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In Rogue-FP on Steam, EVERYTHING is made of letters. When you kill a monster and come back later, there will often be flies (capital 'F' letters) flying around the remains 😂
#Rogue #Steam #SteamDeck

Anticipation has built for the start of observations at the
"Vera C. Rubin Observatory"
in the mountains of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Originally imagined in the mid-1990s as the "Dark Matter Telescope",
Rubin is designed to study our constantly moving and changing universe in greater detail than ever before.
Once every few days for a decade, Rubin will take images of the entire night sky over the Southern Hemisphere,
creating the w…

Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors | Quanta Magazine
Astronomers are preparing for a new era of big-data astronomy, and results are already starting to arrive.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Pixies (62) Nacho Picasso (37) Degraved (36) Funebrarum (32) Cabinet (29). #myweekcounted 722 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

“People are tired of hearing what government can’t do.
They want to hear what government can do,”
Lewis George said in an interview before the DC city’s primary,
where she defeated her Democratic opponents and positioned herself to win the general election in November in a city dominated by Democrats.
Lewis George’s victory signals a break with a quarter-century of centrist governance in Washington,
and it puts her in the vanguard of democratic socialists who h…

Democratic socialists are winning major mayor's races
Janeese Lewis George is making waves in Washington, D.C., with her progressive agenda as she aims for the mayor's office. Her plans include subsidized childcare and increased homebuyer assistance. She also promises to challenge President Donald Trump's influence. Her Democratic primary victory was a shift from centrist governance in the nation's capital and aligns with a broader trend of democratic socialists gaining traction in urban politics. While some cities still favor moderate candidates,…

Happy birthday to Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011)
medical physicist & Nobel laureate for radioimmunoassay for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci
Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major

Ele Willoughby (@minouette.bsky.social)
Happy birthday to Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) medical physicist & Nobel laureate for radioimmunoassay for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 1st physics major &

Embrace ai or get left behind

With the CLARITY Act, Washington is cashing in on the crypto industry.
Americans are paying the price
Defeating Donald Trump’s authoritarian movement requires taking on the largest industry financing it: #cryptocurrency.
We know most people’s eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the word “crypto.”
The industry’s lobbyists depend on that;
they win when the public …

Congress Must Stop Enabling Trump’s Crypto Corruption
With the CLARITY Act, Washington is cashing in on the crypto industry. Americans will pay the price.

The man we know as Joey Ramone was born Jeffrey Ross Hyman on this day (May 19) in 1951.

Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood,
according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings.
The report published Monday estimates more than 100,000 U.S. citizen children have had a parent detained since Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign began last year.
The analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on the detention of parents, which can often lead to family se…

More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting.

Throwing some bolts this evening
#metal

Mercenary

U.S. health advisers are debating a new kind of flu vaccine Thursday,
the first made with the same mRNA technologythat was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moderna is seeking Food and Drug Administration approval of its new shot, dubbed #mFlusiva,
as an option for people 50 and older.
The FDA advisory committee meeting is a step toward a final decision ahead of the winter flu se…

FDA panel considers a first-of-its-kind flu vaccine using mRNA technology
U.S. health advisers are debating a new kind of flu vaccine

Loved Backrooms. Found it cool as hell. One of the best flicks I've seen in a WHILE. Bizarre, all kinds of unexplained shit-- just everything I love about movies. Highly recommend.
#horror

Backrooms (2026)
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Does Cuba Really Have Iranian Drones, as Trump claims?
Experts say Trump is laying the pretext for U.S. military action against the island
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/17/cuba-iran-drones-trump-venezuela-us-military/

Does Cuba Really Have Iranian Drones?
Experts say Trump is laying the pretext for U.S. military action against the island.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116943021466382036
Spanish authorities, operating on a US extradition request,
arrested the 41-year-old Chambers,
a US citizen and wealthy donor to leftwing and humanitarian projects worldwide, last Friday in Ibiza.
He has…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116774309298367911
I don’t think LLMs will be with us for long,
at least not in their current form.
But I do think that we’re living through a period of generational damage, one that will take years to repair -- if not decades. …

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116434921889415122
“Are people just supposed to walk away from their consoles,
and let these orbiters around other planets or rovers on other worlds
... just let them die?”
— Jim Bell, Planetary scientist, Arizona State Uni…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116434197606361201
There are now nine nuclear powers.
Even three is infinitely more complicated than two.
The agreements,
the norms between countries,
are all falling apart.
Weapons are getting crazier.

The #unemployment rate for “new entrants,” or those trying to break into the workforce, in the U.S., hit a nine-year high in 2025.
A whopping 13.4% of them can’t seem to find a job, the highest percentage in decades.
Aside from recession fears and the slowing pace of entry-level job postings, #artificial

"The current fascist administration thinks hyper-aggressive masculinity is the only thing needed for a successful military"
-- @…
#Hegseth #testosterone

Developers are turning to a large range of materials to store renewable electricity when it is available and use it to power everything from wearable technology to heating networks, factories and missiles.
Here are some of the energy storage innovations raising eyebrows.
🔸Liquid air
Late last year, on the site of a former coal plant in Trafford, the former mayor of Greater Manchester marked the start of construction on a long-awaited energy storage project that could usher …

Molten salt and human sweat: the weird batteries that could store renewable energy
From Nevada to Manchester, developers are trialling innovative solutions to clean energy’s biggest challenge

Right-wing activist Gary Bauer
opened his daily email newsletter Tuesday afternoon with the headline,
“Democrats Hate Police.”
That inflammatory framing was followed by a lot of false information about the killing of a 26-year-old father by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday:
"Yesterday morning, federal immigration police attempted to enforce an existing deportation order for 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, an illegal alien in Biddeford, Maine. The Co…

Gary Bauer Pushes False Narrative re ICE Killing, Claims ‘Democrats Hate Police’
Gary Bauer is promoting pro-ICE propaganda that even ICE isn't backing up.

In one post, according to the US Attorney’s Office,
former women's track and field coach Steven Waithe wrote:
“Does anyone want to trade nudes?
I’m talking girls you actually know. Could be exes or whatever.
I have quite a few and [am] down to trade over snap[chat] or something.” 
Legal documents do not name the sites on which Waithe distributed these images,
but Bellingcat found a cached version of a November 2020 post with that exact wording on Leake…

The Crypto Entrepreneur Linked to a Forum Trading in ‘Leaked’ Nudes
Two days after we reached out to crypto start-up founder Jitendra Maharaj about his apparent connections to LeakedBB, the site went offline.

Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat
and unseat Susan Collins once and for all.
He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash,
a lifelong labor champion,
and former Maine Senate President,
who's proven he can win
— by 20 points
— in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.
https://w…

Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate
Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President, who's proven he can win — by 20 points — in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.

For years, Shaoping Wu was part of an increasingly endangered group of human rights lawyers in China.
His work culminated in 2019, when he attended a meeting with other prominent lawyers and activists.
Within days, the Chinese government began to detain the participants.
Mr. Wu quickly fled to the United States, where in 2020 he applied for asylum.
🔥On Wednesday, Mr. Wu was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pennsylvania, where he had been living wit…

Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE
Shaoping Wu was working as a contract delivery driver for Amazon when he was pulled over in Pennsylvania. He had championed personal and religious freedom for Chinese citizens.

This type of hopeful news on a gene therapy cure for sickle cell disease would go against Trump’s policies,
as OMB director Russ Vought says.
Why? Because it is DEI.
Sickle Cell Disease disproportionally affects African Americans
due to an evolutionary trait that helps protect them from malaria.
https:…

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist (@princess-vimentin.bsky.social)
This type of hopeful news on a gene therapy cure for sickle cell disease would go against Trump’s policies, as OMB director Russ Vought says. Why? Because it is DEI. Sickle Cell Disease disproportionally affects African Americans due to an evolutionary trait that helps protect them from malaria.

Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the F.B.I. would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents
— cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security agents implicated in violent encounters, according to people briefed on the decision.
If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents,
as the Trump administration draws mounting criticism o…

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

"Earth is the cradle of humanity
but one cannot live in the cradle forever"
-- taken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Ex…

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Earth is the cradle of humanity but one cannot live in the cradle forevertaken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911

Every zipper is manufactured to a specification that balances precision against cost.
A zipper with teeth machined to tolerances of plus or minus 0.02 millimetres will last thousands of cycles without splitting.
A zipper with tolerances of plus or minus 0.08 millimetres will function adequately for hundreds of cycles before wear accumulates to the failure threshold.
The first costs more to produce.
The second costs more to replace.
The decision between them …

The Precise Mechanics Behind Why Zippers Fail and What That Reveals About Everyday Product Engineering
Most zipper failures are a worn slider — a £1 part. You throw away the jacket because nobody told you. The tolerance decision was made in a spreadsheet.

Could this mysterious disappearing organ hold the key to longevity?
Researchers are racing to regrow the thymus,
an ephemeral immune organ,
in the hope that it will slow ageing.
In 1996, cryobiologist Gregory Fahy walked into his physician’s office and talked his way into a month’s supply of growth hormone.
His hope,
bolstered by a single study in rats,
was that the injections would help him to regrow his thymus
— a peculiar immune organ that …

Could this mysterious disappearing organ hold the key to longevity?
Researchers are racing to regrow the thymus, an ephemeral immune organ, in the hope that it will slow ageing.

Claudia Sheinbaum is handling out medals at the World Cup final,
next to the fat pedophile
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/claudia-sheinbaum-trump-carney-world-cup-final/

Mexican president to attend World Cup final at Trump's invitation amid trade tensions
It will be the first meeting between President Trump and Sheinbaum since December after months of verbal sparring. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is also expected to attend.

"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it.
I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out."
-- Mitchell Hashimoto, of HashiCorp and Ghostty fame

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

Andy Burnham Ditches Digital ID Plan,
Saying Billions Will Go To Cost-Of-Living Priorities Instead
Incoming UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham prioritises cost-of-living support over Starmer's controversial digital ID plan.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/andy-burnham-scr

Andy Burnham Ditches Digital ID Plan, Saying Billions Will Go To Cost-Of-Living Priorities Instead
Andy Burnham plans to scrap Starmer's digital ID plan upon becoming UK Prime Minister, redirecting resources to address cost-of-living issues and support local economies.

Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins believes humanity's long war on parasites may be doing more harm than good.
In his new book, he argues that stripping the body of these organisms entirely could weaken, rather than protect, human immunity,
challenging decades of public health messaging built around eliminating parasites at all costs.
Martins has built his career studying the creatures most people overlook or actively avoid.
He grew up in biodiversity-rich western K…

Wiping Out Parasites Entirely Could Harm Human Immunity, Warns Scientist Fighting Our 'Clean Living' Obsession
Dino Martins' new book argues that parasites may strengthen human immunity, challenging traditional public health views. He highlights the ecological role of parasites and their potential benefits.

Federal agents across the United States were told in recent days that the FBI will no longer investigate physical confrontations involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
The guidance was shared with FBI managers on Thursday, with some ICE agents notified by their FBI counterparts the same day.
The Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security issued a joint statement denying that any change had taken place.
They insisted the relationship between …

FBI Told to Stop Investigating ICE After Patel Halted Renee Good Probe, Now ICE Investigates Itself
The FBI will no longer investigate ICE confrontations, shifting responsibility to Homeland Security Investigations. This change raises concerns about accountability and scrutiny of ICE's use of force.

In the era of the RAMageddon, even a Raspberry Pi will cost you a couple hundred bucks.
But you know, you don't even need something that powerful for an ad- blocking DNS filter.
In fact, you can use a $5 microcontroller to build a fully functional ad-blocking filter with over 500,000 domains blocked and around 10ms latency.
We know that's possible because Egyptian full-stack developer ZedAxis (@M-Abozaid on GitHub) has already built one.
Using an ESP32-C3 &qu…

Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a tiny $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle — firmware uses only around 50KB of RAM and can answer blocked lookups in 10 milliseconds
This project uses a clever hashing trick to fit over half a million blocked domains into just 4MB of flash memory.

The DoJ civil rights division has seen dramatic changes since Trump came back into office last year and installed Harmeet Dhillon, a former Republican Party operative in California, to lead it.
Dhillon has fired employees in droves,
pushed out others through separation incentives tied to pressure campaigns,
reassigned staff
and rewritten the mission statements for each section in the division.
She has vastly reshaped the types of cases the office pursues
…

How Trump Transformed the DOJ’s Civil Rights Office
New, permanent hires include an attorney sanctioned for attempting to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss.

One difference between Hegseth Evangelicals & Leonard Leo Catholics.
Evangelicals shout from the rooftops.
Catholics in Leo's circle rarely say what they want outloud.
They just go about undermining democracy, quietly, in the dark. Like termites.
From 2018 - out loud.
-- Tom Carter
https://www.

In Defence of Catholic Integralism
States that do not recognize both natural law and the transformation of law and public reason brought about by the raising of religion to a supernatural good will become confessors of false belief opposed to Christianity, and their great power will turn from supporting Christianity to opposing or ev

Video footage of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tackling a man at the airport in Las Vegas drew public outrage and criticism from elected officials.
One video posted on social media showed a man yelling and crying on the ground in Terminal 3 at Harry Reid International Airport on Monday
when a man and a masked woman, both in plainclothes, tried to control, handcuff and detain him.
When the pair realized they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving the ma…

Immigration arrest at Las Vegas airport drew outrage
Video footage of ICE agents tackling a man at Las Vegas Airport has sparked public outrage and criticism from officials. The video shows a man on the ground Monday as two plainclothes agents try to detain him. When they noticed they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving him partially handcuffed. Las Vegas police identified the pair as ICE agents and found no warrants for the man. ICE later arrested Phu Nguyen, an Australian citizen who overstayed his visa, at Los Angeles Airport. Nevada …

Under new European Union rules, businesses must prioritise keeping unsold clothing or shoes in use by selling them (including through discounts or alternative markets), donating them to charities or social enterprises, or preparing them for reuse (repairing, refurbishing or remanufacturing).
Destruction will be allowed only under specified circumstances and must be carried out in accordance with the waste treatment hierarchy, giving priority to recycling

Ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
Under the new rules, businesses must prioritise keeping products in use by selling them or preparing them for reuse.

Trump threatened Canada with additional tariffs over wildfire smoke:
“This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence,
costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying.”
Trump’s rhetoric was presaged by Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) introducing a bill to sanction Canadian officials found “responsible” for the fires,
revoke their visas and express a sense of Cong…

GOP Senator Calls For Stripping Visas From Canadian Officials Because Of Wildfires
“We will not tolerate this incompetence,” vowed Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, who may not understand how climate change works.

We know from polling that voters want us to be talking about preserving their rights and freedoms (No Kings)
and not just “kitchen table issues”
and that there is nothing more intrinsically American than fighting for freedom and democracy.
We also know from polling, lots and lots of polling, that voters believe that our hearts are in right place
but question our toughness, and whether we are strong enough to be able to fight and deliver for them.
So we should se…

The Importance Of Character And Virtue In The 2026 Elections
Trump has reminded the American people why it is so important to have leaders of virtue and character.......

Created by Congress in 1996,
the Alien Terrorist Removal Court,
has five federal judges appointed by the Chief Justice,
“to review applications for the removal from the United States of alien terrorists.”
The attorney general submits applications for removal to the court under seal.
According to the Federal Judicial Center, it has never received an application since its founding.
-- Until this week.
According to a court order posted on the newly-cr…

Alien Terrorist Removal Court Has Its First Case
Created in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court has never reviewed an application. Until now

A concerning development surrounding an incredibly obscure process Congress set up to deport some people with connections to terrorism.
It comes as the Trump admin has reclassified many gangs as “terrorists,” and accused some innocent people of being gang members.
https://bsky.app/profile/kyledch…

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)
NEWS: The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/18/trump-alien-terrorist-deportation-court-01004184

How Trump became the accidental green president
Donald Trump
— a man who has spent his career joking about windmills, ripping up climate agreements and waging war on anything containing the word “green”
— is presiding over an accelerating transition to net-zero carbon emissions in the United States.

In May, solar power overtook coal in electricity output for the first time.
Energy storage and solar made up 91 percent of new grid capacity in the first quarter …

How Trump became the accidental green president
The president might not like it, but his policies are promoting clean energy.

Chambers has said that he has known since 2015 that he was on the US federal government’s radar,
due to activism against police in Atlanta.
A self-described communist and anti-imperialist, he is heir to one of the richest families in the US,
the owners of Atlanta-based Cox Communications.
He sold stock back to his family worth about $250m in mid-2023 and since then has been funding an estimated 100 projects in 20 countries, Schnabel said.
She said that includes,…

Wife of US heir and activist donor on fighting his extradition to US: ‘It’s incredible that this can happen’
Stella Schnabel says Trump administration is falsely accusing James ‘Fergie’ Chambers of contributing to Hamas

First, let’s talk about “grokking”.
In 2022, OpenAI published a paper showing that if you train a model on a simple dataset
(for instance, a simple mathematical operation like division),
and keep training it long after the training looks like it’s stalled out,
the model will suddenly make a massive jump in capability.
Why does this work?
The first stage of training is like rote memorization:
the model has to compress as much of the training data as…

Overtraining as the path to human-like AI

Long before anyone typed a query into Google,
Roger Summit built a system that let researchers search vast databases from a remote terminal in minutes.
His creation, Dialog, was the first commercial online search service,
and it laid groundwork the modern web would later inherit.
Summit has died at 95
…

Roger Summit, who built online search decades before Google, dies at 95
Long before anyone typed a query into Google, Roger Summit built a system that let researchers search vast databases from a remote terminal in minutes. His creation, Dialog, was the first commercial online search service, and it laid groundwork the modern web would later inherit. Summit has died at 95.

Hiring a hit man is not a crime of violence -- even in cases where the killer fulfills his contract and his employer is convicted in the conspiracy, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week.
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel vacated two felony convictions that stemmed from a pair of contract killings negotiated to settle an oil well dispute in North Dakota.
The court found that although trucking and drilling magnate James Henrikson had paid Timothy Suckow tens of…

Hiring a hit man isn't always a 'crime of violence,' the 9th Circuit rules
A federal appeals court has issued a ruling that sounds absurd on its face: arranging a contract killing is not automatically a 'crime of violence' under federal law. The decision, which threw out several convictions of a notorious murder-for-hire defendant, is a case study in how a technical legal test can collide with common sense.

About "86% of all new power generation in the world this last year was in the form of renewable energy,
so that's real progress.
The problem is we still have a lot of legacy fossil fuel energy."
-- Michael E. Mann .
https://bsky.app/profile/thebulletin.o

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (@thebulletin.org)
You can watch the full discussion below. https://youtube.com/live/ckVZrqJ1bUc

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https://bsky.app/profile/chicagotribune.com/post/3mqwsvcbfjx2u

Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune.com)
Trump and Mamdani to attend World Cup final on Sunday https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/18/trump-and-mamdani-world-cup/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-chicagotribune.com&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202607186a58c7c26012565afff88665

Mark Zuckerberg was so convinced the metaverse was the next big thing that he renamed his company after it.
Meta, as Facebook is now known, bet the farm on virtual reality,
investing more than $80bn into metaverse-related ventures over the past five years alone
—only to abruptly decide it wasn’t the future after all.
In March this year it was announced that Horizon Worlds, Meta’s flagship metaverse venture, would shut down its VR operations in June, continuing only as …

Life at the end of the metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

The ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda.
https://prospect.org/2026/07/16/how-donald-trump-created-worst-diarrhea-outbreak-cyclosporiasis-food-safety/

How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century
The ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda.

Trump administration allows killing of species threatened with extinction
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could soon declare that pygmy rabbits or Florida manatees are threatened with extinction.
But under a policy change issued by the Trump administration on Friday, Americans could still kill, trap and harass them.

That action
— paired with another issued Friday that requires regulators to consider the economic toll of habitat protection
— is part of Trump…

Trump administration allows killing of species threatened with extinction
Regulatory changes to reinterpret the Endangered Species Act also demand that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service consider the economic toll of habitat protection.

More than half of Americans disapprove of how the Supreme Court is doing its job,
while 46 percent believe that the court is ruling on Trump’s policies based on ideology rather than the law,
according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

The approval numbers, gathered this month, are among the court’s lowest in recent memory
and reflect an ongoing trend of Americans viewing the court’s decisions as partisan.
In the term that ended in June, the high court gave the …

Nearly half of Americans in poll say Supreme Court bases rulings on politics
A majority of Americans disapprove of the job the court is doing, a Washington Post-Ipsos survey finds. Still, it fares better than the president or Congress.

One of Donald Trump’s most grandiose vanity projects,
-- a multimillion-dollar makeover of Florida’s Palm Beach international airport
into a self-aggrandizing, gold-plated transportation hub,
-- is running into turbulence, barely a week after the first plane’s wheels touched the runway.
At first glance, the rebranding of the airport less than 5 miles from his opulent Mar-a-Lago resort appears to be complete.
Its website bears the name and oversized logo of the …

Trump’s rebranding of Palm Beach airport hasn’t taken off as he planned
Changes inside the Florida international airport are hardly evident as state and county hold back funds for full remodel

Federal investigators were working in early 2025 to wrap up a two-year inquiry into claims of pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination at a company that makes weapons, vehicles and cybersecurity tools for the Pentagon.
The investigators had found, among other things, that some male managers at a Norfolk, Va., Navy shipyard had demanded oral sex and other sexual contact from female employees in exchange for promotions and overtime pay,
and that Black women had been paid less…

Trump Gutted Civil Rights Agency, Stifling U.S. Scrutiny of Workplace Bias
A little-known federal office spent decades investigating potential discrimination by government contractors — until it was stopped by the Trump administration.

Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects

The Iran deal comes with a familiar false promise
Vance’s defense of the Iran deal contradicts itself.
Asked whether Iran would gain access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund, he did not say no.
Instead, he laid out the points about Iran’s cooperation and its integration into the “world economy” and the United States inviting other countries to invest.
But, once the funds were invested, they would not evaporate because Iran violated the agreement.
If a c…

The Iran deal comes with a familiar false promise
Bad actors tend to betray agreements, without consequences.

They say they tracked ICE in Minneapolis.
Now they’re accused of an antifa plot.
Cameron Kennedy is one of 15 people charged this week with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer
as part of what Justice Department officials called a "left-wing antifa plot" to harm federal agents during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation that began last winter.
Several face additional charges, including felony assault, solicitation to com…

They say they tracked ICE in Minneapolis. Now they’re accused of an antifa plot.
Defendants in the Minneapolis case say the Trump administration labeled them “antifa” to criminalize dissent.

The costs of the war to the United States, estimated at $132 billion overall, are still being tallied as a 60-day period for further negotiations begins. Here is what we know.
About 3,500 Iranians have been killed in the war, according to an Iranian government agency. Israel says 26 Israelis have been killed. Thousands of people in both countries have been injured.
The U.S. military says 13 of its members have been killed.
Israel renewed attacks on Lebanon on March 18 as pa…

The Costs of the Iran War: Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars
The human toll and economic costs mounted rapidly after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.

The Department of Justice claims that it’s released every document that’s required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
But the agency previously said it collected more than six million pages of material during its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein,
and it only released around three million.
So what’s in the rest of the Epstein files?
The DOJ claims that the other three million pages are either duplicates, unrelated to Epstein, or protected by legal privilege. …

DOJ Refusing to Release Old Epstein Emails That Could Expose Trump
The Justice Department is still sitting on millions of Epstein files. Some of them could reveal a lot about the president.

"Another Wasted Life.”
That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist
Rhiannon Giddens.
She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day.
The song was inspired by
Kalief Browder,
a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22
after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years,
after being falsely accused at the age of …

“Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song
“Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day. The song was inspired by Kalief Browder, a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years, after being falsely accused at the age of 16 of stealing a backpack. He was held in solitary co…

The Justice Department on Friday refused to issue a signed declaration from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche verifying that it no longer intends to pursue President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
The DOJ's refusal comes after a federal judge last week gave the administration seven days to verify in a declaration that it wouldn't create the controversial fund. 
"Such declarations are unnecessary and the compelled testimony of senior official…

DOJ refuses to issue signed declaration verifying 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' is dead
The DOJ has refused to issue a signed declaration from acting AG Todd Blanche verifying that it no longer intends to pursue President Trump’s "Anti-Weaponization Fund."

President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 19 accused Belarus of facilitating Russian drone attacks on Ukraine
and warned that Minsk has one week to remove communications equipment allegedly helping guide strikes from Belarusian territory,
or Ukraine would take action itself.

'A week will be enough' — Zelensky issues ultimatum to Lukashenko over drone-guidance equipment
President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 19 accused Belarus of facilitating Russian drone attacks on Ukraine and warned that Minsk has one week to remove communications equipment allegedly helping guide strikes from Belarusian territory, or Ukraine would take action itself.

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Kash Patel built a slush fund inside the FBI to hand out fat cash bonuses the men who do his
(and by extension, Todd Blanche’s and Donald Trump’s) dirty work.
This is what the rot consuming our Republic looks like up close.
There’s a particular tell in the way a regime decays,
and Kash Patel just gave us the textbook example.
When the people in charge of the law start paying cash -- out of view of oversight and largely off the books,
to the people who br…

Kash Patel's FBI Criminals
The Payback Squad Is A Stain On The Bureau

This is the most detailed picture of a human cell ever made 🧪
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Sam Bousaba on Instagram: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building proteins by linking amino acids together. In eukaryotic (human) cells, a ribosome typically adds about 5–10 amino acids per second (not ~20). Since a single cell can contain millions of ribosomes, protein production is massive—resulting in millions to tens of millions of peptide bonds formed per second per cell. The microtubules act as an internal transport network. Motor proteins such as kinesin move along these tracks, carrying cellular cargo. They “walk” step by step using ATP, at speeds of roughly 500–1000 nanometers per second. Each cell contains a dense network of these filaments, with many motor proteins moving simultaneously. Just beneath the cell membrane lies the actin cortex, a dynamic meshwork that helps maintain cell shape and resist mechanical stress. This structure is continuously remodeled—assembled and disassembled—allowing the cell to adapt to its environment. Now scale this up. Across ~37 trillion cells, each containing millions of ribosomes and hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, your body is constantly producing energy in the form of ATP. Total ATP turnover is enormous—roughly equivalent to your body weight in ATP recycled every day. The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched out, measures about 2 meters. Across all your cells, this would span distances comparable to traveling from Earth to the Sun and back many times (the exact multiple depends on assumptions about cell count and DNA packing). None of these processes are under conscious control. They began when you were a single cell and have continued uninterrupted ever since."
62K likes, 2,387 comments - scienceoftheuniverse on May 2, 2026: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building prot…

Semantic Sleight of Hand Behind Hormuz Fund's Framing
An Iranian official described the proposed mechanism to the New York Times as a 'reconstruction programme' that would be promised to Iran upon the signing of a final agreement.
Two diplomats briefed on the latest draft used different language,
calling it an international 'investment fund' that the United States would facilitate.
The divergence in terminology is deliberate.
The domestic c…

Trump Admin Renames Iran's $300 Billion Reparations Demand an 'Investment Fund' to Avoid a Political Firestorm at Home
A draft US-Iran agreement reportedly includes a £224 billion ($300 billion) investment fund for Iran's reconstruction, with officials avoiding the term 'reparations.' The deal has not yet been signed...

Raised in England by Nigerian parents, Balogun, 24, spent most of his youth international career in England’s system
and once seemed destined to suit up for England.
But a long-ago travel snafu, combined with his Nigerian ancestry, meant Balogun had not one but three national team uniforms to choose from come 2026
Folarin Balogun chose the U.S.
Now he’s leading it at the World Cup.
In the summer of 2001, Balogun’s Nigerian-born parents were living in London wh…

How the U.S. men’s soccer team finally found its missing piece
A long-ago travel snafu meant Folarin Balogun had not one but three national team uniforms to choose from come 2026.

One might see needy children getting less food assistance as a horrifying outcome.
But the Trump administration has sold all this as a success story.
Those losing benefits, we’re told, were all lazy grifters who were probably defrauding the government anyway.
Or, alternatively, maybe they really did once deserve their benefits, but they have since graduated out of their undignified need for federal assistance thanks to Trump’s economic boom.
“A lot of [the enrollmen…

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Hunger Crisis
His solution to the food affordability crisis is to cut programs that help people afford food.

The nation’s largest public four-year university may soon be barred from replacing faculty with generative AI
as a bill backed by a union of professors comes nearer to reaching the governor’s desk.
Few examples exist of the California State University’s attempting to replace faculty labor with generative AI tools,
but the faculty union wants to prevent such efforts from ever getting off the ground.
The bill so far has garnered no opposition from lawmakers and may clear…

Cal State faculty push to prevent AI tools from replacing them as schools and staff experiment
The union representing California State University professors is contesting the system's use of artificial intelligence tools and backing legislation that would protect their jobs from the technology.

The Frey Wille Hundertwasser Street Rivers collection testifies to his commitment to architecture
and is influenced, for example, by the famous Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna.
Hundertwasser was strongly committed to architecture and fought for a more natural and human-friendly construction.
He despised rational, sterile architecture and demanded more space for individual design.
In this context, he campaigned for a "tree obligation" and a "window right&…

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Frey Wille - Hundertwasser Street Rivers DIVA Ring - Die künstlerische Arbeit ist das Maß aller Dinge bei dieser Hundertwasser Schmuck-Kollektion.Ein Ring der sich unverwechselbar vom Ausdruck und Sti

Prior to 1865, many Afro-Texans reclaimed their sovereignty and autonomy
-- well before the federal government acknowledged their basic humanity,
though there’s a dearth of centralized information about Black placemaking in Texas from this time.
This reclamation was called “marronage”
—a term borrowed from French for this act of antebellum self-emancipation.
The word most often refers specifically to runaway slaves, or “maroons,”
who broke free to set up…

From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and 'Marronage' in Texas
Freedom in Texas was achieved both after—and before—formal emancipation. 

As a House committee debated Trump’s signature domestic policy bill last year,
Republican backers repeatedly emphasized that its changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
also known as food stamps,
wouldn’t affect vulnerable people.
SNAP reforms would “restore integrity” to the program
and ensure it works for the “most vulnerable among us, including children,”
said Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson,
a Pennsylvania Republican and chair of the H…

More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.

The right wing think tank "Manhattan Institute", is in the midst of a yearlong campaign to pass state-level legislation
reclassifying minor crimes like vandalism, blocking a roadway, or trespassing during a protest as felonies that would carry 18-month prison sentences as punishment.
The push to criminalize forms of nonviolent disobedience as a form of terrorism comes amid a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on leftist organizations, causes, and social m…

The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.

Starting next year, the British government is planning to introduce facial age estimation
—where AI scans your face and suggests how old you are
—to help determine the age of asylum seekers arriving at the United Kingdom’s border.
The move is believed to be the first time that a so-called facial age estimation (FAE) system has been used in this way.
Many asylum seekers arriving in the UK will not have documents proving their age, and if children are incorrectly classed …

The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.

Attending the Theatre with the man who literally owns you is not Autonomy
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🚨 BREAKING: 3rd Circuit allows Trump to replace slavery exhibits it removed from George Washington's Philadelphia mansion ahead of July 4. The new panels say Washington's slaves had more "autonomy" and "even attend the theater, with Washington buying the tickets." w/ @fallonroth.bsky.social 🎁🔗 https://share.inquirer.com/HEdt0P

Iran outcomes compared
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Iran outcomes compared

Everything this administration touches...
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Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

Plastics
“And these guys were very common,” [Gibson] went on, taking down a small plastic spaceman:
red, wearing an elaborately earmuffed helmet with an antenna on top.
“These spacemen were dime-store toys at a time
 — which I can actually remember! 
— when cheap plastics were still weirdly novel.
Like Gore-Tex or something.
You’d ask, ‘What is it made of?’ ”
He looked wistful, then thoughtful.
“I’ve decided that one of the most signif…

How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
Midway through his career, the inventor of “cyberspace” turned his attention to the strange new world of the present, Joshua Rothman writes.

On Tuesday, hundreds marched through downtown Senatobia, Mississippi, in protest of the police murder of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley two days prior.
Police responded to the protest, which stopped in front of the local Walmart and continued to grow in size, by teargassing the protesters.
On Sunday afternoon, police officers shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen in a car outside of the Walmart.
Police claim that they were responding to a shoplifting call.
After trying to stop the…

Police Tear Gas Protesters After Killing 1-Year-Old in Mississippi
“We cannot accept a world where an alleged shoplifting call ends with a child dead,” said civil rights lawyer Ben Crump.

Just 10 months ago, NASA asked three companies if they could do something nobody had done before.
Could they build and launch a satellite to save a $500 million astronomy mission at risk of crashing back to Earth?
What’s more, could they do it in less than a year on a tight budget?
Katalyst Space Technologies, a startup founded in 2020, presented the most compelling solution.
“They came back with a response that was technically and programmatically plausible,
an…

A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."

The Crab Nebula sits some 6,500 light years from us in Taurus.
It’s what remains after a massive star exploded as a supernova in 1054 CE
— an event people on Earth actually saw and recorded.
Today, it’s known as a pulsar wind nebula, driven by the powerful winds of a fast-spinning pulsar at its center.
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Nereide (@drnereide.bsky.social)
1/8 This JWST’s NIRCam and MIRI stunning image reveals different structural details of the Crab Nebula (NGC 1952). Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, T. Temim (Princeton University) https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/investigating-the-origins-of-the-crab-nebula-with-nasas-webb/ #galactic #universe #astronomy 🔭🧪⚛️

On Tuesday, the Trump administration filed a motion to join a lawsuit attempting to
block the U.S.’s first and only reparations program.
The federal government is supporting a 2024 lawsuit by right-wing group Judicial Watch,
which argues that the Evanston, Illinois reparations program violates the rights of non-Black residents

Trump Administration Attempts to Stop Reparations to Black Community in Illinois
The motion is an “attack on the revived hope that Black communities have felt” from the program, said its architect.

Pete Hegseth lashed out at NATO allies on Thursday as he announced a
six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe
whose outcome will depend on how fast the Europeans take responsibility for their own security.
The review was yet another surprise for European allies and Canada as they learn to deal with an increasingly unpredictable ally.
U.S. officials and senior military officers had promised to coordinate closely with the Europeans as America draws down.

Hegseth announces a review of US forces in Europe
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has criticized NATO allies for not taking more responsibility for their own security. He announced a six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe to ensure NATO moves toward Europe leading its own defense. Speaking in Brussels on Thursday, Hegseth calls it “shameful” that European allies denied U.S. forces access to bases for attacks on Iran. He emphasized the need for a “NATO 3.0,” urging the alliance to become a hard-line military force. T…

On the one hand, Trump spoke in the language of threats, sanctions, and displays of power;
On the other, he tried to avoid an all-out war, one that could endanger the energy market, the elections, and America’s focus on China.
The result of this contradiction was the transfer of risk to allies
--Arab states felt that Washington wanted to use their territory to pressure Iran, without offering a clear guarantee that it would bear the heavy costs of defending them.
Th…

Project Freedom and the end of the Arabs’ automatic “yes” to Washington
When Donald Trump spoke of “Project Freedom” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the plan was supposed to be a display of restored American deterrence: an operation meant to prove that Washington could…

The GPS system on a small medical plane that crashed into a mountainside last month in New Mexico
malfunctioned because the military was jamming that signal throughout the area at the time
although pilots had been warned to expect that, according to federal investigators.
Four people died in the pre-dawn crash on May 14 that sparked a wildfire that burned for weeks in the rugged Capitan Mountains around Ruidoso where the plane was trying to land that night.
The Nationa…

Military jamming disrupted GPS on plane that crashed in New Mexico
Federal investigators say the GPS system on a small medical plane that crashed into a mountainside last month in New Mexico malfunctioned because the military was jamming that signal throughout the area, although pilots were warned ahead of time to expect that. Four people died in the pre-dawn crash on May 14 that sparked a wildfire which burned for weeks in the rugged Capitan Mountains around Ruidoso. The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report on the crash Wednesday…

Remember the spectacular Russian energy sanctions fiasco?
Europe convinced itself that cutting off Russian gas would bring Moscow to its knees.
Instead, Russia pivoted east, selling to India and China, while European factories bled out under the weight of energy costs they could no longer absorb.
-- The pain landed in the wrong capital.
Washington is now running the identical play with semiconductors,
apparently hoping for a different result.
That is …

The boomerang: How America’s semiconductor war backfired
There is an ancient Chinese proverb that Washington strategists should have remembered: “When you shoot an arrow of revenge, dig two graves.” They didn’t listen. And now we are wa…

The Senate succeeded in advancing legislation Tuesday to force Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran war,
Since Trump ordered the attack on Iran at the end of February, Democrats have forced repeated votes on war powers resolutions that would require him to either gain congressional approval for the war or withdraw troops.
Republicans had been able to muster the votes to reject those proposals,
-- but Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy
— fresh off a primary election loss in…

Senate advances bill aimed at ending Iran war as Cassidy, after primary loss, flips to support it
The Senate advanced legislation Tuesday that seeks to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran war, as a growing number of Republicans defied the president's wishes.

Read the "settlement agreement" Trump reached with ... the Trump admin ... to give Trump ultimate control over this slush fund:
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Document: Read Trump's "settlement" with the Trump admin
Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Frank Bisignano, the chief executive officer of the I.R.S., signed Monday's “settlement agreement.”

The deal between Donald Trump and his own administration appears corrupt but straightforward:
The president withdrew his deeply foolish $10 billion civil suit against the Internal Revenue Service,
and in exchange, he and his team will put
$1.776 billion of taxpayer money into a “fund” that is expected to benefit the Republican’s allies.
These basic contours of the agreement, widely panned as a “slush fund” by Democrats and legal experts,
were evident not only i…

Trump’s ‘slush fund’ deal came with some newly disclosed fine print about his tax returns
The president’s deal was already one of the most important corruption controversies in recent memory. Though it seemed implausible, it just got worse.

Peter G Neumann, understood and strongly believed in the systems nature of problems.
That is, there’s not one cause to a problem;
everything, including the humans involved, interact.
Take, for example, buffer overflows,
long a security scourge on the Internet.
Is it the fault of the programmers?
I knew someone who, 40 years ago (and several years before the Internet worm made the problem obvious),
wrote a string-handling library before embarking on…

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward computer security and individual digital privacy. He also developed solutions.

“We are a nation of laws.
You can't just make up things whole piece,”
said Senator Bill Cassidy,
following his primary loss.
“People are concerned about making ends meet, not about putting a slush fund together without a legal precedent.”
It’s not clear yet what approach Cassidy will take in his final months in office,
but he’s got plenty of opportunities to make his voice heard,
including on the effort to limit U.S. hostilities against Iran wi…

Bill Cassidy Is Done Holding Back What He Thinks
The Louisiana Republican is already speaking out against the president's “weaponization” fund and money for a White House ballroom.

The Justice Department on Tuesday issued an expanded settlement agreement with Donald Trump that includes broad language stating that
the Internal Revenue Service is
“forever barred” from
“examinations” of Trump, his family members and businesses.
The one-page addendum, which appeared on the DOJ website Tuesday, was signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
It adds to the 9-page document issued Monday, which concluded his lawsuit over the leaking of his t…

IRS ‘Forever Barred’ From Investigating Trump After DOJ Expands Settlement
The one-page document, which appeared on the DOJ website Tuesday, was signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos
after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely flunked the assignment.
As local outlet AZFamily reported, students and families at the Phoenix-area school were left disoriented when the names being read over the ceremony’s loudspeakers failed to match those of the students actually walking across the stage.
The names displayed on the ceremony’s jumbotron were also…

AI system fails during Glendale Community College graduation ceremony
An AI system malfunctioned during Glendale Community College's commencement, misreading graduate names and pausing the ceremony multiple times.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
has been leaving the digital keys to its own cloud storage accounts sitting out in the open, in plain text form,
for some unknown amount of time,
according to a report from Krebs on Security.
The problem finally got fixed over the weekend, the report says.
The repository was reportedly named “Private-CISA.”
The contents included passwords, keys, and tokens
—and the passwords were plain …

‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub
Passwords were stored as plain text in a public GitHub repository.

Lack of transparency on who manages Trump’s investments adds to questions about possible conflicts of interests that have followed Trump throughout his time in the Oval Office.
"The confusion from the White House as to who manages the president's stock portfolios is deeply troubling,”
Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, acting vice president of policy and government affairs at the Project On Government Oversight, told NOTUS in a statement.
“It would raise serious ethical quest…

What Donald Trump Knows About His Stock Investments
The president is playing the market again as Congress weighs banning elected officials from trading stocks.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday
proposed dropping limits for four cancer-linked “forever chemicals”
in drinking water
established during the Biden administration,
saying the changes were rushed and not in compliance with federal law.
At the same time, the EPA said it is earmarking nearly $1 billion in grant funding for communities to tackle per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other drinking water contaminants that plague water s…

EPA walks back PFAS drinking water protections
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday proposed dropping limits for four cancer-linked “forever chemicals” in drinking water established during the Biden administration, saying the changes were rushed and not in compliance with federal law.

Babies need vitamin K to help their blood clot,
but they aren’t born with enough of it in their system.
Two researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1943 for their discovery of vitamin K and its ability to form clots and stop bleeding in babies,
The vitamin K shot has been a standard intervention for newborns in the U.S. since the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended it more than 60 years ago.
But in recent years, parents have started refusing the shot.

Tiny Footprints, a Blue Blanket: What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died of Vitamin K Deficiency
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.