How a Network of Nonprofits Enriches Fundraisers While Spending Almost Nothing on Its Stated Causes (www.propublica.org)
Giants legend Willie Mays dies at 93 - Yahoo Sports (sports.yahoo.com)
Mandela effect?
“Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military (theintercept.com)
Sixteen years ago, Riley Livermore enlisted in the Air Force. His path to the military was shaped by his evangelical Christian upbringing and growing up amid the war on terror. His ensuing career as a flight test engineer took him to Israel, where he spent two years doing missile guidance research. And shortly after October 7,...
Dozens of Groups Push FEMA to Recognize Extreme Heat as a ‘Major Disaster’ (www.nytimes.com)
Dozens of environmental, labor and health care groups banded together on Monday to file a petition to push the Federal Emergency Management Agency to declare extreme heat and wildfire smoke as “major disasters,” like floods and tornadoes.The petition is a major push to get the federal government to help states and local...
Queer dolphins, penguins and bonobos: What science shows (www.axios.com)
It’s Pride month, a good time to share this reminder: It’s natural to be queer in the animal world....
Teachers and GPs ‘staggering’ under extra demands caused by poverty in Great Britain (www.theguardian.com)
Hate group fights Pride Month by offering boring anti-Pride merch (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Several injuries reported after suspected ‘chemical agent’ released at Pride event, Baltimore Police say (www.baltimoresun.com)
CIA director says Hamas leader is facing growing pressure from his own commanders to end Gaza war (www.cnn.com)
Judge removed from long-running gang and racketeering case against rapper Young Thug and others (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/young-thug-trial-judge-removed-…
Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86 (apnews.com)
Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86....
Schools receive third — and potentially final — round of federal funding for homeless students (apnews.com)
From the start of the 2023-24 school year to its conclusion, the number of students experiencing homelessness in Kalispell’s public school system jumped from 293 to 365. Assistant Superintendent Sara Cole said the increase reflects a growing trend in her district, one driven primarily by the soaring cost of living in the wake...
A prison union's big spending on Gavin Newsom: Is it an ‘800 pound gorilla’ or a threatened species? (apnews.com)
A year after he took the top job in 2019, the president of one of California’s largest and most powerful unions said in a newsletter that he wanted to be “the 800 pound gorilla” in Sacramento politics....
“Gods in the Building”: How the Texas Senate Buries Sexual Harassment Complaints and Enables Bad Actors (www.texasmonthly.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/texas-senate-sexual-harassment/
Thailand's economy: factory closures due to cheap Chinese imports with job losses jumping by 80% within one year (www.reuters.com)
The manufacturing sector’s woes have left Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, who took power last year, struggling to fulfil his promise of bringing average annual GDP growth to 5% over his four-year term, up from 1.73% in the past decade....
The U.N. Calls Restraint Chairs Torture. Illinois Jails Use Them Every Day. (illinoisanswers.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/the-u-n-calls-restraint-chairs-…
[AP News] IRS collects milestone $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers (apnews.com)
Brutal 1984 gay bashing brings community together 40 years later (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Louisiana 'miracle baby' 'Miracle baby' survives days alone on a roadside (www.bbc.com)
A days-long search for a missing baby boy in Louisiana has ended after a truck driver spotted the one-year-old crawling through the grass alongside a busy highway....
Latvian and Estonian court documents show how the Russian government is recruiting Baltic citizens to vandalize and set fire to targets in the West (theins.press)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/675777...
Congress OKs bill overhauling oversight of troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (apnews.com)
The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny....
Hundreds Say Nebraska Group Tricked Them Into Signing Anti-Abortion Ballot (www.jezebel.com)
Feds poised to sue pharmacy gatekeepers over high drug costs (www.politico.com)
The FTC action would target often high costs by trying to curb rebates it says drug makers pay to steer patients to their brand name products....
Johns Hopkins med school will be free for most after $1 billion donation (www.axios.com)
Starting this fall, most students at Johns Hopkins’ medical school will attend tuition-free thanks to a $1 billion donation from billionaire Mike Bloomberg....
Oregon county seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for extreme heat (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/14335560...
