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Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism.

"We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

I'm admittedly not Terry Tao, but I don't think the math on "pay $1 billion to get $584 million back" quite works out.
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kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

This is where optics are everything I think. The article is a little..deluded as with any AI thing. But I think it emphasizes that this kind of endeavor is hollow and a kind of coping mechanism for grief and for need for human connection.

But a title like this one does not do the author any favors

But it offsets these expensive tax cuts in part through what several experts said may prove to be the most dramatic reductions in safety net spending in modern U.S. history. While last-minute changes to the bill text make precise estimates impossible, the legislation appears on track to cut Medicaid by about 18 percent and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by roughly 20 percent, according to estimates based on projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Republicans are proposing the largest cut to the social safety net in US history
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NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani Andrew Cuomo’s concession came as the race’s outcome will be decided by a ranked choice count after neither Democrat got a clear majority in the vote.

BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.

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Don’t give me hope :(

I hadn’t heard of Migas before, thanks for putting me on . A welcome last meal before WW3

Screen shot of CNN site with a Saturday breaking news alert explaining that Trump launched a strike against Iran atop a CNN story from the same day headlined “Always a peacemaker”: How Trump decided to hold off on striking Iran

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

this is as good as turning the Constitution off. If this is what congressional leaders are going to do when an executive just seizes power from the legislative branch, we do not have one.

The Pro-Israel U.S. General Quietly Influencing Trump On Iran Gen. Erik Kurilla “had better information about what [Israel was] up to ... than anyone else in our government,” a former U.S. official told HuffPost.

Tonight affirms the influence of the hawkish top US military commander in the Middle East — who oversaw expanded support for Netanyahu under Biden & has exceptionally close ties to both Israel & Trump. Some background on Erik Kurilla, a critical player in what’s next
www.huffpost.com/entry/erik-k...

Maybe it is because speculatively writing an article about the US bombing a sovereign country that we are currently not in conflict with is not actually reporting news

ICE Bars Congressional Reps. From Immigrant Detention Area in Manhattan Claiming people being held are “in transit,” the local deputy director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement asserts a federal law allowing visits by members of Congress does not apply in Lower Manh...

Extremely bizarre exchange between Reps. Nadler + Goldman and the ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, where Joyce conceded immigrants held there sometimes spent multiple nights on the floors or on benches on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/18/i... via @THECITYNY

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant.

This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

The Times saying last year they'd no longer endorse candidates in local elections, then immediately being like "oh but not THAT guy" 10 months later because the candidate wants free buses gives away the whole game. "Objectivity" means you break your own rules to punch left as much as you want.

Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

Chopper 6ABC News aerial view of 100,000 people at the No Kings rally on the Art Museum steps in Philadelphia.

Chopper 6 aerial coverage of the #NoKings #Philly protest at the Art Museum 💪🏻

Was there at the front, MASSIVE turnout.
I was in awe looking behind me at Ben Franklin Pkwy as for nearly another hour thousands of people continued marching towards an already packed crowd. ❤️ Proud to be a part of #Philly #nokings

Los Angeles's Deputy Mayor for Public Safety called in a bomb threat to City Hall last year in an attempt to frame pro-Palestine organizers.

HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block / X HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid.

While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
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The Bjork video is a deep cut 👏

It’s not what they consider, it is what scientific evidence shows. Journalism does not to be even-handed when it is fact vs. fiction. Please do better @npr.org

I’m sure you’re getting flooded with this info already but as a current scientist I can’t exaggerate how dire this is. Like job prospects , student prospects across the country are plummeting to 0. I hope I can encourage you and others to keep speaking on this 🩷

‘We’re hurting.’ Trans scientists call for recognition and support from research community “Rigorous science demands” it, authors write in landmark commentary

In a landmark commentary last year, 24 scientists from around the globe—all of whom either identify as trans or have trans family members—called for recognition and support from the research community. #TransDayOfVisibility scim.ag/4l8LK5O

This is a really well written and investigated article. A case study for the importance of environmental regulation and protecting people first and foremost

This may be the most lead polluted place on Earth. Is there any hope? The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet. Who is to blame? And can justice be done?

The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet. Who is to blame? And can justice be done?

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.

In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School detained in U.S., faces deportation and likely arrest upon return due to anti-war stance A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School has been detained in the United States and placed in immigration detention. According to multiple independent Russian media outlets and the scient...

More here, for those asking

Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 research Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics

...a “pointless, ill-advised move that will hurt U.S. science and pandemic readiness,” says Charles Rice, a Nobel Prize–winning virologist at Rockefeller University

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