from our children.

Over 580,000 students could lose school meals because of this decision.

STEWART: “I feel like I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite — they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”

Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers

Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll.

Trump's EPA wants to eliminate regulation for greenhouse gases The Trump administration proposes eliminating a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. That would undermine the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants and cars.

The Trump administration proposes eliminating a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. That would undermine the EPA's climate change regulations for power plants and cars.

Roles reversed: A veteran Gaza aid worker pleads for survival An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.

An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.

BOYCOTT SKYDANCE AND PARAMOUNT.

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Medicaid - They Lied

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4 things to know about Gaza right now amid warnings of 'mass starvation' risk Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."

"A third of Palestinians in Gaza are going without food for days at a time, the U.N. World Food Programme's director of emergencies said. About 100,000 women and children were suffering severe acute malnutrition in the territory."

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Ex-U.S. military translator from Afghanistan arrested by ICE in CT. Attorney calls it ‘nonsensical.’ The 35-year-old husband and father of five was taken into custody by ICE agents outside a routine green card appointment in East Hartford.

🇺🇸 He served alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
🛂 He came here legally, with a valid visa.
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 He's a father of five, working toward permanent residency.

This week, ICE ambushed and detained him at a routine immigration appointment in Connecticut.
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Folks protesting ICE and the arrest of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Chaplain by ICE were arrested in Covington KY last week, and are facing potential felony charges. Please help spread the word and give to the legal fund.

"We were kidnapped" On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”

The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Here legally since 1999, thousands of immigrants have 60 days to leave In September, the Department of Homeland Security will end temporary protections for more than 50,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans who have lived legally in the U.S. for decades.

They’ve lived here legally for decades—raising families, paying taxes, building communities. Now 50,000 Hondurans & Nicaraguans with TPS face losing everything by Sept 8. Stripped of status. Stripped of stability. All for political cruelty. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill. • Kentucky Lantern Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear increased costs of an AI boom fueling growth in data centers and power demand.

AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill. kentuckylantern.com/2025/07/18/r...

"Ada" is harvesting apples to be used for apple sauce. She earns $35/900lb bin. She works rapidly to fill her 25lb bag, runs to dump it & starts picking all over again. As this is for canning she doesn't have to worry about being gentle, she just needs to be very fast. #WeFeedYou

DOJ seeks one-day sentence for officer in raid that killed Breonna Taylor In November, a federal jury found officer Brett Hankison guilty of violating Taylor’s civil rights during a March 2020 police raid in which she was fatally shot.

One day. That’s the slap in the face the DOJ is calling “accountability” in Breonna Taylor’s case.

Now they want to act like civil rights charges were too much? Please be for real.

If you’re wondering how little they value Black lives—look no further.

Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid

This is disgusting. Even in the era of no shame, it’s shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Just a ghoulish, evil attempt to deny Breonna Taylor justice and give a greenlight to future impunity for white supremacist violence.

The DOJ is recommending no prison time for Brett Hankison, the ex-officer who blindly fired 10 shots during the botched Breonna Taylor raid. Though convicted of civil rights violations, his bullets hit no one. Taylor’s killers still face no charges.
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The federal cuts taking place are a betrayal of rural America. Cuts to Medicaid will hammer rural economies, cut health-care jobs and strip families of coverage. Cuts to the US Dept. of Education will hurt rural public schools, leaving kids behind.

America deserves better.

GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: Frankfort, KY · John Lewis Actions Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lie...

I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: Frankfort, KY” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...

If you are in Frankfort, KY, Thursday, come rally with us! #GoodTrouble

‘Could become a death spiral’: scientists discover what’s driving record die-offs of US honeybees

Earlier this year, honeybee deaths hit record highs in the US, with beekeepers losing on average 60% of their colonies, at a cost of $600m. Scientists have been scrambling to discover what happened; now the culprits are emerging.

Firing the Front Line Why Hollowing Out the State Department Destroys American Power

I’ve met FSOs who learned the language, understood the culture, and stayed long after the rest of Washington had lost interest.

When you fire 1,300 of them, you don’t just eliminate jobs.

You gut the connective tissue of American soft power.

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At least 30 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza as war deaths top 58,000, officials say At least six children were killed in an Israeli strike on a water collection point. The Israeli military blamed a technical error which made its munition fall "dozens of meters from the target".

At least 31 Palestinians were fatally shot on their way to an aid distribution site in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, while Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians.

Philosophy professor & US Citizen Jonathan Caravello has been brutally detained & effectively disappeared for trying to help a legal observer remove a teargas canister from under their wheelchair during an ICE raid on a California farm.

…is a sentence I've now had to write. What… in the actual fuck

If true then she should be fired into the sun. I wish we had a congress who could investigate.

SURJ Action Hours: Summer to Grow, Turn Up the Heat! · Showing Up for Racial Justice Join us on Wednesdays -- whether you are new to SURJ, or have been organizing with us for awhile -- to take action together. We do things like call and write representatives and make public comments...

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