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Janet H

@jehscribbler.bsky.social
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Still evolving Boomer, cat mom & grandma, addicted to reading, gardening, chocolate, coffee. Retired editor, school counselor.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 05/10/2026
Congratulations to California's newest Geniuses! UC San Diego's Liangfang Zhang Stanford's Song Lin and UCLA's Rodney McMillian! www.npr.org/2026/09/29/n...?
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Meet the 20 scholars and artists who've just won MacArthur Fellowships
A historian who studies wage gaps between races and a saxophonist whose live performances include a chef are among the latest recipients of the philanthropic group's annual, no-strings-attached $800,0...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Over a dozen states have important voter registration deadlines today. Check your registration and make a plan to vote at IWillVote.com. Then ask friends and neighbors to do the same.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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@AshleyTheWriter💙✍️ (advocate) @ashleythewriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.nola.com/news/crime_p... #JusticeForCarlosJosueMarchena-Marchena
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Family of diabetic man who died in Louisiana ICE jail demands answers: ‘He needed support’
The Type 1 diabetic moved to the U.S. five years ago from San Jose, Costa Rica, and obtained a work permit, a driver’s license and was paying taxes, his sister said. “Like all immigrants, he was seeki...
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Janet H @jehscribbler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Janet H @jehscribbler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We contacted Chewy recently because a shipment of our cats’ food was spoiled. It was delivered when we were gone & sat out in the sun on a 90+ day. The cats were not eating it. They were fine with food we got at the store. A very helpful person told me to just discard it & they sent a new case.
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C. Bukowski @thishurt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Crying because Chewy just refunded me $200 for Loki’s veterinary diet food that was delivered the day before he died with their deepest condolences for losing him. They aren’t even making me return it. Going to donate it to a cat who needs it. 🥺
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m a scientist who deals with abstract ideas all day long. Getting an abortion in 1996—after an ultrasound showed that my first pregnancy was almost certainly not going to end happily and might well threaten my life—was the least abstract idea I ever had.
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acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
if you were wondering how he only served 13 months in prison after raping multiple minors, it's because he served zero jail time for raping multiple minors. the only jail time he served was for financial crimes covering up sexually abusing children. he kept his congressional pension up to now
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
happening now- Florida prices starting to rise to $4.19
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
music will save us.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 05/10/2026
Right wing political ads war of the “dangers” of “Shariah Law" and how it'll make us the United States of Islamerica. (Came up with that on my own, you’re welcome). This is all nonsense. Read & share my piece on the Truth About Shariah to counter MAGA propaganda. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-truth-...
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What is “Shariah Law?”
As the right wing media and political ecosystem spread fear and disinformation--he’s a breakdown of the actual facts about Islamic Shariah
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WHO @who.int · 05/10/2026
Did you know? Postpartum haemorrhage, excessive bleeding after childbirth, is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide, claiming nearly 43,000 lives each year. A woman can go from stable to critical in minutes, but science now shows how to detect and stop the bleeding in time. 🔗 bit.ly/4rReMcs
Everybody deserves a safe birth.

Image shows the photograph of a woman with her baby, along with the tagline 'Together for health. Stand with Science.'
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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This weekend, I went to Springfield, Ohio, for Pierre Damas Bel's funeral--and to next-door Vandalia for Trump's same-day rally, where the president took a victory lap on the policies that killed him. I hope you'll give it a read. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-...
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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.
On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 05/10/2026
OPINION: "This is why, yet again, I ask men to consider that y’all’s liberation is bound up in ours. The same things that will free us women and gender minorities of our chains will free you of yours as well," Laura Norton-Cruz writes. buff.ly/8wCRYEx
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Opinion | That Sydney Sweeney Novig Ad: What Harms Women Is Bad for Men, Too
Laura Norton-Cruz writes about Sydney Sweeney’s gambling advertisement for Novig and the harm it represents to both women and men.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A former political prisoner who was tortured for leading protests against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government was arrested and jailed immediately after he was deported there from the US last week. Trump appears to have notified the Sandinista regime that he was coming. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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The U.S. deported a former political prisoner to Nicaragua. He’s now in prison again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today is the day! The deadline to register to vote is October 5 in AZ, AR, FL, GA, IN, KY, MS, MT, OH, TN, & TX. Check out all these resources & get prepared. #VotingIsPunk #VoteEarly
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
October 4, 2026
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October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh my heart is so full reading about this. The US Colored Troops were huge in the story of emancipation and in the human dignity of enslaved Black people. For the first time they had weapons and uniforms, just like white men.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
what an asshole
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 04/10/2026
Leaving Canada is effectively on the ballot in not one but two provinces: Alberta and Quebec. It can seem like Canada is battling for survival on multiple fronts, apparently out of nowhere. But there is more to the story. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love fall so much. I've lived in Vermont my whole life and foliage season still seems like such a completely bonkers and beautiful thing to happen every year. It never gets old. 🍂
Photo of a pile of leaves on vibrant dark green moss. I collected lots of fallen leaves of different colors from different plants and trees and arranged them in an egg-shaped gradient going from green at the top to yellow and then orange and then red to darkest reds at the bottom.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dug into this and her name seems to be Zhao Jing. She’s being held at Adelanto. A habeas lawsuit was filed at 11:05 AM Pacific today. On X, a user said Ms. Zhao had taught her son. As to why ICE arrested her, no idea. Most likely she’s a pending asylum applicant who got stuck in backlogs for years.
ICE detainee locator screenshot

 Search Results: 1
JING ZHAO
Country of Birth : China, Peoples Republic of Status: In ICE Custody
State: CA
Current Detention Facility: ADELANTO ICE
PROCESSING CENTERScreenshot of PACER filing:

Notice of Electronic Filing
The following transaction was entered by Bayburtski, Hohannes on 10/4/2026 at 11:05 AM PDT

Case Name:
Case Number:
Filer:
Document Number: 1
Zhao v. janecha et al
5:26-cv-05854
Jing Zhao
Docket Text:
PETITION for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in Federal Custody by Petitioner Jing Zhao.常國棟GORDON/滅共..
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Her name is Zhao Jing, and my heart broke when I heard her shout "Jing Zhao." Because I saw terror, helplessness, and despair on her face, which shattered me. I never imagined I'd see her in such a way. I still have her contact information; I have her email records. She was once my eldest son's early intervention teacher, with extremely fluent English close to native speaker level, and a senior staff member at that institution—a team-leading Supervisor. She's even from the same hometown as me. For someone in her situation, do you have any advice?郑存柱 @cunzhuzheng.2h
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Recent Progress:
Last night, a friend of this lady reached out to me, asking for my help. Early this morning, I got in touch with Ms. Zhao by phone. After our conversation, I obtained her specific details. That friend had helped top up her phone credit. Since her father doesn't know how to answer calls from the immigration detention center, I also found a kind-hearted friend to go to her residence, visit her elderly father, and promptly check on his health condition.
I immediately drafted a writ of habeas corpus, handed it to the lawyer for review, and have now uploaded it to the federal court for official filing.
I hope she can redain her freedom soon.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026
this is a well-reported piece with an awful lot written between the lines, and one of the things that jumps out at me is just how ill-informed these people are. the trucker, his partner, his mother — they can’t even agree *amongst themselves* on a shared understanding of events
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Until they find, I duuno, 1000 real voters (not DC insiders, pollsters, lobbyist, media types) who want Rahm Emanuel to run for president how about no stories or interviews? The legacy media look like morons slobering over him.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Since 2008 Medicare Improvement Fund is where Congress parks savings to offset cost of later Medicare & other health bills. This not only makes it harder to extend expiring health provisions but also is likely legally noncompliant as $ is to be used for Medicare improvements/provider pay increases
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders.
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How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 04/10/2026
The administration has turned an unfixable fact—Chinese parts in nearly every U.S. voting machine—into a license to contest any election it loses. @juliacurlee.bsky.social explains how the litigators, researchers, and the groups that back election officials could push back.
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Laundering Federal Election Interference in the Midterms
The administration has turned an unfixable fact—Chinese parts in nearly every U.S. voting machine—into a license to contest any election it loses.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026
Four years after Dobbs, evangelical leaders are confronting a Republican party increasingly uninterested in abortion. ICYMI @cheetah.bsky.social:
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An Evangelical Kingmaker Is Lost in the Age of Trump
Four years after Dobbs, evangelical leaders are confronting a Republican party increasingly uninterested in abortion.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 04/10/2026
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026
Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit a Trump donor and Middle Eastern businessmen with ties to Witkoff and Kushner. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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thr🎃ne st👀waway @grubbyone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something to keep in mind when thinking of @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social recently meeting with Kushner
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why does Congress need to act? Bc millions lack access to a single paid day off of work and nearly 73 million workers live in states that block localities from passing paid sick and safe days nationalpartnership.org/report/nearl...
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Nearly 73 Million Workers Live in States That Block Local Communities from Making Progress on Paid Sick Days | National Partnership for Women & Families
Lawmakers in 18 states across the country – the majority of which are in the South – fail to guarantee that workers can earn paid sick days, and at the same time block local governments from setting t...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The House and Senate needs to submit STAND ALONE BILLS. None of this bullshit that sneaks in other bills that they KNOW would never pass if it was a STAND ALONE BILL.
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InezSneks 🙄🙄 @inezsneks2024.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's one of my all-time favorite live awards performances!!!😍😍😍 youtu.be/dWRCooFKk3c?...
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2021 Remaster "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Prince, Tom Petty & More | Rock Hall 2004 Induction
YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Republicans eagerly accept money from their largest donor, who generates and distributes nude fakes. He's welcome at the White House and he's welcome to run ads supporting their campaigns
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Truthout @truthout.org · 03/10/2026
The US Commerce Secretary is bullying California with an audit that could strip the state of control over its own coast.
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Trump’s “Drill, Baby, Drill” Regime Is Now Targeting California’s Coastline
The US Commerce Secretary is bullying California with an audit that could strip the state of control over its own coast.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
The White House’s proposal to penalize nonprofits that help disabled people vote is just part of the Trump administration’s broader attempts to restrict voting access, especially among groups that have historically faced disenfranchisement.
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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The Indiana Citizen @indianacitizen.org · 03/10/2026
Black journalists on TV have had to think about their appearance on air in ways that other journalists do not. In August 2020, broadcast journalist Jalea Brooks knew she needed to have an... indianacitizen.org/compton-comm... #hoosiersky #indianapolitics #media #mediapolitics #contracts #crownact
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Compton Commentary: What do braids, cornrows, and Bantu knots have to do with the news? - THE INDIANA CITIZEN
By Tracey Compton Indianapolis Public Editor September 30, 2026 Black journalists on TV have had to think about their appearance on air in ways that other journalists do not. In August 2020,…
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Latest NYT/Siena polls:
Polls showing Dems ahead in Texas, Alaska, Ohio, tied in Kansas, one down in Iowa
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Hellishchildren @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
April 25, 2026 England Airpark is a former military facility in Louisiana where Pfas levels in the groundwater have been found at at least 41m parts per trillion (ppt) Federal drinking water limits for Pfas compounds range from 4 to 10ppt, meaning the levels are 575,000 times higher than the limit
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ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated site
High concentration of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in groundwater at former military facility in Louisiana
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Snopes @snopes.com · 03/10/2026
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently announced the creation of an Office of Religious Affairs at the Department of Defense. We unpacked what we know: www.snopes.com/news/2026/10...
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Pentagon's new Office of Religious Affairs under Hegseth: What we know
The Secretary of Defense announced the new office during his first "State of the Force" address.
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