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The State Department is considering 🔥withholding lifesaving assistance to people with H.I.V. in Zambia as a negotiating tactic ⚠️ to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to the country’s critical minerals.
“We will only secure our priorities by demonstrating willingness to publicly take support away from Zambia on a massive scale,”
a draft of a memo prepared for Secretary of State Marco Rubio by the department’s …

No H.I.V. Aid Without More Access to Minerals: U.S. Ponders ‘Sticks’ Against Zambia
A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”

Went to a friend's memorial service this morning - it was as much an astrophysics symposium as a memorial.

McClatchy sues Google, claiming Google illegally monopolizes the online ad market and deprives McClatchy of ad revenue, echoing Penske Media's earlier lawsuit (Sofia Saric/Miami Herald)
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article314325407.html

Quantitative chemical mapping with XMapTools: Workflows for EPMA, SEM and LA-ICP-MS workshop May 25 at GAC-MAC conference in St. John's, Canada. Plus, other exciting sessions! #geology #mineralogy 🧪⚒️

GAC-MAC 2026 St. John's
Join GAC-MAC 2026 St. John's, May 25-28, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Hank Bee:
🎵 This Time Around
#HankBee
https://memorialsofdistinction.bandcamp.com/track/this-time-around
https://open.spotify.com/track/1DS6ShlxnqgNMxgjoWOKON

RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116232505890032336
If you're reading only one thing today, let it be this thread below, connecting the Straight of Hormuz with the recursive risks & dependencies to fertilizers, food safety, energy, minerals, EV…

#FotoVorschlag 'Objekte die mit M beginnen'
Malachit
Aufgenommen in der Terra Mineralia Freiberg.
#Malachit #TerraMineralia

#Japan startet eine Tiefseemission zur Förderung von #SelteneErden, um die Abhängigkeit von #China zu verringern.
Das Forschungsschiff Chikyu soll mineralhaltigen Schlamm aus 6 Kilometern Tiefe n…

Japan beginnt Tiefseemission zur Förderung Seltener Erden
Japan will seine Abhängigkeit von chinesischen Seltenen Erden verringern und sucht nach einer Möglichkeit, sie im eigenen Land zu fördern.

Protesters in Cuba set fire to Communist Party building; one person shot (Nora Gšmez Torres/Miami Herald)
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article315052027.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p27#a260314p27

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
MEMORIALS:
🎵 Dropped Down The Well
#MEMORIALS
https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dropped-down-the-well
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HZk6tx9agpLwiknkqTW7f