Schlimme Aussichten für den Rhein! Bis Mitte August nach dem ECMWF Modell keine Chance auf flächigen, ergiebigen Regen im Einzugsgebiet. Lokale Gewitterregen können nicht aufgelöst werden, aber auch in CH wohl nichts Großes. Niedrigwasser bleibt / verschärft sich. /FR
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Österreich: Das war heute der wärmste Tag seit Aufzeichnungsbeginn (vor 259 Jahren) mit einem ALLZEITHITZEREKORD von 41,0 Grad aus Wien Stammersdorf! Aber auch sonst war es unerträglich mit 34 bis 41 Grad! Zum Ablesen in die Länder/Bezirke. #Hitze /CG kachelmannwetter.com/at/messwerte...
Max. Temperatur 2m, 12std, Messwerte Österreich vom 04.08.2026, 20:00 Uhr
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DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
Publicly, Uber proclaims itself to handle sexual violence in a “survivor-centric” way, treating survivors with dignity. But court filings reveal the company's lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy. nyti.ms/455DoVS
Während Verbraucher mit hohen Preisen kämpfen, sprudeln bei den Öl-Multis die Gewinne. Die Rufe nach einer Übergewinnsteuer werden lauter – auch von Donald Trump.
Ölkonzerne: 15 Millionen Dollar pro Stunde: So verdienen Ölkonzerne mit dem Krieg
Während Verbraucher mit hohen Preisen kämpfen, sprudeln bei den Öl-Multis die Gewinne. Die Rufe nach einer Übergewinnsteuer werden lauter – auch von Donald Trump.
zeit.de
12 August: for over one minute, day turns to night 🌑 thanks to a total solar eclipse. But will it be visible from your place? Check out these maps to find out. If you're close to the path of totality, but not within it, it is totally worth the travel! 1/2 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse
Anyone involved in writing, reviewing, or even citing a research paper needs to read @katarinazimmer.bsky.social's phenomenal investigation piece on review mills, just published in @nature.com #academicsky 🧪 #sts #SciComm
‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars
Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?
nature.com
MIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE Brutal conditions with over 50C daytime and over 35C nightime continues. Widespread records allover the area. Some of the most extreme MINIMUMS tonight in the EMIRATES: 38.5 Swiehan 36.8 Al Ain Next days,we might see some MINIMUMS of 40C. Absolutely brutal
Oil profits boom on ‘war bonus’ as Trump blasts energy giants for ‘making too much money’ - business live
Oil profits boom on ‘war bonus’ as Trump blasts energy giants for ‘making too much money’ - business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news While oil company profits soar, farmers across Europe are warning of a slump in food production and rising prices as crops suffer as a result of extreme heat, drought and wildfires. Olive groves have also been hit as the climate crisis drives temperatures across the continent to fresh record highs, meaning the cost of olive oil – already at elevated levels – is expected to start rising again. [BP] prioritises paying shareholders over looking after workers and ordinary people whilst reaping a ‘war bonus’ because of the Iran conflict. The war isn’t only a humanitarian disaster but an economic one for ordinary people, who have ended up paying the price of a ‘Trump Tax’ as the cost of energy rises. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
Do you use Instagram or Gmail? You could be helping to train AI. Big Tech has turned what all of us helped create into a trillion-dollar industry. It’s time to tax AI so you can share in its success.
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
muellershewrote.com
Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.
Wer überzeugt werden möchte, wie wichtig die Petition ist, kann auch mal Fallbeispiele von Christina Mundlos (Initiatorin der Petition) auf Insta lesen. Bin jedesmal fassungslos. www.instagram.com/christina.mu... Deshalb: Unterschreiben und teilen!!!
" Erst die externen Werkzeuge, dann die unabhängigen Betriebssysteme – das Ökosystem wird dichtgemacht, Zugriff auf dein Auto gibt es nur noch auf Volkswagens Bedingungen. "
Volkswagen sperrt GrapheneOS aus – „Sicherheit“, die Google heißt https://grapheneos.de/2026/07/20/volkswagen-sperrt-grapheneos-aus-sicherheit-die-google-heisst/ #GrapheneOS #Datenschutz #Privacy #Android
Unter Drogeneinfluss Auto gefahren und mehrere Menschen verletzt. Achso, es war ein echter Deutscher mit Vermögen und auch noch aus der Politik. Grillenzirpen in den Medien nach besonders harten Strafen. Das ist doch alles nur noch jämmerlich und so abschätzbar widerlich!
Thomas Bareiß: Ermittlungen nach Unfall gegen CDU-Bundestagsabgeordneten
Die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen den CDU-Bundestagsabgeordneten Bareiß. Der Verdacht: Er könnte unter Einfluss eines synthetischen Betäubungsmittels einen Autounfall verursacht haben.
spiegel.de
Israeli strikes in Gaza on Saturday killed at least two people and damaged warehouses for medical supplies, Palestinian officials said, despite a recent deal between President Trump’s Board of Peace and Hamas to advance the Gaza cease-fire.
Israel Bombards Gaza, Days After Trump Announced Deal to Advance Cease-Fire
Palestinian officials said at least two people were killed. The deal announced by President Trump calls in part for Hamas to give up its weapons and Israel to stop its attacks in Gaza.
nyti.ms
So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms
Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.
nytimes.com
Many Americans are going back to old “dumb” phones, and the reason is an older case that is gaining new attention after federal prosecutors charged Atlanta activist Samuel Tunick over a phone that erased itself during a CBP search.
The Trump administration says it isn’t trying to destroy the U.S. Forest Service. Let’s look at the facts. Over the past year, the U.S. Forest Service has lost nearly 7,000 employees through layoffs, buyouts, and other workforce reductions roughly one-quarter of its workforce.
Flawed studies linking hormone therapy to breast cancer made doctors reluctant to prescribe it for menopause relief – especially for breast cancer survivors
Flawed studies linking hormone therapy to breast cancer made doctors reluctant to prescribe it for menopause relief – especially for breast cancer survivors
Menopausal hormone therapy no longer has the highest-level warning label about the risk of breast cancer, opening a gray area on who would benefit most from treatment.
theconversation.com
Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas
Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas
“Landmark” paper finds disease originated with European contact
science.org
🧪 lovely paper on companion animals and wellbeing www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Human-animal interaction: understanding the role of dog and cat interactions in emotional wellbeing
Companion animals are often assumed to benefit human emotional wellbeing, yet empirical evidence for this effect and the proposed stress-buffering mechanism ...
frontiersin.org
The biological burden of long-term financial stress on the brain 🧪 #science 🧠 #brain
Tracking thousands of people from birth to their 80s shows that long-term financial stress may quietly reshape the ageing brain.
This one caught me off guard and I'm literally writing a press release about biofouling deterrents. #ScienceSky #ChemSky 🧪 (throws out nut graf)
As you canvas everything the war in Iran is fucking up, I bet you never even thought of this one! The ships idling in the strait are undergoing "biofouling," picking up all kinds of invasive organisms that they are going to spread everywhere once they're released.