‘I will not comply’: Tennessee librarian refuses to move LGBTQ+ books — Advocate Rutherford County library director Luanne James’s stand against a vote to relocate more than 190 titles draws national support as the board weighs firing her.

“A Tennessee library director is drawing national support after refusing to relocate LGBTQ+ children’s books, citing the First Amendment.”

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I don't know how this will all play out or what happened but I can tell you that what Hegseth is hoping is that you blame "AI" and not a department whose leadership believes that the reason we don't win wars is we care too much about collateral damage.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

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Insurance Crisis Leaves Black Homeowners One Disaster Away From Homelessness From Altadena to Alabama, Black families learn the real catastrophe starts after the disaster, when insurers decide who is worth saving.

NEW: 5 Black family homes worth $2.1M burned to the ground
The insurance check? $297,000
One sister dead
Investors circling the ashes
This is what “disaster capitalism” looks like
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A Third of Americans Have Cut Spending or Borrowed Money for Health Care As medical costs rise, more than 80 million people have made sacrifices like skipping meals and driving less, a new survey finds.

More than 80 million Americans say they are making sacrifices, including skipping meals and driving less, to pay for medical care as costs rise, a new survey found.

Live Updates: Strikes Launched Across Middle East, With No Compromise in Sight

President Trump on Saturday blamed Iran for an airstrike that hit an Iranian elementary school on February 28, killings scores of children. An analysis by The New York Times indicates that the school was most likely hit by an American airstrike. Follow live updates.

Please! Let's find Melia her forever home this Christmas! She's a love and she's been in the shelter for most of her life. Please help her have her Christmas miracle ♥️🐾🎄

Amazing Maps (@amazingmap) on Threads Icelandic postal workers deliver a letter guided solely by a tourist’s sketch

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A little patterdale terrier, black with a white tuxedo splodge over her chest, sitting in the doorway to a carpeted living room with one ear sticking up like an odd little aerial. She's a lovely little baby beast we love her loads

Anyway here's the other house dog Jess, otherwise known as Jessy, Jessicles, Piglet, Belly Baby and Snootlet, who usually lives downstairs and doesn't like coming up here. She's a little under the weather and is super clingy 😭

Trump's anti-drug masterstroke: butcher fishermen mistaken for dealers, then pardon convicted cocaine kingpin Juan Orlando Hernández from Honduras. #TrumpPardons

reminder … 😺

Senators slipped a sneaky clause into the shutdown bill, letting them pocket up to $1 million for secret phone snooping—retroactive perks for the Jan. 6 crew, because why not enrich the elite while America waits. #Corruption

Dave Taylor (@temp2165) on Threads If she worth 25 million now why does she need her retirement

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ADL's move to establish 'Mamdani Monitor' decried as scaremongering and Islamophobia url:www.middleeasteye.net/news/adls-move-establish...

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

President began demolishing the East Wing of the WH to build there his $200M+ ballroom.

East Wing was built in 1942 during the presidency of FDR. It was constructed to cover the bunker that he used during WWII and the President's Emergency Operations Center.

Fantastic gills on this waxcap.

#MacroMonday and #MushroomMonday combined with an aging crimson waxcap? Stunning colour combination of pink and peach too. #fungi #mushrooms #vitaminN #waxcaps #SouthCumbria

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100 Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

Gaza: New regulations require all aid entering strip to be sourced from Israel only url:www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-requires-all...

Each Member Of Family On Edge As Vacation Has Gone By Without One Blowout Fight

Each Member Of Family On Edge As Vacation Has Gone By Without One Blowout Fight theonion.com/each-member-of-family-on...

Strangers Come Together to Deliver Baby Girl at Burning Man Festival A woman unexpectedly went into labor at the desert festival. Within minutes, a neonatal nurse, an OB-GYN, a pediatric doctor and other attendees filled her camper.

A woman unexpectedly went into labor at the Burning Man festival. Within minutes, a neonatal nurse, an OB-GYN, a pediatric doctor and other attendees filled her camper.

RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC