I have a friend who is conservative and she did not know PBS was being shutdown. It makes me wonder how much she is missing. I wonder if the New York Times has ever thought about lifting the paywall just to get the truth out there?

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A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

Opinion | What this retired racehorse shows us about second chances Thoroughbreds who can no longer compete get a new lease on life with retraining and adoption.

Thoroughbreds that can no longer compete get a new lease on life with retraining and adoption, Chloe Coleman writes. wapo.st/3UxmgmB

Opinion | The big problem with this aging $8 billion fund This FCC fund deploys broadband to rural and low-income areas but relies on landline surcharges.

"The Big Tech platforms aren’t the ones footing the bill," Roslyn Layton writes.

"That burden is increasingly falling on America’s aging Universal Service Fund, which since 1998 has supported broadband deployment in rural communities, low-income households, schools, libraries and hospitals."

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.

The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

Anti-abortion playbook, flipped: Arkansas abortion fund opens its own "crisis pregnancy center" The dismantling of Roe v. Wade has prompted new approaches to what it means to be pro-choice.

For years, crisis pregnancy centers have been at the forefront of the anti-abortion movement’s agenda to target women navigating unplanned pregnancies.

Now, the state's reproductive rights advocates are flipping the script and have opened Arkansas's first pro-choice "crisis pregnancy center.”

Open Forum: Living in the shadow of the American Dream I live in Shenandoah County. I’m a factory worker. A farmer. A father of two girls — one still in diapers. I get up before the sun, and most days,

This is a great read! Living in the shadow of the American Dream

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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.

Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

3 men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records San Francisco city officials are investigating after three men who claimed to be from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) showed up at City Hall on Friday demanding records from offices bef...

So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

Literary scholars discuss the ethical & intellectual labor involved with recovering and preserving Black literature from 19th century periodicals to fight the erasure of Black Print culture. check it out on @projectmuse.bsky.social shorturl.at/tpex6 #BlackHistory #AmericanPeriodicals

After McConnell opposes RFK Jr., Trump says he has ‘no idea’ if senator had polio “I had no idea he had polio,” Trump said when asked about the 82-year-old Kentucky senator’s decision to vote against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS secretary.

President Trump insulted Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) and cast doubt on the senator’s battle with polio on Thursday after he voted against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation to serve as health and human services secretary.

“He’s not voting against Bobby, he’s voting against me,” Trump said.

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.

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OpenAI’s board rejects Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion takeover bid The board of OpenAI unanimously rejected an unsolicited bid for the company launched by Elon Musk, saying it was a legal tactic not a serious offer.

The board of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI unanimously rejected Elon Musk’s unsolicited proposal to buy the company, accusing the tech billionaire of using the bid as a legal maneuver in an ongoing court case he has against OpenAI.

Justice officials seek to drop Adams case after 7 lawyers refuse, resign in protest As resignations continue, acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove told prosecutors in Washington to find someone who would seek to dismiss the charges.

Breaking news: The Justice Department filed a motion to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, leaving it up to a federal judge to decide the fate of a case that ignited a dramatic standoff between the Trump administration and veteran prosecutors.

Trump’s federal firings imperil government services from cities to farm towns The cuts were initially poised to affect nuclear defense programs and impact veterans’ mental health care, workers warned.

The Trump administration’s move to fire thousands of federal employees could have a swift and severe impact on public services, staffers warned, as a beleaguered workforce struggles to cover for lost colleagues.

YouTube video by Occupy Democrats 🚨Maddow Just Dropped a BRUTAL Friday BOMBSHELL on MUSK

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Trump dismisses US Archivist, moves to shake up Kennedy Center WEST PALM BEACH, Florida/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Colleen Shogan, the Archivist of the United States, and announced plans to shake up the board of the John...

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Opinion | We should be very worried about the decline of DEI It’s another indication that the United States is going backward, only four years after the George Floyd protests.

Trump's victory has reinforced the sense that the Black Lives Matter and George Floyd eras are over, @perrybaconjr.bsky.social writes.

"This advancing anti-DEI movement is grounded in two very flawed premises that undermine much-needed change." wapo.st/40IFVDV

Opinion | This is a call to arms. Just not a traditional one. Industrial decline threatens U.S. security. Here’s a plan to fix that.

Industrial decline threatens U.S. security, Michael Bloomberg and retired Gen. David H. Berge.

Here’s a plan to fix that: wapo.st/4gaudX6

Live updates: Pentagon to order initial wave of additional U.S. troops to Mexico border Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

President Donald Trump issued a broad executive order ending antidiscrimination practices in federal hiring, reversing a nearly 60-year precedent and launching a significant step forward in his agenda to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in federal government.

Opinion | Trump’s MAGA advisers are setting him up for failure in Ukraine Pressuring Ukraine into a bad deal would harm Ukraine, the United States and Trump’s own legacy.

“You have to make the argument to Trump, ‘Do you want this on your legacy, that you lost the first war of the 21st century to Vladimir Putin?’” former British prime minister Boris Johnson tells Josh Rogin.

“It’s going to be worse than Vietnam or Afghanistan.” wapo.st/4hM8TcA

The people have spoken, Ann Telnaes draws🎨

See more from Ann here: wapo.st/3YR1IHo

Opinion | Trump is already Making America Gape Again His administration is going to be just as incompetent as it was last time — maybe more so.

Trump is already Making America Gape Again. His early appointments are horrifying, but they also indicate his administration will be just as bumbling as it was last time. My latest @postopinions.bsky.social column. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | There’s never been a transition like this one Donald Trump Cabinet picks communicate his contempt for the job before him.

Certain Trump nominations reflect his disdain for parts of the federal government that will fall into his hands on Jan. 20, Colbert I. King writes.

“And the transition isn’t half over.” wapo.st/4fONP3h