In 1988, Sesame Street mocked a greedy real estate tycoon named Ronald Grump who wanted to bulldoze the neighborhood for luxury towers. Sound familiar?
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Steinem’s final essay published today in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/culture/life...
Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay
Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.
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“The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.” - Gloria Steinem To the incomparable Gloria Steinem—a giant, a guiding light, and a fierce advocate who left the ladder down—may she rest in peace and may we continue the fight for justice and equality ✊🕊️❤️
John Fetterman called in sick to avoid a meeting with three Pennsylvania paralyzed military veterans. Then he walked into the office less than an hour later to shoot a Fox News interview www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”
St. John Barned-Smith@stjbs.bsky.social · 4d agoICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Inwood is under siege by street racers who, making residents paranoid they’ll be run down by a speeding driver: gothamist.visitlink.me/l1-D9K
NYC public schools to ban AI for teaching students below 9th grade gothamist.com/news/nyc-pub...
NYC public schools to ban AI for teaching students below 9th grade
The restrictions were released just over a week before the school year and come amid a national backlash against the use of artificial intelligence.
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oh fuck you too Apple. It will always be Lake Ontario.
Mornings after strikes are always hard, but today I'm especially thinking about the children who went through this horrible night, yet again, and who are now heading to their first day of school, right after Russia tried to kill them. Right after Moscow spent the summer destroying their schoolbooks.
⚡Update: 8 killed, 5 injured in Kyiv, including children, as Russia's barrage of attacks enters 6th day. At least eight people have now been killed in Russia's latest overnight attack on Ukraine's capital on Sept. 1, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported.
8 killed, 5 injured in Kyiv, including children, as Russia's barrage of attacks enters 6th day
Russia continued its attacks on Kyiv for another consecutive night as air defenses in Ukraine's capital shot down Russian drones into Sept. 1, according to Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground.
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The Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings. In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%). Here's a chart covering all of these rulings:
One of the military’s most highly advertised immigration benefits is “military parole-in-place,” which allows the spouses, children and parents of active-duty service members and veterans to obtain legal immigration status from within the country.
He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him.
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Lundberg Family Farms said their recalled white jasmine rice was taken off shelves months ago, but it could still be in your pantry. Here's what to know. (Stock)
White jasmine rice recall expands to 13 states months after initial health alert
Lundberg Family Farms said their recalled white jasmine rice was taken off shelves months ago, but it could still be in your pantry. Here's what to know. (Stock)
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EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian government roles. They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Tom Anderson, better known as Cynical Publius. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.
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Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”
FYI: ‘We’re not changing it’: SoCal-based Mapquest takes stand against Trump’s ‘Lake America’ (LA Times)
“US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere”
US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere
President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of the nation’s aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships.
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“Trump admin sends Saudi nuclear deal that includes enrichment pathway to Congress”
Trump admin sends Saudi nuclear deal that includes enrichment pathway to Congress | CNN Politics
The Trump administration sent the nuclear cooperation agreement it had signed with Saudi Arabia to Congress on Monday, an administration official and multiple congressional aides told CNN.
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Does anyone have a NBC subscription? I don’t yet and I’d really love to read this. Ty! www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The cost of despair: Preventable deaths surging among Latinos in the U.S., data shows
The Latino community’s long-documented health resilience is breaking down.
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The death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv, the war's deadliest attack so far this year, rose to 38 with four people still missing, President Zelenskyy said on social media Sunday.
Death toll rises to 38 from Russia's deadliest attack on Ukraine this year
The death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv, the war’s deadliest attack so far this year, rose to 38 with four people still missing.
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Another @washingtonpost.com exclusive: Numerous four-star military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations
A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.
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Urgh. The live NASA coverage is a big advertisement for SpaceX.
Apartment building on fire in Kyiv after Russian attack .
"It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the HHS secretary sees deaths from outbreaks of diseases we had beaten or contained, like measles and cyclosporiasis, as a form of social hygiene that kills off the weak and susceptible."
RFK Jr.’s Toxic World
The HHS secretary uses fear of contamination to denigrate modern medicine and advance a project rooted in vulgar eugenics.
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FIRST ON CBS NEWS: A history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from work may no longer be a barrier to employment at the FBI.
At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired
In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel.
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