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Iron deficiency may affect nearly 1 in 3 adults in the U.S., new study finds “This is a common yet underappreciated public health problem,” said Brigham and Women's researcher Leo Buckley, a clinical pharmacology specialist.

“This is a common yet underappreciated public health problem,” said Brigham and Women's researcher Leo Buckley, a clinical pharmacology specialist.

America’s Overheated Landfills Have Been Making People Sick Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, spewing toxic gases and geysers of trash juice.

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America’s Hot Garbage Problem

Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, and neighbors have been getting sick.

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Opinion | Alaska Cannot Survive This Bill

This piece from Alaskan legislators shows how the deep rift between the reality of rural (red-state) life and the narrative of national conservative politics has been so far out of alignment for so long that it is about to crash into a wall

Americans deserve better

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...

East Sac/Elmhurst/River Park/Midtown friends please please keep an eye out for dear Daphne. She’s been missing for several days. Her people are worried sick and looking high and low for her. #caleg #Sacramento.

Please repost to help get more views!

"There are other projects the state could embark on if it really wants to get cars off the road and improve our quality of life. Our public transit systems are struggling to maintain service. Our existing streets and highways are crumbling due to poor maintenance."

This really needs to be a thing Americans rally to stop.

Disturbing, but worth reading for awareness.

Operational Art and the Salvation of Ukraine Guerrilla drone strikes, the spiritual resources to achieve victory, and the survival of the free world

The art in Ukraine’s theory of victory — and what we can all learn from it after the June 1 drone strikes

New today:

www.greatpower.us/p/operationa...

The Day the Bombers Burned: How Ukraine’s June 1 Drone Strike Rewrote the Rules of Warfars | Angry Staffer Get more from Angry Staffer on Patreon

I compiled some thoughts on the strategic implications of Ukraine’s audacious “Operation Spiderweb”

A lot of folks are talking about the immediate impact, but I wanted to focus on how this strike will reverberate globally.

Unlocked for everyone.

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ICYMI 👀 Last week #SB845 a bill co-sponsored by NextGen to expand youth apprenticeship programs in CA passed through the Senate Labor Committee! 🎉 Hear from CareerWise USA’s Executive VP Ryan Gensler why #YouthApprenticeship is important. ⤵️

#Apprenticeships help support the next generation of the California workforce. 💪 The Apprenticeship Innovation Funding (AIF) is key to unlocking a sustainable future for the state's workforce. Read NextGen’s most recent policy brief to learn more:
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Many delegates, including Alexander Hamilton, fretted that "one of the weak sides of republics" was their susceptibility "to foreign corruption"; leaders elevated to "stations of great preeminence and power" by the people, Hamilton wrote, may be tempted to abandon their "obligations of duty," lured by "compensations" from other nations seeking influence. In other words, federal officials could be so entranced by the wealth of foreign leaders, especially monarchs, that they might sell out their own country in exchange for a share of the riches dangled before them. The delegates sought to guard against this existential threat to republican "virtue" by adopting the foreign emoluments clause-unanimously, and without debate.

It is bracing to reread the Framers’ bone-deep fears about foreign corruption of the presidency and realize Trump is exactly what they were trying to prevent. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Disappearing an elected official.

If it’s true that their only “evidence” against this judge is that she advised someone to leave out a side door, this is complete banana republic bullshit and should be unequivocally condemned by both parties.

Just as the intensity of weather events is increasing, seems like the wrong time to cut funding to NOAA, organized 55 years ago by a Republican President, "...for better protection of life and property from natural hazards...and for… intelligent use of our marine resources."

China Walks Away: U.S. LNG Expansion Plans Unravel as Trade War Escalates - CleanTechnica With Chinese buyers gone and Europe decarbonizing, America’s LNG future looks overbuilt and under-contracted. The industry must pivot or pause.

China Walks Away: U.S. LNG Expansion Plans Unravel as Trade War Escalates cleantechnica.com/2025/04/18/c...

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

Cicero Institute: The Shadow Lobby Fueling Mass Incarceration Of Homeless People The Cicero Institute is quietly driving a nationwide campaign to criminalize homelessness through copy-paste legislation that benefits private prisons.

Criminalizing homelessness has become immensely profitable.

"It's an entire business model. By steering public money away from permanent housing solutions and into jails, detention facilities, and surveillance tech, the Cicero Institute's backers protect their wealth and expand their influence."

Some businesses now showing the “Trump Tariff Fee” on their bills to customers.

Hakeem Jeffries threatens lawsuit over delayed Texas special election One month after Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner's death, Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to call a special election to fill his seat.

It's getting buried, but Houston will almost certainly not have representation in Congress until January 2027.

Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died nearly a month ago and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has simply decided not to call a special election to fill the seat.

RIP George Foreman 🙏…one of the best to ever do it….rest easy Champ!

Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.

Insane….Arlington National Cemetery took down links to lists of notable graves, walking tours and educational material pertaining to Black, Hispanic and women veterans, as well as some Medal of Honor recipients taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...

We have need to pay all the first responders who fight our wildfires and protect our communities…Including the ones who are incarcerated

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

In today’s hellscape news, the Trump administration is planning to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The VA is already short-staffed and wait times are abhorrent.

Veterans will die because of this move.

NextGen Policy logo. NGP congratulates Khalil "KC" Mohseni, Appointed as Commissioner of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI).

In honor of National Consumer Protection Week, NGP would like to congratulate Khalil "KC" Mohseni on his recent appointment as Commissioner of the @CaliforniaDFPI! 🎉 We look forward to his leadership in strengthening #FinancialProtection for ALL Californians. ✊ #NCPW2025

A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon Trump’s purge started with his firing of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.

Trump’s purge is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally loyal to him.

Read @radiofreetom.bsky.social:

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Now, the USPS is preparing to push back as Trump moves to dissolve its leadership and bring the independent agency under his administration’s control. America, this cannot be allowed—protecting the USPS is essential.

Please share this and call Congress.