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Following up: while Jonathan Joss complained about years of homophobic abuse from his neighbors and his husband wrote that the murderer was screaming homophobic epithets, the San Antonio police says there’s “no evidence” of a hate crime. This is why so many queer folks don’t like cops at Pride.

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NYT: ".. Nearly a quarter of consumers using buy now, pay later loans finance groceries, up from 14 percent a year ago." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

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(Reuters) - A group representing major U.S. and global aeropsace companies on Tuesday warned new tariffs on imported commercial aircraft, jet engines and parts could put air safety and the supply chain at risk or have unintended consequences.

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There's a basic lie in the Government's position on water companies - and unless it confronts it the problem won't get fixed. 🧵

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A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…

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Europe stealing market share: This month, it “unveiled a €500 million plan named ‘Choose Europe for Science’ aiming to lure foreign researchers to the EU.” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/us-d...

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“The group estimated that reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service… we would be witnessing the dismantling of a century-old system”

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A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write: “We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.” Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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“UK workers have to make do with a third less capital per hour than their counterparts in higher-productivity peer countries… This has accumulated from decades of under-investment in equipment, research and development, training and infrastructure, by both the public and private sector.”

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Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦

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Ukraine used $47,000 in drones to inflict $7,000,000,000 of damage. War changed today. Forever.

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One of my favorite Bible stories is the one where that leper came to Jesus asking for healing and Jesus said why bother "we all are going to die."

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"We’re not going to colonize Mars in my lifetime. We’re not going to colonize Mars in the lifetime of a baby born this afternoon. We’re not going to colonize Mars in the lifetime of a baby born 100 years from now. "We’re never going to colonize Mars." The billionaires are lying to you.

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Starting to look like a major Ukrainian offensive. Now explosions have been reported in Severomorsk, where the Russian Northern Fleet, including subs with nukes, is based. #explodey

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No government or group has the right to seize land because they claim god gave it to them. I subscribe to Jewish values of peace and tolerance, not the violent theocratic imperialism of far-right Israeli settlers masquerading as Judaism. Enforce a two-state solution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ukraine's Security Service: "Right now, the Security Service of Ukraine is conducting a large-scale special operation to destroy enemy bomber aircraft in the rear of the Russian Federation... Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3."

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“A succession of top agents, all women, were given an ultimatum: Take a different post or be asked to retire.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...

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Trump vs Harvard: It's the fascism, stupid iandunt.substack.com/p/trump-vs-h...

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Letter in Times today

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Trump just reposted on TruthSocial that Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and was replaced by "clones, doubles, and robotic engineered soulless mindless entities."

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Again: the rule of law exists, or it doesn’t.

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Oh, and the requested budget for NSF major facilities is $100M smaller than the budget for Avenger's Endgame 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Who did this? 😂

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Great piece on EVs.

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Trump hands Dept of Interior to Russia-linked oil exec: "... given sweeping powers to overhaul the department that manages public lands "...hasn’t divested his investments or filed an ethics commitment to break ties with companies that pose a conflict of interest" apnews.com/article/hass...

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The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.

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The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

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Ex-Labour minister calls for wealth tax and public investment in June spending review. UK needs an economic reset, end of cuts/austerity and neoliberal policies. Can't revive economy without boosting the purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Must redistribute. Tax the ultra-rich.

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To Whom Everyone loves owls. Not everyone loves a pedant. www.worldofmoose.com/products/to-...

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation. All in one little table. A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice claimed “this Labour government has allowed the biggest influx of migrants in British history”. He’s not explained what that claim’s based on, but neither we nor the Migration Observatory can find data to support it.

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I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.

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@chadbourn.bsky.social Oh!… A D.C. judge said Musk appears to lack the legal authority to direct alterations to the government because he is not a Senate-confirmed official and DOGE was never authorized by Congress. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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No words

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US GOODS IMPORTS FALL 19.8% M/M, BIGGEST DROP ON RECORD

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1/ We got government data showing that the Trump administration knew the majority of Venezuelan men it sent to a prison in El Salvador had no criminal record in the U.S. - and that only a handful had been convicted of violent crimes - before calling them all terrorists and deporting them.

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This is deranged and completely untethered from reality.

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"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

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👇👇👇👇

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