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Idk the climate change and children one is pretty funny too. It’s not that we’re not having kids BECAUSE we are afraid of climate change. She’s almost there. Maybe a good interview would clear things up.

This panel will be such a resource! Veterans connected to the VA are just a subset of veterans and are, in many ways, different from those who aren’t.

In the rural South where Medicaid has been a lifeline, residents brace for cuts With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.

With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.

Insurance now makes up 20% of today's mortgage payment -- up from 8% in the 2000s.

Map showing the U.S. 2025 Billion-Dollar Weather & Climate Disasters and highlights wildfires and severe weather so far through June 2025. Graphic is produced by Climate Central.

📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon!

➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.

Supporting America's Military and Veteran Caregivers There are 14.3 million military and veteran caregivers—5.5 percent of the U.S. adult population. How does caregiving affect their health, their economic security, and their families' well-being? And w...

Report is here if you’re interested in our approach quantifying caregivers www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

Recent RAND research suggests that about 40% of Americans provide some kind of unpaid care for another adult. These tips are likely going to be important for you at some time in your life.

New research alert: Medicaid covers nearly 40% of treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), but recent “unwinding” of pandemic-era enrollment protections led many to lose coverage nationwide. How did this affect life-saving buprenorphine treatment?

The Census Bureau is now headed by a Trump official in an acting position George Cook is the Trump administration's new acting director of the Census Bureau, which has been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count.

SCOOP: The Trump administration has installed a new acting director of the Census Bureau, @npr.org has learned. George Cook takes over the federal government’s largest statistical agency after it's been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count

A lesson learned after pets were left behind in Hurricane Katrina: Save the animals People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the country's disaster response ever since.

People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the country's disaster response ever since.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Because so few people purchase flood insurance, costs are extremely high for the people who need it most.

RIP Sophie you will always be famous.

Evergreen reminder that wind turbines are not even remotely a leading cause of human-driven bird mortality. This is classic concern trolling in the interest of fossil fuels - if they really cared about birds they'd focus on domestic cats and building glass. And what's not shown here: climate change.

Here's the ultra-short read on the Mamdani logo design www.gq.com/story/zohran...

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC NYC is Suffering from Halalflation

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is a great example of how far you can go if you genuinely center your campaign in an engaging way around the issue that voters overwhelmingly say in surveys they care the most about

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyL4...

Video captured the moment a road buckled and sent a car flying as a heatwave impacted Missouri on Sunday.

Bisexual flag: Purple-breasted Cotinga

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Super timely report as cuts to FEMA loom.

Hahaha Oneil Cruz is eating an Uncrustable after hitting an enormous home run

A dot plot showing that there is bipartisan agreement on some core responsibilities of government, but wide partisan gaps over health insurance, education, income and retirement support.

There are wide partisan gaps when it comes to whether the federal government has a responsibility to provide health insurance for all Americans. 90% of Democrats say it does, while half as many Republicans (45%) say this. www.pewresearch.org/...

The partisan divide is especially telling. Partisanship is so deeply entrenched that it can shape the perception of our finances.

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The Florida building code has reduced losses by 72% - but population in the area hit by Hurricane Ian has increased over 600%. Building codes help but that math ain't mathing.

I PRed my Dri Tri time by over six minutes! I hope everyone has fun :) #otfsky #orangetheory

I’ll also say that the use of the word “refugees” is not legally appropriate, and this demonstrates why we need better language to describe mobility within and between countries. @jaybalagna.bsky.social

Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump

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