In the month of March alone the price of limes rose 63%
The price of blueberries rose 44%.
The price nectarines rose 36%.
The price of grapes rose 32%.
The price of raspberries rose 27%.
All due primarily to the cost of oil rising as a result of the US-Israel war on Iran.
When the Trump administration cut off food aid to one of the world’s largest refugee camps, it left hundreds of thousands of people to starve.
This is the story of one mother’s daily battle to keep her three young sons alive.
(Published Dec. 2025)
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The Trump administration is pursuing a future where police and corporations control who gets to fly drones in our skies.
A new report from our privacy expert Jay Stanley breaks down this disturbing trend and what lawmakers must do to protect the public and press's right to use drones.
1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary.
It disavowed the New York Times reporting.
Incredible development for trans youth.
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Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.
The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis.
My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives?
So I picked up my camera 👇
WATCH: In the first 7 months of Trump’s second term, authorities detained the parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace has held up, will have roughly doubled by now.
That’s an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention.
NEW: RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market.
History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.
“Instead of requiring companies to responsibly dispose of these” rocket parts, “the U.S. has decided to roll the dice on a person or a plane getting hit by falling debris,” said Ewan Wright of the Outer Space Institute.
NEW: DHS is requesting access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains the name, address, Social Security number, employer, and salary or wages of every employed person in the country — as well as sensitive information on children and domestic violence victims.
NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.
But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
Attorneys at the Education Department’s civil rights office describe working in a “dismissal factory.”
Most discrimination complaints filed by students’ families have been dismissed without ever being investigated, records show.
(Published Dec. 2025)
Spanish spokesperson for the Más Madrid party Manuela Bergerot blasts the right wing of the Madrid Assembly for suggesting that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is on behalf of Iranian women.
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A handwritten letter from a child detained at Dilley center. It features a drawing of a house and a crying person’s head. Translated text reads: "We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people they won’t let us go out to the playgrounds and park and it’s very boring to do every day God touch the hearts of those at ICE let us out We are not criminals I want to go home."
While detained at the Dilley detention center, 13-year-old Gerson Lopéz Garcia wrote: “We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people … let us out we are not criminals I want to go home.”
➡️ Read more of the children's letters: https://propub.li/3OJUwLV
NEW: If Attorney General Pam Bondi’s team wins this case, thousands of immigrant moms and dads could be exposed to deportation for minor involvement in the juvenile court system, a new realm for President Trump’s deportation regime.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers.
An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social
Ratchet Roundtable Is Live!
open.substack.com/pub/drkiadh/...
VERY excited to share this article about ratchet lineages, with a link to our first RATCHET ROUNDTABLE episode!
Tonight was a very bad night.
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Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.
Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”
Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
18 states and DC now have shield laws protecting people who care for traveling patients. @dsc250.bsky.social says 8 of these states have gone even further by explicitly protecting providers who, via telemedicine, care for patients across state lines. #ReproHealth
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We watched it, too. Live. Folks were devastated. We processed it a bit together, as well. I was in Maryland. It was a huge part of our curriculum in the weeks leading up to the launch.
Hooray!!!!
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-...
