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Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Pretty.

Totally.

60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds More than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Africa have starved to death as a result of disappearing sardines, a new paper has found. More than 95% of the African penguins in two of the most important breeding colonies, on Dassen Island and Robben Island, died between 2004 and 2012. The breeding penguins probably starved to death during the moulting period, according to the paper, which said the climate crisis and overfishing were driving declines. Continue reading...

60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study

What is this and where is this?

I agree.

No immigrant community in the United States is "garbage." Not one. Shame on our President for this sort of language. Shame on those who were there and did not call it out.

An opinion piece titled "Saved by Stoppard" by Michael Baum. Baum recounts seeing the first production of Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia" in 1993. During the interval, he had a "Damascene conversion." As a clinical scientist studying breast cancer, he was operating on the assumption that it grew linearly. In Act I of the play, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" Baum explains that with that, Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behavior of breast cancer. The hypothesis that cancer must have already scattered cells into circulation before diagnosis led to the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy," which caused a "striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival." The piece concludes, "Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia." Michael Baum is identified as Professor emeritus of

How the writing of Tom Stoppard was a catalyst for a medical breakthrough.

A demonstration of the fluidity of metaphor, creativity & insight.

Senators vow oversight after report Hegseth told troops to ‘kill everybody’ in boat strike Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) issued a statement Saturday vowing to conduct “vigorous oversight” on Caribbean strikes after a report surfaced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) issued a statement Saturday vowing to conduct “vigorous oversight” on Caribbean strikes after a report surfaced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military to “kill everybody” aboard an alleged drug vessel.

Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.

h/t @adamwren.bsky.social

Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."

Really sick of this behavior.

The work is not over. The critical parts of the files will likely be withheld.

Interesting. So, it is not possible to not have power, is that right? That is interesting.

do not care

So neat.

But, but…short round.

Can you give us a little now? Or do we wait? I am curious what her conception is.

The victims’ attorneys and MTG said at the press conference in DC that they would begin releasing names.

And this is not my saying it doesn’t have its uses and massive benefits in other industries. But given the costs, we shouldn’t be wasting this resource on things we do not have to.

#walmart

lol

That's wonderful. But Iran also had plenty of capable engineers. What is causing this problem is the corruption.

(Nor Israel. It's the leaders causing so much trouble.)

The people of Iran do not consider the US to be their mortal enemy.

Yes.

lol

The people need help because they have a corrupt government.

The government doesn’t need help. They just need to stop being corrupt. They have the best engineers if they want to solve any problems with infrastructure. The problem is corruption.

No, not at all.