As the Trump administration carries out its aggressive deportation agenda, immigrant children across the country are subject to court proceedings similar to the ones adults face. Heartbreaking reporting by @wbur.org's Rachell Sanchez-Smith:
"For me, it's been like a long trudge, you know," Evan Dando said. "It’s really a lot of hard work, and I've gotten to a place where I like this if I'm doing it a lot better than I used to."
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"One foot in front of the other. Keep going until something stops you."
The amazing Sue Goldie — a professor, a triathlete, an inspiration.
Jane Goodall has died at 91.
Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of primates, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human. https://wapo.st/476clLO
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Meet the @wbur.org 2025 Makers, 10 artists of color foregrounding the environment — its beauty and its fragility — in their work.
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of mixed heritage sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II. https://n.pr/3Iz0M6f
The news doesn't stop, and neither does @wbur.org. "Onwards, damnit." wbur.org/defend
"I want people to remember the legacy of his connections to other people. I want people to remember the human." Remembering Boston artist Rob Stull:
"It's just so weird to make really personal decisions in this political climate. We're constantly having to prove to the world that being transgender is real, that it's not something I'm making up, that my kid has a right to exist."
For @npr.org, I look at why states in Northeast are counting on offshore wind, and what the Trump administration has done to hinder that work. www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-53...
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Palestinian "No Other Land" filmmaker Hamdan Ballal is free, less than a day after Israeli military and police forces detained him following a brutal attack by settlers.
Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian producer of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was attacked by a group of Jewish settlers in the West Bank and later arrested by the Israeli army, according to activists and a neighbor who spoke to The Post.
"...I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor in chief of The Atlantic in such discussions with senior U.S. officials, up to and including the vice president."
"I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans..."
From @theathletic.bsky.social: The Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who won two gold medals over the weekend, will testify in Norway against his father who goes on trial for charges of abuse in close relationships against two of his seven children. nyti.ms/4j0cbJb
Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.
The deputy director of a left-leaning project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she's linked to a group the U.S. government says funds terrorists — a claim that surfaced three days ago on a news site that's powered at least in part by A.I., and one she denies.
It’s Persephone’s last night in the underworld, and she’s got a lot to sing about before she leaves.
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@mayorwu.boston.gov arrives at DC hearing - photo by @simonfrios.bsky.social who is there reporting @wbur.org
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is set to appear before a congressional committee alongside mayors from New York, Chicago and Denver. The hearing is set to begin at 10 a.m. Watch here:
I love that every early 2000s rom-com had to have a group dance scene. See: "Legally Blonde" with the bend and snap, and "What A Girl Wants" has multiple. #planethoughts
Federal immigration police detained a Brazilian man living in Marlborough, and in a surprise move, swiftly transported him to a Texas facility. Attorneys say the transfer indicates he is being tracked for deportation, despite entering the U.S. legally and possessing no criminal record. @wbur.org
