Friday, May 23, 2025

CDC reports drug overdose deaths decline 27% in 2024

With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.

States can take meaningful climate action, even without federal support: Study

The team also found that there was potential for state efforts to impact pollution in neighboring states.

The country Trump seems dead set on imitating

The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”

Cultural values on Indigenous lands help forests thrive at nearly twice the rate of...

The findings challenge a longstanding assumption about conservation: that in order to protect biodiversity, people must be kept out.

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...

New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.

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Elon Musk has the blood of 19 Kentuckians on his hands

DOGE cuts are killing Americans.

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...

New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.

Controversial ‘nonprofit killer’ clause quietly removed from GOP megabill—but advocates warn it could return

A sweeping provision to strip nonprofits of tax-exempt status without due process is no longer in the latest House GOP budget bill, but civil liberties groups say the threat to free speech and advocacy is far from over.

Department of government chaos, revenge, and patronage

And MAGA, in the end, is just a load of DoGCRaP

More than a dozen US officials sold stocks before Trump’s tariffs sent the market...

Ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.

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Biden's approval plummets as key demographic support wavers: staffers voice concern over Gaza policy.
The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”
The team also found that there was potential for state efforts to impact pollution in neighboring states.