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Trump is searching for the Supreme Court’s breaking point on birthright citizenship
Last week, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order that purports to strip citizenship from some Americans. This isn’t our first time here: Last year, Trump issued an executive order that attempted to strip citizenship from many Americans born in this country. Months later, in response to a lawsuit brought over Trump’s order, the…
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‘This isn’t a winner’: Trump insiders recoil as far-right takes the ‘bait’ and attacks AOC
Insiders in President Donald Trump’s White House are cringing at the latest conservative attack on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). According to a report from Marc Caputo at Axios, there was a groundswell of sneering aimed at the popular New York lawmaker who admitted she plans to freeze some of her eggs, should she want children…
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Male chef who survived breast cancer sells 1 millionth lobster roll in NY after TV stardom on ‘GMA,’ ‘Kitchen Nightmares’
He’s on a real lobster roll! A Long Island chef who became a local hero for advocating for male breast cancer awareness and rubbing elbows with Gordon Ramsay sold his one millionth lobster roll. Jackson Hall executive chef Mike Landesberg celebrated by shelling out over $2,000 in prizes to the lucky and suspecting winner. Jackson…
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Chrissy Metz gives candid ‘progress report’ after GLP-1 announcement
Chrissy Metz issued a “progress report” on the heels of her GLP-1 announcement. The “This Is Us” alum showed off her bicep while filming an Instagram Story from bed on Monday, flexing for her followers. “Look at him,” the actress, 45, said before shaking her arm. “You know, I love all my blips and blops…
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The Key to Understanding the Traditionalists
History Is Running Backwards In the May issue, David Brooks considered why reactionaries are taking over the world. “History Is Running Backwards” is a provocative article. But I think David Brooks errs in framing traditionalism and modernity as an either/or, when in fact they exist in a both/and context. One can be both a traditionalist…
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A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Computer scientists recently discovered a way to extract the hidden “thinking” that frontier AI models perform as they work through complex problems. The findings provide some evidence—although not conclusive proof—that certain Chinese models may have been trained by “distilling” reasoning information from US models that was supposedly hidden because of how closely some of their…
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Inside modern California classrooms: Nooks, couches and ‘cozy cubes’ for kids to self-regulate
After a recent playground disagreement, a first-grader at Pacific Sky Elementary School in San Diego County came back to class in tears. The youngster asked her teacher whether she could enter a classroom “cozy cube,” a cushioned box big enough for one child to stretch out in some privacy — but with cutouts allowing a…
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‘Astonishing’ Trump order to ignite new political firestorm for GOP: report
President Donald Trump’s call for a sweeping overhaul of the childhood immunization schedule is set to make vaccine policy a flashpoint just three months before the midterm elections. Trump signed an executive order Monday calling for a slimmed-down childhood vaccine schedule and breaking the combined measles-mumps-rubella shot into three separately administered doses, and Axios reported…
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Military spouses aren’t interested in staying silent
Whenever I started to make waves as a passionately defiant young adult, my Costa Rica-born mother would utter a phrase familiar to Latin American women across the diaspora: “Calladita te ves más bonita.” Loosely translated, it means “You look prettier when you’re quiet,” a premise rooted in machismo culture and the notion that opinionated, strong-willed…
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Trump allies panic as president follows eerily similar path to historical gaffe: report
A number of President Donald Trump’s supporters are growing “increasingly aware” that the president is on course to “tank Republicans’ chances in the midterms,” Semafor reported Tuesday, and in a manner eerily similar to a past crisis that sank the reelection bid of former President Jimmy Carter. “Let me refer you to Jimmy Carter,” a…