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Authorities across Central Europe are working to contain a major foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, the first in over 50 years for Hungary and Slovakia.

Harvard University faculty sue to block Trump review of nearly $9bn in funding

This is what Musk and DOGE have *actually* tried to do: -- Kill USAID (investigating Starlink) -- Kill CFPB (regulator for X to be payment app) -- Move $2.3 BILLION contract from Verizon to Starlink -- Force Social Security Administration to use X exclusively 100% CORRUPTION

Succinct and enraging.

Area Man Claims To Be Strongest Leader in World But Can’t Ask El Salvador a Favor

Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

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Let’s send food safety inspectors to the coal mines’

Trump, Lutnick and the Shark: key players in the US-Australia tariff tussle

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When you’re an atheist with a birthday on Passover

There are so many things said in this tweet

Trump admin attests that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive, but insists that he is under the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador".

The Constitution is clear that Trump cannot serve a third term in office. But do he and his allies care about that? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump’s tariff mess raises the danger of a US default | Lloyd Green

China has offloaded $50 Billion in US Treasury bonds & limited further purchase of Dollars. Meanwhile, an anonymous buyer is purchasing European Bonds.

Iran and U.S. likely to move direct talks to Europe, a significant step

A very, very good question.

Make America make again? Trump’s tariffs will only be manufacturing pipe dreams | John Naughton

There are 569 days until the Midterms, 1304 days until the next theoretical Presidential Election, and 1378 days until the next optional Inauguration Day. Midterms progress: █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 12% Presidency/Regime progress: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 6% Until Next Inauguration : ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 5% #protest

This is why the Trump Administration included the following language in its affidavit today: Abrego Garcia is being “detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador.”

Why Republicans can’t stop hiding behind fake names

In Arkansas, organizers working on ballot initiatives already face a mountain of technical rules to satisfy — down to the color of ink that notaries must use on petitions. The state this spring made the obstacle course even tougher. boltsmag.org/new-rul...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the first time in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

JUST IN: Two Oregonians Die from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Experts Alarmed Over Possible Prion Cluster.

This episode of "Image Rehabilitation for a Predator Con Man" has been brought to you by Bill Fucking Maher. sbee.link/b7yucft968

Russia: Two high-school kids in Nizhny Novgorod sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for publishing a YouTube video to their 26 subscribers in which they discussed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The police complaint was filed by their school principal. (C: Igor Sushko)

How's your Saturday? Here's Saturday at Mar-a-Lago: Trump was posing with a Butler assignation attempt statue of himself at his golf club

In the face of Trump’s mayhem, Europe is the direction to which the UK must turn – and Keir Starmer knows it | Tom Baldwin

Trump lawyers confirm wrongly deported Maryland man in El Salvador prison

Crazy crowd of 35,000 at the AOC & Bernie Sanders rally in LA. 😳👏 #FightOligarchy

Who started the escalation? I missed the beginning, somebody fill me in on why this is genius

Fraud victim 'not hopeful' for refund after Trump wrecks consumer protection agency

Trump administration says man mistakenly deported to El Salvador is 'alive and secure' in first update