Megadrought fuels debate over whether a flooded canyon should reemerge : Short Wave : NPR
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President Biden on Wednesday announced eight judicial nominees, including Nusrat Choudhury who would be the first Muslim woman to serve as a federal judge.
Choudhury, currently the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, has been tapped to be a U.S. judge in the Eastern District of New York.
Amazon’s Deals with Global Intelligence Agencies
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Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself – Vox
Do they teach children about Martin Luther King and the FBI in school these days?
"We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security," FBI Domestic Intelligence Chief William Sullivan wrote in a memo two days later.
I was watching the crowd at the anti-vaccination protest at the Capitol today from my new office that overlooks the Capitol, and I have to say democracy is quite healthy, even if that means you don’t always get your way
I was watching the crowd at the anti-vaccination protest at the Capitol today from my new office that overlooks the Capitol, and I have to say democracy is quite healthy, even if that means you don’t always get your way.
People are out, speaking up, being seen and being heard. That’s key to DEMOCRACY. 🗝
Shots – Health News : NPR
Data transparency advocates celebrated the release. "This is really huge," says Ryan Panchadsaram, co-founder of the website COVID Exit Strategy, who was consulted by HHS about the dataset. "What you can see in this data is that our hospitals are under so much stress. And when we're thinking about how serious we should be taking this crisis, this open data release is helping provide the data that's needed to help people make the right decisions."