The unconstitutional US war against the people of Iran on behalf of Israel has not only killed at least 3,636 people, but has become an environmental disaster in the Middle East, as well as an economic catastrophe for the West. The unlawful aggression has produced emissions equivalent to a year of Iceland's carbon output-- more than 5m tons of CO2 generated in just the first two weeks of the war-- and the IMF warns that a recession will soon engulf Europe if US and Israeli hostilities against Iran continues.
The War Against Iran is Costing the Israeli Taxpayer Far Less than the American Taxpayer
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullet is considering reducing Customs and Border Protection (CBP) staffing at major airports that serve sanctuary jurisdictions. Since international travelers and cargo cannot be easily routed elsewhere, the disruption would cause chaos in major US airports and inflict significant economic damage beyond the cities Mullet is seeking to pressure.
Official Portrait of Secretary Markwayne Mullet at DHS HQ
The House passed a bill to force public school teachers to out transgender students to their parents and eight Democrats voted for it: Reps. Henry Cuellar (TX), Donald Davis (NC), Cleo Fields (LA.), Laura Gillen (NY), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), Marcy Kaptur (OH), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA.) and Eugene Vindman (VA) all voted for this bill. Three of those Democrats -- Gillen, Gluesenkamp Perez, and Vindman -- are members of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which advocates for LGBTQ+ rights.
Eight Democrats Inexplicably Voted Against LGBTQ+ Rights for Teens
During the first fiscal year after New Britain started a program allowing certain employees to use city-issued credit cards to buy goods and services, a total of about $7,500 was charged to then-Mayor Erin Stewart's card, according to expense reports. Flash forward to her final full fiscal year in office, and about $40,000 was charged to her card, according to the expense reports released through a Freedom of Information Act request.
NOAA's seasonal outlook gives a 55% chance of a below average season for the Atlantic. The agency forecasts 8 to 14 named storms, with 3 to 6 likely to become hurricanes.
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin on Thursday released the party's autopsy report on the 2024 election after facing intense pressure to do so.
More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That's roughly 90 percent of all cases " a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump's immigration agenda. Read more
Eighteen Americans exposed to hantavirus are quarantining in Nebraska. An American medical missionary who tested positive for Ebola as part of an ongoing outbreak of over 600 suspected cases in Central Africa was flown to Germany for treatment. And some Americans don't trust what they're hearing about either virus.
You probably wouldn't say it to its face, but the famously fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex has long been the butt of tiny arm jokes. But new research could explain their hilarious hands, though it offers no guarantee it will stifle the giggles.
You may have seen people on TikTok or Instagram talk about a sleep hack called "sun gating." It's a simple concept:
Go outside soon after you wake up and let the morning sunlight hit your eyes, without looking directly at the sun.
While the name may be new, the science behind it isn't. Health experts have studied how morning sunlight exposure affects your body for years.
It turns out that getting bright, natural light early in the day can help reset your internal clock (called your circadian rhythm) which plays an important role in how well you sleep and how you feel during the day.
AS AN EBOLA outbreak rages in central and East Africa, public health workers say that the response has been stymied by the Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid and global health organizations. "We are no longer able to get some supplies," Amadou Bocoum, Democratic Republic of Congo country director for the anti-poverty nonprofit CARE, tells WIRED. "Because of that, we are not able to react immediately." WIRED spoke to more than half a dozen global health experts who described how the Trump administration's move to shutter the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), amid other funding cuts, has created a strained, increasingly fragmented disease prevention and response system in the lead up to this Ebola outbreak, one in which a severely reduced workforce already struggles with burnout.
Research reveals that white people appear to support social safety net programs unless they perceive those programs as also helping nonwhites ... "This effect only appears when people compare their political standing directly to that of racial minorities ...
... in many developed nations, high levels of income inequality usually lead to increased public demand for these programs ...
the U.S. is different in this regard ... University of Delaware scientists Sumeyye Mine Iltekin Gocer and Joanne M. Miller learned ... that hostility to safety net programs appears to be ...
primarily with White people " even those in poverty " because they fear the programs give nonwhites a boost.
Take Trump's $1.8 billion shakedown of the IRS. This will provide compensation payments to Trump allies who say that the Biden administration unfairly weaponized the Justice Department against them. Who these individuals actually are, however, is left unclear. Will Jan. 6 rioters receive payments? Then there's the insider-trading epidemic and Trump's pattern of buying stocks in companies that subsequently benefit from his own policy decisions.
Federal inflation data confirms what you may have been feeling already: Groceries are getting more expensive.
3,700 Trades, Zero Accountability
A Republican senator who has been an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump's war on Iran is begging donors for gas money as he faces a tough re-election campaign in November's midterms. Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska has repeatedly voted to allow Trump to continue attacking Iran without congressional approval, claiming Tehran has "been at war with us for almost half a century," Alaska Public Media reported in March. In a new fundraising email with the subject, "Alaska needs you!!," Sullivan told his supporters, "Your donation will instantly go to the funds to: Recruit volunteers; Run digital ads; Invest in integral mailpieces to keep Alaska voters up to date; Pay for gas as we visit isolated rural areas of Alaska."
