@vagoo.bsky.social Hey don’t reply and deny others from responding..cowardly. Second settlers are not all the people of Israel. Third it’s not diplomatic to make sweeping generalizations bordering on antisemitic when you need thousand of Jewish folks votes.

Lawmakers from Oregon, California, Nevada, Minnesota, and New Hampshire specifically called out Polymarket, which hosted bets in January 2025 on the wildfires in Los Angeles.

Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets

Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.

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Orca breaching, Tacoma, Washington 📸Air, Water, Land

A new study shows that among people hospitalized with COVID19, other viruses such as EBV, HSV1, and CMV may be reactivated. This effect isn’t limited to those who are immunocompromised, either. So if you’re wondering why I’m still masking indoors in public, have a read.

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you

Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.

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Majestic mountains along Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta. #photographersofbluesky #nature #mountains #canada #landscapephotography #travel

Absolutely stunning dianthus I saw today in a train station planter 🌼😍 #flower

Hillary Clinton lost to Barack Obama in 2008 and she stood behind him and made a difference I give credit to Haley Stevens in Michigan not wasting any time to unite behind Abdul El-Sayed It’s all about defeating the Republican political hack establishment candidate going forward !!

Why do we bother obeying the law and paying our taxes when the President does neither? He is playing us all for fools!

One of the most incredible and also devastating interviews of my life. I got to speak with Cherisse Du Preez, head of deepwater ecology at Fisheries and Oceans Canada. She is that scientist that has been piloting ROVs and exploring Canada's incredible deep seas. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

Deep-Sea Mining Would Devastate Ocean Life, DFO Scientist Warns | The Tyee

Some creatures that ‘survived all of Earth’s mass extinctions’ might not make it if we go ahead.

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“.. 15 companies with investment from President Donald Trump’s sons have garnered $3.2 billion in federal contracts, investments, and loans — most coming after Trump took office for the second time.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

NEW from me: I think this is the perfect time to use Rachel Maddow’s oft-repeated phrase - ‘watch what they do- not what they say.’ Ignore Ellison's PR pitch, but look at what's happening at CBS News including directing reporters to add “facts” that did not exist. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

David Ellison can’t be trusted with CNN

We've already seen how Ellison has wrecked CBS. Don't fall for his PR push on CNN.

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Trump is rolling out yet another key plank of Project 2025: privatizing airport security. History has shown us time and again this makes both workers and passengers less safe. Everything is for sale under Trump.

TSA Privatization Returns Airport Security to a Dangerous Past - The American Prospect

The Trump administration wants airport screening to revert to the way it was before 9/11, when private security companie

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Proud that Elias Law Group is helping the Democratic Party fight for voting rights and free and fair elections. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

Marc Elias Firm Rebounds as Key DNC Litigator for Midterms

Marc Elias and his firm have reemerged as a top legal adviser for the Democratic National Committee after the party organization cut back work with the prominent elections attorney during the 2024 cam...

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This doesn’t sound like graft and corruption. On the backs and lives and freedom of little children. This regime is so vile. And so crooked. We all deserve so much better. These kids deserve better.

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26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

FT: UAE's imperial push into Africa UAE is now a bigger investor in Africa than China,UK,France,US! UAE's dark king MBZ is supporting/extracting from african actors (particularly in north africa) with investments in logistics, gold, copper, arms, farming www.ft.com/content/a4c6...

So sad for this young lady and child! She lost her spouse for #TrumpsUnnecessayWar Repost #Blues #TrumpsWar

The entire GOP are treasonous traitors who have stabbed America in the back!

"Fragments of Unseen Happiness" by Spanish artist Nadiia Antoniuk.

Inca Jay 30 cm lives in the Andean mountain range of South America Their omnivorous diet includes insects, small vertebrates, seeds, and fruits. Male and female are identical males are only slightly bolder or more vocal. They sometimes use small sticks as tools to pry bugs out of tree bark.

"Every power that suspends its rules to defeat an enemy risks teaching its institutions that the law is optional whenever officials can find the right label for the person beneath their control," writes @jamilsmith.bsky.social.

Nolan’s Odyssey shows what happens when a leader’s violations are rewarded | Jamil Smith

The Greeks learn at Troy that breaking the rules works, then carry the lesson home. Nolan’s film shows how an exception becomes a habit of power

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AB’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Firsts, your earliest bird capture(s). Alt is @atlanticbirding.bsky.social’s most captured family: #Robins #birds #birding #eck The very first bird photos I saved! I was amazed by all its wonderful colors, and I still am! @luiscavalcanti.bsky.social

Todd Blanche’s written assurance that the $1.8 billion slush fund won’t go forward is garbage. It won’t go forward today. What about tomorrow once Blanche is confirmed as AG? Tillis and Cornyn, agreeing to advance Blanche, are pathetic.

Dasia Taylor,now 22, developed a surgical suture that changes color in response to pH changes associated with wound infections. #Invention #Innovation #MedicalBreakthroughs

Happy 65th Birthday, August 4th, to the best President in US History. The black man "they" feared, led with humor, dignity & grace for 8 yrs scandal-free, has a beautiful & accomplished family, and is beloved by millions around the world. @barackobama.bsky.social #BarackObama #ThePeoplesPresident

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming

A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...

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I think any smart Democratic administration would consider him. Whether or not he would *want* the job is hard to say.

Five years ago, I left a partnership at a large, prestigious law firm because I wanted to more fully engage in representing clients in the political process at this unique moment in history. newsletters.democracydocket.com/paul-weiss-f...

Republican Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young GOP talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism. “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots,” one senior GOP congressional staffer said.

GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem

Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young Republican talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism.

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🧵 What is REALLY happening at the Ceuta border in Spain? It is not just a migration crisis—it is a textbook example of hybrid warfare, where human movement is weaponized for geopolitical leverage to destabilise Europe. Here is a breakdown of the players 👇

Why is Ceuta a migration flashpoint and how were so many people able to cross from Morocco?

An estimated 50,000 people attempted the journey to the Spanish territory in chaotic and dangerous scenes that resulted in dozens of deaths

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