| Time |
Event |
| 2:38a |
Food and Drug Administration staff cuts
*The
FDA
labs that test food to prevent illness have been affected by wider
health and human services staff cuts.* Some tests have ceased to be
made. |
| 2:38a |
Toxic metals in cropland
*About
15% of world’s cropland polluted with toxic metals, say
researchers.*
I wonder if there is a feasible way to decontaminate large areas of soil.
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| 2:38a |
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| 2:38a |
Urgent: GOP weak in all voting districts
US citizens: call on the Democratic Party to run candidates all across
the country in 2026, to
take
advantage of the hostility and resentment generated by the
Republicans that hate our freedoms.
|
| 2:38a |
Were Gaza paramedics murdered?
Autopsies of [the Gaza paramedics] killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to
head
and torso’.
This is additional evidence that they were murdered.
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| 2:38a |
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| 8:39a |
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| 8:39a |
Toxic heavy metals
*About 15% of world’s cropland polluted with toxic metals,
say researchers.*
I wonder if there is a feasible way to decontaminate large areas of soil.
|
| 8:39a |
Doge agency
The DOPE agency demanded to mess with an NGO because it received
some
government funds.
The agency personnel were embarrassed to discover that the wrecker had
cancelled the government support a few weeks before.
|
| 8:39a |
Lyft convo transcription
Canadian friends riding in a Lyft car found that their conversation
had been recorded and sent in the form of text to
the
phone of one of them.
This is supposed to be illegal, but Lyft says it shouldn't have been possible
and it doesn't understand what happened.
I can't draw any specific moral conclusions about Lyft from these fragments
of understanding, but it is clear that microphones in cars are dangerous
and taxi passengers should be able to switch them off.
|
| 8:39a |
Kilmar Garcia
The bully admits that deporting Kilmar Ábrego Garcia was a "mistake",
but he shows no contrition about the harm that it did to Ábrego and to
his family. He joins Bully Bukele in laughing at their
suffering.
Note the curious contrast between the bully's ready admission that he
has no authority to order Bukele to release Ábrego to the US, when it
is an excuse to allow Bukele to do what the bully really wants Bukele
to do. Contrast this with what the bully does when he wants to impose
his will by force in the US in situations where legally he has no such
right.
|
| 8:39a |
Legal saga of Ábrego Kilmar
Detailed history of the case of
Kilmar
Ábrego García.
President Bukele justifies holding him in prison on the supposed
grounds that he is a "terrorist", but has not tried to prove that that
is true. He has not had a trial to justify that claim.
Under Bukele's "war on drugs", it is normal to imprison people for
years and trials are considered unimportant.
The greatest outrage of this case for the United States is that
the bully and Bukele are blatantly conspiring to respond to the
Supreme Court by coordinated deceptions.
The bully's deception is the claim that he has no influence
over Bukele.
Bukele's deception is the claim that (1) Ábrego is a terrorist though
he was never tried for this, (2) this somehow forbids Bukele to let him
go to the US at the US request, and (3) allowing him to go to the US
with US permission would be "smuggling".
The two deceptions are designed so that there is no way to prove
that either of them is false, even though by common sense we can be
completely sure they are false. The message to the Supreme Court is,
"We can use these deceptions to thumb our noses at your rulings."
A US senator went to El Salvador and asked to speak with Ábrego.
The vice president told him that was somehow impossible,
as
some law of nature.
Homan, the Tsar's "border tsar" called Ábrego a "terrorist".
Since Ábrego has not sought publicity, can he win a lawsuit for libel
against Homan?
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| 8:39a |
Berkeley Fire Safety
Berkeley, California, is about to vote on new fire safety rules
designed to slow the
spread
of wildfires.
The rules include having no plants (and other flammable material)
within 5ft of a residence.
I wonder why this does not include other kinds of buildings,
in the areas that are most vulnerable.
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| 8:39a |
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| 8:39a |
Trump’s coal expansion
The saboteur in chief wants to expand coal mines, and is cutting
programs that try to protect the workers from getting sick
from
working in a coal mine.
|
| 8:39a |
Forever chemicals
*Fears that UK military bases may be leaking toxic "forever chemicals"
into
drinking water.*
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