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More than 150 US arts organisations pledge to resist political pressure The joint statement, which does not name Donald Trump, comes as the US president seeks to remake the Kennedy Center and dictate programming at the Smithsonian

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Satellite data shed light on Russia’s modern-day gulags for Ukrainian children A Canadian-funded effort is tracking the movements of Ukrainian children taken during wartime

Incredible story by @markmackinnon.bsky.social Satellite data shed light on Russia’s modern-day gulags for Ukrainian children www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

First Canada, Now Australia: The Trump Factor Boosts Another World Leader in an Election Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was returned to power in an election Saturday, the latest left-leaning leader to achieve a comeback victory thanks partly to President Trump.

Trump is singlehandedly revitalizing the global center-left

Voice of America staff can resume reporting next week, DOJ says An email from the Justice Department said VOA staff can begin a “phased return” to the office and programming. The broadcaster has effectively been shut down since March.

Excellent news! #journalism www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...

NIH to prioritize human-based research technologies New initiative aims to reduce use of animals in NIH-funded research.

Fantastic news and a major step forward for ethical scientific research. www.nih.gov/news-events/...

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Brilliant move by PM Carney. King Charles III to open Parliament at end of May, Carney says - National | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1116093...

Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.

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RFK Jr. will require shift in how new vaccines are tested, HHS says The potential change outlined in a statement would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, sparking concerns among medical experts.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. intends to change how vaccines are tested. a move that the agency said will increase transparency, but that medical experts fear could limit access to vaccines and undermine the public’s trust in immunization depending on its implementation.

🚨 BREAKING: the UN has just reported that only women and children made up the list of casualties of 36 of the strikes since March 18.

HOW is this not in the headlines???

Please share this post as wide as you can, and join us as we continue to call for a permanent #CeasefireNOW

Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...

The world’s richest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth, the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after Trump pledged to pause tariffs for some countries

Oscar-winning Palestinian director of ‘No Other Land’ assaulted by Israeli settlers in the West Bank | CNN The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewi...

The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewitnesses said.

Trump’s Gaza Plan Reflects Broader Push for Annexation of Palestinian Land Right-wing officials in Israel, evangelical Christians in the United States and Trump appointees have become increasingly outspoken in calling for Israel to take more territory.

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“Elon seems to think that he’s bought the federal government now, and he’s playing out the same series of events” as he did at Twitter, said Shannon Liss-Riordan, an attorney who represents thousands of former Twitter employees who took legal action against the company after Musk’s takeover.

We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

How would tariffs rewire a world of trade predicated on the assumption that the U.S. would remain a predictable ally?

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

This is the weakness of the strategy that Bannon proposed and Trump is following. It is a strategy that forces you into overreach. To keep the zone flooded, you have to keep acting, keep moving, keep creating new cycles of outrage or fear.