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Avian bird flu surges in New York urban wildlife, increasing disease concerns https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/avian-bird-flu-surges-in-new-york-urban-wildlife-increasing-disease-concerns/

Avian bird flu surges in New York urban wildlife, increasing disease concerns
NEW YORK — Catherine Quayle has been caring for sick and injured wild animals in New York City for the past 12 years, first as a volunteer at the Wild Bird Fund, the city’s only wildlife rehabilitation center, and now as that NGO’s communications director and a licensed rehabber. Despite all her experience, she is […]

Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry found Israel's Unit 8200 violated its ToS (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

The California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring,
spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that long dampened turnout among Latinos
and kept them out of city government.
https://boltsmag.org/california-immigrant-organiz…

How Immigrant Organizing Flipped Nixon’s Hometown - Bolts
The California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring, spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that long dampened turnout among Latinos and kept them out of city government.

Replace "tax" with "revolution insurance" whenever you're reading about taxes in the US, and it clarifies the stakes much better.
For example:
1) "'...the wealthiest folks...they're paying more for revolution insurance than the poorest folks. But are they paying as much in revolution insurance as they could pay to help run the country the way that we run it? And the answer to that is probably not,' said Anthony Infanti, a law professor a…

Exclusive: Russia supplies Iran with cyber support, spy imagery to hone attacks, Ukraine says
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-supplies-iran-with-cyber-support-spy-imagery-hone-attacks-ukraine-says-2026-…

Cards QB Beck: Arm is 'strongest it's ever been' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48707485/carson-beck-ready-move-arm-injury-focus-cardinals

A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a series of Donald Trump’s policies that he ruled were rooted in
“anti-immigrant sentiments”
and ordered the administration to resume processing of asylum grants and immigration benefit applications of people from 39 targeted countries.
Last November, US Citizenship and Immigration Services indefinitely suspended asylum adjudications and froze immigration applications for people affected by a travel ban implemented after…

Judge Strikes Down Trump 'Anti-Immigrant' Policies, Orders Restart of Asylum Processing | Common Dreams
“This ruling reaffirms a basic principle: The federal government cannot shut down lawful immigration pathways or discriminate against people based on where they come from,” said one advocate.

The Trump administration moved to further limit legal immigration Thursday
with a new proposal that would place more restrictions on who can work legallyin the United States and for how long.
In a yet unpublished Federal Register filing, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it was looking to tighten rules around work authorizations,
known as EADs,
-- particularly for those with humanitarian parole and non-DACAdeferred status,
as well as those facing po…

US Visa Update: Nearly 1M Migrants Could Face New Work Permit Restrictions
The Trump administration said it was cutting the incentives for illegal immigration and giving Americans greater job security.

The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of
$1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year,
the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II.
The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion,
more than the combined budgets of the next nine highest-spending countries.
The budget proposal also includes deep cuts to social programs.
The Trump administrati…

“A Moral Obscenity”: White House Demands $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget, Largest Increase Since WWII
The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II. The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion, more than the combined budgets of the next nine highest-spending countries. The Trump administration’s budget request includes funding for F-35 stealth fighter jets, new warships and President Trump�…

In a rare public criticism of a fellow member of the Supreme Court,
Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh
for his justification of racial profiling
in immigration-based stops of U.S. citizens.
“I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops,”
Sotomayor said at a University of Kansas School of Law event on Tuesday.
She was referring to the case of
"Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo",
in w…

Sonia Sotomayor Makes Rare But Damning Critique Of A Fellow Supreme Court Justice
The justice had rare public criticism for her colleague and his justification of racial profiling in immigration-based stops of U.S. citizens.