High School Football Isn’t Ready for More Extreme Heat | Atmos Climate change is raising the risk of heat strokes in states where high school football is most popular, new data analysis shows.

high school football season is getting HOT—especially in the South, where it's most popular—so hot that some experts think it could soon become a spring sport

Emma Rubin with a new data analysis and story for @atmosmag.bsky.social 🌎🧪

Happy National Freedom to Marry Day!

On this day we commemorate the landmark Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that granted same-sex couples the right to marry.

Join me in celebrating love, equality, and the countless couples who have found happiness together.

Baltic states to pull the plug on Russian grid | CNN After years of preparation, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia will disconnect from their Russian-controlled electricity grid this weekend, erasing one of the last traces of their Soviet past. CNN’s Clare ...

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“After years of preparation, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia will disconnect from their Russian-controlled electricity grid this weekend”

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

CDC advisers push agency to explain data removal, say when info will be restored Information on topics such as gender, teens' behavior, and infectious diseases was removed from the CDC's website.

BREAKING: CDC's top advisors demand answers and a restoration of crucial public health data. New story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...

Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

Truly chilling and totalitarian.
“Promoting patriotic education”? We have arrived at the terrible place.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Same my friend… I live in Oklahoma… locally it is just as bad

Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps | CNN At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citiz...

At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.

Trump has pulled Fauci’s security detail, source says | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail that was being provided and paid for by the National Institutes of Health, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN. It ...

CNN: "President Donald Trump has terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail that was being provided and paid for by the National Institutes of Health, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN. It was pulled on Thursday night."

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Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge (Gift Article) The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.

Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge.
Democracy dies in darkness.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

WHO freezes hiring, restricts travel after US withdrawal Trump’s planned exit “has made our financial situation more acute” the WHO chief told staff.

The World Health Organization is freezing recruitment and slashing travel in response to the withdrawal of the US, its biggest funder, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO.

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

Chris Murphy: "Political violence in this country just become mainstream. It is now a fact of life in America. If you commit an act of horrific violence in the name of the POTUS, that president will make sure you get away with it. That is fundamentally un-American."

Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization The United States will exit the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Stained glass art of Bishop Budde

“Make good trouble.”

~ John Lewis

The speech from AOC is absolute 🔥 - the assist from Raskin to keep it going is also sublime. #Teamwork

Kinda feels like a whole lotta people found out for the first time today that there's a very large, very vibrant progressive wing of Christianity (and religion in general).

Bishop Tells Trump to ‘Have Mercy’ on Immigrants and Gay Children The direct appeal to President Trump at the start of the first full day of his presidency was a remarkable moment at a National Cathedral event that has not historically been political.

The bishop at President Trump’s inaugural prayer service implored him to “have mercy” on gay, lesbian and transgender children, as well as undocumented immigrants.

“I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” asked Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

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Folks, if I can say only a few things:

Be kind and look out for others.
Take care of yourselves.
Organize for the good in your community
Be active in and protect your local democracy.

In these coming days, Darkness will only prevail if the good and righteous do nothing.

Do not give into fear.

The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type...

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The most powerful words you can say right now to these fascist bastards is:

"No, make me."

They cannot actually be everywhere and enforce their fascist policies. They rely on fear to do the job of governing for them. By refusing to comply, you make their means of compliance ineffective.

Just in case people don’t fully grasp it. The pardoning of insurrectionists is Trump’s way of building loyalty from militias and domestic terrorists to carry out unofficial acts for him

The mainstream media is already normalizing Donald Trump.

I won't, and neither should you.

This is why legacy media is dying.

Trump’s border policy tore apart many families. Nobody knows what happens to them now Number of families that are still separated remains unclear, and a previous ruling offers separated families few protections from future deportation

Just a few days ago for @theguardian.com, I wrote about what would happen to the families separated under the first Trump admin. Less that 24 hours into his second term, Trump dissolved the family reunification task force. More than 1,000 children remain separated from their parents.