A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...
Mary F. Kesson
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“A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to infringe on their liberty.”
The important thing to know about boots is that Dr. Martens was bought by a private equity firm a while back, the boots are now garbage in terms of construction quality, but Solovair set up to make similar boots on the old equipment in the old factory and their versions are much better quality.
Will Wilkinson@wlknsn.xyz · 4w agoMy take on boots discourse is that we face a lemons problem with many consumer goods, given the acquisition of many storied brands by companies aggressively milking accumulated brand equity for higher profits, such that price and reputation for durability does not reliably predict higher roi.
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
Ian Weissman, DO@drianweissman.bsky.social · last yr.The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses. As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
With apologies to Balogun, in a football controversy between 🇺🇸 and 🇧🇪, it’s clear who we should be supporting.
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
Dozens gathered in downtown Providence Thursday morning, calling on Citizens Bank to stop funding companies that operate federal immigration detention centers. Full story: https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/protestors-rally-outside-citizens-bank-hq-over-ice-funding-ties/
COMMENTARY: After last fall’s service cuts to Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority service, the state bus system's diminished size is not big enough for everyday Rhode Islanders. By @dariaphoebe.com
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Drives me nuts. It’s Persian! Calling it ‘Farsi’ in English is like calling German ‘Deutsch.’ The correct English name is Persian, and using it keeps the language properly situated historically and culturally.
Let's say Geno is correct - that he confronted Staley because she snubbed him at halfcourt before the game. That implies he was thinking about that during the entire game, and it was more important than anything else at its end. Really?
After successfully pressing Avelo Airlines to end deportation flights for the federal government, anti-ICE protestors are ramping up pressure on another corporate target: Providence-based Citizens Bank.
Anti-ICE protests to hit Citizens Bank over ties to prison management companies - The Boston Globe
Protests are planned at more than 60 Citizens branches on Saturday in states including Massachusetts and Rhode Island, over the bank's involvement with companies that run ICE detention centers.
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Interestingly, a lot of people are asking whether the rules of war apply differently depending on whether there’s a declared war or not. Most do not. Most depend only to a “state of belligerency” existing in fact, regardless of official declarations.
You have clearly not read the War Powers Act, Mike. Everything you've written is totally wrong. The War Powers Act SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITS military action unless: a/ there is a prior congressional authorization; or b/ it's a response to an attack against the U.S.
From aviation-world reporting experience, I know something about planes like the flying yacht/spa/hotel/bistro/737MAX that Noem has ordered for herself, at our expense. Many "real" billionaires would consider this too ostentatious. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
This is an important point. As yet Andrew has not been arrested for anything involving Giuffre, which is difficult to prove in court. They have him on information in the Epstein files regarding his time as trade envoy, which was well known to be corrupt. They mean to put him in prison.
McDaragh@mcdaragh.bsky.social · 6mo agoAlso, they've currently got him on the money rather than the sex, sir.
We don’t need the luge drone, but we’re happy to have it.
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
I’d like to lock him in a room with John King to review the results of those races.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoMike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Immigrants in the US consumed about 24% fewer welfare and entitlement benefits per capita than native-born Americans in 2023, new Cato Institute research finds. Learn more from Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo: https://ow.ly/2w4Z50Y4Bsj
Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x
Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.
If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.