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In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect.

This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus.

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FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control The FAA ordered an independent panel hired to recommend ways to strengthen oversight of its air traffic control operations to stop work.

seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

Trump signs order seeking to end federal funding for NPR and PBS The executive order also instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt indirect funding of NPR and PBS through grants to local stations.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday evening seeking to prohibit federal funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

The order, which could be subject to legal challenge, called the broadcasters’ news coverage “biased and partisan.”

After the Steelers selected Derrick Harmon with the 21st pick, his voice cracked on a conference call as he shared the news.

His mother was on life support at a local Detroit hospital.

Harmon was able to tell his mom he got drafted on Thursday night before she died.

If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.

Culture Central™️ (@culturecentral_) on Threads Paul Wall on a Gracie’s Corner track was not on my 2025 bingo card… but now I need a whole album😭🔥 Cousins, y’all here for it? Powered by: God

Paul Wall on Gracie’s Corner is the collab I didn’t know I needed. He slid. www.threads.com/@culturecent...

The EPA is firing employees focused on children’s health simply because their job descriptions include DEI. These 10 regional children’s health coordinators have worked closely with schools and local institutions to prevent and address environmental hazards that put kids at risk.

Millions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if shots decline Measles, once virtually wiped out in the United States, could become commonplace again if declining vaccination rates continue, a new model shows.

Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.

The Ohio State University Faculty Council voted 35-11 on April 24, 2025 to join the Big Ten "mutual defense compact" that would support the defense of academic freedom. They join universities of IL, IN, IA, MD, MN, NE, OR, WA, WI, Michigan State, Northwestern, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, UCLA, USC.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's nearly 8-week-old blockade.

Wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia moves to safe house after DHS posts address online Homeland Security shared copy of protective order from 2021 revealing family’s address on social media

god this shit is blood boiling

This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

19… I mean, watching folks cling to legality when talking about a damn near 60 y/o man sexually engaging with someone with “teen” in their age is disgusting. And this goes for the many others who engage in this ridiculous behvaior.

“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. “It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.

Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported.

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HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

How did I know they would completely defund Headstart?

They wrote it down in Project 2025 .

An Unprecedented Climate of Fear on US Campuses - Women’s Media Center Faculty and students are dealing with the fallout as colleges and universities capitulate to Trump-inspired attacks on free speech and academic inquiry.

"We are being asked to whitewash history and to avoid topics deemed too controversial in our classrooms." Latest on WMC by @divafeminist.bsky.social womensmediacenter.com/news-feature...

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en Let's say you're a US citizen and ICE grabs you off the street and puts you on a plane to Mongolia. Don't you just go to your consulate, give them your name, date of birth, etc., they make you a new passport, and you fly home? They do this all day for tourists who had their stuff & ID stolen, there are procedures. I mean obviously it sucks to have that happen to you but it's not like your life is over or anything. And the government should definitely write you a nice check as an apology. 3:13 PM • 4/16/25

didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"

Some new words about what’s happening on our campuses.

An Unprecedented Climate of Fear on US Campuses - Women’s Media Center Faculty and students are dealing with the fallout as colleges and universities capitulate to Trump-inspired attacks on free speech and academic inquiry.

New words over @womensmediacenter.bsky.social

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The US government is flagrantly engaging in and boasting about kidnapping, trafficking, & placing people in concentration camps & gulags. Long history of doing this to folks AND it’s no less incensing in this particular incarnation of inhumanity

Every.Single.One.

In 90 years of social security, we have never had a check bounce or be late, but they want you to believe the system is broken.

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

“Girlboss feminism” gets on my damn nerves. Under the pretense of “breaking barriers,” too often the so-called milestones do nothing to the systems that routinely& systematically harm women & femmes. And there’s no intention for those singular accomplishments to do anything about gender oppression.