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December 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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splcenter.org
This fourth installment of SPLC’s "Whose Heritage?" report offers an evolving assessment of the threats and harms that find continued life through Confederate symbols, “Lost Cause” narratives and ideologies of white supremacy.

Read it here: https://bit.ly/3HUgEjx
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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DeSantis must answer for illicitly diverting millions | Editorial www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/12/15/d...
DeSantis must answer for illicitly diverting millions | Editorial
An explosive investigation by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times shows Gov. Ron DeSantis diverted more than $35 million in public funds to his private wars against abortion and recreational marij…
www.sun-sentinel.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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enewspaper.sun-sentinel.com/shortcode/SU... As a FL election worker, I was a bit shocked to find some kid hired to sit right outside the polls passing out propaganda related to ballot initiatives. This article concerns the background and funding.
Sun, 12/14/25
DeSantis admin diverted child welfare, medical funds for consultants, ads
enewspaper.sun-sentinel.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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This is high on my wish list
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16d
From our editorial team to you: The Atlantic’s 2025 gift guide. Find unique gifts to bring joy to your loved ones this holiday season—including this hot-dog plate, recommended by Kaitlyn Tiffany.

Read the full list: theatln.tc/4KsSFqPt
December 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I don't have a lot of faith in the nonpartisanship of FL courts

DeSantis wants to redraw Florida's congressional map: What to know

www.floridatoday.com/story/news/p...
DeSantis wants to redraw Florida's congressional map: What to know
Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wants to redistrict the state next year. His opponents say it would unfairly shift the legislature to Republicans for years.
www.floridatoday.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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With the holiday season underway, kids with #disabilities coast to coast will have the chance to meet #Santa Claus in a calm setting that’s been tailored to their needs.
Sensory-Friendly Santa Coming To Hundreds Of Malls
With the holiday season underway, kids with disabilities coast to coast will have the chance to meet Santa Claus in a calm setting that's been tailored to their needs.
www.disabilityscoop.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
vq1.bsky.social
count the conflicts of interest

As Trump's inquisitors face scrutiny, a divisive figure could play a new role www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/11/23/a...
As Trump’s inquisitors face scrutiny, a divisive figure could play a new role
The U.S. attorney in Miami, Jason A. Reding Quiñones, a Trump loyalist, has not said why he is putting an extra grand jury 130 miles away in Aileen Cannon’s courthouse.
www.sun-sentinel.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Local impacts of climate change in the White Mountains mountwashington.org/wp-content/u...
Mount Washington Observatory Almanac 2025 - PDF Viewer
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November 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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took them 2 months to google “free speech”

Two FAU faculty members return to work after Charlie Kirk comments found to be protected speech www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/11/19/t...
Two FAU faculty members return to work after Charlie Kirk comments found to be protected speech
Two Florida Atlantic University faculty members returned to work Tuesday after a university investigation concluded that comments they made about Charlie Kirk were protected speech.
www.sun-sentinel.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Trump on the other hand said about Jamal Khashoggi that “a lot of people didn’t like the last gentleman” and things happen. A journalist working for an American news organization was murdered and CIA says Crown Prince orchestrated and the president says things happen.
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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aljazeera.com
Al-Majd Europe group taking families on buses out of Gaza to Israel's Ramon Airport - then to unknown destinations.
Man says shadowy group sending Palestinians out of Gaza has Israeli support
Al-Majd Europe group taking families on buses out of Gaza to Israel's Ramon Airport - then to unknown destinations.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
vq1.bsky.social
Apologies to any actual service members, but it looks to me like the US Space Force has way too many marketing, PR, and HR people. The Conclusion and Appendices in this are actually readable. www.starcom.spaceforce.mil/Portals/2/Sp...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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msf.ca
Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.”

For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Canada: If you’re going to cut foreign aid, at least be honest about it
It is a moral failure dressed up as fiscal responsibility. If we take away the abstract language and political doublespeak, Canadians may find the human cost of these cuts too
www.thestar.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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“public good” hai.stanford.edu/news/univers...
Universities Must Reclaim AI Research for the Public Good | Stanford HAI
With corporate AI labs turning inward, academia must carry forward the mantle of open science.
hai.stanford.edu
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Revenge of the Nerds

Many people who work in health and science are fighting against the Trump administration's politicalization of those issues. Others are running for office. @katherinejwu reports:
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Average price for a new car surpasses $50,000 for first time www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/28/a... up from $40k in 2020
Average price for a new car surpasses $50,000 for first time
One factor accelerating prices is the amount of high-tech features in new cars.
www.sun-sentinel.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Florida Department of Health is literally not interested in science related to vaccines.

Doctors muffled as Florida moves to end decades of childhood vaccination mandates www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/29/d...
Doctors muffled as Florida moves to end decades of childhood vaccination mandates
Florida plans to end nearly a half-century of required childhood immunizations against diseases that have killed and maimed millions of children. Many critics of the decision, including doctors, ar…
www.sun-sentinel.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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inquiring minds in So. Florida want t know…
quantamagazine.bsky.social Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · Oct 26
The way that a glacier melts is a balance of fracture and flow. In Antarctica, ice shelves extend from glaciers and hang over sea water. Warming oceans lap at the ice, melting it from below. When these shelves will collapse is a question for basic physics.
How Soon Will the Seas Rise? | Quanta Magazine
The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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thebulletin.org/2025/10/what...

in case you watched House of Dynamite, read this
What we should be talking about after watching Bigelow's 'A House of Dynamite' nuclear thriller
Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, is a welcome and useful reminder that the dangers of nuclear weapons never went away—and an invitation to discuss how to deal with them.
thebulletin.org
October 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef
In 2023, a record-setting marine heat wave triggered the ninth mass coral bleaching event on Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR). We examined spatial patterns of heat exposure along the ~560-kilometer length o...
www.science.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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motherjones.com
This is nuts. And we would like to know more about these "guided missile warheads."

Good reporting via @juddlegum.bsky.social / @popular.info
ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year
The $71.5 million spent so far has paid for guns and armor, chemical munitions, “guided missile warheads," and "explosive components.”
www.motherjones.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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love the illustration.
just what government needs, more political commissars

Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history
Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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quantamagazine.bsky.social
A recent proof has revealed a deep connection between origami and particle collisions.
Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle | Quanta Magazine
The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM