Campus dinners aim to repair Black-Jewish alliance, frayed by the Gaza war At the Unity Dinners, students engage in word games and frank talk. Pittsburgh will host a dinner this week, with a tour of civil rights sites also on the menu.

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Supreme Court sides with Dana Nessel on Michigan Line 5 case Dana Nessel, Michigan attorney general, argued Enbridge waited too long to try to move a case regarding Line 5 to federal court.

Check out this article from Detroit Free Press:

Supreme Court sides with Dana Nessel on Michigan Line 5 case

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The air we breathe remains unhealthy across many parts of our nation. And despite progress in pockets, much work remains.

As ⁦‪@LungAssociation‬⁩’s annual State of Air report released today shows, nearly of all kids are impacted.

Developing lungs are uniquely vulnerable.

President Trump’s administration rocked the American research enterprise over the last year with disruptions and changes to the historically reliable stream of federal funding that fueled it.

Labs are running on fumes. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX

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Ukraine’s Second Miracle Year The war isn’t won, but for the first time in years, outright victory seems possible.

Ukraine’s Second Miracle Year
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Ukraine Is Becoming Old News, And I Can See It Fewer people are still paying attention than we think

Ukraine Is Becoming Old News, And I Can See It
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WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

American science is shrinking.

A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV

Sky Defense A New Way to Save Lives in Ukraine

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They Took Their Shoes Before Hungary chose not to let it happen again

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Trump’s Dark Night on Truth Social Attacking the pope was only part of the president’s disturbing meltdown.

We can't keep looking away from his emotional and cognitive issues. The attack on the Pope was the beginning of a full night of melting down.

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EPA proposes gutting rules for handling toxic coal ash, a move that threatens groundwater The Trump administration on Thursday proposed weakening rules for the disposal of ash produced by burning coal that can contain hazardous heavy metals and contaminate groundwater.

Lost in the news the past few days is the Trump administration proposing to weaken rules that limit how coal companies handle toxic waste that can reach groundwater.

The new rule would let states grant exemptions from standards that keep contaminants like mercury & lead away from your water supply.

How to Prevent 9 Million Deaths Rich countries must understand foreign aid can actually be popular—if people see the results.

A recent study estimated that another 9 million-plus people, including 2.5 million children, could die as a result of cuts in aid.

Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.

/w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.

"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”

“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."

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You Cannot See War From There And yet it reaches every one of us

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Why the Vatican and the White House Are on the Outs Inside the collapse of Washington’s relationship with the first American pope.

The Trump administration offered a Vatican envoy "a bitter lecture warning that the United States has the military power to do whatever it wants—and that the Church had better take its side"

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Begging, pleading: You can't have a ceasefire deal everyone understands to mean completely different things. This isn't like a trade negotiation, this actually matters.

STUNNING: Trump is now bragging about agreeing to use Iran’s 10-point peace framework as the basis for negotiations.

Here’s what that 10-point framework includes.

There’s no other way to spin this—it’s complete and utter capitulation.

Agree on all points.

The president speaks genocide The words, the law, the future

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May Day Strong: No Work, No School, No Shopping | Indivisible

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Iran responds to Trump

Journalistic malpractice and democratic betrayal.

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

No one has benefited more from Trump’s war than Russian billionaires.

Women in the Military Put Their Lives on the Line. The Trump Administration Is Stripping Their Rights Women in the Military Put Their Lives on the Line. Trump Administration Is Stripping Their Right to Abortion, Healthcare and Menopause Care.

"Republicans just voted to uphold an abortion ban for 462,000 women veterans—even in cases of rape, incest or if their health is endangered."

Three Hundred Habeas Cases in Which the Government Has Defied Court Orders A database of non-compliance with court orders around the country.

We just published an interactive database of 300 immigration habeas cases in which the government failed to comply with court orders.

The project documents patterns—not anecdotes—of noncompliance across jurisdictions.

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DonorsChoose: Support a classroom. Build a future. DonorsChoose connects teachers in high-need communities with donors who want to help.

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