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The Miami Herald tracked 16,569 flood complaints from over 12,000 locations in Miami-Dade and Broward over the last 11 years, and found 32% were outside the newly-expanded 500-year flood zones scheduled to go into effect as early as 2026: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

The wall near St. Michael’s Monastery in #Kyiv

Here are the faces of the Heroes who gave their lives for Ukraine

Here are ordinary people who did not want war -they wanted to live.But when Russians came to kill us,they stood up to defend their country

This is the price Ukraine is paying
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Zelensky rules out ceding land to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not give up territory, not to hasten peace talks, not to satisfy Washington and not under pressure from Moscow.

JUST IN: Ukraine will NOT surrender territory, President Zelensky declared Monday, rejecting a central Russian demand that Donald Trump had incorporated into his “peace plan.”
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How Florida lost track of 30,000 students, a ‘cautionary tale’ for vouchers The state’s auditor general found “a myriad of accountability problems” in the nation’s largest voucher program.

Florida’s voucher audit is a warning: the state lost track of 30,000 students and hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars that should have supported public schools. Kids pay the price when there’s no oversight. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Ukrainian History Global Initiative The Creative Humanities During a War of Destruction

We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed. But amidst a war of aggression scholars in Ukraine have undertaken one of the most ambitious knowledge projects of our time. It's a privilege to be involved with Ukrainian History Global Initiative
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Birthright citizenship isn’t a “longstanding principle”

It’s a Constitutional Amendment

And way back in 1898 the Supreme Court determined it applies to virtually ALL persons born in America

Which is why it concerns me-greatly-that the MAGA justices have agreed to hear this case

Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱

Thomas Perez Jr. Falsely Confessed to His Father's Murder After a 17 Hour Interrogation — but His Dad Was Alive the Whole Time. Inside the Disturbing Case Thomas Perez Jr. was interrogated by police for 17 hours in 2018 after they suspected he killed his father, Thomas Perez Sr., even though he was later found alive. Here's everything to know about Thom...

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Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders “This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”

The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.

It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.

Free link ⤵️
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In their confirmation hearings, RFK Jr pledged he would not be anti-vax, Hegseth said he respected women serving in leadership positions in the military, and Bondi said she would not weaponize DOJ against Trump’s political enemies.

Yet another massive Russian drone and missile attack on #Ukraine. The energy sector and critical infrastructure were hit.

▪️ Kyiv region: The Fastiv, Vyshhorod, and Bucha districts were under relentless Russian attack throughout the night. Several people were injured.

The railway station in Fastiv, before and after the Russian strike.

Photo: Suspilne

🔴 Russian forces launched a massive combined missile and drone strike on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure overnight, damaging power facilities in eight regions.

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🔴 Russian forces attacked at least 16 locations of Ukraine's power grid, according to monitoring channels.

It total, 704 drones and missiles were deployed in the attack.

1 night
650 drones
51 missiles

At least 7 people, including an 11 y.o. child, were injured in this brutal terrorist attack.

russia’s urge to kill and destroy doesn’t stop. Not even on Saint Nicholas Day.

Help protect people from this terror:
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Sviatyi Mykolai (Saint Nicholas) walks through wounded Ukrainian cities and villages — and still brings hope. War changes many things, but not the power of a small kindness. And sometimes, it’s these small, almost invisible kindnesses that keep the soul from breaking.

There is not one Ukraian who is not well informed about the security guarantees Ukriane got in the Budapest Memorandum. Nothing but ironclad guarantees will pass, but such don't exist in real life. The only guarentee is a defeated Russia.

Over 700 MISSILES and DRONES rain down on Ukraine in Russia’s biggest strikes in weeks.

The latest attacks come as Washington advances a diplomatic plan to end the war – a proposal that Kyiv fears could require major concessions to Moscow.

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I want to hear Bill Cassidy say he regrets voting for RFK Jr. If not, I’ll assume he just regrets the political discomfort this is causing him.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.

A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Except he hasn’t really participated in peace.

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

Nothing says America First like renaming football.

The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.

Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

America’s enemies must be delighted to see our own immigration law-enforcement in masks forcibly apprehending a US citizen medical professional in this way. They couldn’t create better propaganda against American exceptionalism.

Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal “What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”

“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”