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It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year:
using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations.
Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during
anti-immigration demonstrations across the US,
including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

ICE ‘Crowd Control’ Led to Blindings and Traumatic Brain Injuries
It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

Numismatist alert!
I just found this very old penny in my pocket because it *stuck to my headphone case's magnetic clasp*
Wait, you say. Isn't ol' Abe supposed to be copper (or copper and zinc)?
Apparently not in 1943!

You can really feel the warmth of the north american neighborhood
"Sovereignty comes with responsibility, and the responsibility to prevent a foreseeable disaster from crossing into another country's airspace has not been met"
Reacting to a social media post about the air quality in Cleveland, Moreno wrote: "I’ll be introducing a bill next week to sanction Canada and the responsible Canadian government officials for this atrocity."

4 Republicans in U.S. Congress accuse Canada of failing to do enough to prevent wildfires | CBC News
Republican members of U.S. Congress are slamming Canada's federal and provincial governments over what they claim is inaction in preventing the wildfires currently spreading smoke and poor air quality across much of the northeastern U.S., in addition to Central Canada.

How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (Washington Post)

The unexpected issue dividing parties and midterms candidates
More candidates talk about artificial intelligence or data centers on their campaign websites than mention Israel or manufacturing, according to a Post analysis.

Senator Mitch McConnell’s handlers would like the American public to believe that he’s still physically and mentally fit to be in office,
but that no longer seems to be the case.
The longtime Kentucky Republican suddenly reappeared in Congress this week after an unexplained three-month absence,
apparently ready to vote on Senate proceedings.
But when tasked to do so during Wednesday’s Senate Agriculture Committee meeting on the Farm Bill,
McConnell hazily sided …

What Mitch McConnell Looked Like After He Had to Be Told How To Vote
The 84-year-old senator appeared vacant and out of it right after the vote.

Millions of Europeans struggle with another wave of extreme heat #Europe

Europe swelters under fresh wave of extreme heat
Millions of people across Europe—particularly in France, Italy, Spain and Britain—baked through a new wave of extreme temperatures Thursday as the continent's latest heat wave picked up.

I'm watching The Librarians: The Next Chapter 2x10 "And the Heart of a Librarian" https://trakt.tv/shows/the-librarians-the-next-chapter/seasons/2/episodes/10

And the Heart of a Librarian
The Librarians must help Vikram's long-lost love Anya unravel a mystery from the past -- through letters sent across time -- before the magical events she…

Trump may be trying to wind down his conflict with Iran,
but he is escalating his war with Senate Republicans.
Trump blindsided his supposed allies in the Senate on Wednesday with a rocket of a social media post from across the Atlantic,
tying together a host of his pet peeves about the Senate while yanking his new nominee for national intelligence director from his confirmation hearing just hours before it was to occur.
It was an extraordinary move from a president w…

Trump Feuds With Thune and G.O.P., Stoking Election-Year Rift
The president upended the majority leader’s plans by yanking his intelligence nominee from a confirmation hearing and insisting on an end to the filibuster.

Conservatives seem to have completely dodged Donald Trump’s midterm advice
since the Republican Midterm Convention last week, during which the president told his party to promise $5,000 government handouts and act as if he’s on the ballot.
An analysis of more than a million social media messages conducted by The Washington Post found that conservative candidates across the country have opted to stick with their own messages rather than further ingratiate themselves in Trump’s orb…

Republicans Say Trump Is Tying a “Noose” Around Their Necks
GOP candidates are avoiding mentioning Donald Trump.

Tycoon Harold Hamm is one of the US’s most successful oilmen,
the son of Oklahoma sharecroppers who hit it rich as a “wildcatter”
and pioneered fracking techniques that drove the shale boom in 2008 that reversed declining US oil production.
Donald Trump describes him as a “long time” friend and is said to have called him his “original oil guy”
The Continental Resources founder has also faced scrutiny from climate advocates and groups and some Democratic lawmakers ov…

How Trump’s ‘original oil guy’ boosted US-Israel ties and played down risks of Iran war
Fracking billionaire Harold Hamm is co-chair of a non-profit that has aggressively pushed for US energy dominance