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They want to tell you a kid with a Spider-Man backpack is evil Liam Ramos' innocence, like the innocence of all kids, is unimpeachable. The visuals of his arrest are excruciating.

Something is deeply wrong if we, as a society, cannot agree that an administration that snatches up children, uses them as bait to hunt down others, is morally repulsive.

YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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MAGA’s crackdown on dissent started with pro-Palestinian activists. It didn’t end there. “People need to quit demonstrating…”

They want you to "quit demonstrating"

NO KINGS Columbus · Citizens Against Tyranny **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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The Supreme Court just took legal status from 300,000 Venezuelans Justice Jackson accuses her colleagues of "repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference."

The Supreme Court’s Republican appointees let the Trump administration end the legal status of 300,000 Venezuelan immigrants who were granted Temporary Protected Status, a type of humanitarian relief for people whose home countries are in crisis.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country.

Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.

Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.

President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign. One of Project 2025's architects is working to use the shutdown to accelerate his goals of slashing the size of the federal workforce and punishing Democrat-led states.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Israeli commandos prepare to board Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla

🔺 UPDATE: The flotilla carrying aid for Gaza and activists including Greta Thunberg, the Swedish campaigner, has been “circled” by Israeli warships, according to those on board, as the ships near Port Said on the Egyptian coast

Crispr Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants.

For the first time, researchers succeeded in implanting Crispr-edited pancreatic cells in a man with type 1 diabetes. In this experiment, edited cells produced insulin for months after being implanted, without the need for the recipient to take any immunosuppressive drugs.

Utah Governor Cox, in wake of Charlie Kirk killing, urges 'off ramp' from political hostility With three words, Utah Governor Spencer Cox on Friday eased Americans’ fears about the fugitive suspected of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk: “We got him.”

Utah Governor Cox, in wake of Charlie Kirk killing, urges 'off ramp' from political hostility reut.rs/4pkwLb7

Brené Brown Doesn’t Want to Be Your Self-Help Guru Anymore

Brené Brown’s TED Talk on vulnerability went viral in 2010. Since then, she made a conscious decision to get out of the self-help space and began studying effective leadership in the workplace. Read, watch or listen to why on “The Interview.”

Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists Six Palestinian media workers, four of them Al Jazeera journalists, were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on their tent by Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital on 10 August. Here, their families pay tribute to men

Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”

Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”

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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 104, Dies; Army Nurse Broke a Color Barrier After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She was later an Air Force officer.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces after years of being barred from a segregated military, died on Jan. 8. She was 104.

Idaho Lawmakers Want Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Decision A state legislative committee has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate marriage be returned to the states.

Breaking News: An Idaho House committee passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to undo the landmark 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage.

I can’t help but wonder whether yesterday’s shooting had any influence on this decision… #medsky

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken No More General Anesthesia

One thing I didn’t expect in the wake of the CEO shooting is the sudden attention on health insurance policy. I have seen this video and the BCBS policy itself go viral on almost every platform. People are waking up. Real lasting change in healthcare is coming. youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...

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And each day becomes a harbinger of the next. Interestingly, we continue to be shocked; I find this aspect of humanness annoying. Yet, here I am waving around my flabbergasted flag. Maybe I could find a flag with “The Scream” by Edvard Munch on it to hang in my yard

Genius

Hmmm, I wonder if all the teens got a memo

Project 2025 Annotation: A Summary – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative Eighteen environmental historians from EDGI's Environmental Historians Action Collaborative working group are annotating environmental chapters and sections from Project 2025. For all the discussions ...

Unfortunately, this seem an apt time to share: A group of historians annotated sections of Project 2025, contextualizing and commenting on its plans to undermine environmental protections, exacerbate inequalities, and burn, burn, burn more fossil fuels. #envhist 🌎

I am sad that this was the first election my son was eligible to vote. He volunteered for Youth at the Booth on election day, and didn't get home til almost 10, only to get up the next day for school and learn the results. The juxtaposition of my emotions as a mom and my emotions as a citizen, ugh

Glad I am not the only one feeling this way

Yes!!!!! I hope you’ll spend some time here. I have kept instagram for now so I can watch your videos, but I hope to spend less time there. Glad to see you

Hey! 👋🏽 I’m back. Is anyone still here or seeing this?

'Saturday Night Live' cast jokingly ask Trump to keep them off his ‘enemies list’ The cast of Saturday Night Live jokingly touted their support for Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon Musk in their first episode since Trump's re-election this past week.

The cast of Saturday Night Live jokingly touted their support for Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon Musk in their first episode since Trump's re-election this week.