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A new study looking at the impacts of plastic ingestion by seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals found that relatively small amounts of consumed plastic can be deadly.
The types of plastic with the biggest impact were found to include synthetic rubber, soft plastics, and discarded fishing gear.
The types of plastic with the biggest impact were found to include synthetic rubber, soft plastics, and discarded fishing gear.
Lethal dose of plastic for seabirds and marine animals ‘much smaller than expected’
New research has found that even small amounts of plastic can be deadly to seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals. While previous research has established that plastic can lead to mortality in many…
news.mongabay.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A new study looking at the impacts of plastic ingestion by seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals found that relatively small amounts of consumed plastic can be deadly.
The types of plastic with the biggest impact were found to include synthetic rubber, soft plastics, and discarded fishing gear.
The types of plastic with the biggest impact were found to include synthetic rubber, soft plastics, and discarded fishing gear.
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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Israel threatens in Gaza to commit the same war crime as in 2006 in southern Lebanon, treating anyone who doesn't flee as a military target. Many civilians are infirm, elderly, scared or unwilling to flee again. None of that makes them a legitimate target.
Israel orders Palestinians to leave Gaza City, saying those who stay will be considered militants
Israel’s defense minister has ordered all remaining Palestinians to leave Gaza City, saying it is their “last opportunity.”
apnews.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Israel threatens in Gaza to commit the same war crime as in 2006 in southern Lebanon, treating anyone who doesn't flee as a military target. Many civilians are infirm, elderly, scared or unwilling to flee again. None of that makes them a legitimate target.
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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
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My initial reaction to the indictment of James Comey was to ask the same question that Ed Whelan asks, namely: is Lindsey Halligan actually the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia? Under existing rules governing the appointment of acting US Attorneys, it's pretty clear she isn't.
Was Lindsey Halligan Validly Appointed as United States Attorney? | National Review
As I understand the facts, it seems highly doubtful that Lindsey Halligan has been validly appointed as United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. If her appointment is invalid, so…
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September 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My initial reaction to the indictment of James Comey was to ask the same question that Ed Whelan asks, namely: is Lindsey Halligan actually the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia? Under existing rules governing the appointment of acting US Attorneys, it's pretty clear she isn't.
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He taught mathematics in a small state school and organized the parish youth group on weekends. Numbers ordered his days; community gave them purpose.
He also helped mobilize opposition to plans to tap the island’s restless geology for power.
He taught mathematics in a small state school and organized the parish youth group on weekends. Numbers ordered his days; community gave them purpose.
He also helped mobilize opposition to plans to tap the island’s restless geology for power.
Vian Ruma, Indonesian activist, found dead. Aged 30.
He taught mathematics in a small state school on Flores and organized the parish youth group on weekends. Numbers ordered his days; community gave them purpose. In recent years, he also helped…
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September 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
He taught mathematics in a small state school and organized the parish youth group on weekends. Numbers ordered his days; community gave them purpose.
He also helped mobilize opposition to plans to tap the island’s restless geology for power.
He taught mathematics in a small state school and organized the parish youth group on weekends. Numbers ordered his days; community gave them purpose.
He also helped mobilize opposition to plans to tap the island’s restless geology for power.
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Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
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Never judge a book by its cover!
August 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Never judge a book by its cover!
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It's not political to think people shouldn't be starved to death.
July 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It's not political to think people shouldn't be starved to death.
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Missourian Josh Divine, up for a federal judgeship, was unequivocal in his love for a coterie of Jim Crow measures against Blacks, starting with literacy tests to stop them from voting. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Court Pick Once Called For Bringing Back Literacy Tests For Voters
Literacy tests were banned in the 1960s for being racially discriminatory, but such tests “are not a bad thing,” Josh Divine argued in a 2010 college opinion piece.
www.huffpost.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Missourian Josh Divine, up for a federal judgeship, was unequivocal in his love for a coterie of Jim Crow measures against Blacks, starting with literacy tests to stop them from voting. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Chaos broke out in Gaza as thousands swarmed a U.S.-backed aid center, triggering reports of Israeli tank fire and forcing aid workers to temporarily withdraw.
Read more here 👇
interherald.com/chaos-erupts...
Read more here 👇
interherald.com/chaos-erupts...
Chaos erupts in Gaza near U.S.-backed aid center as desperate crowds seek food - International Herald
Tank fire, gunshots, and chaos hit Gaza as desperate crowds overwhelm a U.S.-backed aid center during its second day of food distribution.
interherald.com
May 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Chaos broke out in Gaza as thousands swarmed a U.S.-backed aid center, triggering reports of Israeli tank fire and forcing aid workers to temporarily withdraw.
Read more here 👇
interherald.com/chaos-erupts...
Read more here 👇
interherald.com/chaos-erupts...
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RFK Jr rules: vaccines only for people over 65.
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
RFK Jr rules: vaccines only for people over 65.
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According to a study by Penn Wharton, Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that pays for tax breaks for the rich by cutting Medicaid leads to a $700 LOSS in income for the working class, a $1,000 LOSS in income for the poor & a $389,000 INCREASE for the top 0.1%.
We must defeat it.
We must defeat it.
May 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
According to a study by Penn Wharton, Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that pays for tax breaks for the rich by cutting Medicaid leads to a $700 LOSS in income for the working class, a $1,000 LOSS in income for the poor & a $389,000 INCREASE for the top 0.1%.
We must defeat it.
We must defeat it.
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Cambodia’s crackdown on critical journalism has intensified, with environmental journalist Ouk Mao's case reflecting a broader decline in press freedom, as highlighted by the country’s plummeting rank in the 2025 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedoms Index.
Attacks on Cambodian environmental journalist continue to pile up
BANGKOK — Ouk Mao, a Cambodian environmental journalist, was reporting on the continued logging of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary when he was attacked on March 24 by a group of men he identified,…
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May 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Cambodia’s crackdown on critical journalism has intensified, with environmental journalist Ouk Mao's case reflecting a broader decline in press freedom, as highlighted by the country’s plummeting rank in the 2025 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedoms Index.
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This is a grave war crime. It constitutes yet another reason to bring Benjamin Netanyahu up on charges.
May 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is a grave war crime. It constitutes yet another reason to bring Benjamin Netanyahu up on charges.
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The White House will ask Congress to cancel $9.3 billion already approved for foreign aid initiatives, public broadcasting and other programs.
White House to send Congress a formal request to nix $9.3B for PBS, NPR, State Department
Republican lawmakers have been clamoring for a rescissions request, to give Congress a say in the Trump administration's spending cuts.
www.politico.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The White House will ask Congress to cancel $9.3 billion already approved for foreign aid initiatives, public broadcasting and other programs.
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Trump doesn't want him released, so Bukele won't release him. It's pretty simple. This is Trump defying a SCOTUS order, and daring the courts to press the matter. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Live Updates: Trump Hosts El Salvador's President Amid Deportation Battle
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April 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Trump doesn't want him released, so Bukele won't release him. It's pretty simple. This is Trump defying a SCOTUS order, and daring the courts to press the matter. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
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Donold sends people with soccer tattoos to El Salvador and lets people with swastika tattoos go free.
April 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Donold sends people with soccer tattoos to El Salvador and lets people with swastika tattoos go free.
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"Grifter" doesn't come close to describing what he's been doing and plans to do.
April 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"Grifter" doesn't come close to describing what he's been doing and plans to do.
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'NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.'v'A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.' All of this is on Elon Musk's orders. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
'NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.'v'A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.' All of this is on Elon Musk's orders. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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(WaPo) - Members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, including .. Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews w/ three U.S. officials.
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April 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
(WaPo) - Members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, including .. Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews w/ three U.S. officials.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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An obvious point that few talking heads inside the Washington Beltway have grasped.
March 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
An obvious point that few talking heads inside the Washington Beltway have grasped.
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BREAKING: Elon Musk announces he is completely taking control of the SSA's computers—and shutting them down—so they can be replaced with Musk proprietary and Musk controlled technology. Don't expect any payments from SSA over the next year. www.wired.com/story/doge-r...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
www.wired.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
BREAKING: Elon Musk announces he is completely taking control of the SSA's computers—and shutting them down—so they can be replaced with Musk proprietary and Musk controlled technology. Don't expect any payments from SSA over the next year. www.wired.com/story/doge-r...