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Hidden in the lush vegetation of one of the wettest places on earth are all kinds of birds. Colombia is home to about 2,000 species, more than anywhere else on Earth. This remote area was once a dangerous “no-go” zone. It's now drawing birders from around the world. cbsn.ws/3QO0goX

Epstein file documents show Kash Patel and Dan Bongino carefully coordinated "clear and specific guidance" to redact files containing the name of Trump, other former US presidents and a former Secretary of State.

Opposition to the Trump ballroom is a pretty popular opinion. 56% of Americans disapprove of its construction, with only 28% of Americans actually for it. washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Trump: “I think that China has neither the courage nor the will to open the Strait of Hormuz.” ➖️ China: “The Strait of Hormuz was already open before the war. You are the ones who created the war out of nothing and closed the strait to the rest of the world.”

Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of child trafficking 1,586 days ago. None of her clients have been arrested...

Colonial courts have granted an extension of Saif and Thiago’s illegal detention by two days. Lawyers will update us soon with more information. We demand their immediate release. Keep the pressure up. 📷 Yoav Etiel, Walla

Today we celebrate World Press Freedom Day, sponsored by UNESCO. Unfortunately, this right is often violated, sometimes flagrantly, sometimes in hidden ways. Let us remember the many journalists and reporters who are victims of war and violence.

This here is probably the single most important thing for anyone to understand about North Carolina's state government. Our state legislature - the North Carolina General Assembly - writes every single law, every budget, nearly every regulation, and makes the overwhelming majority of personnel appointments in our state. Taxes? The state legislature. Water discharge regulations? The state legislature. Voter registration? The state legislature. School standards? The state legislature. Road construction? The state legislature. Drawing election districts? The state legislature. Other state agencies may carry out and perform the statutes and rules the state legislature sets down, but it's always the state legislature that calls the tune. After all, they write the laws - not the Governor, not the Attorney General, not the courts. Republicans have held complete and unbroken majority (often supermajority) control of the North Carolina state legislature for the last 15 years straight, because they gerrymandered the election maps to ensure they'll never lose. How are they doing?

Trump to Congress, May 1: Hostilities with Iran "have been terminated." Trump to Florida audience, May 1: "You know we’re in a war." @EricaLG nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/…

Trump is quietly trying to gut the US Forest Service and sell off our public lands to corporations. We can’t let him destroy what belongs to all of us. Tell Congress to block this illegal plan today. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-c…

Where are the student protests? The real answer isn’t that students decided to shut up. It’s that universities, and a hostile federal government, have expended massive resources trying to ensure they do. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

$7.25 an hour is about $14,000 a year. No one can survive on that. People can barely survive on double that. We raised the minimum wage in Illinois. It's long overdue everywhere else.

The replies to this person's tweet lack a nuanced understanding of aesthetics. Let me tell you why I don't think this room works. First, the gold decorations make the room look like an ersatz Versailles. Go to Getty Images and type in "Oval Office." Then zoom in on the gold decor. You'll notice that the lines are very blunted and muddied; they lack the sharp lines and fine detailing that you'd expect on something made by an artisan. Hence why some people have suggested these decorations are from Home Depot (true or not, that's the impression). You can see the difference between the first and second photos. The first, of course, is of the Oval Office; the second is the reception room from the Hotel de Cabris in France, which was made during the 18th century under the direction of Louis XVI. Even at this distance, the second image looks much better because it was designed and executed by artisans working within a coherent visual language. You can really see the crisp lines and detailing. Second, the White House was designed by James Hoban, an Irish architect who migrated to the US for economic opportunities (what a great American story!). He originally designed it in the Neoclassical style, drawing on Palladian and Georgian influences. Neoclassicalism was a reaction against the Rococo movement, which reactionaries saw as overly ornate and frivolous. A bit of gold used sparingly and strategically can look fine in a Neoclassical building, but the amount Trump used has so radically encrusted the room that it's now in Rococo territory, making it look like a mismatch of aesthetics. You can see an example of gilded Rococo architecture in the third slide. Although it's not my thing, the effect is totally different because it's coherent. IMO, architecture sets the terms for you can decorate a space. Modernist furniture looks best in modernist buildings, just as Craftsman furniture looks best in Craftsman homes (see fourth slide). You don't have to do period recreations — sometimes mixing two aesthetics, or old and new, can make a space feel more natural — but having a sense of aesthetic history (art, architecture, furniture, fashion) can help you create better aesthetics. The Oval Office offends on at least three levels: the ersatz nature of the decor, the way it grates against Hoban’s Neoclassical vision, and the way it misunderstands the classical-republican symbolism that the White House was meant to project in the first place. As others have noted, this is the kind of decor you'd expect from dictators who rob their own country.

@DreamAmerica_ No Electoral College No District Gerrymandering One Citizen = One Vote

PETE BUTTIGIEG: "What if we selected our President by letting the person who got the most votes take the office, instead of the Electoral College?"

BRASILEIRO TORTURADO SOB CUSTÓDIA DE ISRAEL: RELATOS CONFIRMADOS PELA EMBAIXADA APONTAM ESPANCAMENTO ATÉ A INCONSCIÊNCIA, RISCO DE CEGUEIRA PERMANENTE E MORTE As informações já foram confirmadas pela própria Embaixada do Brasil. O cidadão brasileiro Thiago Ávila está sendo submetido a graves violações de direitos humanos por forças israelenses. Não se trata de relato, de boato ou de versão disputada. Trata-se de informação oficial. Thiago foi espancado de forma brutal, com inúmeros golpes direcionados ao rosto, a ponto de não conseguir sequer abrir os olhos. O olho esquerdo apresenta risco concreto de PERDA DE VISÃO PERMANENTE, evidenciando a intensidade da violência empregada. Há indícios de múltiplas costelas quebradas, compatíveis com agressões reiteradas e de alta intensidade física. Durante a condução forçada, foi ameaçado de ser jogado ao mar pelos soldados, o que por si só já configura tratamento cruel, desumano e degradante, além de indicar risco real à sua vida. Como se não bastasse, houve também ameaças dirigidas à sua família no Brasil, ampliando o quadro de intimidação e violência psicológica. O nível de violência foi tão extremo que ele DESMAIOU DUAS VEZES em decorrência das agressões, o que demonstra não apenas a brutalidade dos atos, mas também o risco concreto à sua integridade física e à sua vida. E mais: soldados israelenses disseram a ele que destruiriam seu corpo a ponto de impedir qualquer participação futura em novas missões humanitárias, o que reforça o caráter deliberado e punitivo das agressões. Isso tem nome. À luz do Direito Internacional, especialmente das normas que vedam a TORTURA e protegem a integridade física de pessoas sob custódia estatal, estamos diante de condutas que podem se enquadrar como tortura e tratamento desumano, práticas absolutamente proibidas em qualquer circunstância. Nenhuma justificativa política, militar ou de segurança autoriza esse tipo de conduta contra um civil, ainda mais um cidadão estrangeiro sob custódia. A situação é gravíssima. Estamos falando de um brasileiro que teve sua integridade física violada, sua vida colocada em risco e sua dignidade atacada enquanto estava sob controle de agentes estatais. Isso exige resposta. Não apenas diplomática, mas também jurídica, internacional e imediata. O que está acontecendo não pode ser normalizado. Não pode ser relativizado. E, sobretudo, não pode ficar impune.

ÚLTIMA HORA: España y Brasil acusan a Israel de "secuestrar" a sus ciudadanos tras la captura de una flotilla en aguas internacionales.

Once in a while, 60 Minutes travels so far off the beaten track that there’s hardly a track at all. That was the case when @AndersonCooper went to the mountains of western Colombia in search of birds you can find nowhere else on Earth. Sunday.

🚨Spain🇪🇸, Ireland🇮🇪, Slovenia🇸🇮, Belgium🇧🇪, Finland🇫🇮, France🇫🇷, and Sweden🇸🇪 will tomorrow submit a formal request to the European Union to terminate the partnership agreement with #Israel.

universities should open their libraries up to the public. im so sick of working from overpriced cafes with bad music