Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, long-term study shows www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

“When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing.”

A reminder that a blockade is an act of war, according to international war. Once again, Congress is completely abdicating its role.

Community colleges could lose more than $800 million for education and training under Trump’s proposed 2027 budget.

“The more AI commodifies what used to be considered ‘non-routine’ cognitive tasks, like crunching numbers and generating text, the more the human value proposition will necessarily shift toward capabilities that no machine can (yet) reliably replicate”

“experts expressed concern over how the Trump administration could use the data, with fears including potential political retaliation or targeting of workers who sought certain medical care, such as abortion or transgender care.“

Why Latinos Join ICE www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“Liam's (the 5-year old taken by ICE) mother, Erika Ramos, said he's been exhibiting signs of psychological trauma, including hypervigilance and isolation.”

The war’s damage to energy infrastructure and closure of a key shipping lane could mean lasting price spikes for everything from housing to food even long after the fighting ends.

“Conservative parents’ advocacy groups have been experimenting with using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries.”

Well, how else do you expect us to pay for Trump’s Big Beautiful War Trump Again Proposes Major Education Cuts in New Budget Proposal

It’s amazing they were able to stop at 37 The 37 most stupid things Donald Trump has ever said www.indy100.com/politics/tru...

Many of us have said the same exact thing for over 10 years. 'What the hell did he just say?' GOP Iran worries build after Trump speech. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

This administration is just one ongoing grift. “Hegseth’s broker accused of seeking to invest millions in defense contractors before Iran war”

All of the ways prices will rise due to Trump & Bibi’s war on Iran: - Fuel shortages and freight surcharges - Chemicals, fertilizer, and packaging - Factory slowdowns abroad - Air cargo and delivery delays www.fastcompany.com/91516966/how...

The MAHA/MAGA alliance was always destined to hit a crossroads. Thats due mostly to a contradiction within MAHA itself. You can’t both want the government out of personal health decisions while also wanting it to regulate what you consider to be harmful.

The source makes me a bit dubious, but given Trump’s sociopathic narcissism, it’s still believable Trump considers renaming Strait of Hormuz after either America or himself -- once he evicts Iran

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish

“While the gap has narrowed in recent years, the unemployment rate for recent college graduates remains lower than for all young workers. Young people with college degrees remain more likely to be employed and to have higher paying jobs.”

“Economic research firm Pantheon Macroeconomics predicted this week that falling stock prices could erase $1.5 trillion in household wealth in the first quarter of 2026, the worst decline since the depths of the 2022 inflation-driven bear market.”

An American-operated Patriot air defense battery likely fired the interceptor missile involved in a pre-dawn explosion that injured dozens of civilians and tore through homes in U.S.-ally Bahrain 10 days into the war on Iran www.reuters.com/investigatio...

He’s not wrong. We’d have way more travelers beaten for having a bottle of water in their bags. “president says ICE agents at airports would ‘do security like no one has ever seen before’”

“The right to protest is supposed to be fundamentally American. It’s among the rights that when I joined the military, I thought I was joining to protect. You can’t do it violently. You can’t do it in a way that harms other people, but you have a right to stand up for what you believe in.”

A regular reminder that Republicans only pretend to care about the national debt when Democrats are in office. US national debt surges past $39 trillion just weeks into war in Iran

ICE detains DACA recipient on way to visit premature baby in NICU

I can’t think of a more fitting way to honor our sesquicentennial “‘The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,’” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report.”

It’s refreshing to see world leaders actually stand up to Trump.

“Swaths of the public in Canada, Germany, France and the U.K. have soured on the U.S., driven by President Donald Trump’s foreign policy decisions”

Monsters “The Trump administration has detained more than 900 children — including a boy with severe autism — for longer than allowed”

Trump making history again: “The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has triggered the largest supply disruption in global oil market history”

There’s something fundamentally broken with a society that won’t spend 11 billion to provide its own people with healthcare, food, shelter, etc, but will cavalierly spend it on destruction.

“More people have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since October than died in the whole prior fiscal year. Former agency officials and immigration advocates have warned that detaining more people — coupled with reduced oversight — will increase the likelihood of more fatalities.”

Zelensky should make Vance say “thank you” first before helping out.

“The Food and Drug Administration does not have sufficient evidence to back the use of the generic drug leucovorin for treating children with autism”

So, if the immigrants aren’t the reason they don’t have a job, who will Conservatives blame instead? It won’t be Trump or the CEO’s.

"The economy is struggling. Job growth has stalled, and unemployment is increasing, growth is running below potential and wage gains are slowing. rising oil and gas prices tied to Middle East turmoil increase the risk of job losses, and that $100 oil could push gasoline to $4 a gallon”

I was told Trump would lower the price of oil. What else did he lie about?

“I gave Trump my Nobel Peace Prize, and all I got was this t-shirt”

These jerks get mad about what we wear to the airport, but somehow this is ok?

“The merger would give the Ellisons control of a multifarious, multicorporate entity essentially unprecedented in U.S. history.”

DOJ admits 47,635 Epstein files — including Trump allegations — were removed www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“He forced the largest and purportedly most powerful law firms in the country to demean themselves and bow before him. They proved to be such cowards that they surrendered when the president didn’t even have the law on his side.”

The Justice Department under the current administration is going to force a revamp of the “you can indict a ham sandwich” axiom.

We cut USAID, which saved countless lives across the globe, but we can allot another $50 billion to actively kill people. Sounds very Pro-Life. www.politico.com/live-updates...

According to Pam Bondi, this means it’s ok now to ask about the Epstein Files.

“We are living in a moment when it’s not unreasonable to worry about masked federal agents barging into your dorm, or shooting you in the street, or sending you to a foreign torture prison, or arresting you as retribution for an op-ed you once wrote in a student newspaper, or for no reason at all.”

Tonight is the State of the Union. We know the first year of the Trump regime been defined by lawlessness, violence, and a craven desire for ever more money and power. @theringer.com.web.brid.gy looks at its impact — including here in DC.

“A new report finds nearly half of U.S. schools are located within a mile of environmentally hazardous sites. Native American, Black and Latino children are 124%, 86% and 43%, respectively, more likely than white kids to attend these schools”

This really sums it up.

So Tom Kean's big solution to the detention camp in Roxbury is to allow for our town to apply for a grant to be reimbursed for associated costs? His constituents overwhelmingly oppose this facility. But what matters to him is appealing to the core MAGA's and not ticking off Trump.