Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
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NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections www.mainepublic.org/environment-...
"That's the way it is," says the five-time draft dodger to our military families who fear their loved one in uniform could be next.
What a disgrace.
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The pro German soccer team Werder Bremen have canceled a planned spring tour to Minnesota and Detroit, citing the controversial immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
A large Pride flag was quietly removed from New York City’s Stonewall National Monument on February 9 after a directive from the Trump administration, marking an alarming continuation of the federal government’s attacks on LGBTQ+ people.
President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was finally prepared to drop his freeze on billions of dollars in funding for a major New York infrastructure project.
But there was a condition. https://cnn.it/4qDJXYd
Among the 300 layoffs was reporter Caroline O’Donovan, who covers tech companies and corporate accountability with a focus on Amazon.
The once prestigious newspaper is now fully at the mercy of billionaire owner (and Amazon founder) Jeff Bezos. trib.al/rlWOHyn
An "investigation" that wouldn't exist except for Trump. C'mon NYT
Bon Iver says he is wearing a whistle at the Grammys
to honour the peaceful observers in Minneapolis
I can't get over the fact that the "don't tread on me" crowd is now like "well umm he had a gun and looked at some feds with the wrong attitude and didn't run away so OFC they shot him 14 times, he's so stupid for that."
Cognitive Dissonance at its finest.
(The Guardian) - Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter on Monday suggested he supports fans boycotting World Cup matches in the United States this year due to security concerns.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
MULTIPLE videos don't show Pretti with a gun in his hand. Stop hedging and watering down your reporting.
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.
Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.
AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
In a remarkable court filing, DOJ also revealed that DOGE employees traded Social Security data on an unapproved third party server — Cloudflare — and may have sent private SSA info to a top DOGE adviser. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
According to the White House, two international groups working on cultural heritage preservation and arts policy are “contrary to the interests of the United States” and “waste taxpayer dollars.”
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I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
Media folks, stop, we don't need to use DJT's narcissistic spin on Monroe Doctrine.
STOP ICE TERROR! RALLY IN FOLEY SQ TELL KRISTI NOEM SHE SNOT WELCOME HERE! THURS. JAN 8,9AM
There’s another emergency rally in NYC this morning—9am Foley Square.
Kristi Noem is going to NYC today to hold a press conference. New Yorkers are showing up in mass to tell her to get the f*ck out.
Join @handsoffnyc.bsky.social in the streets. It’s time to get loud and stay loud.
Nothing about this quote about a “ballroom” suggests “peaceful transfer of power.”
Murphy: "We need to understand the choice we've made in this nation to subject our kids to daily exposure to violence is not just about what happens inside schools. For many kids in our violent urban neighborhoods, it's about trauma that's breaking their brains & causing them to be unable to learn"
There's no rule of journalism that says you have to show a president telling lie after lie – uncorrected – many times a day. That's a decision that corporate media are making for purposes other than delivering the truth to the public.
