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Friday, July 18th, 2025

    Time Event
    2:38a
    Loss of cancer research using mRNA

    *"Tremendous uncertainty" for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines.*

    A substantial fraction of people get cancer. You could be one of them. The research they are canceling could have saved your life.

    2:38a
    Urgent: Endangered Species Act

    US citizens: phone your congresscritter and urge per to reject all the efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act.

    The wrecker has clever advisors who can write modifications that seem minor but will indirectly make a big change for the worse.

    If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

    2:38a
    Urgent: VA pledge not to discriminate

    US citizens: call on the Department of Veterans Affairs to pledge not to discriminate, for patients or for staff, based on political affiliation, marital status, or national origin.

    Does anyone think the persecutor is so virtuous that we need not worry about this danger?

    2:38a
    Deportations to South Sudan, US

    The deportation thugs told eight prisoners they were being transported to another deportation prison in Louisiana. This was a lie: they were being tricked into being deported to violent and dangerous South Sudan.

    Such trickery should be punished as a crime. It is bad enough to be deported with some notice. Even people awaiting deportation have some rights, and deserve human decency. This lie denied them both.

    8:38a
    Lula on globalization

    Lula: *With the world in crisis, many say end globalization. I say that would be a mistake.*

    I more or less agree. We need to reorganize global trade so that it doesn't put plutocrats in a dominant position, not abolish it.

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    8:38a
    Israeli airstrike

    Gazans who survived an attack while they were trying to collect food packages report that other nearly civilians were shot with targeted fire.

    8:38a
    mRNA vaccines

    *"Tremendous uncertainty" for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines.*

    A substantial fraction of people get cancer. You could be one of them. The research they are canceling could have saved your life.

    8:38a
    Doge fraud

    The DOPE's accusations of unemployment fraud are themselves a fraud. Many are records of claims that were denied years ago because they were found to be invalid.

    8:38a
    Sayfollet Musallet

    *Family of US citizen beaten to death by Israeli ["settlers"] calls on [US government] to prosecute killers.*

    I don't believe the persecutor would try to do that, or that he would care much about the murder of an American who wasn't his loyal supporter.

    8:38a
    (satire) White House evacuated

    (satire) WASHINGTON— *In a stunning security breach that reportedly left many top-ranking administration officials vulnerable to attack, the White House was evacuated Tuesday after the building’s trans alarm went off.*

    8:38a
    Job Garcia

    *US man arrested while filming Home Depot Ice raid sues government for $1m.*

    Uniformed thugs have gone around brutalizing innocent people for decades, if not millennia. The US government used to impose rules on violent thug departments to keep their violence in check.

    Now, by contrast, the bully encourages thugs to let their cruelest appetites run away with them.

    8:38a
    PM Ehud Olmert

    Ehud Olmert, prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, says that the supposed "humanitarian city" on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp.

    He also condemned Israel's government for supporting the organized campaign of pogroms against Palestinians in the West Bank rejecting its denials of that support), and for committing war crimes in Gaza.

    8:38a
    Special envoy’s plan

    The Australian government has named a "special envoy to combat antisemitism", choosing someone known for fervent support for Israel.

    Usually a special envoy is appointed for Australia to influence other countries, but in this case it seems to be the reverse: a way for the Australian government to tell Australians to pay more attention to heed her repetition of Israeli policies that confound criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

    [This plan] is the latest push to weaponize antisemitism in Australia, as a relentless campaign pays off.

    *Labor Friends of Palestine concerned by [the "envoy"'s] recommendation government adopt IHRA’s contested [criterion for] antisemitism.*

    The main author of that criterion said that it is not suitable for this purpose.

    8:38p
    Gaza's healthcare system being destroyed

    *Gaza's healthcare system is being destroyed by targeted attacks.* Israel has killed 1400 medical personnel in Gaza, with persistent attacks against medical clinics and hospitals.

    600 Israeli medical practitioners have signed a letter condemning Israel for the war crime of killing medical personnel in war.

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    8:38p
    Australian government has jailed Gazan grandmother

    The Australian government has jailed the Gazan grandmother of a family in Australia. The government says it did this because she is a security threat, but refuses to explain how that could be so. Two other people from Gaza were likewise jailed.

    The government said it won't send them back to Gaza. Maybe that means it will send them to some remote prison island such as Manus Island.

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    8:38p
    Israeli "settlers" murder Palestinian-American

    Israeli Extremist "settlers" murdered a Palestinian-American who was visiting his family in the West Bank. After injuring him, they blocked medics from reaching him until he died.

    They killed another Palestinian by shooting him.

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    8:38p
    Judge order on arrests by deportation thugs

    A judge ordered the deportation thugs not to arrest anyone without specific grounds about that person. Mere racial profiling is not enough grounds.

    Here's how Angelenos have learned to respond to the daily raids.

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    8:38p
    Too polite in fight against fossil fuel giants

    *Democrats and climate groups "too polite" in fight against "malevolent" fossil fuel giants, says key senator [Sheldon Whitehouse].*

    </li>
    8:38p
    Stop antisocial media recommendation algorithms

    Calling on Europe to require antisocial media platforms to stop using recommendation algorithms.

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