Just awful. I hope his legacy of resistance and kindness lives on. RIP. www.cnn.com/entertainmen...
Live updates: Rob Reiner and wife Michele dead, LAPD investigating apparent homicide at director’s home | CNN
Two people have been found dead at the home of Hollywood director Rob Reiner, officials said.
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Bird flu is on the rise again after a summer lull, so we resurfacing some recommendations on what you can do to take precautions. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... Data from: www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
Alt CDC (they/them)@altcdc.altgov.info · 2y ago⚠️H5 Bird Flu: What you need to know ⚠️ Avian influenza (“bird flu”) is an infection caused by influenza A (H5) virus that naturally circulates among birds but can also affect mammals, including humans
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
Carl Sagan warned of the double standard: trillions for war on unlikely threats, nothing for climate. We’ve spent $8T+ on the War on Terror, lost trillions to tax cuts, yet claim we “can’t afford” survival. It’s not a capacity crisis. It’s a will crisis. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Aoe...
“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” - Hannah Arendt #RadioFreeAmerica
A judge in DC has ruled that the Trump administration has to stop violating public disclosure laws. This is about the administration's efforts to take over Congress' power of the purse & altho the opinion is 60 pages, what the judge has to say is worth your time. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels. roll_safe.gif
After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them
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Inside Trump’s Angry, Desperate Push to Silence MAGA on Epstein Fiasco As Trump rages wildly over his inability to get MAGA to shut up about the Jeffrey Epstein mess, a writer who’s tracking this battle takes us inside his effort to get this under control — and explains why it’s failing.
Inside Trump’s Angry, Desperate Push to Silence MAGA on Epstein Fiasco
As Trump rages wildly over his inability to get MAGA to shut up about the Jeffrey Epstein mess, a writer who’s tracking this battle takes us inside his effort to get this under control—and explains wh...
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How polluters create a Circle of Denial on the climate & nature crisis. We need politicians with vision and courage to break it.
Yo folks, these two companies are renting vehicles to ICE in LA for use in roundups. Time to get loud about this.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last yr.Enterprise and SIXT.
. we are all brothers and sisters. don't let the world divide us. 💖🫂🙏🪷🕊
An important piece. It shows how desperate Patel and Trump are to provide (fake) "evidence" that the 2020 election was rigged. Why? So they can now, under the cover of "election integrity," go about rigging the next one. www.thebulwark.com/p/youll-neve...
You’ll Never Believe Where Kash Patel’s Election Fraud Bombshell Came From
Scouring the swamps to smear his predecessor.
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The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
"'If they attempt to deport the Afghans, you’re going to see actual physical conflict between U.S. veterans and ICE,' he predicted..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Veterans recoil at Trump plan to end Afghans’ deportation protection
The Trump administration claims conditions in Afghanistan have markedly improved under Taliban rule. Those who fought in the war say that’s ‘laughable.’
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Republicans can only lose 3 Senate votes on Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and these senators are the most vulnerable in 2026: -Collins (ME) -Tillis (NC) -Sullivan (AK) -Husted (OH) -Moody (FL) -Cornyn (TX) -Ernst (IA) If they represent you, tell them to vote NO. (202) 224-3121
After Rümeysa Öztürk wrote an op-ed about Palestinians in Gaza, masked, plainclothes ICE agents grabbed her off the street. No one knew who they were or if it was even a real arrest. In a democracy, that shouldn’t happen. And we can’t let it become the new normal.
Why Are They Hiding Their Faces?
If ICE agents' actions are perfectly acceptable, they shouldn't have to mask their identities
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I can't get over this. The most powerful man in the world thinks this photo was not altered.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last yr.This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at the time.
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(PS) This new report serves as *critical corroboration* of a prior report alleging *exactly the same thing* that was referenced in the NYT-bestselling Proof Series and was first revealed to the public by Trump biographer Craig Unger.
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian
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