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RFK Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them. (Published March)
The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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Child welfare referred Black parents to law enforcement 14,000 times in 7 years, despite no findings of abuse or neglect.
Moms of Black Babies More Likely to Be Flagged to Police Over Alleged Pregnancy Drug Use
Child welfare referred Black parents to law enforcement 14,000 times in 7 years, despite no findings of abuse or neglect.
motherjones.com
Our lives depend on the right to contraception, sex education, maternal care, assisted reproduction, miscarriage care and abortion. Add your voice—share the life you built: msmagazine.com/thelifeibuilt/
“When you start gambling on somebody’s potential death or harm, you’re really diminishing the value that you’re placing on human life.”
"Morally reprehensible": Prediction markets offer bets on wildfires
What could possibly go wrong?
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Israel recently damaged Lebanon’s vital Qaraoun Dam, raising fears of a structural failure. Experts say the attack reflects Israel’s long-standing ambition to control Lebanon’s water — and mirrors the water apartheid it imposes on Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/how-...
How Israel uses water as a weapon of war from Palestine to Lebanon
Israel recently damaged Lebanon’s vital Qaraoun Dam, raising fears of a structural failure. Experts say the attack reflects Israel’s long-standing ambition to control Lebanon’s water — and mirrors…
mondoweiss.net
Secrecy surrounding executions in Florida has left victims’ families, prisoners and lawyers searching for clues about the governor’s selection process. “He could be deciding who is next to die by throwing darts at a list of names,” one lawyer said. with @nytimes.com
Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty
Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight ...
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BBC News went live to Cabo Verde and then Cabo Verde scored a goal. Absolute scenes.
Most new US data centers are slated for drought-plagued areas [via @theguardian.com]
Most new US data centers are slated for drought-plagued areas
Amid public outcry over water-guzzling server farms, a Guardian analysis indicates trouble ahead.
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Persepolis was a major work, a revelatory examination of Iranian history and society. It fully deserves its status as one of the great modern memoirs. https://bit.ly/4v2eTUV
Marjane Satrapi’s Rebellious Art
The radical legacy of the cartoonist and filmmaker who created Persepolis.
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Federal health regulators on Tuesday signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years, giving Americans access to a skin-protecting chemical long used in Europe and other parts of the world. bit.ly/4vJQYcR #APPhoto by Ashley Landis
The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a key monitoring system for tracking the climate crisis. Policy expert David Helvarg calls it "the most advanced system for understanding the deep ocean," which was set to continue operating for at least another 15 years.
Bill Gates has arrived on Capitol Hill to appear before a congressional panel investigating the Jeffrey Epstein files, becoming the latest powerful figure linked to the disgraced financier to testify.
Data centers are consuming enormous amounts of water and energy, driving up utility bills and threatening local ecosystems. Across the country, Indigenous organizers, union members, anarchists and rural Trump voters are finding common cause in fighting back.
Everybody Hates Data Centers
Anarchists, union activists, Indigenous organizers, and disgruntled Trumpists find themselves side by side in the fight.
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"We are in extreme danger," says climate scientist Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social. He warns that this summer "could be the hottest summer we've ever experienced in our lives, but it could also be the coolest summer for the rest of our lives."
At the largest private university in the country, non-tenure-track faculty teach about a quarter of all courses. Earlier this year, nearly 1,000 of them went on strike and won what their union says are the highest minimum salaries for unionized full-time non-tenure-track faculty in the U.S.
The NYU Strike Showed How to Reverse the Downward Spiral in Higher Ed
By withholding their labor earlier this year, non-tenured faculty at New York University won major gains—and helped create better learning conditions for their students.
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We’re urging Boston police to develop and enforce policies for social media monitoring to ensure accountability and protect First Amendment rights. bit.ly/4u13kMk
Investigation Shows Boston Police’s Social Media Monitoring Policies Are Haphazard and Inconsistent
The Brennan Center reviewed internal documents and interviewed a Boston Police Department attorney regarding online surveillance.
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The Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais could cause the biggest contraction in Black political representation since the post-Reconstruction backlash. But Congress can step in to guarantee equal voting rights and fair representation. bit.ly/4u6nYuJ
Congress Must Respond to Callais
A ban on partisan gerrymandering, codified voting rights protections, and Supreme Court reform can mitigate the fallout.
brennancenter.org
In the upcoming midterms, voters in six states will face restrictive voting laws enacted this year. Learn about all of the voting law changes in our latest roundup: bit.ly/4dzRNNM
State Voting Laws Roundup: May 2026
Voters across the country will face new voting restrictions in the upcoming midterms.
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This term, the Supreme Court has aggressively asserted its authority — most recently gutting the Voting Rights Act. Now, the Court is poised to rule on cases that could alter the constitutional order. Listen as experts break down the cases that will matter most. bit.ly/3Qo12sR
Trump’s Supreme Court Showdown — and Other Cases to Watch (with Tom Wolf and Wilfred Codrington)
This month, the Supreme Court will likely finish its work for the year. Already this term, it has aggressively and controversially asserted its authority — m...
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Our new poll finds that 79% percent of voters want a constitutional amendment that restores limits on money in elections. More results and what’s behind them: bit.ly/4dPG5yA
Americans Are Furious About Corruption
A new poll shows deep frustration with both parties.
brennancenter.org
Inside Epstein's very own "Oval Office": Power, peacocking, and printer toner.
Inside Epstein's very own "Oval Office": Power, peacocking, and printer toner.
Epstein and his coterie had a self-aggrandizing nickname for a private office inside his Manhattan lair.
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A trans basketball fan who attended a Knicks game was tracked "second by second" as she moved about the arena, solely for "the crime of being trans," says journalist Noah Shachtman, who reported on the pervasive surveillance at Madison Square Garden.
Inside Billionaire James Dolan’s Surveillance Machine at Madison Square Garden
James Dolan, the billionaire owner of New York City’s Madison Square Garden and its affiliated sports teams, the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers, is under fire after a bombshell investigation...
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Cages, restraints, and guards are not the elements of a therapeutic environment. Stop Criminalization of Our Patients is challenging Fulton County’s latest proposal: a 1,800-bed “special purpose facility” intended to incarcerate people with mental health conditions.
No New Beds
How one coalition is challenging the construction of mega-jails in Georgia.
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AI is often presented as a replacement for menial work, just as computers were in the 1970s. But as Michael Waters writes, the human labor never goes away—it’s just made more precarious.
The Information Wage | Michael Waters
New technologies never succeed in eliminating human workers—they just make the labor more precarious.
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"Satrapi reminded the world that Iranians are not merely subjects of geopolitics or victims of authoritarianism. We have families, friendships, humour, terrible fashion choices, impossible romances and complicated identities."
Rest in Power: Marjane Satrapi, Whose Masterpiece 'Persepolis' Transformed the World’s Understanding of Iran
Marjane Satrapi, best known for her memoir and film <em>Persepolis</em>, has died, aged 56. The death of this much loved Iranian French artist, graphic novelist, filmmaker and activist has been met…
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A rapid series of administrative, staffing and policy changes the Social Security Administration underwent early on in the second Trump administration are making it much harder to get disability benefits that millions of Americans rely on to make ends meet. #MsReads via @theconversation.com
Getting disability benefits got harder after the Social Security Administration’s staff was slashed and program rules were changed by Trump
Researchers learned from dozens of interviews that the usual ways of resolving complex cases, escalating issues and holding the authorities accountable no longer work.
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As girls leave sports at alarming rates, evidence points to one of the most powerful retention tools: supportive, well-trained coaches.
Girls Are Telling Us Why They Quit Sports. Are Adults Listening?
As girls leave sports at alarming rates, evidence points to one of the most powerful retention tools: supportive, well-trained coaches.
msmagazine.com
Participation in SNAP fell by more than 3 million people (8 percent) nationwide between July 2025 and January 2026—the sharpest decline in decades.
The Sharpest SNAP Decline in Nearly 30 Years Is Happening Right Now
More than 3 million people have left SNAP in the six months since enactment of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act
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Donald Trump’s trusted “pool guy” set out to defend the Reflecting Pool project, but critics say one comment accidentally exposed a problem Trump has complained about for years.
‘Absolute Waste’: Trump's 'Pool Guy' Tries to Shut Down Reflecting Pool Mistakes— Then Let It Slip the Issue He's Attacked Obama for Still Exists
President Donald Trump plans to spend millions of dollars renovating the White House, including more than $400 million to replace the demolished East Wing
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The gambling economy has a familiar rule: The house always wins. @hadasthier.bsky.social writes, a Bloomberg analysis found that most profits on Polymarket went to a tiny slice of accounts that appeared to be automated bots. Everyone else lost $131 million in aggregate.
The Explosive Growth of Prediction Markets Is a Symptom of a Deeply Sick Economy
Silicon Valley fuels them. Wall Street loves them. Prediction markets are everywhere, and ordinary people will pay the price.
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