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Chris Fowler: "A CENTURY OF FUTILITY IS FORGOTTEN! THE INDIANA HOOSIERS ARE THE KINGS OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL!" 🏈🎙️🏆 #CFP #NationalChampionship

The full moon appears at the horizon, New Orleans

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.

This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.

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New Orleans between I-10 and lake, view form Irish Bayou

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

Five ways to effectively use animation in data visualization Animation can be a distraction in data visualization. Or, when applied effectively, it can enhance user engagement, reveal trends, and help viewers track patterns across metrics. Here are five ways to...

Great article on animation for #dataviz by @eagereyes.org and @allisonhorst.bsky.social from @observablehq.com 👏🏻

observablehq.com/blog/effecti...

NYT headline about Trump pausing PEPFAR disbursements

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means.

A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

Dorothy Parker welcomed anytime

New barriers coming to Bourbon Street not designed to stop truck attacks like on New Year's Day The rating of the new system “is exponentially, far less than what they currently have,” an owner of a bollard manufacturing company said. Here's more.

The rating of the new system “is exponentially, far less than what they currently have,” an owner of a bollard manufacturing company said. Here's more.

The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced. The heat maps show number of cases per 100,000 people.

Polio cases in US states, before and after introduction of the polio vaccine
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