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From the Streets of LA to the National Stage: The Left Must Win the Cultural War
Truthout
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June 20, 2025
Part of the Series Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. On June 6, resistance ignited in the streets of Los Angeles to confront...
Flesh-Eating ‘Screwworm’ Parasites Are Headed to the U.S.
Scientific American
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June 17, 2025
Flesh-Eating ‘Screwworm’ Parasites Are Headed to the U.S. Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped containment By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Screwworm...
Americans joyfully and peacefully affirm: No Kings here
The Times Republican - Iowa
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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO — “No Kings” demonstrators rally in Kansas City, Missouri. What a hopeful sight! My social media on June 14 and 15 was filled with people sharing pictures from “No Kings” gatherings. Aerial photos of massive crowds in big cities....
From the Streets of LA to the National Stage: The Left Must Win the Cultural War
Truthout
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June 20, 2025
Part of the Series Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. On June 6, resistance ignited in the streets of Los Angeles to confront the...
Donald Trump Claims He Stopped War, Shashi Tharoor Offers Him a Map, Facts, and a Very Passive-Aggressive Napkin
The Peak View Stories
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June 19, 2025
“International diplomacy is just stand-up comedy where the jokes are nuclear.” — Someone who clearly saw this coming. In a bizarre turn of global events that feels more Pixar than Parliament, Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has officially...
Rep. Tony Gonzales, USDA Secretary Rollins Announce Plan to Stop Screwworms, Protect Texas Livestock
Texas Insider
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June 19, 2025
“Today’s policy changes represent a huge step forward to eradicating the screwworm and protecting American livestock, especially the opening of a U.S.-based eradication facility in South Texas." Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (EDINBURG,...
Officials step up plans to combat flesh-eating screwworm
The Weather Network
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June 19, 2025
Female screwworm flies lay their eggs in open wounds, scrapes, or insect bites on people and animals. When the eggs hatch, the larvae burrow into the flesh, feeding on living tissue and potentially causing serious wounds, infections, and even...
America set to open Texas ‘fly factory’ in bid to breed millions of insects
The Independent
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June 19, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Saving the seas
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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June 19, 2025
Features Newsday 3 Hrs Ago School of hammerhead sharks, Mikimoto, Japan. Photo courtesy Ocean Image Bank - Dr Anjani Ganase considers recent scientific studies on sea urchins, coral reefs and management targets; and arrives at the conclusion...
Prince Albert wanted a secret love nest within six months of his wedding
East Bay Times - California
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June 18, 2025
The extravagant, dissolute life Prince Albert II of Monaco continues to bolster arguments of those who think that hereditary monarchies should not be allowed to exist in the 21st century. New revelations emerged this week in the French and British...
Latin American Colonial Past Lives on in European Living‑Room Plants
LatinAmerican Post
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June 19, 2025
The cactus on your sill and the begonia spilling over a macramé hanger look innocent enough, yet each leaf carries a colonial passport—evidence of centuries-old journeys that pulled Latin American plants and the people who moved them into foreign...
Texas fly factory plans a fight against flesh-eating parasite
KTBB - Texas
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June 19, 2025
Posted/updated on: June 19, 2025 at 10:12 am WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) – The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year, announcing its intent Wednesday to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border...
The U.S. plans to open a fly factory in Texas as part of its fight against a flesh-eating parasite
Spectrum News Austin
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June 19, 2025
The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year, announcing its intent Wednesday to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as part of an effort to keep a flesh-eating parasite from...
'A nasty parasite': State, federal agricultural leaders prepare plans to combat New World screwworm
Longview News-Journal - Texas
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State and federal agricultural leaders are making plans to combat a potentially devastating parasitic fly that they expect will make its way into Texas, potentially affecting livestock and pets. The New World screwworm, which has been eradicated...
ICE raid sends shockwaves across racing, 'puts horses at risk'
USA Today - Virginia
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Like so many farms, meat-packing plants and other industries that rely heavily on immigrant labor, horse racing is full of people who supported President Trump’s campaign in 2024 but did not believe he would target their businesses with the mass...
Ag secretary announces 'bold' plan to stop New World screwworm from entering US
NewsNation Now - Illinois
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June 19, 2025
EDINBURG, Texas (Border Report) — Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Wednesday announced what she called a “bold” new a plan to stop the New World screwworm from crossing the border into the U.S. from Mexico. Flanked by a bipartisan group...
Israel’s embassy denies genocide claims
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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June 18, 2025
News Jada Loutoo An Hour Ago Ambassador Itai Bardov. - Photo courtesy Embassy of Israel (Panama) ISRAEL’s embassy for Barbados, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Caricom is challenging claims that Israel is engaging in genocide in...
U.S. plans to combat "man-eater" screwworms with a facility of flies
CBS News
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The U.S. government on Wednesday released a five-prong policy initiative to stop the spread of New World screwworms in live cattle and other animal imports, including its plan to build an $8.5 million insect dispersal facility in Texas....
Rep. Gonzales, USDA announce plan to stop screwworms
Big Bend Sentinel - Texas
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June 18, 2025
From U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales EDINBURG, Texas — Today, Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins launched an $8.5 million sterile New World screwworm (NWS) fly dispersal facility in South Texas and announced...
Texas leaders prepare to launch “fly dispersal” facility in South TX
The Devine News - Texas
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June 18, 2025
“The United States has defeated NWS before and we will do it again,” said USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins during the big announcement this past Wednesday, June 18. Congressman Tony Gonzales and Rollins laid out the plan to launch an $8.5 million...