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May 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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This animation shows how temperatures have changed over the last 100 years for each February-April period. On each map, red shading indicates warmer than average conditions, and blue shading shows the opposite. Note the trend.

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).
May 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
@verizonofficial.bsky.social if you think backing away from diversity is a good idea, I may just have to take my business elsewhere.
May 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.

So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
May 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Your rights shouldn’t vary from state to state. But if you’re pregnant, they do.

The freedom to make decisions about your own body is a basic human right — that deserves government protection, not government interference.
May 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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DOGE is little more than a corrupt mechanism to create fear and chaos and destroy America’s exceptionalism. It's the inspectors general's job to find waste, fraud and abuse, which has only increased - substantially - now that a criminal enterprise is situated in the Oval Office.
The Process of Demolishing the Country Showcases its Former Exceptionalism and the Breadth of the…
Apropos is the cliché about appreciating things only when they are gone — or going.
richardvanwagoner.medium.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Do you wonder why you haven’t heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Cuz the CDC can’t hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind.

abcnews.go.com/Health/kansa...
Kansas faces one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history
Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 confirmed latent cases.
abcnews.go.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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If she can do it, we can all do it.
January 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM