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A Heat Wave is Hitting New York. Know Your Rights Ahead of Soaring Temps. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/01/h...
A Heat Wave is Hitting New York. Know Your Rights Ahead of Soaring Temps.
New Yorkers have some legal rights when it comes to severe heat. Ahead of the Fourth of July heat wave, here’s how to protect yourself.
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"All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change." On Octavia Butler's birthday, her immortal reckoning with change: www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/22/o...
Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God
On change, the measure of intelligence, the courage to take responsibility for our own lives.
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A Soft Silencing in Children’s Publishing Are LGBTQIA+ voices being quietly pushed out by publishing decisions? www.slj.com/story/Soft-S...
A Soft Silencing in Children
Are LGBTQIA+ voices being quietly pushed out by publishing decisions?
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A new, AI-assisted model of insurance is quietly exploding in disaster-prone areas—and may be coming for FEMA too. Is it the answer to climate change, or a trap?
Traditional Home Insurance Is Collapsing. Here’s What Could Fill the Gap
A new, AI-assisted model of insurance is quietly exploding in disaster-prone areas—and may be coming for FEMA too. Is it the answer to climate change, or a trap?
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A knife attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has sparked violent riots fueled by anti-migrant rhetoric.
What to know about the stabbing that set off fiery riots in Northern Ireland
A knife attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has sparked violent riots fueled by anti-migrant rhetoric.
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Arctic sea ice is shrinking from climate change forcing many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during parts of the summer. For isolated communities at the top of the world, keeping the planet’s largest land predators -- polar bears -- away from human settlements is key to coexistence.
The Trump administration has put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak.
US puts up $750K to evacuate an American who was aboard hantavirus cruise ship from remote island
The Trump administration has put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak.
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Phil Mickelson has been kicked out of a San Diego golf club over allegations he made unwanted physical contact with a female employee, Golf Digest reported Thursday.
Report: Mickelson kicked out of San Diego club for inappropriate contact with female employee
Golf Digest is reporting Phil Mickelson has been kicked out of a San Diego golf club for inappropriate contact with a female employee.
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BREAKING: David Hockney, an icon of 20th-century art, has died at age 88, his publicist says.
Art icon David Hockney dies at age 88
Acclaimed British artist David Hockney has died aged 88. Hockney’s publicist, Erica Bolton, says he died on Thursday, a few weeks short of his 89th birthday.
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Early Voting in NYC Primary Starts Saturday: What To Know and How To Vote www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/12/n...
Early Voting in NYC Primary Starts Saturday: What To Know and How To Vote
Major races on ballots include congressional and state seats.
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Why are so many Black women dying at the hands of their partners?
Why are so many Black women dying at the hands of their partners?
Black women are two and a half times more likely to be murdered by men than white women are. This is a public health crisis
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Beyoncé Bumped Her Ass Off There. You Can, Too. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/04/e...
Beyoncé Bumped Her Ass Off There. You Can, Too.
There are few remaining artifacts from the increasingly distant disco era. A bumper car joint in Coney Island with a bone-rattling sound system is one of them.
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Thanks to the leadership, hard work, and vision of the Cypress Hills LDC and Rafael Espinal. More Housing, No Gentrification: How Rezoning Gave East New York a New Start www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/02/a...
One Way to Save a Neighborhood: How East New York Beat Gentrification
The Brooklyn neighborhood has seen a boom in new construction — minus the gentrification and displacement that have plagued other parts of New York.
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The Eric and Barbara Carle Foundation is proud to support Glisten during Pride Month with an Out of Print collaboration! We donated use of Eric's artwork for this Limited Edition, and all net proceeds will benefit Glisten's youth programming and we couldn't be more, well, proud.
LGBTQ+ Pride Collection
Celebrate in style all year with our Pride-inspired collections: Book Nerd Pride, Queer Book Club, Rainbow Readers, and more!
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Before his final show, Stephen Colbert thanked his audience for their ‘reciprocal emotional relationship’ over the last 11 years on air.
Stephen Colbert Thanks His Audience for a ‘Reciprocal Emotional Relationship’
Before his final show, Stephen Colbert thanked his audience for their ‘reciprocal emotional relationship’ over the last 11 years on air.
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Hawaii just became the first state to bar corporations from spending in its elections—not by overturning Citizens United, but by declining to grant them the power in the first place. Fourteen other states have bills like it, and the petition asks yours to do the same.
Try A New Way To Undo Citizens United, Stop Corporate Money in Politics
Join 2,642 people. A compromised Supreme Court opened the floodgates with Citizens United, and now American democracy is drowning in corporate money. Creative advocates… Sign and Resistbot delivers your letter in minutes.
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Pope Leo dedicating his first encyclical to social justice would show how much he, like his predecessor Pope Francis, “is trying to shift Catholicism away from the near fixation on ‘pelvic theology,’ or sexual morality, that has come to define Catholicism,” David Gibson writes.
Opinion | Pope Leo’s A.I. Encyclical Signals a New Course for the Church
The document will address A.I. and its impact on humanity. He’s also staying the course on Catholic social teaching.
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Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe
An oldie but a goodie from @literaryhub.bsky.social
A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist
1. The Three Main Sections of the Invisible Library I love books that exist almost as much as I love books that don’t exist. So I have written some books, The Seas, The Invention of Everything Else…
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I knew @mayor.nyc.gov could cook – not surprised to see he can roast too. Great job, Mr. Mayor! hellgatenyc.com/video-mamdan...
Video: Mamdani Clowns on the 'Inner Circle' and the 'New York Crimes'
What does it mean for this longstanding tradition of satirical dinner theater when the mayor is actually…funny?
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