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Ozma

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The union makes us strong. Proud member of the Cringe Community.

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Greg Donovan@gregsdonovan.bsky.social · 8h ago

More space debris is raining down on Earth than ever before — one effect of the frenetic race among governments & companies to reign over the skies. Huge objects weighing a metric ton or more arrive about once a week [Selam Gebrekidan @nytimes.com ] www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...

A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week (Gift Article)

Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?

nytimes.com

Michael Caterino@mcaterino.bsky.social · 9h ago

Alarming, rapid spread of an insecticide-resistant malaria vector. This story, in any sane world, would prompt an immediate, coordinated response among governments, NGOs, researchers, and front-line workers. Instead, "We do not have any funding, and we have only one very old microscope."

An Invasive Mosquito Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening Africa’s Cities (Gift Article)

The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk.

nytimes.com

Dr. Kiki@drkiki.bsky.social · 13h ago

Smoke has taken the Portland skies while so much of Oregon & Washington burn. May you be safe during this fire season. May none of us ever think this is normal. 💔

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10h ago

So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.

Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate By Will Meakin-Durrant Kemi Badenoch has said her party "believes in second chances". , after the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate. Joshua Bonehill-Paine posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward. Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment. He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men". He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London. Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis. "Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism. "Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously. "And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."
Mary McNamara@marymcnamara.bsky.social · 12h ago

Astonishing. Defies explanation. Delusional. “….backed by a formidable lineup of Silicon Valley and Wall Street investors who put their faith in a 20-something founder with no prior professional investing experience.” gift link www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Exclusive | The Investing Heavyweights That Backed Situational Awareness Before It Blew Up

The hedge fund behind aggressive AI bets tapped into a roster of big-name investors. Some warned the founder that he was taking big risks.

wsj.com

Ozma@rowyourbot.bsky.social · 10h ago

I hadn’t realized some Arizona Mormons are turning against Trump. I‘m not shocked about moderate Mormons—I know there are a lot of MAGA Mormons but Mormons vary like most religions. It could really help in AZ if this becomes a trend. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/u...

Trump Divides Arizona’s Crucial Mormon Vote (Published 2024)

Traditionally Republican members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints balked at Donald Trump in 2020, helping Joe Biden win a key swing state. Will they do so with Kamala Harris?

nytimes.com

Patrixmyth@patri.xyz · 12h ago

The party split hasn't turned out to be in the Republican Party but between centrist and more democratic socialist aligned (not necessarily DSA, still Democratic Party aligned) candidates. With centrists peeling off disgusted Republicans, and DSists peeling off, well Democrats.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h ago

So many layers of corruption and institutional rot all packed into one story. Wall Street! Bari Weiss’s CBS! $250M worth of sex trafficking! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

RalfGrahn@ralfgrahn.bsky.social · 11h ago

Iran and Iran are now negotiating how to open the Strait of Hormuz and to open a path to ending Trump's illegal and failed war of aggression. Trump is facing the tough job of declaring victory without losing even more credibility. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Donald Trump trapped between escalation and an Iran deal on Tehran’s terms

US president faces few good options to exit a war he once said would end swiftly with the Islamic republic’s surrender

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RalfGrahn@ralfgrahn.bsky.social · 11h ago

“The two U.S. government officials who were denied entry visas to Brazil,” the Brazilian statement said, “had planned to visit the country to cast doubt on the integrity of Brazil’s electoral system, in an unacceptable attempt to interfere in the country’s political process.“ wapo.st/4bPbz8b

Trump administration cancels Brazilian ambassador’s visa in tit-for-tat

A senior State Department official told reporters in a background briefing that it was a “reciprocal” action because Brazil has not approved President Donald Trump’s nominee as ambassador to Brasilia.

wapo.st

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 16h ago

The one-to-one parallel of the Fauci figure in this story is particularly interesting, and even sadder that the Fauci figure committed suicide in protest. A propaganda paper called his suicide "a haven of moral cowards who preferred the shelter of death to public exposure of their shortcomings.”

The maverick at the center of Chicago’s 1918 flu response - Chicago Reader

Meet Dr. John Dill Robertson, the "utterly unqualified" head of the Chicago Health Department

chicagoreader.com

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 16h ago

This is a wildly prescient story about Chicago's proto-RFK Jr., in charge of public health during the Spanish Flu. He thought beer killed malaria and that bathing could kill you. He had a feud with an actual TB doctor, who insisted bathing is good. He bullied the TB doctor until he killed himself.

Sachs believed that the new administration was undermining patient care by making hiring and contract decisions based on political connections. Thompson and Robertson in turn accused Sachs of being financially extravagant, incompetent, and dictatorial. As Sachs resigned from the sanitarium he had worked tirelessly to build, Frank Billings, one of the most respected physicians in the city, called Robertson “utterly unqualified.” On April 2, 1916, Sachs committed suicide. For reformers and the medical establishment, Sachs was a martyr to grotesque political corruption. Although The Republican, a propaganda sheet literally published in an office in City Hall, sneered that suicide “occasionally has been a haven of moral cowards who preferred the shelter of death to public exposure of their shortcomings,” Robertson took a less confrontational tone after Sachs’s death. Still, he refused to step down.