A study published in The Lancet, the London-based medical journal, found that Trump administration cuts in U.S.A.I.D. funding “would result in approximately 1,776,539 all-age deaths and 689,900 deaths in children younger than 5 years” in 2025 alone.
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Does the author ever address the fact that she exists because her Bundist great-grandfather found a refuge in hyper-capitalist America?
I haven't read the book, I'm just curious.
In a June 2025 report, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee found that “Trump’s pardons cheat victims out of an astounding $1.3 billion in restitution and fines, allowing fraudsters, tax evaders, drug traffickers to keep ill-gotten gains.”
Trump has assaulted the integrity of the presidency, turning the White House into a corrupt enterprise, pardoning donors as his family’s companies receive millions through cryptocurrency purchases from foreign companies & crypto operators subject to U.S. regulation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
me and my friends getting "left behind" by AI
At a Memorial Day ceremony in Israel today, one sign read: "I refuse to hear words of comfort from a government of criminals."
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"Is it possible for someone to act the lunatic while actually being one?"
A good question about Trump posed by Fintan O’Toole @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"For a long time after Renae died, I couldn’t really believe she wasn’t coming back.
It’s hard to tell Renae’s story, but I can hear her saying, “Go on, Mom.”
Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know, writes Rebecca Archer
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Stanislas Wroza, an audio-naturalist at the French National Museum of Natural History, began identifying birdsong at age 10. Now 32, he can recognize about 1,000 different bird songs and calls.
Why it's important to teach children to recognize birdsong
@lemonde.fr
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“If your master plan involves swapping LEGOs for linguine, we can promise your plan will be cooked al dente,” the police said.
*ONE OF*, argh
Thanks for this.
⤴️ This New York Times article is illustrated with yet another disembodied pregnancy bump, sigh.
www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/...
Title X is on of the most successful federal programs of the last century. One study showed it prevented some 20 million unintended pregnancies in just 20 of its 50 years by providing women with free and low-cost birth control.
Trump seems intent on killing Title X.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...
Agreed!
“For every day of this conflict, $2bn is being spent. My entire target for a hyper-prioritised plan to save 87 million lives is $23bn. We could have funded that in less than a fortnight of this reckless war. Now we cannot,” said Tom Fletcher, head of UN OCHA.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
"On both sides, there's this thought that 'the other side just wants to kill us.' Even if you know that the other side is human, when you meet someone with a story, it's a very meaningful process."
Tonight is the 21st joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Thanks for this - a really interesting, eye-opening article. Shared.
I hear you.
For a brief period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Texas had a populist environmental movement, led not by elite conservationists or representatives from national green groups but working-class activists, writes @scottwstern.bsky.social @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
I have sat at the departure gate calmly reading my book surrounded by no other passengers, feeling absolutely fine. I can only do this while traveling alone.
'A turtle makes tracks on a beach after burying its eggs in the sand in June 2021 in the Ras Al Hadd Turtle Reserve in Oman. About 10,000 green turtles make the trip on this beach every year' (Haitham Al Farsi/Solent News/Shutterstock)
The Strait of Hormuz + surrounding seas are critical ecologically as well as politically.
Coral reefs, whale sharks, dolphins, endangered Arabian humpback whales, seagrass meadows supporting dugons, islands harbouring green turtles - just some of the creatures + ecosystems in + near the Strait.
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“When you sell a ‘perfect worker’ as a woman who never rests or asks for more, you’re not selling progress, you’re selling the same old misogyny in a shiny new wrapper," says Rebecca Horne.
‘She outworks everyone. And she’ll never ask for a raise’
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
Today.
From Loss to Hope,"promoting a shared future of peace, understanding, and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians”, organized by Combatants for Peace and Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families for Peace. 🇮🇱🇵🇸
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We need to remember the Triangle Fire not only because it was a tragedy but because it made people realize they can mobilize together and bring change. The fire made people understand why we need unions and then propelled them to do something about it. 🗃️
I have sat at the departure gate calmly reading my book surrounded by no other passengers, feeling absolutely fine. I can only do this while traveling alone.
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On a day where most Israelis are focused on their own pain and grief, "it reminds the public of the far too many victims, whose numbers only grew this year, and of this unsolved conflict – and that every person who's killed is a whole world that was cut off," Ayelet Harel says.
"On both sides, there's this thought that 'the other side just wants to kill us.' Even if you know that the other side is human, when you meet someone with a story, it's a very meaningful process."
Tonight is the 21st joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
The most important dividing line within couples is Team Early To The Airport versus Team Late To The Airport. I seriously believe you should be able to filter for it on dating websites. (I am also Team ETTA, obvs).