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With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

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The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Solid good trouble right here.

Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again

“Both chambers” but only one party. It’s the Republicans in both chambers.

I'm old enough to remember when the prevailing argument against affirmative action was that it failed to consider the "real" form of unfairness, which was income disparity

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Inside America’s Quiet Safety Revolution: How Local Leaders Are Cutting Crime Without More Cops While national rhetoric leans on fear and force, mayors in cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and Birmingham are reducing homicides through data, community investment, and strategic prevention—not just p...

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A real "I was only following orders" vibe here. This is what it must have been like with the concentration camps: "I don't know" turns very quickly into "I don't want to know."

Yes. WNYC will survive without federal money. Your rural npr affiliate that provided the farm report is going to die without it.

Whenever the “read this/don’t read that” discussion pops up, I like to remind people that the only thing they should read is whatever they like and the only books they should skip are those they don’t like. Read and let read.

Current situation inside #nyc subway at 34th E train. Heavy rains leading to overflow of storm drainage

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"

#booksky

When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.

Congrats to CWoC cofounder Kellye Garrett (@kellyekell.bsky.social ) on winning the ITW Award for Best Standalone Novel for MISSING WHITE WOMAN

Our group ⤵️ is JAM-PACKED with talented award-winning authors and the latest..?

Congratulations to
✨ @kellyekell.bsky.social ✨on winning the 2025 Thriller Award for Best Mystery with MISSING WHITE WOMAN! 🎊

So many books that people get mad about are because those books are great at making you think and/or feel empathic towards others. #books #readbannedbooks #freeREADom

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If you are too young to remember, the last US president to start a war in the Middle East was a Republican and did so over the premise of going after WMDs. 🤪

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Did Trump's Iran nuclear deal exit affect today's conflict? President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal in 2018. He broke his 2016 promise to renegotiate the deal. The deal had allowed foreign monitoring in exchange for relief from sanctions,...

Reminder: President Obama signed a multilateral/multinational deal with Iran NOT to develop a nuclear program. Trump broke a campaign promise in his first term to renegotiate it, and instead pulled out of the deal. Now, with no deal, he just bombed Iran. www.politifact.com/article/2025...

How to Prepare for a Climate Disaster in Trump’s America Here’s how to find reliable information and keep safe during the summer heat and hurricane season following the unprecedented cuts at federal agencies.

As climate change juices up severe storms and wildfires and makes heat waves even deadlier, cuts at all levels across the US federal government have thrown agencies tasked with preparing the country for disasters—and helping it recover—into chaos.

In Trump's America, what do we do? A guide:

Amazing that when they get in courtrooms, all the big claims they make outside the courthouse to the media suddenly go away.

Mark Zuckerberg Finally Found a Use for His Metaverse — War Meta is crossing a former hard red line in Silicon Valley to develop tech for military uses.

"Tech is neutral!" they scream, as they keep winking obsessively at the DoD www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of. They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

Amazing reporting here on how things have backfired on the capitulating law firms and their enabler.
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Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. Tristan Kern de Gonzales

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.

I'm so angry.