The 11 most challenged books of 2025, according to the American Library Association The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at U.S. libraries — the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color.

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Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?

Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat — The Atlantic For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

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Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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A colour photograph of the sea which is out at the moment from the edge of a castle in Llansteffan. The clouds are heavily visible a d the sky is blue.

What feels like the #edge of the world
#wales
#blueskyartshow

I fear trumpism is becoming a quasi Christian religious cult.

Tuberville doesn’t really live in Alabama; he lives on the beach in Florida, so I have questions regarding his legal residency. Is he really an Alabama citizen? Does he pay Alabama income taxes? Is it legal for him to be the governor of Alabama?

Bulls..t! Alabamians need to ask themselves if they want a governor who wants to end social security? Tuberville makes a fortune playing the stock market on inside Senate information but clearly doesn’t have a clue how Alabama seniors worked hard…

Yep, and just as arrogantly stupid as he was as a football coach.

One can only hope, but every day is a wait for another low with this regime.

American YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in South Korean prison for offensive stunts An American YouTuber who sparked outrage in South Korea for provocative stunts, including dancing on a statue honoring victims of wartime sexual slavery, was sentenced to six months in prison Wednesda...

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Rep. Terri Sewell spars with HHS Secretary RFK Jr. over racial comments YouTube video by C-SPAN

In my opinion, RFK Jr needs to resign.

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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record. “If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

As Mother Jones originally reported, Taylor Cadle was 12 years old in 2016 when she told a sheriff’s deputy that she had been sexually abused by her adoptive father, Henry Cadle.

Instead of arresting the abuser, Deputy Melissa Turnage charged Taylor with filing a false police report.

House bucks Trump, votes to shield Haitian immigrants from potential deportation Thursday's vote marked the fourth time this Congress that a handful of Republicans teamed up with Democrats to force a House vote on legislation opposed by GOP leadership.

The House passed a bipartisan bill to undo the President’s attempt to rip away the protected status of lawful Haitian immigrants and send them into an active humanitarian crisis.
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Yes, it is a good thing!
I spent a career in OB/GYN and saw many teen pregnancies. Teens who get pregnant, even teens from middle-class backgrounds, are more likely to live in poverty because they have difficulty continuing their education.

HBCUs receive less than 1% of federal research funding despite their contributions to our nation. That is why I’m proud to introduce the bipartisan HBCU Research Capacity Act in the House. This will help HBCUs access the funding they need to continue supporting their students.

Not all cries for help are loud.

There’s a silent signal everyone should know.

Thumb tucked. Fingers folded.

It means “I need help”

Share this please!

You could be the one who sees her when she can’t say a word!

#SheShed

Tommy “if I only had a brain” Tuberville was born in Arkansas and lives in Florida, questions about his residency. He coached 🏈 in Alabama at Auburn. He is running for governor of Alabama and is favored to win. Alabama has an option, Doug Jones, but he didn’t coach 🏈. He’s just for civil rights.

This Japanese man gave up his Ferrari and Company to fund a dog shelter after his pet saved him from taking his own life 🥹

A 54-year-old man named Hirotaka Saito shut down his company and sold his luxury car to open a shelter for dogs. It happened after his own pet saved his life.

Woman, 96, enlists 150-pound dog to plant spring flowers: She points, he digs — The Washington Post A video of Barbara Collins and Chewy gardening together has amassed millions of views on social media.

I needed a feel good story today.

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They own this. Whatever disasters continue to unfold belong not to the president and his Cabinet alone, but to the entire Republican Party.

Commentary: Why now? Because that's how trauma works. Get over it — Los Angeles Times Why are Eric Swalwell's accusers coming forward only now, just weeks before the California gubernatorial primary? That's the kind of question predators want us to keep asking.

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At Tampa’s elite MacDill base, a bomb went undetected for 6 days. How? — Tampa Bay Times The gap between a 911 call and the discovery of an explosive raises questions about security at the base, experts say.

WTF

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Strongest storm on planet bearing down on U.S. islands in Western Pacific Super Typhoon Sinlaku packed winds of 180 mph and gusts as high as 220 mph as it tracked toward a chain of U.S.-held islands.

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What if we just cleared Congress of all the abusers and sex pests this week

what is stopping us

who cares what party they are in

Giorgia Meloni condemns Donald Trump's 'unacceptable' criticism of Pope Italy's prime minister and the US president are close allies, but Trump has refused to apologise to the "very weak" Pope Leo XIV.

Italian PM condemns ally Trump over 'unacceptable' Pope criticism

I’m sorry that happened to you.