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Editing climate, environment, & other things at The New Republic.
"Why did you sext RFK Jr.?" "Liminality and the death drive." "We can work with that."
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Watch him sue over the allegation that these were prescriptions rather than snake oil.
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Henry Mance
10 days ago
The world's biggest meatpacker, JBS, claimed in its adverts: "Bacon, chicken wings and steak with net-zero emissions. Itās possible." But it never seemed to have a plan to make this happen. So now it's paying $1.1 million to settle a false advertising case
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
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The Meat Advertising Case That Should Be Talked About at COP30
JBSās false advertising settlement comes as Big Ag prepares to spread propaganda at the U.N. climate conference.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202835/jbs-false-advertising-cop30-meat
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Jason Linkins
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here's
@hsouvainehorn.bsky.social
on Michelle Wu's undersung accomplishments from this week's election
newrepublic.com/post/202735/...
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Bostonās Election Results Are the Big, Untold Story This Week
Michelle Wuās quiet landslide defies conventional wisdom about alienating business interests. And it could turn Boston into one of the most interesting climate policy incubators in the country.
https://newrepublic.com/post/202735/boston-election-michelle-wu-climate
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Annie Waldman
11 days ago
NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. š§µ/
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nationās seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda
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My "but Boston!" take is simple. -Michelle Wu is implementing progressive climate & housing policy. -This has pissed off business interests. -They came after her in the election and she slapped them down handily. -Watch this space.
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Newsletter a'coming on this. I think this is a much bigger deal than most people realizeāparticularly for climate stuff.
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Melody Schreiber
14 days ago
āThe cost of living goes up. Our pay doesnāt,ā said Nakia Lomax, a massage therapist in Delaware. āMy credit cards are maxed out from buying food. Thereās been times where my husband and I, weāve gone hungry just to make sure that our daughter and our son eat.ā My latest:
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This SNAP Shutoff Comes at the Worst Possible Time
As food prices soar and kids are home for the holidays, families will have more mouths to feed and less money to do it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202570/snap-food-shutdown-trump
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Sevonaut
14 days ago
I feel like a lot of people in American cities are in a constant tantrum over not being able to have the "Does Not Exist."
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Crucial thread
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Evan Sutton
18 days ago
"We didnāt get here because Democrats failed to talk about 'kitchen-table issues' on the campaign trail. We got here because Democrats believed talking about kitchen-table issues was the only thing they needed to do." š„ from
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Why Centrist Democrats Keep Being Wrong About Elections
A new 60-page report insists the party is too radical. But the problem isnāt the party platform. The problem is the broader environment.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202394/centrist-democrats-welcomepac-win-elections
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"Elections are determined by four broad factors: (1) your message, (2) the messenger, (3) the media environment, and (4) the moment. The only thing that political campaigns have complete control over is the message." Fun, thoughtful piece from
@davekarpf.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
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Why Centrist Democrats Keep Being Wrong About Elections
A new 60-page report insists the party is too radical. But the problem isnāt the party platform. The problem is the broader environment.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202394/centrist-democrats-welcomepac-win-elections
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Adrienne LaFrance
18 days ago
And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the publicāmore to the point: separate themselves from any visible protestāand live on military bases. Gift link here:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/trump-officials-military-housing-stephen-miller/684748/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oR6IRKlFiVQjpKpNmoQZhUgw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Laura Mauldin
19 days ago
I wrote a thing for
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newrepublic.com/article/2024...
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Why Should Anyone Care What Bill Gates Thinks About Climate Change?
Gatesās contradiction-filled memo criticizing climate āalarmismā is a great example of why we shouldnāt be listening to people like him to begin with.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202419/bill-gates-climate-change-alarmism
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Will Oremus
20 days ago
wake up babe, a new way of saying "we just put 14,000 people out of a job" just dropped
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Amy Westervelt
20 days ago
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Back from tiny-human leave as of this morning. Please send me your climate/environment/ag/public health pitches! (And if you sent one in recent weeks and got an OOTO/silence but have not yet placed the piece elsewhere, feel free to re-send.)
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Melody Schreiber
2 months ago
Susan Monarez, the CDC director for 29 days, said RFK Jr. Kennedy told her āthe childhood vaccine schedule would be changing starting in September, and I needed to be on board with itā. My story, with updates to come as this Senate hearing continues:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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RFK Jrās actions have greatly diminished US ability to respond to outbreaks, ousted CDC officials say
Former officials testify before US Senate, saying the CDC under Kennedy is āsupporting policies not based in scienceā
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/rfk-jr-senate-hearing-cdc-susan-monarez
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Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
5 months ago
I wrote about all the Iranian civil rights activists people are ignoring when they talk about bringing regime change to Iran through bombs:
newrepublic.com/article/1970...
@newrepublic.com
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The Iranian Voices Missing From the āRegime Changeā Debate
Pro-war voices who insist the Iranian people would welcome a war that would spell the end of the Islamic Republic are deliberately ignoring the desires of actual Iranians.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197073/iranian-voices-missing-regime-change-debate-iran-israel-trump-war
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Julia Simon
5 months ago
As climate solutions reporter I find many 'solutions' don't scale- or reduce pollution at all. Which is why after months of reporting I want to tell you about Vienna. Vienna has found a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change, all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in. š§ā¬ļø
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Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?
Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/15/nx-s1-5400642/affordable-housing-environment-vienna-climate-change
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Katie Drummond
7 months ago
Googleās AI Overviews will not only confirm that a gibberish idiom is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived -- often including reference links.
www.wired.com/story/google...
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āYou Canāt Lick a Badger Twiceā: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw
Googleās AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overviews-meaning/
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Melody Schreiber
7 months ago
The FDA is cutting inspections of milk (hi, cryptosporidium). Great reporting from
@leahjdouglas.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-suspends-milk-quality-tests-amid-workforce-cuts-2025-04-21/
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The New Republic
7 months ago
This isnāt a story of corporate law firms breaking an honorable tradition of upholding the rule of law. Itās a story of Big Law showing its true colors.
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You Canāt Seriously Be Shocked That Big Law Caved to Trump
They defend fossil fuel corporations, tobacco giants, Wall Street criminals, and the pharmaceutical firms responsible for the opioid crisis. So of course they folded to Trump like a cheap suit.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193971/big-law-firms-cave-trump-immoral-work
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This is not another dire wolf debunker. This is a dire wolf diatribe. New from
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newrepublic.com/article/1938...
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Why Billionaire Trumpers Love This Dire Wolf Rubbish
No, dire wolves are not āback.ā But pretending they can be brought back is a good excuse to gut regulations that protect real endangered species.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193880/dire-wolf-extinction-trump
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Maryn McKenna
7 months ago
Food safety regulatory enforcement is being reduced, by the way.
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John
7 months ago
Incredible ad in Union Station in DC.
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George Monbiot
8 months ago
This is such an important article, about the simplistic visions now pushing aside scientific research and complex social issues. A must read.
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
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The Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-Vaxxers
From RFK Jr. to Hollywood A-listers and Democratic senators, people across the political spectrum are jumping onto the slippery slope of nature-based solutionism.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193307/nature-solutionism-vaccines-beef-climate
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"Part of the Doge, we talked about this from the beginning, is weāre going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated, because weāll make mistakes."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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RFK Jr says 20% of Dogeās health agency job cuts were mistakes
Health secretary says roles will need to be reinstated amid Trump administrationās push to slash federal workforce
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/rfk-jr-doge-cuts
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Joseph Howley
8 months ago
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
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Melody Schreiber
8 months ago
The U.S. is the global hotspot of H5N1 right now. Here's why, and what it means for you ā my new explainer for
@thesicktimes.bsky.social
:
thesicktimes.org/2025/04/01/w...
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What we know about the U.S. bird flu outbreak and its chronic disease risk - The Sick Times
When H5N1 first landed in North America, borne on the wings of migratory birds blown off course from Europe in late 2021, Seema Lakdawala followed the developments closely, but she wasnāt overly worri...
https://thesicktimes.org/2025/04/01/what-we-know-about-the-u-s-bird-flu-outbreak-and-its-chronic-disease-risk/
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"It's not productive to resist/ask people to resistāyou just have to hope people recognize the need for small government now" might just be the worst take yet...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...
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Opinion | Iām an Alum of Columbia and Paul, Weiss. Thereās an Uncomfortable Lesson in Trumpās Tactics.
As Bertolt Brecht wrote, it is an unhappy land that needs heroes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/opinion/paul-weiss-columbia-dei.html
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Melissa Gira Grant
8 months ago
"And it was tempting to tell myself that I was doing something that truly mattered as I worked on my book. But I also remember thinking that my obligation could not possibly end with 'Do exactly what you were going to do anyway'āsomething that still feels true today." -
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Nicole Chung on Taking It Day By Day
https://mailchi.mp/f9f35bae0470/nicole-chung-day-by-day
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Jenny Splitter
8 months ago
I've read a slew of articles on how we got to this MAHA moment, and what they all seem to miss is how entrenched the nature-tech divide is and why it's a false dichotomy. This essay by
@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social
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@garrettbroad.bsky.social
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newrepublic.com/article/1933...
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The Flawed Ideology That Unites Grass-Fed Beef Fans and Anti-Vaxxers
From RFK Jr. to Hollywood A-listers and Democratic senators, people across the political spectrum are jumping onto the slippery slope of nature-based solutionism.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193307/nature-solutionism-vaccines-beef-climate
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Dan Diamond
8 months ago
Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting ā firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect. Many folks didnāt see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didnāt work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.
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Provocative one from
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about the parallels between tech and nature-based "solutionisms," and why this is a particularly important moment to be skeptical of them. Links regenerative beef, anti-vaxxers, AI hype:
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
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Jan Dutkiewicz
8 months ago
I hope you read the piece, but what we're trying to get at - and what we've been talking about for a while now - is the slippage from an appeal to nature fallacy in particular cases to an ideology that naturalizes "nature" as a universal solution akin to techno-solutionism.
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Chuck Wendig
8 months ago
It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."
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Emily Atkin
8 months ago
āImmigration officials on Tuesday morning arrested 25-year-old union farmworker activist Alfredo āLeloā Juarez ⦠Juarez, who is a member of the Indigenous Mexican Mixteco community, has organized on behalf of farmworker rights in Washington state since he was 14 years oldā
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ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley
Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/ice-arrests-wa-farmworker-activist-in-sedro-woolley/
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Mother Jones
8 months ago
NEW: We spoke with friends, family members, and lawyers of ten men sent to an infamous Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. All reject that their loved ones are gang members. Instead, they say: The US is disappearing people, without due process, to a mega-prison because of their tattoos.
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The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvadorās most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/
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Melody Schreiber
8 months ago
I had the honor of being part of the inaugural fellowship last year, and it was a fantastic investment in my career. You donāt have to be a food-systems guru ā but you will want to be after this. Apply!
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Marcia Brown
8 months ago
More than half of USDA's regional foresters plan to depart. For
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with Jordan Wolman.
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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POLITICO Pro: More than half of Forest Service regional foresters set to depart
Five of the agency's nine regions will be left without dedicated heads in the coming months.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/03/five-forest-service-regional-foresters-depart-00235699
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WIRED
8 months ago
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with
@freedom.press
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
https://freedom.press/issues/wired-is-dropping-paywalls-for-foia-based-reporting-others-should-follow/
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Dampening finding for grass-fed beef:
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Your grass-fed burger isnāt better for the planet, new study finds
Grass-fed beef has no climate benefit ā even when taking into account that healthy pastureland can trap carbon, according to a new study.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/03/17/grass-fed-beef-health-emissions/
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Doug Gordon
8 months ago
Congestion pricing works.
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For those interested in community organizing stories right now, don't miss Marin Scotten's report on small towns battling cryptomines:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
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What Itās Like to Live in a Small Town Polluted by a Cryptomine
Across the U.S., rural towns are engaged in bitter battles against noise and air pollution from cryptomines. These will only get more common now that President Trumpās Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and ot...
https://newrepublic.com/article/192799/cryptomine-trump-strategic-bitcoin-reserve
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The New Republic
8 months ago
Nationwide, bitcoin minesāthe majority of which are powered by dirty fossil fuelsāuse 2% of the countryās electricity and may be consuming as much water per year as the entire city of Washington, D.C.
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What Itās Like to Live in a Small Town Polluted by a Cryptomine
Across the U.S., rural towns are engaged in bitter battles against noise and air pollution from cryptomines. These will only get more common now that President Trumpās Strategic Bitcoin Reserve andā¦
https://newrepublic.com/article/192799/cryptomine-trump-strategic-bitcoin-reserve
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The Washington Post
8 months ago
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
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Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that āpromoteā DEI.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/14/arlington-cemetery-website-dei-removals/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Christopher Mims
8 months ago
Meet Gracie Himes, age 20. Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines. On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
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