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Francis Byrd

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Corporate Governance expert, lifelong New Yorker, dog lover, member of Riders Alliance and proud dad.

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Op-Ed | It’s time to finally modernize the State Environmental Quality Review Act | amNewYork For years, we have worked within the machinery of city planning, climate policy, and housing policy. We have seen up close how our zoning maps, development

Read @daphnelundi.bsky.social of @urbanoceanlab.bsky.social and @annemariegray.bsky.social this morning:

“Today, our climate crisis calls for us to build a new world of climate infrastructure: clean energy, infill housing in areas that have low flood risk exposure, and clean water resources.”

06.03.2026 18:24 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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He Had a Purple Heart, PTSD and a Rap Sheet. He Had to Leave the U.S. After a long battle with drug addiction, Sae Joon Park felt settled in a new life. But he was deported last year and is now fighting to get back to Hawaii.

Sae Joon Park immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea at 7-years-old and was a U.S. Army veteran with a Purple Heart. He was recently ordered to leave America over a criminal history that he thought he had atoned for and has since returned to South Korea. “I feel pretty out of place here,” he said.

06.03.2026 18:25 👍 362 🔁 112 💬 9 📌 7

records from three additional interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexual assault were "incorrectly coded as duplicative"? oh for sure, definitely passes the smell test

06.03.2026 18:26 👍 871 🔁 196 💬 1 📌 8

"When recruiting ICE agents, I'm also reminded of the George Orwell line: 'If, for example, it would somehow serve our interests to throw sulphuric acid in a child’s face—are you prepared to do that?' Wait, that might've been the bad guy. Who writes this stuff for me?"

06.03.2026 01:11 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

The Dow is now WAY below 50,000. Release all the Epstein files, Pam.

03.03.2026 16:22 👍 16420 🔁 3752 💬 241 📌 94

One of the best talking Bears (and the NFL generally) out there. Someone smart should hire her.

02.03.2026 19:02 👍 954 🔁 91 💬 29 📌 0
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They went to the boss.

03.03.2026 02:44 👍 8790 🔁 1908 💬 297 📌 74
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DOJ #CoverUp

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

#TrumpEpsteinFiles

02.03.2026 23:35 👍 4447 🔁 1488 💬 93 📌 50

Like the contempt of those who support/voted have for those of us did not/never have voted for him.

03.03.2026 17:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Iran Conflict Spikes Gas Prices—Could Hit $3.25 This Week—Here’s The Latest The price of a gallon of gas is expected to steadily increase this week.

The price of a gallon of gas is expected to steadily increase this week.

02.03.2026 15:40 👍 2862 🔁 1158 💬 629 📌 220

8 if you count the invasion of L.A, Portland, Minneapolis -- not bombing in the traditional sense, of course. But nothing is traditional at the moment.

02.03.2026 18:38 👍 4550 🔁 1602 💬 21 📌 79
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You couldn’t make this up.
And if you did, everyone would say it’s too much.

02.03.2026 20:14 👍 10979 🔁 3038 💬 669 📌 193
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day – The Art of the Movie being on sale for $50 means that Marvel are dropping the slipcase format for at least this release.
Previously, adding a slipcase took the artbooks to $100 each, pricing many people out 😬💰

Get more details in the full story below 👇

02.03.2026 21:44 👍 97 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 2
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Jeremy Sochan opens up on new life with Knicks The 22-year-old Knicks forward logged two minutes of garbage time in his reunion with the Spurs

Former Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan is living out of two suitcases in Manhattan. Most of his belongings -- as well as his two dogs -- remain in San Antonio.

"Life moves fast," Sochan said Sunday.

That and more in this Spurs notebook:

www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

02.03.2026 21:23 👍 216 🔁 28 💬 5 📌 2

It’s possible.

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‘Truly spectacular’ drug for sleeping sickness simplifies treatment, raising hopes for eradication European regulators greenlight new one-dose compound that could help African countries get rid of an ancient burden

In today's good news a single dose drug for sleeping sickness that could completely change the elimination game. Dare I hope for eradication!
Acoziborole administered as a single oral dose was ~95% effective across both early and late-stage disease in RCTs.
www.science.org/content/arti...

03.03.2026 16:47 👍 138 🔁 43 💬 5 📌 2

This why niggas dont trust hospitals. He was greedy surgeon that worked for a corrupt hospitals. Double investigations🔎 for everyone!!

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Military Commander Tells Troops Bombing Iran Is ‘Part Of God’s Divine Plan’ One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.

Some U.S. military commanders have reportedly been accused of telling their troops the Iran war is part of a biblical plan to trigger the end times

03.03.2026 16:49 👍 787 🔁 333 💬 94 📌 203

Wilhelmina Crosson (1900 – 1991) was an educator and school administrator known for her innovative teaching methods. One of the first African-American female teachers in Boston, she developed the city's first remedial reading program in 1935, and was an early advocate of #BlackHistory #ed. #WHM

03.03.2026 16:50 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

No, it is not just you. There are millions of us I’m sad to say.

03.03.2026 17:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks for reminding me. Yes, we are F#&ked!

03.03.2026 17:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Holsinger-Visions-of-Progress-catalog-accessible.pdf | Powered by Box

It's Freedom & Liberation Day in Charlottesville, commemorating the day Union soldiers commanded by George Armstrong Custer ended slavery in this region. Many freed people became prominent citizens. Some of their portraits & stories are in our catalog. The pdf is free!👇🏽
at.virginia.edu/vop-catalog

03.03.2026 16:50 👍 36 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1

And who started calling it that first, hmmmm 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

03.03.2026 16:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools
www.propublica.org/article/educ...

03.03.2026 16:51 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

I always found it fascinating that Chuck would pay Lucy to be his therapist.

03.03.2026 16:51 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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DAYS SINCE THE LAST BLACK-LED ONGOING AT DC RELEASED.

WHO MADE THIS?! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
dcsowhite.com

03.03.2026 16:51 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0

This why they replaced Obama/Biden Commanders (professional military) with Christian Nationalists.

03.03.2026 16:58 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Damn!

03.03.2026 16:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

03.03.2026 12:16 👍 6986 🔁 3160 💬 71 📌 48
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Israel Advances in Lebanon and Seize More Land, as Hezbollah Fight Escalates The Israeli military said troops advanced to protect border towns from Hezbollah attacks, spurring fears that the government is weighing a wider ground war.

Israel said on Tuesday that its military had seized areas of southern Lebanon as part of its escalating conflict with Hezbollah, as the Iran-backed armed group fired small volleys of drones at the country in a second day of fighting.

03.03.2026 14:40 👍 25 🔁 13 💬 11 📌 4