Tootfinder

An in-depth look at AWS' underperformance in the GenAI era, as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud gain ground, and how Anthropic could spark an AWS AI resurgence (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/09/03/amazons-ai-resurg…

Amazon’s AI Resurgence: AWS & Anthropic’s Multi-Gigawatt Trainium Expansion
Two-and-a-half years ago, we flagged a looming “cloud crisis” at AWS. Today, the evidence has mounted. AWS is the crown jewel of the Amazon empire, generating ~60% of group profits, and dominating …

Missing Link: Die Physik hinter dem Blutmond
Der rote Mond im Erdschatten entsteht durch Rayleigh-Streuung und Brechung des Sonnenlichts in der Erdatmosphäre – die Physik des Himmelsspektakels.
https://www.

Over 2,500 Ukrainian POWs in Russian captivity, analysis finds: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/06/over-ukrainian-pows-in-russian.html

Just updated Gaza Verified to reflect that @… and I are running it together now :)
https://gaza-verified.org/
Thank you, Joy, for doing this with me in the middle of eve…

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

Eigentlich war ich froh, dass dieser verkehrspolitische Wi(r)tz in der Versenkung verschwunden ist. Wann wechselt dieser Geisterfahrer ins Team Zastrow?
https://striesen-oiger.de/2025/09/03/zuviel-autos-auf-radroute-dresden-o…

Zuviel Autos auf Radroute Dresden-Ost: Laubestraße wird teils Einbahnstraße - Striesen-Oiger
Dresden macht die Laubestraße zur Einbahnstraße, um Raser von der Radroute Ost fernzuhalten und die Sicherheit für Radfahrer zu verbessern

After the EU fined Google €2.95B, Trump threatens a trade probe, saying the Trump administration "will not allow these discriminatory actions to stand" (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/trump-thre

Trump threatens trade probe after 'discriminatory' EU fines against Google, Apple
President Donald Trump threatened to launch a trade investigation to "nullify" Europe's fines against Google and other U.S. tech firms.

Some programming wisdom from 40 years ago. Exciting to see how many of them are still important advice today.
(aka: @… 's aphorism collection 🦆)
https://

Ich bin in einer Zeitschleife gefangen. War das nicht kürzlich erst das Titelthema?
Hört das auf, wenn alle akzeptiert haben, dass noch viel mehr Steuergelder in KI-Förderung fließen müssen?
Die SPIEGEL-Titelstory.
Wird die KI bald zu mächtig für uns Menschen?

Check out the playlist for this week’s episode of @… radio
It contains links to #Accordion artists up on #bandcamp this

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-03: Jo Ann Castle’s Birthday Bandcamp Friday
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program, celebrating the occasion of Jo Ann Castle’s birthday, is another look into the catalogue of squeezy music a…

Zelenskyy: Ukraine secures backing from 26 nations for post-war peacekeeping force - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/07/zelenskyy-ukraine-secures-backing-from-26-nations-for-post-war-peacekeeping-force/

from my link log —
Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?
https://brandondong.github.io/blog/javascript_dates/
saved 2025-05-29

The Trump administration has targeted Massachusetts as its next location to begin arresting and deporting immigrants, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to NBC News on Saturday.
DHS and its US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm are calling the operation Patriot 2.0,
modifying the name of a May deportation surge that led to the arrest of 1,500 people in the state.
The operation is expected to last several weeks, the New York Times said, quoting unnamed…

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/citizen-lab-director-warns-cyber-industry-about-us-authoritarian-descent/

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

There was a really good podcast episode from @… on “math anxiety” and what it might really be:
https://www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/episodes/16876929-who-s-afraid-of-math
It’s full of good info, and it’s also a great example of people using multiple disciplinary perspectives to suss out a question. Recommended!

LAPD ends protection of former Vice President Kamala Harris amid criticism over diverting cops, sources say (Richard Winton/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-06/lapd-ends-protection-of-ex-vp-kamala-harris-after-criticism-of-diverting-cops-from-crime-suppression
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p52#a250906p52

That time of year.
#photography #autumn

Making a #font of my handwriting
https://chameth.com/making-a-font-of-my-handwriting/

Besides the bruised bananas I am chuffed at today's ride to the store and general adventure ride around town, going places I didn't think I could get to by bike. I rode about 13 miles and a little over an hour. The ebike is great for outrunning traffic or getting up those nasty hills. I still go really slow (PAS 1 or turned off) when on the crowded Oak Leaf Trail.
#mke

“Shell scraps construction of biofuels plant in Rotterdam"
#Shell #FossilFuels #Energy

Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.

'Carried off for the crime of saying "don't kill children".'
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/9/7/uk-protesters-are-not-backing-down-over-palestine#flips-6378709756112:0

UK protesters are not backing down over Palestine
UK Police arrested nearly 900 protesters during another rally against the UK’s ban on activist group Palestine action.

Just a taste of "Ritual Escape" - you'll want more #TribalMusic #GoodVibes #musicvideo

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead open 3 days at red rocks, playing afternoon shows in an attempt to avoid the usual evening rain. fun daylight photos/videos. late summer ’85, show #6.
soundboard: https://

La CAQ continue de couper dans le transport en commun.
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/2025-09-06/transport-collectif/guilbault-serre-la-vis-pour-la-derniere-fois.php

'Don't even consider' Microsoft?
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity. A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling.
[…] Probably the single most common argument against switching to Linux is the absolute non-negotiable requirement of many organizations to have Microsoft Exchange. […]
🤦

To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity
Comment: A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling

#caturday

Mwah. Normale politici willen geen illegaliteit strafbaar stellen.
CDA-leider Bontenbal: 'Nederland hunkert naar normale politici' https://nos.nl/l/2581415

CDA-leider Bontenbal: 'Nederland hunkert naar normale politici'
Op een drukbezocht CDA-congres is de stemming prima. De leden geloven dat Bontenbal het goed gaat doen bij de verkiezingen.

And henceforth I read u32 as UwU32 etc.

Wenn man den LibGen Datensatz durchsucht, den OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic usw. verwendet haben, gibt es wohl wenig, was sie nicht verfüttert haben (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/).

5 Surprising Phrases That Are Rooted in Animal Exploitation https://veganfta.com/blog/2025/09/12/5-surprising-phrases-that-are-rooted-in-animal-exploitation/?utm_source=Mastodon

5 Surprising Phrases That Are Rooted in Animal Exploitation
Some of our most commonly used expressions come from hunting, farming, and other forms of animal exploitation. Here are five phrases that might make you think twice the next time you drop them into…

A profile of Mercor, a Scale AI rival valued at $2B in February, which hires domain experts to train models; it had a $100M run rate in March and $6M H1 profit (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/09/03/ai…

AI’s Next Job? Recruiting People To Train More AI
Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. Then it discovered a cash cow: finding humans to train AI models.

Shocking footage! Russia attacked Kyiv. Among the dead is a child #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/07/shocking-footage-russia-attacked-kyiv.html

A WaPo probe into BI's pulled articles finds links between fake journalist Margaux Blanchard and Onyeka Nwelue, a controversial figure with fake academic claims (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/06/fake-bylines-ai-busin…

Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related?
“Margaux Blanchard” appears to be one dubious element of a broader scheme to peddle bogus articles to a number of publications.

WhatsApps neue Warnung bei Gruppenchat-Einladungen soll Scams eindämmen
Bei Gruppenchat-Einladungen von unbekannten Personen wird WhatsApp künftig eine "Sicherheitsübersicht" zeigen. So sollen Betrugsversuche schnell erkannt werden.

She "emphasizes the importance of embracing a cacophony of voices in the fight against the rigid and coordinated forces of the Christian right. She advocates for a coalition that includes people of various faiths and those with no faith at all, working together to uphold the values of a multiracial democracy."
How the Christian Right is Taking Over America with Talia Lavin
https://religionnews.com/2025/09/06/how-the-christian-right-is-taking-over-america-with-talia-lavin/

Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom,
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek,
and Washington Governor Bob Ferguson
announced they will launch a new
⭐️"West Coast Health Alliance"
to ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics.
The alliance represents a unified regional response to the Trump Administration’s destruction of the U.S. CDC’s credibility and scientific integrity.
“President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists…

California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California
State of California

from my link log —
Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C.
https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/ioccc-intel-4004-in-4004-bytes-c.html
saved 2025-08-05

It's been about three weeks, but Metacurity's digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush is back!
This issue's selection covers
--Russian cybersecurity companies are tools for global expansion,
--Merrick Garland's fears of a judicial system cyberattack came true,
--Flock has plans for ubiquitous surveillance to stop crime,
--Misinformation from adversaries now runs ram…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 8/16/25, 8/23/25, and 8/30/25
Russian cybersecurity companies are tools for global expansion, Merrick Garland's fears of a judicial system cyberattack came true, Flock has plans for ubiquitous surveillance to stop crime, Misinformation from adversaries now runs rampant with no US pushback, AI can't capture personality, more

The stereotype for this kind of self-narrowing is math/tech people avoiding humanities. That certainly happens, but I see it at least as often in the other direction: people avoiding anything that smells like STEM, telling themselves they can’t, building a whole identity around it. It comes out as this weird kind of shame/pride mix — “I’m not a math person” etc — which tends to hide some kind of earlier trauma: bad teacher, bad curriculum, gender role policing, who knows.

Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the military and critical infrastructure, raises a $75M Series C led by Hedosophia (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/09/03/defense-contract…

Exclusive: Defense contractor Shift5 closes $75 million Series C
Hedosophia led the round.

RFK Jr. to draw link between Tylenol and autism: Report (Adriel Bettelheim/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/rfk-jr-tylenol-autism-pregnancy-condition
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p133#a250905p133

How it started... 🍌🚴🏼‍♂️
How it ended. 😩

Zwei Erlebnisse mit Kindern:
Ein erwachsener Sohn beichtet heute Morgen, dass er *unseren* Autoschlüssel (ein "modernes" flaches Teil) diese Woche abends unbemerkt auf *seinem* Autodach liegen gelassen hat. Am anderen Morgen bei der Arbeit war er baff, als er nach einer 80 km/h-Fahrt den Schlüssel auf seinem Autodach liegend vorfand. Der Tau auf dem Dach scheint stärker gewesen zu sein als der Fahrtwind …
Am Nachmittag habe ich mit den Nachbarskindern (2 4) Drachen stei…

It’s Not Difficult To Imagine – Lyrics and Changing Times
#Songwriting #SingerSongwriter
https://

It's Not Difficult To Imagine - Lyrics and Changing Times
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A look at the history of anime in the US, its impact, and the forces that keep it distinct from other mass-market animation, including Japanese IP law (Joshua Hunt/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

How Anime Took Over America: From Pokemon to Demon Slayer and Dragon Ball Z
“Demon Slayer” is just the latest confirmation of how Japan’s once-distinctive animation style has become a global visual language.

Saturday, March 15, 2025, may have seemed unremarkable to most Americans.
But in time, history will remember it as Black Saturday
—the moment the United States ceased to function as a constitutional democracy.
For the first time in modern American history, a sitting president openly defied a direct federal court order
—and nothing happened.
No intervention. No enforcement. No consequences.
A legal ruling was issued, and the White House simply ignored it

Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy
Black Saturday, March 15, 2025, will be remembered as the day the U.S. ceased to function as a constitutional democracy. A sitting president defied a federal court order, proving that judicial authority no longer constrains executive power. This is not a warning—it is confirmation that democracy has already collapsed.

A profile of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, as the gaming hardware giant readies AI tools for game development and to help players sharpen their skills (John Kang/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkang/2025/09/…

This Singapore Gaming Billionaire Is Betting AI Will Upend The Entire Industry
Razer, founded and run by Min-Liang Tan for two decades, is prepping to release cutting-edge AI tools to help game developers produce games faster and cheaper and to coach players to sharpen their skills.

“Degrowth Donald” - Legal Planet
https://legal-planet.org/2025/09/06/degrowth-donald/

from my link log —
Temporal_rs is here! The datetime library powering JavaScript Temporal in Boa, Kiesel, and V8.
https://boajs.dev/blog/2025/09/24/temporal-release
saved 2025-09-30

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/unilateral-disarmament/684086/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31xBmCh1VmOV2uCP3VL6kTw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p134#a250905p134

What’s that ethical alternative to Patron that people keep mentioning in the Fediverse that I now have completely forgotten the name of? 😅

US Open broadcasters have been asked not to show any negative crowd reactions to Donald Trumpat Sunday’s men’s final.
The president is expected to attend the match between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in New York, with security at Flushing Meadows being heightened in preparation.
Trump used to be a regular visitor to the US Open but has not been to the tournament since 2015, when he was booed by spectators.
An email sent to broadcasters by organisers reveals that the 79-…

Vance: "I Don't Give A Shit" About Extrajudicial Killings - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/vance-i-dont-give-a-shit-about-extrajudicial-killings/

from my link log —
Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance.
https://nickb.dev/blog/default-musl-allocator-considered-harmful-to-performance/
saved 2025-08-21

Default musl allocator considered harmful (to performance)
In a real world benchmark, the default musl allocator caused a 7x slowdown compared to other allocators. I recommend all Rust projects immediately swap to a different allocator in a musl environment.

Excluded from Beijing, Trump confronts the limits of his global power (Chauncey DeVega/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/06/excluded-from-beijing-trump-confronts-the-limits-of-his-global-power/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p9#a250906p9

Alibaba debuts Qwen3-Max-Preview, its largest AI model with over 1T parameters, showcasing strong benchmark performance; the model is not open source (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/qwen3-max-arrives-in-preview-with-1-tril…

ForestWatch argues that the Roadless Rule does not stand in the way of fuel reduction or fire management,
noting that the Forest Service has approved multiple projects in roadless areas of Los Padres National Forestin recent years,
including Pine Mountain in Ventura County — “demonstrating that fire-related work can and does move forward even when such projects are considered controversial.” 
Bryant Baker, director of conservation and research at ForestWatch, called wildfir…

Protesters in DC flood streets demanding end to Trump’s military deployment • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/09/06/repub/dc-military/

from my link log —
Evolution of the ELF object file format.
https://maskray.me/blog/2024-05-26-evolution-of-elf-object-file-format
saved 2025-09-03

President Trump signs order to rename the Defense Department as the Department of War (Jason Breslow/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/04/nx-s1-5529420/trump-department-of-war-department-of-defense
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p119#a250905p119

L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics Have Jubilee With Pope’s Blessing, if Not His Presence - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/world/europe/lgbtq-catholics-jubilee-pope-leo.html

The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York,
following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and dozens of senior Palestinian officials
President Abbas is expected to address the Assembly in Geneva,
where he will call for international protection, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty,
and accountability for war crimes.
The Geneva session is expected to amp…

UN Assembly Moves to Geneva After U.S. Bars Palestinian Delegation | – IMEMC News
The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York, following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abba…

from my link log —
Recto: a truly 2D language.
https://masatohagiwara.net/recto.html
saved 2025-08-18 https://dotat.at/:/PGR…

Recto — a truly 2D language
Recto is a 2D programming language that uses nested rectangles as its core syntax, encoding structure and recursion directly in space instead of a linear stream of text. Recto explores new ways to write, parse, and reason about code—and even natural language—spatially.

At Least 425 Pro-Palestinian Protesters Arrested in London on Terrorism Charges - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/world/europe/palestine-action-arrests-britain.html

Crime in large cities in the aggregate is lower in states with Democratic leadership.
But Trump focuses his ire almost exclusively on large blue cities in blue states,
sidestepping political conflict with Republican governors.
Trump threatens to deploy national guard units to Chicago and Baltimore,
ostensibly to quell violence,
a pattern has emerged as he describes which cities he talks about.
Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Baltimore.
But …

from my link log —
How Google Chrome V8 made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast.
https://v8.dev/blog/json-stringify
saved 2025-08-04 https://

Trump’s Mortgage Fraud Smears Backfire on His Administration – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/trumps-mortgage-fraud-smears-backfire-on-his-administration/

For those who forgot or never knew,
Mickey Flacks was among Santa Barbara’s most dogged advocates for affordable housing, among other struggles for social justice, environmental sanity, and other progressive causes.
The Independent launched the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund back in 2020 to honor her memory and keep Mickey’s work alive.
The $100,000 we’ve raised since have empowered numerous editorial projects, and the Mickey Flacks Fellowship marks the epitome of those ef…

Why Donate to the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund?
Support reporters like Christina McDermott, who’s starting her second year of the Mickey Flacks Fellowship.

from my link log —
Nontransitive comparison functions lead to out-of-bounds read and write in glibc's qsort().
https://www.qualys.com/2024/01/30/qsort.txt
saved 2025-09-06

Clergy rally to defend Kilmar Abrego García as he is detained by ICE
https://religionnews.com/2025/08/25/once-against-detained-by-ice-clergy-rally-to-defend-kilmar-abrego-garcia/

In 2022, Oregonians narrowly passed Measure 111,
⭐️amending their constitution and guaranteeing affordable health care as a fundamental right to every resident of the state.
Through years of organizing, coalition building and planning,
💥Oregon may enact its Universal Health Plan as early as fall 2027. 
In the face of extreme Medicaid cuts from the Trump administration
-- which will leave roughly 16 million people without health coverage by 2034
-- a state-l…

Could Oregon chart the course for universal health care in the US?
Oregon is on the verge of enacting a single-payer health care plan, but continued organizing is needed to secure this historic victory.

Typical, given LAPD's history of racism.
L.A.P.D. Stops Security Services for Kamala Harris - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/us/lapd-kamala-harris-security.html

from my link log —
Beyond booleans in Lean.
https://overreacted.io/beyond-booleans/
saved 2025-08-17 https://dotat…

Beyond Booleans — overreacted
What is the type of 2 + 2 = 4?

Manufacturing employment has been falling since April,
and job growth is slower than it was between January 2024 and August 2024.
The timing of the manufacturing declines corresponds with the Trump administration’s disastrous tariff policies,
which are projected to cost American households $2,400 annually.
Since Donald Trump’s tariff announcement in April 2025,
overall manufacturing employment has declined by 42,000,
while job openings and hires have fall…

RFK To States: Comply With Jesus Vaccine Exemptions - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/rfk-warns-state-to-comply-with-jesus-vax-exemptions/

“With one voice: FREE DC! We stand united to say that this immoral occupation is a violation of the fundamental principles of justice and compassion.” Reverend Keith Byrd, Union of Concerned Clergy of DC #WeAreAllDC
“I’ve been witness to federal agents pull people out of Ubers, Lyfts, and so heavily armed they could tear through houses.
They are treating us like animals.”
Makai, Youth…

@casaforall.bsky.social
“I’ve been witness to federal agents pull people out of Ubers, Lyfts, and so heavily armed they could tear through houses. They are treating us like animals.” Makai, Youth Advocate #WeAreAllDC [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Lawyers ask Supreme Court to allow transgender boy to use boys’ bathroom - SCOTUSblog
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/lawyers-urge-supreme-court-to-allow-transgender-boy-to-use-boys-bathroom/

A community science project finds that
⭐️ modest reminders to find joy in the day
✅ can have benefits that are on par with those of more ambitious well-being interventions
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-small…

How Small, Easy Acts of Joy Improve Happiness and Well-Being
A community science project finds that modest reminders to find joy in the day can have benefits that are on par with those of more ambitious well-being interventions

U.S. aid cuts meant they couldn't get their HIV drugs. How are they faring now? : Goats and Soda : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/09/06/g-s1-86617/hiv-positive-aids-zambia

Khruangbin
https://www.khruangbin.com/

The Official Website, Online Store & Khru Club for Grammy-nomintated trio Khruangbin
The official website of Khruangbin, a musical trio from Texas with Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Ray "DJ" Johnson Jr. on drums

Revealed: the far-right, antisemitic men’s club network spreading across US | Far right (US) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/05/far-right-mens-clubs-old-glory

A CSB safety video on the fatal release of acetic acid at the LyondellBasell La Porte Complex in La Porte, Texas, on July 27, 2021, that killed two contract workers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hxkRjkuFQBw

US slaps sanctions on Palestinian NGOs that asked for Israel war crimes probe | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-imposes-sanctions-on-palestinians-who-asked-for-israel-war-crimes-probe/

ProfCiara talks with CREW's Donald Sherman about seeking legal and constitutional consequences for the January 6th Insurrection at the Capitol using the 14th Amendment's Section 3 -- aka the Disqualification Clause
https://m.soundcloud.com/profciara/democracy-destiny-…

Vice President JD Vance doesn’t ‘give a s***’ if you think Venezuela boat strike was a war crime, he writes on X | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-war-criminal-venezuela-boat-strike-b2821599.html

Few countries are more aware of the fragility of democracy than Poland.
45 years ago, Lech Walesa started Poland's Solidarity Movement, stared down the Soviet Union, and became his country's first democratically elected president.
He joins the show from Phoenix, Arizona to discuss today's dangers and his own extraordinary personal and political story.
Christiane Amanpour is fixated on history, which is important, but 82 year old Lech Walesa is not having it…

This. 👇👇👇
JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question:
Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”
https://

Eric Champnella (@echamp.bsky.social)
This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

Hawaii issues state of emergency as Hurricane Kiko approaches islands as Category 4
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5490353-hurricane-kiko-hawaii-storm/

Trump’s War on Wind Has This Construction Crew Stuck 15 Miles Out at Sea
Connor Walcutt is in a holding pattern that borders on the surreal. 
-- Peering out from a 262-foot ship he currently calls home,
the 26-year-old has been looking across the water off the coast of Rhode Island and onto one of America’s largest construction sites,
wondering if he will ever be allowed to finish the job.
Walcutt is among the workers caught in the crossfire of President Trump’…

Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., may have helped Republican congressman
Cory Lee Mills
get off scot-free after he allegedly assaulted a woman. 
In February, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department arrived at Mills’s luxury penthouse on the Wharf in response to a call about a domestic disturbance.
There they found Mills’s “significant other” of a year, 27, “physically shaking and scared,” according to a police report.
Mills and his wife, Rana Al Saadi,…

D.C. Police Stops Investigating GOP Congressman as Trump Takes Over
The Metropolitan Police Department has closed its investigation into a Republican congressman accused of assault.

Ukrainian children forced into weapons training and tortured by Russia | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-abducted-children-putin-russia-b2820836.html

Investigators expose Russian units using chemical weapons against Ukrainian forces | RBC-Ukraine
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russian-units-exposed-for-using-chemical-1757182642.html

ICE raids in Chicago could start as early as Friday, but are expected to begin Saturday, Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker warned. 
The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon for access to Naval Station Great Lakes
- the largest military base in Illinois
- to base an operation, The Washington Post reported. 
The request said that around 250 federal agents and 140 vehicles would utilize the base. 
National Guard troops could also be sent in t…

Trump readies SIEGE of Chicago as feds prepare for massive immigration raid in showdown with crime-plagued city
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is gearing up for a massive immigration raid of Chicago - the city President Donald Trump said he'd selected for the next federal military takeover.

"The problem with that motion is, not too long ago, we got a very different motion from this Department of Justice where they asked for grand jury materials to be unsealed, and there is a precedent there. They're talking about the fact that they are committed to transparency."
She added, "You can't have it both ways."
'There's a big however': Expert blows hole in DOJ's efforts to hide Epstein friends' names - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/nbc-doj-epstein-legal-expert/

👍 Gavin Newsom’s online trolling targets Stephen Miller with a photo of Lord Voldemort | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gavin-newsom-stephen-miller-trolling-voldemort-b2821586.html

'Take off that hat': Army vet senator scorches 'draft dodger' Trump for his 'stolen valor' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/take-off-that-hat-trump/