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Cornell student Momodou Taal’s lawyers said the demand was “retribution” for his lawsuit against the crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.

The post He Sued Trump Over Free Speech. Then ICE Demanded He Turn Himself In. appeared first on The Intercept.

As Damascus turns its guns on Lebanon and minority communities, Israeli strikes go unanswered and Syrian civilians pay the price.

The post Damascus Targets All but Israel as Border Crisis Deepens appeared first on MintPress News.

Divers find hundreds of normally solitary electric rays snuggled together

The post The Mystery of the Pregnant Rays appeared first on Nautilus.

What mangrove migration means in
the era of climate change

The post March of the Mangroves appeared first on Nautilus.

The simple fact is that Trump isn’t going to “make America great again”. He’s speed running collapse. The most telling bit is his attacks on America universities at the same time as China has taken the lead in eighty percent, or more, of technologies and appears to have the lead in science as well. He’s dismantling the few good things Biden did, like his industrial policy and his appointment of Lina Khan to attack monopolies and oligopolies.

“Images of ‘Enola Gay,’ the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiative to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).” – Newsweek

“Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled ‘DEI.’” – Axios Salt Lake City

As part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on wokeness, we are providing new guidelines for teaching United States history so that classroom curriculums no longer celebrate or emphasize specific groups of people over others. These history lessons have been edited to remove any references to race, gender, and sexual orientation that might fall under the category of DEI.

"I don’t set myself up like the white-boy artists historically did in the United States, where they didn’t feel any sense of responsibility to the community. I don’t set myself up as the sole master of the work of art.”

Otis Tanouye is a ninth-grader at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School in Maryland. He wrote this during his school’s second lockdown in less than a week. Fortunately, no one was hurt during either of the lockdowns.

’Twas the second damn lockdown, when all through the school
Several students were stirring, cuz lockdowns aren’t cool.
Two times in six days, wow, BCC.
Well, go off to “hide.” Yippee.

The kids were curled up by the side walls with care,
In hopes that no shooters would notice them there.
The children were nestled with back pain galore.
They collectively thought, “I’ve played these games before.”

Some kids wore hoodies, some wore a cap,
Some of them decided to just take a nap.
When the lockdown was called, there arose such a clatter,
The students checked Twitter to see what was the matter.

Taking out their AirPods and phones with a flash,
This is more boring than a middle school bash!
Some kids said, “You know what? Hell no,”
And into Bethesda those children did go.

- by Psyche Film

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In the past few days, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) have launched a new campaign, Don’t Buy Apartheid, which calls on all individuals, shops, restaurants, cafés and venues to take two actions in solidarity with Palestinians: boycotting Israeli produce, and boycotting Coca-Cola. Through these two simple steps, we aim to link millions across Britain to […]