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In 2019 Utah State began a project to introduce Beavers to Utah’s Price River. Six years later, water levels in the river are now the healthiest they’ve been in years. The fish are thriving, and Utah residents are overjoyed with the experiment’s results. www.upworthy.com/beavers-refr...

Warnock: Right before they passed that ugly bill that cut $1 trillion out of medicaid, the Speaker of the House joined with other legislators and said a prayer, and then they went and voted for that bill. I just want to know what was in that prayer.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Morally repugnant. Just unspeakable. bsky.app/profile/chri...

When I took these images of the East Wing, I knew it would be some time before I ever got to see them in person again. I never imagined no one would ever be able to see them in person again. 😞

That’s some chyron. 👑 @atrupar.com

NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

🧵 THREAD: What the leaked Alaska summit documents really reveal (excellent scoop by @NPR) 1/ NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.

OPINION | The Washington Monument? No, it’s now a tribute to President Trump’s mighty phallus, writes Holly Hudson.

I love how Trump waits for his caddie to toss the new ball on the ground before getting out of his cart so that he can pretend he just located it.

Yeah i'm starting to think this parade was worth every penny

Wonder how long it will take Trump to take credit for there being an American pope?

🧬📉 Falling vaccine rates & rising outbreaks A modelling study warns that a 50% drop in US childhood vaccination could cause 51 million measles cases, 159,000 deaths, and endemic measles in 5 years. 🔗 doi.org/10.1001/jama... #SciComm 🧪 #Vaccines

"Furthermore, I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them, but that they are here for the nation" Hitler, 1942 Doesn't sound much different, does it?

We are nearing the end.

“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” But, of course that happened 😡 www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

Despite popular belief wolves have no fear or aggression towards humans. They're actually one of the least likely mammals in all of North America to harm a human. Wolves are essential

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:

Today’s disgusting display in the Oval Office was orchestrated by Putin to show the world that the US is no longer a democracy or dependable ally of democracies but is now a wholly owned Russian/Putin satellite. I’m ashamed and angry at those who let/are letting it happen.

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Am waiting to see what happens when the cabal decides to send or not send Social Security checks based on political party affiliation and zip code.

Here we go. “Dept of Education” setting up to shut itself down. Scarier and scarier. www.deptofedwatchlist.com

Sen Cassidy decided it was preferable to violate his Hippocratic oath than to cross Trump. Dear god, what have we become…

Anybody want to bet the Orange Misogynist is going to blame the DC crash on the female helicopter pilot? Or is that too obvious?

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

Hey, it’s one of those Mexican firefighters who came over here to take our jobs. And save our kittens.

This is absolutely terrifying www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...