“No one had trained us for an airplane itself to become the weapon.”
Betty Ong Is One Of 9/11’s First Heroes. More People Should Know Her Name.
“No one had trained us for an airplane itself to become the weapon.”
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Wrote about Betty Ong, whose cool, calm 23-minute phone call from the back of Flight 11 on Sept. 11 provided the first alert to ground personnel that a hijacking was underway — and helped set in motion the eventual shutdown of U.S. airspace. www.huffpost.com/entry/betty-...
More People Should Know Betty Ong’s Name — And The 23-Minute Call That Helped Sound The Alarm On 9/11
“No one had trained us for an airplane itself to become the weapon.”
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"The tweet — and the immigration strategy behind it — suggest the administration has abandoned any claim that it’s focused on removing criminals and is now targeting the kinds of migrants the U.S. has long sought to attract, said Mary Hoopes."
Brittany Wong@brittanywong.bsky.social · 5d agoRamping up deportations and forced-return flights to Haiti amid an escalating security and humanitarian crisis is a choice. So is telling doctors to leave the US while we're facing a physician shortage — one that’s especially dire in rural America. www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-tw...
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ramping up deportations and forced-return flights to Haiti amid an escalating security and humanitarian crisis is a choice. So is telling doctors to leave the US while we're facing a physician shortage — one that’s especially dire in rural America. www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-tw...
DHS’s Tweet To Haitians Exposes A Sick Truth About Racism In Trump’s America
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Ask any woman: street harassment is as bad as ever.
We've Hit A Bleak Milestone In The Post-'Me Too' Era
Ask any woman: street harassment is as bad as ever.
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Man who said he was glad Cher's "Believe" was over in Pilates class, you're on notice. Pilates is a pro-Cher space.
Nearly a decade after the Me Too movement went mainstream, a new study from the Newcomb Institute at Tulane University finds that Americans are reporting experiences of sexual harassment at much higher rates than they did before. I talked to the researchers about why that might be.
America's Sexual Harassment Problem Seems To Be Accelerating
Ask any woman: street harassment is as bad as ever.
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An attempt was made to pull off the "Ossoff angle." www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-b...
Everyone Is Noticing The Same Thing About This Clip Of Pete Buttigieg
An attempt was made.
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“Clean girl” makeup was fun, but a little boring. This trend taps into a growing desire to play with creativity and a bold, maximalist aesthetic without worrying about getting it right. (Want to turn yourself into a full-on “Avatar” character? DO IT.) www.huffpost.com/entry/pre-sh...
‘Pre-Shower Makeup’ Is Your Chance To Get A Little Freaky
Interest in this makeup trend has increased 400% on one social media site.
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Since the start of the second Trump administration, dozens of L.A.-based journalists have been struck with less-lethal rounds by police while covering ICE protests, according to data compiled by @adamrose.bsky.social, chair of the press rights committee of the Los Angeles Press Club. 🧵4/7
Why the death of a reporter 55 years ago matters to those covering LA protests today
Ruben Salazar died 55 years ago while covering a protest in LA. His case illustrates the dangers journalists face today as police fire “less lethal munitions” into crowds.
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The jurors -- 9 women, 3 men -- in the case of the Mass. mother who is accused of murdering her children have been deliberating for more than 18 hours. Gender is generally a poor predictor of trial outcomes but the 9-to-3 split here could be a “double-edged sword,” one jury consultant told me.
What Lindsay Clancy's Majority-Women Jury Could Mean For Her Verdict, According To Experts
Jury consultant experts say gender is one of the weakest predictors of how a jury decides. Here’s what matters more.
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I talked to Native experts about what Trump's renaming stunt misses about the history of Lake Ontario: www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...
Trump’s ‘Lake America’ Stunt May Seem Like A Joke, But It Also Shows His Ignorance Of Native History
Trump’s latest renaming is part of larger, petty pattern.
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Beyond the “celebrity death rule of threes,” you’ll sometimes hear EMTs, nursing home workers and others in healthcare talk about deaths clusters with patients “I’m from Argentina and I work in a rural area, the same rule: ‘Cuando se va uno, se van tres (When one leaves, three leave),’” one MD said
Experts Explain Why Deaths Seem To Come In Threes
The short answer is no. The longer answer has to do with why the belief refuses to die.
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Father Tom McCarthy presents Pope Leo XIV with his very own Chicago White Sox Pope Hat. I hope Leo wears it during mass when he eventually returns to Chicago. www.instagram.com/p/Dci_2X8F7c...
He’s not a real boy… but he plays one on television
HuffPost@huffpost.com · 2w agoWhen Marco Rubio has more rizz than you, you’re in trouble.
I learned lots and lots about thermal ion batteries — and now I will never, ever accidentally pack one in my carry-on bag. www.huffpost.com/entry/why-ba...
A Fire Broke Out Midair On An American Airlines Flight — And This Common Device Was To Blame
You really don’t want to leave your power bank in your checked bag.
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Whatever you think of President Trump, he has always had a certain gravitational pull ― a charisma and dynamism that have fueled and continually regenerated the MAGA movement. Could JD Vance — who even a former Trump aide recently said had "negative rizz" — pull that same act off?
JD Vance Has A Major ‘Charisma Vacuum’ Problem
When Marco Rubio has more rizz than you, you’re in trouble.
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It was charming when I was there last week, but I can see how it could be overkill if I lived there lol
Sara McHenry 💌 SPX A5@saramchenry.bsky.social · 3w agoIf your Chicagoans seem cranky, it’s because there are seventeen billion cicadas outside doing this all at once www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfGm...
On what perfect happiness means to her: “A big loaded baked potato and a good book with time to eat it and read it.”
Monica Torres@monicatorrr.bsky.social · 3w agoDolly was always in on the joke and knew how to use zippy one-liners to her advantage. I think this quote is telling: “I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made ’em up myself.” www.huffpost.com/entry/dolly-...
Starting in the '80s, Dolly Parton devoted herself to philanthropy, building a charitable legacy through her Dollywood Foundation that arguably puts her in the ranks of any Carnegie or Rockefeller. (Plus, she did it without the robber-baron baggage -- and w/rhinestones and wigs on.) My story today
A Huge Part Of Dolly Parton's Legacy Has Nothing To Do With Music
The “9 to 5” singer wasn’t just iconic songs, big hair and sparkles.
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In an ideal world, clips of former trad wives discussing how difficult it is to start over without an education, employment history or independent income would queue up on TikTok after any gauzy, glamorous tradwife video appears in a feed. Story I wrote this week: www.huffpost.com/entry/tradwi...
Teen Tradwives Are On The Rise. Women Who Lived It Have A Warning.
‘I’m 19 years old, married, no degree, no 9 to 5, and I’m exactly where I want to be,’ said one creator in a TikTok that went viral.
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Who knew yoga pants could be so triggering?
We Talked To An Owner Of One Of Those Christian Men-Only Gyms That Are Going Viral
Who knew yoga pants could be so triggering?
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I talked to the owner of an all-men gym and dug into why critics find the idea so off-putting. Mitchell Parsons said he quit 4 gyms that didn’t meet his “standard of modesty” before creating his own gym. “Culture as a whole has slowly moved closer to nakedness being the norm, and gyms amplify this"
We Talked To An Owner Of One Of Those Christian Men-Only Gyms That Are Going Viral
Who knew yoga pants could be so triggering?
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Me when I see someone on Instagram has the "custom fonts to make your story stand out" that you only get if you've bought Instagram Plus.
Um Um Ok
ALT: Um Um Ok
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