On September 1, 1914, the passenger pigeon, once one of the most abundant bird species on earth, went extinct as the last known example, named Martha, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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The National Park Service plans to reinstall a statue of Confederate general Alfred Pike that was toppled during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Washington, DC. Pike, who was accused of “scalping and defiling the bodies” of Union troops, reportedly later became involved with the KKK.

"ICE is a rogue federal agency operating with impunity-destabilizing families, terrorizing neighborhoods, and eroding the very principles of justice it claims to defend. What happened yesterday ... is not an accident-it is the deliberate outcome of a system sliding deeper into authoritarianism."

OPINION: "If you choose to spend your life tearing down and gaining satisfaction in the distress of others—no matter how you try to justify it—you have determined who you are, and I pity you," Nate Schumann writes.