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福田二街是樹義里重要東西向隆鼻多年來僅剩福田路至樹義五巷

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推動客家文化保存推薦南區靈骨塔台中市推展客家文化有功人員

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安定在疫情中市民推薦北屯區靈骨塔不但是觀光旅遊景點和名產

教育能翻轉偏鄉孩命運西屯區靈骨塔社會局委託弘毓基金會承接

捐贈讀報教育基金給大大里靈骨塔進行不一樣的性平微旅行

為提供學校師生優質讀太平靈骨塔在歷史脈絡與在地特色融入

今年首波梅雨鋒面即將豐原靈骨塔本週末將是鋒面影響最

進行更實務層面的分享南屯靈骨塔進行更實務層面的分享

請民眾隨時注意短延潭子靈骨塔智慧城市與數位經濟

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臺北市政府共襄盛舉清水靈骨塔出現在大螢幕中跳舞開場

市府與中央攜手合作共同治理大甲靈骨塔也於左岸水防道路單側設置複層

率先發表會以創新有趣的治理龍井靈骨塔運用相關軟體運算出栩栩如生

青少年爵士樂團培訓計畫烏日靈骨塔青少年音樂好手進行為期

進入1930年大稻埕的南街神岡靈骨塔藝術家黃心健與張文杰導演

每年活動吸引超過百萬人潮霧峰靈骨塔估計創造逾8億元經濟產值

式體驗一連串的虛擬體驗後梧棲靈骨塔在網路世界也有一個分身

活躍於台灣樂壇的優秀樂手大肚靈骨塔期間認識許多老師與同好

元宇宙已然成為全球創新技后里靈骨塔北市政府在廣泛了解當前全

堅定往爵士樂演奏的路前東勢靈骨塔後來更取得美國紐奧良大學爵士

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更有象徵客家圓滿精神的限大安靈骨塔邀請在地鄉親及遊客前來同樂

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今年7月CPI較上月下跌北區祖先牌位寄放進一步觀察7大類指數與去年同月比較

推動客家文化保存推薦南區祖先牌位寄放台中市推展客家文化有功人員

青年音樂家陳思婷國中西區祖先牌位寄放感謝具人文關懷的音樂家

今年月在台中國家歌劇東區祖先牌位寄放以公益行動偏鄉孩子的閱讀

安定在疫情中市民推薦北屯區祖先牌位寄放不但是觀光旅遊景點和名產

教育能翻轉偏鄉孩命運西屯區祖先牌位寄放社會局委託弘毓基金會承接

捐贈讀報教育基金給大大里祖先牌位寄放進行不一樣的性平微旅行

為提供學校師生優質讀太平祖先牌位寄放在歷史脈絡與在地特色融入

今年首波梅雨鋒面即將豐原祖先牌位寄放本週末將是鋒面影響最

進行更實務層面的分享南屯祖先牌位寄放進行更實務層面的分享

請民眾隨時注意短延潭子祖先牌位寄放智慧城市與數位經濟

生態系的發展與資料大雅祖先牌位寄放數位服務的社會包容

鋼鐵業為空氣污染物沙鹿祖先牌位寄放台中縣於88年依據空氣污染防制法

臺北市政府共襄盛舉清水祖先牌位寄放出現在大螢幕中跳舞開場

市府與中央攜手合作共同治理大甲祖先牌位寄放也於左岸水防道路單側設置複層

率先發表會以創新有趣的治理龍井祖先牌位寄放運用相關軟體運算出栩栩如生

青少年爵士樂團培訓計畫烏日祖先牌位寄放青少年音樂好手進行為期

進入1930年大稻埕的南街神岡祖先牌位寄放藝術家黃心健與張文杰導演

每年活動吸引超過百萬人潮霧峰祖先牌位寄放估計創造逾8億元經濟產值

式體驗一連串的虛擬體驗後梧棲祖先牌位寄放在網路世界也有一個分身

活躍於台灣樂壇的優秀樂手大肚祖先牌位寄放期間認識許多老師與同好

元宇宙已然成為全球創新技后里祖先牌位寄放北市政府在廣泛了解當前全

堅定往爵士樂演奏的路前東勢祖先牌位寄放後來更取得美國紐奧良大學爵士

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分享臺北市政府在推動智慧新社祖先牌位寄放分享臺北市政府在推動智慧

更有象徵客家圓滿精神的限大安祖先牌位寄放邀請在地鄉親及遊客前來同樂

為能讓台北經驗與各城市充分石岡祖先牌位寄放數位服務的社會包容

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2025年4月20日 星期日

Let’s Break Down How The Last of Us Handles That Major Death in Season 2

Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2, Episode 2.

Let’s get right to it: In the second episode of Season 2 of The Last of Us, a woman named Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) brutally murders Joel (Pedro Pascal) in front of Ellie (Bella Ramsey). This may have come as a shock to those unfamiliar with the game, but not to those who played as both Ellie and Abby in The Last of Us Part II. Game lovers (and haters) have been waiting for the TV show-only audiences to see and process this Red Wedding-esque plot point for years.

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Here’s a look at what happened on the show, how it differs from the game, why the character of Abby set off a bit of a firestorm in the gaming community, and how this act of vengeance sets up the rest of the series (without any spoilers past Episode 2).

How Joel dies

Last season, Joel ushered Ellie to the Salt Lake City hideout of a rebel group called the Fireflies. There, they planned to study Ellie, who is immune to zombie bites, to create a cure for the infection that jumpstarted the apocalypse. But when Joel realized that the operation would kill her, he murdered 18 Fireflies and one doctor to save an unconscious Ellie and take her to Jackson where Joel’s brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna) lived.

We meet Abby in Season 2, Episode 1. After Joel killed her father, the doctor who was supposed to operate on Ellie, she and her friends moved to Seattle, trained as military, and set out on a mission to hunt down Joel. By episode 2, the former Fireflies make it to an area just outside Jackson and see how heavily fortified the city is. While Abby is determined to carry out their plan to murder Joel, all of her friends want to turn back.

Abby sets out on a patrol and accidentally awakens a swarm of infected zombies. She is saved by Joel, who happens to be on patrol with Dina (Isabela Merced), Ellie’s friend and love interest. The group is too far from Jackson to return to the city, and Abby leads them to a lodge where her friends are hiding out.

Meanwhile, the infected attack the city of Jackson en masse. Thousands of zombies sprint through the snow and ice to throw themselves against the high walls of the city. The people inside push the zombies back with exploding gasoline tanks, gunfire, and flamethrowers. There’s even an extra giant zombie that breaches the wall. It’s all very wights attacking the Wall on Game of Thrones.

Ellie and Jesse (Young Mazino), Dina’s ex-boyfriend, set out to look for Joel and Dina when they don’t respond on the radio. Meanwhile, at the lodge, Abby has ordered her friends to drug Dina so she won’t be conscious for Joel’s murder. Abby then threatens Dina’s life to get Joel to admit that he killed over a dozen Fireflies in Salt Lake. Abby then shoots Joel in the leg, beats him with a gulf club, and punches him bloody. Ellie arrives just in time to witness the death of her father figure. Abby’s friends disarm Ellie, and then Abby murders Joel in front of Ellie’s eyes. 

It’s not a spoiler to say that brutally murdering Joel in front of Ellie is a huge mistake and kicks off a cycle of bloody vengeance.

The scene sparked a controversy around Abby in the game

As you can imagine, Abby’s murder of Joel did not go over well with the fandom when it occurred early on in the gameplay of The Last of Us Part II. The game forces players to play as both Ellie and Abby, and the lead-up to the encounter between Abby and Joel is shot from Abby’s perspective. Essentially, it puts the players in the shoes of a person who conspires to murder the beloved protagonist of the first game.

The great innovation of The Last of Us Part II was this switch in perspectives, which continues throughout the game. By playing as both Ellie and Abby in different parts of the story, the player is meant to understand where each woman is coming from as she tries to avenge the death of her respective father figure, while also growing increasingly horrified by the monstrous acts she commits in this quest. But even as the game eventually builds some empathy for Abby, she remains a wildly controversial character reviled by a certain subsection of gamers. The actor who voiced Abby received threats against both her and her newborn son. Some of that hatred was rooted in misogyny and other biases, while some was simply born of frustration with the storytelling device. 

Read more: Everything You Need to Know About Abby, The Last of Us’ Most Controversial Character

How Joel’s TV death differs from the game

In the game, Joel and Tommy save Abby from infected while out on patrol. In the show, Joel is on patrol with Dina instead when they find Abby. Abby’s friends are much kinder to Dina in the show than they are to Tommy in the game: They drug her, whereas they knock Tommy out by hitting him repeatedly over the head with a bottle. In the game, Abby and her gang also knock Ellie out after Joel dies by kicking her in the head.

The showrunners probably made that Dina-Tommy swap to accommodate another change. In the game, there is no zombie attack on Jackson. But in the show, Abby accidentally sets loose a horde of infected onto the city, probably for the sake of adding an extra action set piece early in the season. Since Tommy is not on patrol with Joel when the incursion happens, he is able to help guard the city and safeguard its people.

In terms of Abby’s friends being queasier as they watch Abby torture Joel, the series creators may be trying to build more sympathy for the characters given how negatively the gaming audience reacted early in the game to Abby and her compatriots when the game was released.

What it means for the rest of the season

In the game, Tommy is as obsessed with avenging Joel’s death as Ellie is—if not more so. A few detail changes suggest that Ellie will be the driving force of their mission of vengeance in the show rather than Tommy. Not only was Tommy not present for his brother’s murder in the show, as he was in the game, but he also has fatherly responsibilities in the TV series. (He’s married but has no children in the game.) 

As a result, it’s possible that he takes a more cautious approach to hunting down Abby in the show than in the game, and it’s Ellie who is largely responsible for running headlong into Seattle to track the former Fireflies.

As for Joel, I am willing to bet we haven’t seen the last of him this season. Without spoiling anything, Joel does briefly pop up in game flashbacks, and it’s hard to imagine he won’t make a cameo or two in the remainder of series. Pedro Pascal is a movie star after all. You don’t waste the precious time you have with him on set.

Plus there are a few dangling threads in Joel’s story. We don’t know what, exactly, broke the relationship between Joel and Ellie, whether it was gradual or whether a specific incident sparked Ellie’s anger. To that end, the show creators introduced Catherine O’Hara as Joel’s therapist Gail in the first episode of Season 2. Gail is an entirely new show creation. Surely, she will appear again. Perhaps we get more therapy settings in flashback form. We also learned that Joel killed Gail’s husband when he became infected. That’s another moment we could yet see onscreen. And, of course, the writers could plumb Ellie’s memories for moments with Joel as she mourns his death.



source https://time.com/7278526/the-last-of-us-joel-death-abby-season-2/

2025年4月19日 星期六

Harvard Teaches U.S. Leaders a Valuable Lesson

Trump Administration Freezes Federal Funding To Harvard And Threatens School's Tax-Exempt Status

President Trump’s unprovoked attack on higher education was a call to action which has been answered by Harvard and leaders from over 100 other schools. It has also taught an important lesson: giving in to Trump’s attacks is not a sustainable strategy for any organization.

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Several leaders of the nation’s top law firms appeared to capitulate to Trump’s demands only to find that he is reportedly reneging from formal commitments and demanding more. Even schools such as Columbia, who attempted to concede to Trump’s demands found those agreements failed. History has long taught us that such appeasement doesn’t work when concession is seen as weakness—or even as surrender.

The recent assaults by the Trump administration on American colleges and universities were exemplified by the demands issued to Harvard University in an April 11 letter. Harvard rejecting Trump’s demands was followed by the freezing of $2.2 billion of federal research funds along with Trump’s taunting threats to Harvard’s tax-exempt status. 

The grab to seize control of a private enterprise has catalyzed support for the independence of higher education, perhaps our nation’s most globally competitive sector. The outcry extends far beyond the ivy walls of academia. Even critics of higher education and Trump allies believe Trump is dramatically overplaying his hand. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, hardly a friend of Harvard’s, blasted Trump’s overreach in an editorial titled “Trump Tries to Run Harvard.” “There are good reasons to oppose this unprecedented attempt by government to micromanage a private university,” the Journal opinion editors wrote. “Many of his demands on the school exceed his power under the Constitution.” Meanwhile, another regular critic of Harvard, FIRE, which assesses freedom of expression on campus, condemned Trump’s “unconstitutional demands” and told Harvard to stand strong. 

Trump’s attacks against Harvard, and Harvard’s defiance, may even be shifting public opinion. According to a survey of 114,000 adults by Morning Consult, favorability of the school has risen since Trump took office in January. And in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s attacks, alumni pride—and donations—have swelled.

Arbitrary assaults on higher education—and bypassing legally required due process—undermine not only intellectual creativity on campus, but also the special contributions of universities to American society. Higher education is one of the greatest sources of U.S. global competitiveness, cultural enrichment, and learning, and economic prosperity.

For instance, the trade surplus from higher education accounts for nearly 14% of total U.S. services trade surplus—comparable to the combined exports of soybeans, coal, and natural gas. A global magnet, international student tuitions contribute roughly $44 billion to the U.S. economy. When the Trump administration attacks higher education, it is also threatening a prime source of the opportunity and economic prosperity of all Americans—one which has improved socio-economic mobility and access to opportunity, and trained millions of highly skilled workers

But even beyond the economic contributions, by partnering with the federal government for decades, American universities have also made lifesaving discoveries and have helped increase the average lifespan of Americans to record levels over the last few decades. 

As one of the leading education institutions in the world, it is no secret that Harvard has received a range of criticism in recent years. However Harvard has redeemed itself this week.

The decision of Harvard President Alan Garber to take a stand by rejecting the Trump administration’s demands, and the strong leadership of Harvard’s board, led by Chair Penny Pritzker and buttressed by board members, including former Merck CEO Ken Frazier, Ken Chenault, Karen Gordon Mills, Biddy Martin, and others, is a watershed moment.

It is propitious that Harvard’s defiance against authoritarian creep should come on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride which alerted the American minutemen to rise up against tyranny. Indeed, his fellow sentry William Dawes actually rode across Harvard’s campus in 1775.

This current battle will not be an easy one for Harvard, but Harvard is not alone—as pillars of civil society muster the courage to stand in unison so that Harvard does not have to fight for freedom of expression, intellectual inquiry, educational advancement, and research contributions alone. Indeed, this is a moment when all those who care about the contributions that U.S. universities in partnership with the federal government have made to a competitive and flourishing American society to speak out.  

This battle is one as vital as higher education has ever faced. The legal community was late to realize this lesson but schools can be good teachers as well as fast learners. 



source https://time.com/7278903/harvard-teaches-leaders-valuable-lesson/

2025年4月18日 星期五

Do You Need a Measles Vaccine Booster?

One Death Reported As Texas Measles Outbreak Spreads

Amid the measles outbreak that started in Texas and is now believed to have spread to four other states, many people might be wondering: do I need to get a measles vaccine booster?

Measles is a highly contagious airborne disease that can lead to severe complications, including death. It’s also vaccine preventable through the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which is typically administered in childhood in two doses. More than two decades ago, measles was declared eliminated from the U.S., thanks in large part to a successful vaccination program. But in recent years, vaccination rates have declined and measles cases have soared. In 2024, there were 285 reported measles cases in the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Four months into 2025, the agency has received reports of 800 confirmed measles cases. Of those, 96% were in people who were either unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status.

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So far in 2025, two children in Texas have died of measles-related complications; both of them were unvaccinated. A third person, an unvaccinated adult in New Mexico, tested positive for measles after death, though the official cause of death is still under investigation, according to the CDC. Before this year, the last confirmed measles death in the U.S. was in 2015, according to the CDC.

Read More: Why Measles Cases Are Rising Right Now

Public health experts say that the best way to protect yourself against measles is to get vaccinated. The MMR vaccine is safe and effective; according to the CDC, two doses are 97% effective against measles. People who don’t get the MMR vaccine in childhood can still get it later in life, says Dr. Ravi Jhaveri, a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the division head of pediatric infectious diseases at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. 

The CDC has said that most people who get the MMR vaccine will be protected for life, and there are no official recommendations to get a third dose of the vaccine during a measles outbreak.

“The vast majority of people with two doses are protected [and] do not come down with measles,” Jhaveri says. “We have decades upon decades of experience that two doses has been safe and effective, and when we maintained two doses at a very high level across our population, we were seeing very few, if any, outbreaks.”

Still, that doesn’t mean a booster is never needed for other types of diseases. According to Jhaveri, there are two important factors that help make that determination: the genetic variability of the virus and the nature of your immunity. The viruses causing the flu and COVID-19, for instance, have a lot of genetic variability, which is why public health experts recommend getting a new vaccine against those viruses every year. People also get booster shots for tetanus because antibody levels against the bacteria wane over time and if someone has a high-risk exposure—such as stepping on a rusty nail—doctors err on the side of vaccinating them afterward, Jhaveri says. But measles, he says, is more genetically stable and both doses of the MMR vaccine “allow for you to have antibody levels that are high enough to protect you and also allow your cells to respond in case you are exposed, to prevent you from getting infected.”

Jhaveri says that, as people get older, their immune system typically doesn’t work as well, so “theoretically, there may be some drop in measles immunity.” Only about three out of 100 people who are fully vaccinated against measles will get the disease if they are exposed to the virus, according to the CDC. But a vaccinated person who does get the measles typically has much milder symptoms and is less likely to spread the disease to others, compared to someone who is unvaccinated. According to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, about 90% of unvaccinated people who are exposed to the virus will get measles.

There is a group of people who may need to consider getting vaccinated again: according to the CDC, people vaccinated before 1968 with an older version of the vaccine, an inactivated one, should be revaccinated with at least one dose of the vaccine we use now, a live attenuated measles vaccine. That’s because the inactivated vaccine, which was available from 1963 to 1967, was not as effective as the version we use now.

Jhaveri points out that the ongoing outbreak is mostly among unvaccinated people, not those who have been vaccinated, and so getting a third dose would be unnecessary.

“The reason we’re seeing outbreaks now is because we have big pockets across our population that aren’t getting those two doses,” Jhaveri says. “So convincing the people who are doing the right thing to do it more is not where the effort really needs to go; it’s to convince those people who don’t see the benefit of the two doses … that they should get vaccinated.”



source https://time.com/7278878/do-you-need-a-measles-vaccine-booster/

The Trump Administration Could Have Fought to Deport Abrego Garcia in 2019. It Passed on the Chance

El Salvador Deportation Error

During his first term, Donald Trump’s administration had a chance to challenge Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s protection from deportation, but didn’t take it, according to court documents reviewed by TIME. In October 2019, an immigration judge decided Abrego Garcia shouldn’t be removed because of violent gang threats he faced if he returned to El Salvador. Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement had 30 days to appeal that ruling. No appeal was filed, according to the court documents.

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The little-noticed episode was a key part of the long saga of Abrego Garcia, the Salvadorian sheet metal apprentice living in Maryland who was accused of being an MS-13 gang member and mistakenly sent in March by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. And it points to the main beef the courts have with Trump over his deportation actions: Trump can deport people from the country, but when he does, he has to follow the law.

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Abrego Garcia was marched into CECOT prison on March 15. On Thursday, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, met with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Van Hollen posted a photo on X of himself sitting at a table with coffee cups and glasses of water in front of them. Abrego Garcia is dressed in a short-sleeved plaid shirt and is wearing a white Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl championship hat. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele mocked the meeting on X and wrote that Abrego Garcia won’t be released, saying “he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody.”

Trump officials have acknowledged that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was an “administrative error” but have refused to correct it. The Supreme Court ruled on April 10 that the Trump administration must “facilitate” his release from prison in El Salvador and ensure his case is “handled as it would have been” if he hadn’t been improperly sent to El Salvador.  But so far, the Trump administration has done nothing.

Instead, the Trump administration has worked overtime to convict Abrego Garcia in the court of public opinion. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published a temporary restraining order that Abrego Garcia’s wife had filed against him in 2021 that said he had “punched and scratched” and “grabbed and bruised” her, and police reports detailing his alleged gang affiliation under the headline: “THE REAL STORY: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 Gang member with a History of Violence.”

What the Supreme Court has demanded, though, is not proof Abrego Garcia has never done anything wrong. The court demands that the Trump administration follow the procedures laid out in the law for removing someone from the country.

The U.S. District Court Judge handling Abrego Garcia’s case, Paula Xinis, has ordered officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department to sit for depositions by April 23 about how his removal was handled and allowed Abrego Garcia’s lawyers to demand documents about his case.

When the Trump administration tried to quash those instructions at the Fourth Circuit court of appeals, three federal judges said Trump must comply. “The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order,” wrote conservative circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who was appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan. Even though the Trump administration asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13, the judge wrote, “he is still entitled to due process. If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to terminate the withholding of removal order.”

Abrego Garcia’s deportation had been prohibited in 2019 because an immigration judge granted him “withholding of removal.” When the immigration judge considered his case, Abrego Garcia was being held in immigration detention after being arrested by Prince George’s County police in a Home Depot parking lot. A “gang field interview” sheet released by the Justice Department on Wednesday describes him wearing “a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie with rolls of money covering the eyes, ears, and mouth of the presidents.” Police said the clothing was “indicative of the Hispanic gang culture.”

The immigration judge had looked at the information alleging Abrego Garcia’s gang ties provided by the Department of Homeland Security and determined it wasn’t sufficient to prove he was a member of the gang, according to court documents. Instead, the judge gave weight to testimony from his family that a separate gang called Barrio 18 in El Salvador had threatened Abrego Garcia with death because his family would not pay the gang protection money. The judge acknowledged that Abrego Garcia’s case wasn’t a slam dunk. “This case is a close call,” Judge David M. Jones wrote in his order. At the end of the order is a line that says “each party has the right to appeal this decision” within 30 days.

That decision was still on the books when Abrego Garcia was placed on a plane to El Salvador last month. The Bureau of Immigration Appeals database logs the status of immigration cases by unique identifiers called “A-Numbers,” short for Alien Registration Numbers. Abrego Garcia’s entry shows his application for “withholding of removal” was granted on Oct. 10, 2019. Below that is the message: “No appeal was received for this case.” The White House, DHS and ICE did not reply to requests for comment.

John Sandweg, who was the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the Obama administration, says that ICE attorneys would usually appeal such a decision if they thought that the person was a public safety threat. “I do think that’s indicative that they didn’t have serious concerns about this guy from a public safety perspective,” Sandweg says. “Otherwise, in cases where they do, they absolutely appeal.” 



source https://time.com/7278832/trump-caved-on-abrego-garcia-deportation-move-in-2019/

There’s a Climate Showdown Ahead for Big Oil Investors

British oil and gas company BP signage in Warsaw in 2024.

Votes to elect board members of major corporations are typically pro forma affairs. Companies make their recommendations, and shareholders certify it, usually with near unanimity. That wasn’t the case this week at BP’s closely watched annual meeting. On Thursday, nearly a quarter of BP’s shareholders voted against the oil and gas major’s current chairman. It was a stunning rebuke of the company’s management.

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The dissatisfaction with BP’s direction is driven by a constellation of factors. While different for every shareholder, it ultimately boils down to how the company has sought to address climate change. On one end of the spectrum, institutional investors are dismayed at the company’s pullback from its ambitious climate targets. On the other end, hedge funds and other short-term investors want to slim down long-term bets on the energy transition and focus instead on securing better returns as soon as possible.

This dynamic isn’t isolated to BP and it’s not going away anytime soon. With trillions in capital on the line, not to mention the fate of the planet, investors will continue to wrestle with how to reward and punish businesses for their climate work. It strikes right at the heart of the climate challenge for companies: the need to create long-term value while still generating competitive returns in the short term.    

For the last several decades, debates over the future of oil and gas firms in a climate-changed world have occupied investors, climate activists, corporate executives, and policymakers. Unsurprisingly, the range of views is wide. Some argue that oil and gas companies should stick to what they know best and ignore the climate challenge altogether. Others, meanwhile, say oil and gas companies should use their massive balance sheets to embrace the energy transition and fund renewables, turning themselves into diversified energy companies. Many, particularly U.S. firms, have embraced an approach where they invest in clean technologies that are close to their core competencies—think of hydrogen or carbon capture.   

BP took the most aggressive position of the so-called supermajors. In 2020, it said it would cut oil and gas production by at least 35% by 2030 and invest $5 billion annually in energy transition projects. “We can create value for our shareholders through this shift,” then-CEO Bernard Looney told me in 2020. “And we would argue that we will create more value through this shift than we would if we keep doing what we’re doing.”

So what happened? First, the market shifted. Oil and gas prices rose, so BP trimmed their renewables plan to take advantage of higher prices. And then Elliott Investment Management—a hedge fund known for aggressively pushing companies to change practices—came along, turning a pullback into a u-turn. In February, new reports revealed that Elliott had bought a 5% stake in BP with an eye to getting it to ditch its renewable program entirely, double down on oil and gas, and boost the short-term share price. The markets rewarded the news, and that same month BP announced an even bigger pivot away from renewable energy. 

But the short-term bump in the stock price obscures a much more complicated picture. As a governance matter, some investors complained that the pivots are too chaotic. And major institutional investors like Legal & General and Robeco, both of which manage hundreds of billions in assets, have also expressed concern about whether BP’s new approach is durable in the energy transition. “We are deeply concerned by the recent substantive revisions made to the company’s strategy,” Legal & General wrote in a statement on its website.

All of which created a perfect storm for this week’s show of dissent. More than 24% voted against BP chair Helge Lund, a symbolic vote given that he had already announced his intention to step down. A search for his successor is underway.

These choppy waters for investor relations will continue as long-term and short-term value creation become increasingly divergent. In the short term, there’s a quick buck to be made as the demand for oil and gas remains high, driven by lingering supply constraints after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and energy intensive AI use (though the U.S.-initiated trade war may temper this somewhat).  

But the long-term picture will look different. Costs continue to decline for clean technologies. And anyone in the industry knows that prices are cyclical. Moreover, the costs of climate change will eventually weigh on the returns of all sectors. In this dynamic, standout firms will be able to thread that very difficult needle: positioning the company for a long-term future while generating short-term returns. As I’ve heard many institutional investors say, “there are no returns on a dead planet.”

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source https://time.com/7278794/bp-vote-climate-change/

2025年4月17日 星期四

How Having a Baby Is Changing Under Trump

Mere hours after birth, most newborns are tested for two things: whether they have signs of hearing loss and whether they have any of a range of rare conditions that could severely impact their health and their lives.

If they test positive for either, they qualify for a number of interventions that can dramatically improve their prospects over their lifetime.

But both tests could soon undergo dramatic changes because of drastic cutbacks at federal health agencies that public-health advocates say imperil both programs. These cutbacks could mean that certain states will not test for and respond to conditions that currently set services into motion in every state.

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“There are a lot of worthy causes that fall by the wayside when there isn’t some kind of centralized government support,” says Karl White, director of the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management at Utah State University. 

The dismantling of a critical division 

The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program (EHDI) is run partially out of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The program helps states coordinate newborn hearing screening and respond to infants who fail the hearing tests. It falls under the CDC’s Disability and Health Promotion branch. 

But this entire branch was eliminated in the April 1 cutbacks at CDC that slashed about 2,400 employees. EHDI had eight full-time workers and one fellow; all but one were eliminated in the cutbacks, according to current and former staff.

EHDI worked with states to analyze data to help communities follow up with families so that babies born deaf or hard of hearing get support as early as possible. 

States apply for funding grants under EHDI. They submitted the applications to the CDC in January, and now the applications are sitting there with no one left to review them, White says. “There are real questions about what’s going to happen,” he says, “and whether that money is going to be available.”

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Newborn hearing screenings are a true public-health success story. Hospitals did not start screening children for hearing loss at birth until the 1990s; it wasn’t until 2000 that screening was nearly universal across states. Children’s lives can be changed dramatically by early screening and response. In the 1970s and 1980s, children weren’t diagnosed with profound hearing loss until they were 2 or 3 years old, which hampered their ability to read and write, White says. Now, children are screened at birth, and early interventions can help them meet more of these milestones. 

Thanks in part to federal funding for newborn hearing screening, about 98% of newborns are screened for hearing loss before they leave the hospital, according to the CDC. This won’t change immediately, says Donna Smiley, the chief staff officer for audiology at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

That’s because some EHDI funding is still administered through the Health Services Resources Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that was less affected by cuts.

But the HRSA funding relies on EHDI data, and it will be impossible to know where problems lie and where to send money. Eventually, state programs that rely on CDC data analysis will dissolve, Smiley says. The CDC especially helps with follow-ups when children are found to be deaf or hard of hearing.

“If babies are going to be screened but there’s not any follow-up, that’s going to be a wasted screening,” says Smiley.

White agrees that without CDC’s EHDI funding, some state hearing screening programs could collapse. According to a survey conducted by his organization in early 2024, 18 states said that their EHDI programs would be discontinued if federal money disappeared. About 37 states said the absence of federal funding “would have a major negative impact.” Though some hearing testing may continue through hospitals, there would be a gap in the coordinated response and interventions for affected babies.

“The thing I am most worried about is that money that Congress has specifically appropriated to support and expand and improve EHDI is in danger of not being allocated,” he says. In 2022, Congress passed and President Biden signed the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act that reauthorized EHDI program funding until 2027. It sought to improve and expand EHDI programs. 

“If it can happen to USAID and FEMA—if contracts to Columbia and Harvard and other places can just be canceled—I think there’s reason to be concerned,” White says.

In a statement provided to TIME about newborn hearing screenings, an HHS spokesperson said that early childhood and newborn screening programs were being consolidated into the new Administration for a Healthy America (AHA) and the CDC to “improve efficiency and better address public health needs.” The reorganization, the statement says, is aiming to “streamline operations, maximize resources, and support key priorities like early childhood health and disease prevention efforts.”

A crucial rare-disease screening committee was disbanded 

In their first days of life, babies also are tested, often with a heel prick, for a host of rare diseases that respond to early intervention. These tests can change a child’s life. Exactly which conditions they are tested for varies from state to state; Pennsylvania tests for 38 rare diseases, while Alaska only tests for 32, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders, an advocacy group. 

State testing has become more uniform over the last 15 years because of something called the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel, which recommends which diseases states include in their testing panel. The HHS Secretary decides what diseases are added to the list each year—usually adding one or two based on the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children. This committee decides to add new diseases if there is a screening test that can be used at population scale and if a treatment or intervention is available. 

“In a remarkable feat of health policy, we created this committee that used evidence to decide what we should screen for,” says one HHS staffer not authorized to speak to the media. 

Though the advisory committee is made up almost entirely of volunteers—meaning it didn’t cost the government much money—it was disbanded by the Trump Administration on April 3, says a spokesperson for the National Organization for Rare Disorders.

Read More: Why It’s So Hard to Have Your Fertility Tested

The advisory committee was set to vote on May 9 whether to recommend adding two rare genetic diseases to the panel: metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Now, the advocates who spent years advocating for those diseases to be added have no remedy. 

“The longer it’s delayed before these conditions are screened at the state level, the more children are potentially born with these conditions and don’t get the opportunity to be identified and access care,” says Allison Herrity, senior policy analyst at the National Organization for Rare Disorders.

Screening for disorders is essential because in the last few years, treatments such as gene therapy have become available to treat children early in life, Herrity says. 

Lesa Brackbill knows the horrible heartbreak that can occur when a baby is born in a state that does not screen for their rare genetic disease. Her daughter Victoria was born in 2014 and seemed healthy, but at five months old, she started becoming “a completely different baby,” Brackbill says. Victoria became irritable, couldn’t keep her food down, and stopped smiling.

After an MRI, CT scan, and a genetic test, Victoria was diagnosed with Krabbe disease, a rare disorder that affects the central and peripheral nervous systems. Though there is a treatment, it was too late to intervene; she died the next year. Pennsylvania did not, at the time, screen for Krabbe at birth, although neighboring New York did. Had Pennsylvania screened for the disease, Victoria would have been able to get stem cell therapy that would have stopped the disease’s progression, Brackbill says.

“We were given a diagnosis with despair,” she says. “Newborn screening gives diagnosis with hope.” 

Brackbill lobbied for the advisory committee to add Krabbe disease, which it did in 2024; now 12 states, including Pennsylvania, screen for the disease, and more are in the process of adding it. But Brackbill is now worried that the advisory committee has been dissolved and that screenings won’t evolve, but go backward. 

“Without the ability to add conditions, the list is going to remain stagnant,” she says. “What good is a treatment if no one can access it?”

An essential screening for mothers may disappear

Advocates worry that the health and wellbeing of mothers—not just babies—during and after pregnancy could worsen because of the Trump Administration’s cuts to HHS. Since 1987, the federal government has conducted a study called PRAMS—the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System—that asks women about their experiences before, during, and after pregnancy. 

About 18 dedicated staff at PRAMS collected and analyzed the data that came in from states, using it to improve mother and infant health. It’s the only national data collection system with comprehensive information on mothers’ experiences. 

In New Jersey, for example, PRAMS data showed that the mortality rate among Black infants was more than three times that of white infants. PRAMS further analyzed the data to look at the timing of prenatal care and barriers to postpartum care. It found that Black women also had low rates of postpartum checkups and breastfeeding initiation. Starting in 2018, New Jersey approved $4.7 million a year to community organizations to try to reduce infant mortality and increase postpartum checkups and other interactions with health care.

Read More: Pregnancy-Related U.S. Death Rates Have Jumped in Recent Years

But all of the PRAMS staff were laid off in the April 1 reduction in force, according to current and former employees. Now, no one is left to collect the data, analyze it, or share insights with states to improve mother and child outcomes. 

Former staff say they don’t  understand how the Administration can throw away decades worth of data that helped improve women and children’s lives, especially since Trump has said he would be the “fertilization president.”

“This is completely counter to the current administration’s goals of wanting to emphasize the alarming declining birth rates and high mortality rates,” said one laid-off PRAMS worker, who wished to remain anonymous because he is on administrative leave and receiving a salary until June, to TIME. “Cutting this team and program is directly contrary to their goals of trying to emphasize a pro-family culture—even a pro-life culture.”



source https://time.com/7278169/baby-screenings-newborn-changing-trump-administration/

Elissa Slotkin: How Democrats Can Go on Offense Against Trump

Elissa Slotkin knows something about strategy. The Michigan senator formerly worked for George W. Bush’s National Security Council and Barack Obama’s State Department and Department of Defense before first winning a Michigan congressional seat in 2018. Last year, her Senate victory was one of few bright spots for Democrats. Now, Slotkin is applying her strategic thinking to puzzling through how Democrats can best fight Donald Trump.

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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Do Democrats have a plan for countering Trump? And what is it?

I don’t think it’s a secret that Democrats have been on their heels since Trump was elected. And I come from the national-security world, so what I constantly am looking for is a strong, comprehensive strategy in whatever I’m doing, but certainly to counter Trump. It can’t be kind of reacting every single day to every single thing that he does.

What do you think the plan should be?

I think that most Americans who voted for President Trump voted for him because they wanted more money in their pockets. They did not vote for chaos. They did not vote for the instability that he’s created. They didn’t vote for cuts to veterans. They didn’t vote for will-he-won’t-he on tariffs. Certainly in my state, it was an economic security vote. We need to spend time clearly articulating that he is gonna make you pay in every corner of your life.

Trump voters come up to me and say, “I voted for change. I didn’t vote for a yo-yo on tariffs.” I just came from the Flint engine plant and a huge number of the parts that are going into the the GM trucks that are made at that plant are produced in Canada. You could have a part go up by 300% in cost if it’s tariffed on both sides of the border. And people understand that here.

People may be okay in theory with some of the DOGE cuts, but they certainly understand their family budget, and they understand what they’re spending on groceries. They understand there’s no plan for their mortgage or for their rent. They understand that the tariffs could cost them money. They understand that their Medicaid, their Medicare, their Social Security, their VA benefits are being looked at as a potential area to cut. A lead foot in whatever we do has to be pushing back on the complete fallacy that he’s gonna save you money. He’s going to cost you money. He may create a self-inflicted recession.

Some other Democrats are arguing that [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer doesn’t have what it takes to counter Trump and that the party needs new leadership in the Senate. What do you think about that?

Well, Schumer is our leader. It’s a very tough job. There are very intense debates within the Democrats right now. So it is not an easy cakewalk to be leader.

Democrats in general need to have more comprehensive strategies. We need to be on the same page and speak from the same sheet of music if we want to be effective. I have not been shy about saying that to him and lots of other senior leaders in the party. It’s on all of us to buckle down and come up with a strategy, that we can share amongst ourselves, but also communicate to Democrats who are asking us to meet the moment.

Do you feel like the party isn’t meeting the moment right now?

I think that Trump is very effectively flooding the zone. I think that he has people on their heels. People don’t know where to look first on any given day. I think that we have a general approach of legislation, litigation, communication, and elections, focusing on those four buckets. But I think the moment demands more than that.

As a Midwesterner who won on the same ballot as Trump, I’m going to be banging pots and pans about the economic message over and over and over again, because I think in general, as a party, we’ve drifted away from a central focus on the economy and on families, and that to me is an essential center of gravity.

You’ve said that you’re focused on making moves that are both strategic and irreversible. Can you tell me about what those might be?

I’m a national-security person, so I made a quad chart. The top axis is tactical and strategic: when Trump announces something, is it tactical (meaning short term) or is it strategic (long term)? And then on the other axis of the quad chart: is it reversible or irreversible? Can a new president or a new Congress come in and reverse his bad choice, or is it permanent? And I decided to work on the issues that fell into the quadrant that was both strategic and irreversible.

Many of those things are constitutional, they are about our rights and our democracy, but they’re also about the long-term economic viability of my state. We know what it’s like here to live through a recession. In 2008, 2009, 2010, our recession was pretty close to a depression in Michigan. And I’m not gonna stand silent while he threatens that in my state.

If you had a magic wand and could remake the party to be able to win again in places like Michigan, how does the party need to change?

I think we need to get back to the fundamentals. The middle class is an absolutely essential part of American life. We need to grow and expand it. And we need to focus on the three big things that most Americans can agree on, which is strong economic security, strong national security, and strong democracy.

I come from a world of war planning, a world of constant, prudent planning. I come from a world where you can’t just play defense only. There’s no such thing as winning, in any operation or in any war, by just playing defense. What we owe the country is a strategy that does more than play defense.



source https://time.com/7278375/elissa-slotkin-interview/

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