Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This cannot be allowed to happen. Never never never. Gift link. 🎁www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/world/europe/...

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

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...

Alaska’s Thawing Permafrost Could Shape the Future of Farming Meet Melissa Ward Jones and Glenna Gannon, who are part of a climate research collaboration between scientists and farmers.

In a Q&A with Civil Eats, Permafrost Grown project researchers Melissa Ward Jones and Glenna Gannon discuss the intersection between sustainable food systems and permafrost-agriculture and its relevance to farming and food production in Alaska and beyond.

The Senate tried to sneak the Everything Tax by us because they know it’s wrong to raise taxes on 80% of us to give their donors another big break.

"[Palestinians] are not superior to any other life, but no other life is superior to us."

Palestinian-American activist, academic, and author Noura Erakat tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the double standard the West applies to war crimes against Palestinians.

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Ulota crispa species complex (PL nastroszek kędzierzawy, EN crisped pincushion). Zielonka Forest, Wielkopolska (western Poland).
#mosses #mchy #Bryophyta #bryology

It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.

A reminder, as Obama and Mamdani come together for the first time in person, that Mamdani is everything the GOP said Obama was... but wasn't: an African-born socialist Muslim.
#justsayin

"Every day, we see impacts of the restrictions on entry of medical supplies into #Gaza in our hospitals and clinics.” – Dr. Randa Abu El-Khair Masoud, Project Medical Advisor.

She describes the immense strain that restrictions have placed on our teams: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-is...

Lebanon: Humanitarian scale-up urgently needed after almost two months of devastation | MSF MSF teams in Lebanon are adapting our response across the country after a temporary ceasefire was announced between Israel and Lebanon.

Following the announcement of a temporary ceasefire in Lebanon, our teams are adapting their activities and assessing people's needs across the country.

An urgent scale-up of humanitarian assistance is needed:

Three years of war have shattered Sudan lifelines | MSF As Sudan marks three years of war, violence and atrocities continue to devastate the lives of millions of people, and constrained humanitarian access is compounding suffering.

The violence of the war in Sudan is inflicting profound harm on people. And a lack of basic services is causing preventable disease and death.

The people of Sudan can no longer wait for protection and support. The world must act now, not later.

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7/7. It's worth dwelling on this point. It’s hard for Americans to process that their hard right politics is in large measure a Russian and Hungarian import — intellectually and also financially. We should take advantage of the defeat of Orbán to let this basic fact sink in.
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*the Republican's war in Iran. They're supporting it, it's their war. Make them own it.

I've been saying this for yeeeeears.

Always love seeing picture of Songkran. Brings back so many childhood memories!

Sudan drone strikes kill nearly 700 in three months as civil war reaches grim milestone Nearly 700 civilians have been reported killed in drone strikes so far this year, the United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher said Tuesday, lamenting that "the world has failed to meet the test of Sudan...

Today marks 3 years of civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces & the genocidal RSF, which has killed thousands of Sudanese civilians, left millions starving & displaced, & led to untold levels of sexual violence against women & girls.

We must pass mine & @sarajacobs.house.gov bill

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Afghanistan is facing a severe climate crisis, with floods and out-of-season snow destroying crops, homes, and livelihoods, while unqualified Taliban agencies who view extreme weather as "divine fate," leaving desperate communities to fend for themselves.
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WELL NOW, would you look at that?

A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Raskin offers bill setting up 25th Amendment process to remove Trump from office Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., wants to set up a new commission to determine whether Trump is mentally fit for office.

NEW on MS NOW: Rep. Jamie Raskin has introduced a bill that seeks to kickstart the removal of Trump through the 25th Amendment — a longshot effort that, while unlikely to succeed, aims to put renewed focus on the president's mental fitness and recent rhetoric.

We asked Sudanese refugees in Metche refugee camp, Chad, to share experiences of sadness, joy, anger, love, and fear. 

🔴 This is how Khaled describes sadness.  

#TalkAboutSudan

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Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Me: “UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon say Israel violated the ceasefire, not 1,000 times, not 5,000 times, they say you violated the ceasefire 15,000 times over the last 18 months.”

IDF spokesman: “I don’t know about your numbers…”

Me: “Google is your friend.”

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Happy birthday! Here's to another revolution around the sun 🍻

Dude. Chill. Just because someone Did Not Understand A Joke On The Internet does not mean you need to freak out and start ad homming them. Choose kindness.