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Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy to Trump – come and see Putin’s war for yourself

There are people in the UK and Ireland also who'd do this today if we let them. It's our absolute duty to resist that.

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republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

There's been plenty of hyperventilating in some UK media outlets about solar farm taking over 'productive farm land' and endangering food security But in fact the ambitious 2030 targets will cover only 0.4% of land, compared with golf courses covering 0.5% www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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As Anton Nilsson found out, Scott Morrison is not keen to talk about Donald Trump.

Distrust, systemic racism and fear all drive First Nations families away from using the court.

“For our first date, he told me I could pick the spot—anywhere my heart desired, as long as it was a business that had dismantled its DEI policies.”

Yes we all need to fight. We also all need to live, to enjoy, to be silly, and to find joy in what we can. We can't afford to lose either end of the equation if at all possible.

george washington ordered his men innoculated against smallpox and that’s part of why we won

50% slashed from Earth Science programs. NASA Earth Science programs help land managers learn what is happening at large scales in our national forests, from patterns of insect infestation and disease outbreak to wildfire detection.

Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.

Neither Anthony Albanese nor Peter Dutton mentioned the two obvious reforms that would help to solve the housing crisis: scrapping or reducing negative gearing and removing the capital gains tax discount for investors.

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

WSJ editorial board: "A confusing weekend that offers more lessons in the arbitrary nature of Trump trade policy... "What happened and what’s the real policy? Who knows?" www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

How much you wanna bet that soon we’ll find out it’ll cost $100 billion or some such amount to fix everything he broke?

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Webb Telescope Reveals Astronomers Got It All Wrong About This Dying Planet https://gizmodo.com/webb-telescope-reveals-astronomers-got-it-all-wrong-about-this-dying-planet-2000587646

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Great review of #StoryofaMurder in this weekend’s Financial Times

Breaking news: The U.S. Department of Energy today announced it is unilaterally cutting in half the overhead rate on its academic grants, something that a federal judge recently told the National Institutes of Health it could not do.

seems notable bc this will be a constraint on post trump era

🧵 Quite a few graveyards would like to disagree. There are plague pits with entire populations who should haunt this worm infested drug addict. He promotes the Nazi pseudoscience of engineering the Über Mensch - the master race. He should have stuck with the family gift for nymphomania. [1]

Don't criticise. At least he's holding it up the right way. www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/fina...

Everyone needs to see the best moments from Bernie Sanders and AOC’s rally in front of 36,000 people today. Something big is happening in this country.

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So just being an atheist, Jewish or Muslim puts you on the outer? The Secret Police remains alive and well. The USA was built on religious freedom

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

"It’s now the right that seems most committed to smashing capitalism and destroying wealth," writes Bernard Keane.

Every prisoner swap with Russia is like "she is a 14-year-old girl who Putin said sang 'Carol of the Bells' too aggressively and he is a top Russian spy who personally strangled a dissident to death in a London coffee shop"

The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.

So the felon in chief is demanding that Amazon stop selling books that reveal the truth about him. And watch Bezos bend the knee. Amazon will cave. They all will. Whiteness has exposed itself to be hollow and thin skinned. The tyrant will never stop demanding more and more of your soul.