"If what you're doing is legitimate and lawful, why do you need to cover your face?”

Just fund independent, nonpartisan, public service journalism, you fools. We literally have fewer news analysts, reporters, and journalists left in the US than people in the coal mining industry! Why are billionaires setting cash on fire on a bunch of dorks?

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NEWS: Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan." We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs. One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

📍 We’re halfway through #GiveInMay — and there’s still time to make a big impact! Join the movement, support AANHPI nonprofits, and help us keep the momentum going. We're raising $2,100 for our summer newsroom intern. Donate today at www.giveinmay.org/organization...

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Veterans are struggling with guilt after USAID cuts impact cleanup programs. ‘We have a responsibility to help pick up this garbage.’ thewarhorse.org/vietnam-vete...

Their Bombs Destroyed–and Still Threaten–Villages. Vietnam-Era Veterans Are Going Back to Help and Heal

Veterans find healing by helping rebuild from the destruction the U.S. military left in Laos during the CIA's "secret war."

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My first piece with @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social is a story about the legacies of war in Southeast Asia and the American veterans returning there to help heal old wounds (theirs and others). #usaid #diplomacy #softpower #laopdr #cambodia #vietnam thewarhorse.org/vietnam-vete...

Their Bombs Destroyed–and Still Threaten–Villages. Vietnam-Era Veterans Are Going Back to Help and Heal

Veterans find healing by helping rebuild from the destruction the U.S. military left in Laos during the CIA's "secret war."

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Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

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My return to #LucidNews !!! After years of scattered anecdotal reports of #multiplesclerosis patients having positive experiences with #ibogaine therapy, a case study featuring two patients with different variants of the incurable central nervous system disease raises questions…

It was a pleasure and a privilege to work alongside my friend and colleague @alexip718.com for @thexylom.com covering #StandUpforScience2025 You can see some of the best images we captured from the day here:

The Xylom@thexylom.com · last yr.

At the #StandUpforScience rallies, many protesters brought along cheeky signs targeting President Trump, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Elon Musk, the de facto head of DOGE. Here are some of the best signs our reporters saw in Atlanta, New York, and Seattle:

Thank you to my colleague + former classmate @noahdaly.bsky.social for pitching the story (it's always exciting to do an @mitsciwrite.bsky.social crossover), and @jrmorber.bsky.social for taking on a last-minute assignment!

This compelling image was taken when I attended the March for Science rally in Los Angeles in 2017. Today, we face even greater threats. Where will you #StandUpForScience today? There is no Planet B. #standupforscience2025 #ClimateCrisis #science #research #ScienceNotSilence

In an interview with @thexylom.com Rayna Birnbaum, PhD, a post-doc at Albert Einstein University and an organizer of the #StandUpforScience2025 rally in #NYC rally has had two of her grants frozen by recent NIH cuts.

Yann LeCun, Turing Prize-winner, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at #NYU reminds the audience at #StandUpforScience2025 that the seeds of new scientific discoveries are planted with government funding to universities.

Claire Pomeroy, MD, MBA, Quoting John Dewey to #StandUpforScience2025 in #NYC “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” she continues, “We must also be audacious our outreach, audacious in our defense, and audacious in our defiance.”

Organizers estimate more than 2,000 showed up at Washington Square Park today for #StandUpforScience2025 @thexylom.com

Will be reporting today from #StandUpforScience2025 @ Washington Square Park for @thexylom.com