Climate Change Made South Sudan Heat Wave More Likely, Study Finds Years of war and food insecurity in the region made the extreme heat especially dangerous.

Climate change, largely caused by the burning of fossil fuels in rich nations, made a recent heat wave in South Sudan even worse — illustrating the way countries can suffer from a warming planet, even if they barely contributed to the problem.

11-year-old took her own life over deportation threats, family says ‘I waited a whole week for a miracle that my daughter would be well, but unfortunately, nothing could be done,’ despaired her mother

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.”

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Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washi...

"One FAA employee who was fired over the weekend suggested he was targeted for his views on Tesla and X..'The official DOGE Facebook page started harassing me on my personal Facebook account..Less than a week later I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security.'"

Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.

Trump just ordered 2 dams opened up in California in an unprecedented move that risks depleting the reservoirs ahead of the dry summer months.

And the kicker? The water from the dams doesn't even flow to Los Angeles.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Truly don’t care what was said about DEI. This is all that matters

Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic," according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times. The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport's vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.

NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

From this morning

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

Jan. 6 Rioter Freed by Trump ‘at Large’ for Soliciting Minor Andrew Taake, who previously pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement during the Capitol riot, still faces charges dating back to 2016.

A convicted Capitol rioter who was released from federal prison thanks to a pardon from President Donald Trump is “at large” for allegedly soliciting a minor.

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊

It was all in Project 2025…

Iamdaviontatum said, “if you do not want a diverse workplace then you do not deserve a diverse consumer base.”

Here's a good website for fact checking stuff. It's pretty politically unbiased (as far as what I've seen). www.verifythis.com

People outside the US are posting TikTok’s roasting Americans now that it’s banned here.

LMAO.

Yes this

The bad calls in this game are making it very hard to enjoy. Let’s these dudes play! 😩

User "Annie Wu" says "this tweet is my Roman Empire," along with a screenshot of tweet from @PerthshireMags that reads, "climate change will manifest as a series of disasters as viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it."

We don’t have to choose this fate. But I fear we will.

I am begging people not to share photos of the dead in New Orleans on social media. Just stop. It's disgusting.

Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.

Big Pharma is the only reason anyone still dies from HIV: “We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.”

Alabama A&M LB Burnett dies from head injury Medrick Burnett Jr., 20, a linebacker for the Alabama A&M Bulldogs, has died from an in-game head injury he suffered in October.

Medrick Burnett Jr., a linebacker for Alabama A&M, has died following an in-game head injury he suffered in October, the Jefferson County coroner said

Justice Department confirms investigation of Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office after Sonya Massey’s death A letter seeking more information was sent to the county this week.

The Dept. of Justice confirmed an investigation is underway into the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Department following the killing of Sonya Massey, who was shot by an officer after she called 911 for help