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How The Multibillion-Dollar Commercial Fishing Industry Is Robbing Coastal Indigenous Communities: youtu.be/uGGO2A5Uysw

"The Left" in this case was the IRS under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, which revoked Bob Jones University's tax exempt status due to its ban on applicants who are in an interracial marriage

The Senate voted early Thursday to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a severe blow to 1,500 local public stations, as well as PBS and NPR variety.com/2025/politics/…

This is ridiculous. Some of the best acting on TV this year came from these four actors. #Andor #Emmys

There's no one in charge at the U.S. Copyright Office right now wired.com/story/us-copyr…

Reminder that 95° and humid is better than 20° and a wind chill

The Los Angeles Press Club says law enforcement officers have violated press freedoms of reporters more than three dozen times. My NPR story: npr.org/2025/06/16/nx-…

There’s an 80% chance the world will break another annual temperature record in the next five years, and it’s even more probable that the world will again exceed the international temperature threshold set 10 years ago, according to a five-year forecast released by the World…

BREAKING: A Minnesota lawmaker is dead in a "politically motivated assassination," Gov. Tim Walz says, and another was shot and injured. The suspect is at large. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…

During the Tulsa Race Massacre, as many as 10,000 white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, launched a coordinated, military-style attack on the Black community of Greenwood. More than a century later, the city unveiled a $105 million reparations package. eji.org/news/city-anno…

law enforcement hurt at least 4 journalists in LA during the protests, @pressfreedom says. cpj.org/2025/06/law-en…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.

More than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country were notified that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle. Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.…

Never-before-seen footage of bottom trawling—a particularly destructive method of fishing in which a ship drags a heavy iron net across the seabed, blindly catching anything in its path—has been released. 🔗 on.natgeo.com/3GH8XfR

Without the models, sensor networks and supporting NOAA research programs, “We’ll go back to the technical and proficiency levels we had in the 1950s,” said NOAA’s former top administrator for research. “We won’t have the tools we have today.” propublica.org/article/trump-…

60 Minutes directly calls out its parent company, Paramount, following the resignation of executive producer Bill Owens

If your seasonal allergies seem worse this year, you are not alone. Higher pollen counts, more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and fewer days below freezing are among the factors that have made the spring allergy season longer and more severe, according to the Asthma and…

Travelling to the US soon? CBP has broad authority to search your devices. Whether you're an American citizen or a visitor, here's a guide on how to protect yourself from phone searches at the US border. wired.com/story/how-to-p…

Fossil fuel companies caused $28 trillion in climate damage, study finds. These 5 are tied to the most damage. cbsn.ws/4jQBON4

Reminder: 1) Andry followed the legal process for asylum seekers 2) No criminal record 3) Detained based on ZERO evidence except for crown tattoos that said "mom" and "dad" 3) Disappeared to the El Salvador gulag, maybe for life, before his scheduled hearing

What’s odd about this is that the Navy has for years though republican and democratic administrations cited the national security impacts of climate change - including mass migration and disputes over natural resources - as security issues, not ideological ones. Are those climate…