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  Arctic Sea Ice appeared to be entering a new phase. In the early 2020s, the rapid decline seen over previous decades seemed to ease, leading scientists to ask whether winter sea ice loss had slowed. Our new study suggests that conclusion was premature. After two exceptionally low-ice winters in 2025 and 2026, the recent slowdown disappears. The almost 6% drop between 2024 and 2025 was the largest single-year decline on record. The latest observations restore a statistically significant downward...

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  In September of 2024, during a Presidential Debate watched by roughly seventy million Americans, the man who is now president again looked into a camera and said that Immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating the pets of the people who lived there. “They’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats,” he said, with the specific gravity of a man reading a caption off a meme he did not personally verify, because that is exactly what he was doing. https://hrnews1.substack....

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  The leading "Scientist" urging policymakers not to criminalize Kratom, a substance that has left a trail of death and addiction around the world, has routinely failed to disclose longstanding financial ties to the industry’s most powerful lobbying group, ProPublica has found. University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for an annual symposium on research into the leaf’s medicinal p...

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  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways when filing recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities, creating confusion about his net worth and holdings, a review by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, reported owning seven homes but said he earned no income from any. Yet all but one was listed for rent during the reporting periods, and some current residents and neighbors at those add...

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  He “knows how to wind people up like Trump”, according to friends, and made his name in the UK with zany policy ideas including making the country sunnier using state-owned cloud busters. Now the controversial strategist Steve Hilton, named the “pint-sized Rasputin” of Conservative politics, has become an unlikely frontrunner in the primary race for California governor. His rhetorical flair remains familiar – credited with coming up with the “hug a hoodie” campaign for David Cameron’s governme...

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  When Cincinnati-based pharmaceutical company William S. Merrell applied for Food and Drug Administration approval for a German-made sedative in late 1960, it expected the application to sail through the process and be on store shelves in time for Christmas. The drug, thalidomide, was not approved that year or the next. A persistent medical reviewer at the FDA kept the drug from being approved for general use. Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey's actions fundamentally changed the agency's...

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  Deb Anderson can't remember the last time she bought a product from the United States. Like many Canadians, the 65 year old from Prospect, N.S., said she's been alarmed by U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated threats against Canada — and she's been boycotting American goods in protest. So when she read on Friday that Canada was prepared to lift a ban on American alcohol sales as part of its trade negotiations with the Trump administration, Anderson says she felt disappointed....

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  Entire Community of Summerland ordered to evacuate due to fast-moving wildfire. The Bald Range wildfire grew rapidly to 50 square kilometres in size within hours. Jacqueline Gelineau · CBC News · (Aug 07, 2026) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/summerland-bc-wildfire-aug-7-9.7300528 #WildFire #Summerland #BC #Canada

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  A Federal Judge in Washington has temporarily halted an order requiring trump to hand over financial records about his businesses to the BBC, as the broadcaster defends an ongoing defamation lawsuit over its documentary about his January 6, 2021, speech. The pause is temporary, however, and does not resolve the central dispute over whether the BBC's documentary amounted to defamation or whether trump's businesses suffered legally recognisable harm. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/judge-halts-...

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  Uefa says Infantino apology 'changes nothing' & World Cup Boycott may still go ahead. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cq141pvn27evt #Football #FIFA boycott #Infantino 🚽 #UK

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  A US Senate committee has voted to hold former top health official Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he refused to answer questions during a hearing focused on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1m18158my9o #Vaccines #Fauci ❤️ #USA #maha #maga #asshats #trump 🚽

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  Florida is aiming to become the first US state to cancel all of its vaccine mandates, many of which require children to get jabs against diseases like polio in order to attend public schools. The state's top health official, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, likened the mandates to "slavery", in announcing the plans. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in your body?" he said. "I don't have that right. Your body is a gift from God." https...

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  Anthony Fauci: Trump Administration needs to stop ‘public harassment’ of Fauci and other scientists, open letter says. Letter, published before Anthony Fauci will appear before Congress, accuses Republicans of ‘waging a war on individual scientists.’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/trump-administration-fauci-scientists #Science #Fauci #USA #Covid

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  France and Spain race to control wildfires as fresh heatwave hits, as UN warns ‘the climate alarm is blaring’ – Europe live. Spanish PM also says the fires serve as a reminder to plan for the ‘worsening’ climate emergency. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/28/europe-wildfires-fires-heatwave-bordeaux-france-spain-latest-news-updates #ClimateChange #EU #Spain #France #HeatWave

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  The world’s biggest ultra-processed food companies have filed scores of lawsuits challenging government policies that tackle junk diets, the Guardian can reveal. Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body and poses a seismic threat to global health. Worldwide consumption is rising and UPF now makes up as much as half the average diet in many countries, including the UK, the US and Australia. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/22/process...

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  Norway has opened a new memorial for the 77 victims of the country's deadliest terror attack in peacetime, days before its 15th anniversary. On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo and shot dead another 69 - mostly teenagers - at a youth camp on Utoeya island. Hundreds more were injured in Norway's worst atrocity in recent history. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07r9m22gyyo #terror #Norway #Memorial #22.07.2011 #violence #BBC

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  A wave of voter anger over massive data center projects is beginning to reshape U.S. politics, with local officials and senior lawmakers losing elections after backing controversial developments tied to the artificial intelligence boom. https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327 #AI #DataCenters #Environment

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  OTD 1943, Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Spain and France, killing actor Leslie Howard and several other notable passengers. [Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Howard

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  An 18-year-old man has been charged with four misdemeanors after allegedly pulling down a trans woman’s skirt and underwear in the middle of Ohio’s Cedar Point amusement park on Tuesday evening. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/man-tased-after-he-allegedly-pantsed-a-trans-woman-in-front-of-children-at-an-amusement-park/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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  Happy Pride Month to all. 🎉