Susan Sternberg
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🏈 Between all the bowl games, learn some little-known history. Less than 5 months after the 2nd atomic bomb over Nagasaki, the US military staged a football game on a the field where 90k had perished. Stream on the PBS app. https://t.co/uetUx5Z2vm
#atomicbowl #WWII #bowlgame
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Breaking news: The U.S. Coast Guard deleted language from its new workplace harassment policy that had downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” reversing course after objections from Congress.
washingtonpost.com
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem’s announcement follows reports by The Washington Post detailing plans to downgrade the definition of such symbols to “potentially divisive.”
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Thanks to Trump’s reckless tariffs, families are paying more this holiday season. The cost of everything from toys to tool boxes has skyrocketed, meaning less under the tree for too many working families.
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NEW: The U.S. Coast Guard will remove language from its new workplace harassment policy that downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said Thursday, an abrupt turnaround after
washingtonpost.com
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem’s announcement follows reports by The Washington Post detailing plans to downgrade the definition of such symbols to “potentially divisive.”
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Safest year on the subway since 2009, when Bloomberg was mayor. free link:
nytimes.com
Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state would spend another $77 million on police patrols in the subway, acknowledging that felony assaults remain stubbornly high.
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Morning Spew for Night Owls—The Trump administration is stepping up its battle against NYC's immigrants—stopping asylum cases and filing motions to send them to other countries across the world. One Latin American woman was told she'd be sent to Uganda. https://t.co/F30fPV1pNq
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WHO displaced them and is still blocking shelter aid??
Displaced Palestinians were heavily rained on as they faced severe weather in Gaza. People wade through flood waters in Gaza City. https://t.co/ykoGZGdRPI
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TPM was on the scene as a young man was detained and then reunited with his family by a "habeas machine" put together by activists, attorneys, and @RepDanGoldman
https://t.co/QCZ98x09B2
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The agents were on the hunt, but as they staked out the...
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I talked this week with @TUCapCon's @DanClarkReports about the deluge of bills that the governor acts on at the end of the year and unpacked some of the items on her desk right now that we're interested in. https://t.co/l51qdEAlfT
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It's the season of giving: Giving somewhat controversial bills to the governor for her signature, veto, or the promise of future amendments.
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Federal judge orders ICE to allow Congress members to visit migrant hold rooms in NY https://t.co/oPLH4LIckj
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Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly been turned away when seeking to conduct oversight visits.
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More people should know about Project Gutenberg. It makes reading classics so accessible to everyone.
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New: For decades, the FDA made it impossible to know which factory your prescription drugs were manufactured in. ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.
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For decades, the FDA made it nearly impossible to know which factories were manufacturing your generic medications. ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.
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New: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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*New* Lincoln Restler will introduce a bill today to create the Department of Community Safety, a key part of Zohran Mamdani’s agenda. It has 26 co-sponsors, a majority of the current Council:
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The proposed Department of Community Safety would send mental health teams to respond to 911 calls, rather than the police, according to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plans.
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During its last full meeting of the year, the City Council will pass a bill that delivery app workers say will improve safety on the streets because they will no longer fear losing access to their livelihoods if they don't deliver food fast enough.
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At its final full meeting, the Council is poised to deliver protections to delivery workers.
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Today @NYCCouncil votes on landmark legislation to reform street vending in NYC, w/ broad support for @CMPiSanchez Intro 431B from immigrant rights, public space, supermarkets & street vendors Time to make history @NYCCouncil: pass Street Vendor Reform!
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The legislation is part of a package of City Council bills aimed at helping the city’s thousands of vendors get on the right side of the law.
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Hospital Failed to Tell Patient He Was Terminally Ill: William Chapman was seen by a consultant who noted in a letter to his GP that Chapman had pulmonary fibrosis. But nobody told Chapman about this. He found out only much later. Much like this famous…
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More than 1,000 charities submitted federal tax filings without language reflecting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in mission statements from their earlier filings. Others went as far as to change their names: https://t.co/GNrXU6WZv5
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