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HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth

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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week. The budget, first reported by the Washington Post, would go into effect in October if approved by Congress. Since the hotline’s launch in 2022, […]

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The Economic Case for Preserving America’s Wetlands

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Nearly 30 years ago, in September 1996, Hurricane Fran swept through North Carolina. It was the most expensive natural disaster in state history—causing an estimated $10 billion in damage in today’s dollars and killing 37 people across the region. Raleigh took a direct hit, with the storm toppling thousands of trees and dumping nearly 9 […]

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How We Reported “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”

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This month, Noah Lanard and Isabela Dias won the Sidney Award for “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos,” a Mother Jones feature revealing that young Latino men are being deported without due process because of innocuous tattoos. The Trump administration falsely claims the tattoos indicate affiliation with Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang. This is an […]

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Another Round of Anti-Trump Protests Slated for Earth Day

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of marches, pickets, and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as environmental and climate groups step up resistance to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism and its “war on the planet.” A […]

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Government Cancels Disinformation Grants in Disinformation-Filled Statement

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Lisa Fazio expected her National Science Foundation grant to be cancelled. The associate professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University had watched, with apprehension, the GOP targeting disinformation in a series of legislative attacks. She only grew more certain when, on April 18, the National Science Foundation (NSF) put out a statement on […]

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The Latest Supreme Court Case Targeting the ACA Comes from a Longtime Anti-Gay Activist

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For over a decade, Americans with private health insurance have enjoyed free access to dozens of types of preventive health care: cholesterol medication, prenatal care, and many types of cancer screenings, as well as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the “miracle drug” that prevents HIV infection. But on Monday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in […]

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HHS Plans to Cut Funds Used to Investigate Abuse at Group Homes

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On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services, that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department plans to defund protection and advocacy services for people with developmental disabilities—including autistic people, about whom Kennedy also spreads harmful disinformation. The budget document is a proposal, […]

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Trump May Soon Offer a Motherhood Medal, an Idea Popularized in Nazi Germany

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On Monday, the New York Times reported that the Trump Administration is mulling a suite of initiatives aimed at encouraging Americans to have more babies. Some of the suggestions for these programs came from pronatalists, a loose network of activists who believe that the humanity is basically doomed unless people have more kids. A few […]

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A Judge Told Florida Not to Arrest Undocumented Immigrants. The State Did Anyway.

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On February 13, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that would allow state law enforcement to arrest and prosecute undocumented immigrants for being in the state without legal status. It was quickly paused. On April 4, United States District Judge Kathleen M. Williams temporarily blocked the law from being enforced, saying that enforcing immigration […]

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Anatomy of an Extinction

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Late in September, as Hurricane Helene struck the Southeast, Wally Smith immediately thought of the salamanders. Of course, he fretted over the safety of his parents, brother, and extended family in the path of the storm in the north Georgia mountains, but he couldn’t help but worry about the amphibians in harm’s way, too. As […]

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New Report: Trump Administration Just Got Hit With Another Signal Chat Scandal

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On Sunday evening, The New York Times published details of another potentially damning security scandal involving the chat app Signal and discussions of “detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15″—this time centered on a group chat created by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Citing four people with knowledge of the group chat, the […]

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Corporate Chiefs Gave Trump’s Inaugural Committee $250 Million. Benefits Abound.

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Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised almost $250 million, much of it from donors who are seeking—and in many cases have already received—valuable favors from the administration of the famously transactional president. The Wall Street Journal, which reviewed the committee’s filing ahead of a Sunday deadline, reported that the funding haul far exceeded what the committee […]

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