This isn't just "bad tasting"--pollution affects our overall health. Think IQs, heart health, our lungs. I worry especially about the effect on mental capacity/cognition

BREAKING: Democrats Win Big in Virginia, Re-Draw the State's Congressional Maps We have breaking news right now.

Hope you’re correct because votes still being counted
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Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges Todd Blanche says grand jury returned 11-count indictment over past payments to informants in extremist groups

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There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
— Bill Nye

I’m glad that the Mad King isn’t going to commit war crimes right now, while once again it is obvious this bumbling fool has no idea what he’s doing.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”

‘Donnyland’? Ukraine Proposes Naming Part of the Donbas in Trump’s Honor.

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Have been reading much about the 1970’s uprising in Iran, the CIA coup that essentially put the current regime in place…every narrative falls short I think because we’re unable to see our role in events

What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

The birth of “settler colonialism and ethno-nationalism”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

House Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns amid ethics investigation Florida US representative indicted in November for allegedly misusing more than $5m of federal disaster funds

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If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

Inside Todd Blanche’s audition for attorney general | CNN Politics Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche traveled to Florida on Monday where he met with a new prosecutor tapped to handle one of the most important cases to President Donald Trump — the investigation int...

If you need to indict people in order to keep your job, that's a corruption of the U.S. justice system.

I've seen it before. At the time, I spoke truth to power, and was punished by DOJ for it.

People need to speak up against it.

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Transcript: Trump’s Secret War Fears Leak as GOP Panics: “Alarm Bells” As Trump worries about becoming Jimmy Carter, a journalist who focuses on the imperial presidency explains why events are slipping away from Trump—and why that gives Democrats an opening.

Trump’s Secret War Fears Leak as GOP Panics: “Alarm Bells”

As Trump worries about becoming Jimmy Carter, a journalist who focuses on the imperial presidency explains why events are slipping away from Trump — and why that gives Democrats an opening.

Personalized CRISPR therapies could soon reach thousands — here’s how A fresh approach to trialling treatments for rare genetic diseases could make their production an economically viable prospect at last.

We really need strong ethical leadership in this arena
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AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic? Researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings carry their own risks.

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This simple house may help prevent multiple fatal diseases in African children Randomized, controlled trial shows the $8800 design can reduce cases of malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infection

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Neat idea for a USAID project if we get our country back

No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network Autonomous agents aren’t just creating their own research — on the Reddit-style website Agent4Science, they’re chatting about it, too.

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‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread Researchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot — and caught hundreds of humans visiting.

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One must wonder, if Tucker is out, is Putin also done with Trump? Are the tech bros done? The American Oligarchs? Do they all want Vance instead?

It’s funny to watch, but be on your guard about what comes after Trump.

#Sheshed

Rare Survivors of Pacific Boat Strikes Allege U.S. Forces Kidnapped and Tortured Them As airstrikes and reports of torture under Ecuador’s U.S.-backed military regime continue to mount, fishermen tell Drop Site News they were blindfolded and held hostage for eight days.

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Superpower Suicide The geopolitics of our moment

“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda.
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Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

SAVE Act Fails, Millions of Voters Retain Their Right to Vote for Now MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) applauds the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a sweeping anti-voter legislation pushed ...

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The SAVE Act Will End Voting Rights for Women in America The SAVE Act has passed the House—we cannot let it pass the Senate

BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.

I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...

Happy 89th Birthday George Takei!

George Takei, born on April 20, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, is an actor, activist, and social media phenomenon who has lived one of the most remarkable lives in American entertainment.

As a child, Takei and his family were forcibly relocated to Japanese...

The mainstream coverage is missing what actually happened this weekend inside MAGA.
They're asking whether Greene believes Butler was staged.
The real question is why the enforcement mechanism failed to silence her. New piece 👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

GOP lawmaker 'accused of beating women' drafts expulsion resolution against Nancy Mace A Republican lawmaker who was accused of violence against women has reportedly drafted an expulsion resolution against Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) before she can do the same to him.On Monday, NOTUS reporte...

GOP lawmaker 'accused of beating women' drafts expulsion resolution against Nancy Mace

They can both go

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For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them