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In rural America, public radio saves lives In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?

KYUK is the only public radio station in remote Alaska that regularly broadcasts in the Yugtun language, providing a crucial lifeline to the Indigenous communities in the area.

After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.

Sam Bankman-Fried and the multibillion-dollar drama over FTX’s ruins In exclusive prison interviews, the convicted crypto king is still fighting to control the narrative ahead of a high-stakes appeal.

The last you might have heard about Sam Bankman-Fried was his 25-year prison sentence. Since then, a whole new battle has raged over the bankruptcy of FTX.

“Our money, our lives, our rights, everything has been taken by a system that protected itself and the powerful people managing it.”

...check up on yo strong friends...

Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah brutally abducted in Zurich facing deportation — Swiss Action for Human Rights 25 January 2025 - The journalist, human rights defender and founder of the media platform “Electronic Intifada” was violently and forcibly taken by two individuals in civilian dress, who claimed to be...

Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah brutally abducted in Zurich facing deportation
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The Questions the Death Penalty Cannot Answer “I Am Ready, Warden,” a new short documentary, exposes the unresolved pain on all sides of a Texas execution.

In film: “I Am Ready, Warden” packs more raw emotion and uncomfortable truths into 36 minutes than others do with twice that time. It shows the people affected most by capital punishment in striking close-up, giving voice to their complicated thoughts and views.

As we move into 2025, I was reminded of my beloved Homer, from the Iliad.

“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

#NewYear

I’m sorry, I had to go cackle at my Twitter likes one last time

Guantánamo Convict Sues to Stop U.S. Plan to Send Him to Prison in Iraq A court filing said the prisoner was at risk for abuse and might not be able to get adequate health care if transferred.

NEWS Now: The U.S. has been secretly planning to send a disabled Iraqi prisoner at Guantanamo Bay to serve out his war crimes sentence at a prison in Baghdad. Today, lawyers filed a lawsuit on his behalf in federal court, seeking to stop the transfer on grounds he would be at risk in his homeland.

I need Marvel to give more Domino, less Steve

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

NEW: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover in right-wing militias.

He didn’t tell police or the FBI.

He didn’t tell family or friends.

The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

This is his story, by @josh-kaplan.bsky.social:

www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...