Several National Weather Service offices in Texas are considerably understaffed.

Trump Dodges Questions on Texas Floods, National Weather Service Cuts

^{Chris Walker (Truthout)}

Protecting donkeys helps protect the people who depend on them to survive the ongoing crisis, says a Gaza veterinarian.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/truthout.org…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Amid Gaza’s Devastated Infrastructure, Donkey Carts Function as Ambulances | Truthout

^{Samantha Borek (Truthout)}

It's been a while since we've had a fan art competition for community artists, so we're very excited to bring it back! We're launching a fan art competition themed around the Secrets of the Atlas expansion and everything introduced in it. The prize pool includes Path of Exile merchandise and in-game microtransactions.

Prizes

Top Three Winners

• Forum avatar based on the winning submission
• Path of Exile 1 Art Book
• Your choice of one signed Path of Exile poster
• Your choice of two Path of Exile T-shirts
• Chaos Orb Socks
• A random Path of Exile Pin
• Your choice of an Armour Set (an Armour Set from the list below)
• Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
• Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)

4-5th Place

• Path of Exile 1 Art Book
• Your choice of one Path of Exile T-shirt
• Chaos Orb Socks
• A random Path of Exile Pin
• Your choice of an Armour Set (an Armour Set from the list below)
• Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
• Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)

6-10th Place

• Your choice of one Path of Exile T-shirt
• Chaos Orb Socks
• A random Path of Exile Pin
• Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
• Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)

11-20th Place

• Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)

Runners-Up

• Your choice of a Helmet/Helmet Effect (a Helmet/Helmet Effect from the list below)

Microtransaction Prize Pool

::: spoiler List of Armour Sets

• Arcane Armour Pack
• Alabaster Seraph Pack
• Arctic Crystal Armour Pack
• Automaton Armour Pack
• Black Armour Pack
• Bleached Demon King Armour Pack
• Blood Guard Armour Set
• Carnage Armour Pack
• Coldsnap Armour Pack
• Coliseum Armour Pack
• Corsair Armour Set
• Darkprism Armour Pack
• Deicide Armour Pack
• Demon Parasite Armour Set
• Deepwater Armour Pack
• Desert Armour Pack
• Dragon Armour Pack
• Elven Knight Armour Pack
• Elite Armour Pack
• Executioner Armour Pack
• Extinction Armour Set
• Faith Guard Armour Set
• Fallen Angel Armour Pack
• Fire Armour Pack
• Gargoyle Armour Set
• Ghostflame Armour Pack
• Gloom Armour Pack
• Gore Armour Pack
• Gorgon Armour Pack
• Gothic Armour Pack
• Gryffon Armour Pack
• Harpyon Armour Pack
• Heartseeker Armour Pack
• Huntsman Armour Set
• Ice Armour Pack
• Innocence Armour Pack
• Ivory Chaos Armour Pack
• Lightning Armour Pack
• Lunaris Armour Pack
• Mageguard Armour Set
• Malachai Armour Pack
• Merchant Armour Pack
• Miracle Armour Set
• Mystic Armour Set
• Necrotic Armour Pack
• Obsidian Seraph Pack
• Project Armour Pack
• Pure Light Armour Pack
• Purple Crystal Armour Pack
• Purple Pyre Knight Armour Pack
• Pyre Knight Armour Pack
• Radiant Armour Pack
• Raven Armour Pack
• Ringmaster Armour Set
• Scientist Armour Pack
• Seawitch Armour Pack
• Sin Armour Pack
• Sphinx Armour Pack
• Steam-powered Armour Pack
• Stormcaller Armour Pack
• Ultimate Chaos Armour Pack
• Vampiric Armour Pack
• Verdant Armour Pack
• Viper Armour Set
• Warlock Armour Pack
• Wasteland Armour Set
• Wasteland Warrior Armour Pack
• White Armour Pack
• Wrangler Armour Set
  :::

::: spoiler List of Portal Effects

• Arcane Portal
• Arcane Voidgate Portal Effect
• Arctic Crystal Portal Effect
• Arctic Portal Effect
• Automaton Portal
• Balefire Portal Effect
• Black Portal Effect
• Corsair Portal
• Daresso Portal Effect
• Darkprism Portal Effect
• Demon King Portal Effect
• Divine Arcane Portal
• Divine Demon King Portal
• Divine Stygian Portal Effect
• Dreadspire Portal Effect
• Fire Portal Effect
• Frost Viking Portal Effect
• Ghostflame Stygian Portal Effect
• Golden Angel Portal
• Gore Portal Effect
• Havenwood Portal
• Huntsman Portal
• Infernal Demon King Portal
• Infernal Stygian Portal Effect
• Innocence Portal
• Kaom Portal Effect
• Kraken Portal Effect
• Legion Portal Effect
• Madcap Portal
• Malachai Portal Effect
• Maraketh Portal
• Miracle Portal
• Mist Portal Effect
• Myrmidon Portal Effect
• Mystic Portal
• Necrotic Demon King Portal
• Project Portal Effect
• Pure Light Portal Effect
• Ringmaster Portal Effect
• Scientist Portal Effect
• Seraph Portal Effect
• Spectre Portal Effect
• Steam-powered Portal Effect
• Stormcaller Stygian Portal Effect
• Sulphite Portal
• Temple Portal Effect
• Vampiric Portal
• Wasteland Portal
• Wild Portal
  :::

::: spoiler List of Helmets and Helmet Effects

• Abyss Eyes
• Antlers
• Apocalypse Helmet Attachment
• Aquila Crest Helmet Attachment
• Arcane Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
• Arcane Halo
• Arcane Mark of the Phoenix
• Arcane Visage
• Arctic Crown
• Arctic Skull
• Assassin Halo Helmet Attachment
• Assassin Seer Helmet Attachment
• Aureate Halo
• Automaton Halo
• Bent Horns
• Black Headband
• Black Pirate Bandana
• Bleached Skull Helmet
• Blood Guard Helmet Attachment
• Brilliant Crown
• Brilliant Feathers
• Cephalopod Tricorne
• Chaos Orb Helmet
• Coliseum Helmet Attachment
• Corrupted Skull
• Cow Skull
• Curved Horns
• Darkprism Helmet Attachment
• Demon King Horns
• Despair Helmet Attachment
• Divine Ice Crown
• Divine Sign
• Divine Skull
• Dragon Mask
• Druidic Helmet
• Eye Patch
• Faith Guard Helmet Attachment
• Fiery Eyes
• Fiery Visage
• Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
• Flambeau Helmet
• Frost Viking Alternate Helmet
• Frost Viking Helmet Attachment
• Ghostflame Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
• Ghostflame Skull
• Glowing Red Eyes
• Glorious Helmet
• Gore Skull
• Gorgon Snakes Helmet Attachment
• Guardian Mask
• Harmonious Helmet Attachment
• Harmonious Hood
• Holy Eyes
• Ice Crown
• Ice Horns
• Incursion Hood
• Infernal Skull
• Innocence Laurel Helmet Attachment
• Iron Brand
• Iron Maiden
• Lightning Eyes
• Lightning Skull
• Mark of the Phoenix
• Medusa Snakes
• Misery Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
• Misery Helmet Attachment
• Nightfall Helmet Attachment
• Oriath Helmet Attachment
• Oshabi's Headdress
• Phoenix Helmet
• Plague Doctor Helmet
• Purple Divine Sign
• Purple Eyes
• Purple Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
• Purple Skull Helmet
• Purple Smoking Hood
• Rapture Helmet Attachment
• Red Headband
• Red Pirate Bandana
• Rose Skull
• Serrated Mohawk
• Shardcrown
• Sin and Innocence Helmet Attachment
• Sin Talon Helmet Attachment
• Skull Hood
• Smoking Hood
• Spirit Charm
• Steam-powered Skull
• Suffering Helmet Attachment
• Sunrise Helmet Attachment
• Swan Crest Helmet Attachment
• Thorned Skull
• Twilight Helmet Attachment
• Twisted Bone Horns
• Twisted Horns
• Undead Outcast Helmet
• Vaal Orb Helmet
• Wasteland Horns
  :::

How to Enter

Create still art that is inspired by anything introduced in the Secrets of the Atlas expansion. This excludes video submissions but does include any painting, drawing or model creation. Then just submit your work in this thread.

Multiple submissions are welcome and encouraged. Please note that the submission needs to be your own work and needs to have been created after the launch of the competition.

If you're unsure how to share an image on the forum, just follow these steps:

• 
  
  1. Go to imgur.com

  
  

• 
  
  1. Go to 'new post' and drag your images into the window.

  
  

• 
  
  1. Once the image has been uploaded, right click it and click 'Copy image address'.

  
  

• 
  
  1. Click reply to this post and paste the link into the window with at the end.

  
  

• 
  
  1. When you click 'post', your image should be displayed!

  
  

Conditions

• The competition starts at the time of this post and will end on Tuesday the 29th of July at 10PM PDT. Submissions made after this time will not be counted. We'll post the winners sometime in the following days.
• Any work that is submitted must be your own and must be created after the launch of this competition.
• AI generated art will not be accepted. We reserve the right to disqualify your entry if we believe that it is AI generated.
• Multiple submissions are welcome.

Best of luck to everyone who is participating in the competition!

https://www.reddit.com/r/FDroidUpdates/comments/1lu0yzd/mon_07_jul_2025_174143_gmt_1_apps_added_11/

⟳ apt.izzysoft.de from Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:43:39 GMT updated on Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:41:43 GMT contains 1323 apps.

Added (1)

Torrent Search: search and download torrents from multiple sources

Updated (11)

Easter Eggs (version 65): Collections the Android release Easter Egg.
ETH & UZH canteens Zürich (version 34): Daily menu of the canteens of ETH & UZH.
APatch (version 11107): The patching of Android kernel and Android system
Transfer (version 305): A local file server Android app. Upload and download files over Wi-Fi
SoundCrowd (version 81): Music player with waveform support for music sets
Specifically Clementines (version 1010700): self hosted grocery shopping app
qBitController (version 22): Remotely control qBittorrent from any device
Bura (version 18): Modern weather app with graphs and thoughtful data visualization
Peristyle (version 880): Simple wallpaper manager app with Auto Wallpaper and Multi Folder support.
Capy Reader (version 1145): A smallish RSS reader
Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (version 9): Find out how mindful you are on a scale of 1 to 6

2025-07-07T17:52:07Z
submitted by /u/BrainstormBot
[link]
[comments]

Fonte: reddit.com/r/FDroidUpdates/com…

⟳ apt.izzysoft.de from Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:43:39 GMT updated on Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:41:43 GMT contains 1323 apps.

Added (1)

• Torrent Search: search and download torrents from multiple sources

Updated (11)

• Easter Eggs (version 65): Collections the Android release Easter Egg.
• ETH & UZH canteens Zürich (version 34): Daily menu of the canteens of ETH & UZH.
• APatch (version 11107): The patching of Android kernel and Android system
• Transfer (version 305): A local file server Android app. Upload and download files over Wi-Fi
• SoundCrowd (version 81): Music player with waveform support for music sets
• Specifically Clementines (version 1010700): self hosted grocery shopping app
• qBitController (version 22): Remotely control qBittorrent from any device
• Bura (version 18): Modern weather app with graphs and thoughtful data visualization
• Peristyle (version 880): Simple wallpaper manager app with Auto Wallpaper and Multi Folder support.
• Capy Reader (version 1145): A smallish RSS reader
• Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (version 9): Find out how mindful you are on a scale of 1 to 6

^{2025-07-07T17:52:07Z}

submitted by /u/BrainstormBot
[link] [comments]

Fonte: reddit.com/r/FDroidUpdates/com…

GitHub - prajwalch/TorrentSearch: A Material 3 design Android app to search and download torrents from multiple sources.

A Material 3 design Android app to search and download torrents from multiple sources. - prajwalch/TorrentSearch

^GitHub

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/social-media-can-support-or-undermine-democracy-it-comes-down-to-how-its-designed/

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/social-media-can-support-or-undermine-democracy-it-comes-down-to-how-its-designed/

Ieri ho casualmente menzionato gli Animali Crostini? E dunque, per volere del solito mio destino contorsionista, oggi proprio a riguardo dei Crostini Animali scopro una cosa che a suo modo fa sicuramente ridere, anche se non è per nulla divertente. Ho aperto il gioco su Swiss, circa al volo, perché mi serviva un’immagine, per scrivere […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-07-07 18:38:39

passatanza crostanzica non salvata ma perduta (il casino coi salvataggi su ACNH)

Ieri ho casualmente menzionato gli Animali Crostini? E dunque, per volere del solito mio destino contorsionista, oggi proprio a riguardo dei Crostini Animali scopro una cosa che a suo modo fa sicuramente ridere, anche se non è per nulla divertente. Ho aperto il gioco su Swiss, circa al volo, perché mi serviva un’immagine, per scrivere un altro post per cui non trovo quello che voglio su Pinterest… e forse mi servivano dei nuovi vestiti… e quindi stavo per andare dalle Sorelle Ago e Filo sperando di trovare qualcosa… al che mi sono accorta che il negozio non ci sta… non si trova nemmeno sulla mappa. 💀

Mooolto strano, ho pensato, perché ricordo di averlo avuto in passato — e con assoluta certezza, perché ricordo perfettamente alcuni momenti di gioco relativi ad esso… ho sicuramente anche screenshot, da qualche parte. Il mio cervello ha, come al solito, immediatamente iniziato a pensare ai complotti, e quindi subito ho trovato una discussione su Reddit “THE ABLE SISTERS DISAPPEARED!?!?“, dove non solo chi ha creato il post, ma anche altri gamer, riportano l’inspiegabile sparizione del preciso negozio… e questa singola paginetta sembra il solo posto sul web in cui se ne parla. 😩

Già così la cosa è pericolosamente strana, ma comunque sia purtroppo il danno c’è, e quindi devo indagare oltre. Seguendo il consiglio di un commento nel post (che, a rivederlo ora, è evidentemente dato totalmente alla cazzo di cane; classico momento Reddit), vado a parlare con Nook, per fare come per spostare l’edificio della sartoria… ma, giustamente, nella lista non c’è. Ho pure perso un botto di tempo nei sottomenu di ‘sto procione, perché con il gioco in giapponese non ci capisco granché… finché, giusto per scrupolo, non ho parlato con Fuffi, che mi ha detto di parlare con Nook, perché “ci sono delle cose da fare” o roba del genere (la prima opzione nel menu), e a quel punto lui ha parlato di Project K… e io sono morta fulminata sul colpo. 💔

Cioè, quasi. Project K sarebbe l’ultima fase del prologo di New Horizons, quella che fa venire K.(K). Slider sull’isola, e porta anche allo sblocco degli strumenti di terraforming… ma io, anche questo, lo avevo fatto — e anzi, sono ancora più sicura di averlo fatto, perché, a parte il concerto del cane che si pensa VIP, ricordo perfettamente come ho distrutto malamente l’isola, una settimanella prima di abbandonare virtualmente per sempre il gioco, nel lontano 2020, prima che qualche anno dopo non ripristinassi un backup precedente del salvataggio, per provare almeno a vedere se mi tornasse un minimo la voglia di giocare e…

…MANNAGGIA! Ho realizzato solo in questo istante, dopo letterali anni dall’azione maledetta, di aver ripristinato un backup troppo vecchio. Si perché, anche qui, ricordo benissimo di aver fatto il ripristino con il solo intento di riportare l’isola ad uno stato giusto precedente alla mia opera di spacc, e non con lo scopo di portare indietro la progressione del gioco. All’epoca usai un homebrew fatto apposta per i Nuovi Crostini, prima che gli altri gestori di salvataggi supportassero il formato usato dal gioco (associato alla console, anziché agli utenti), che non aveva una GUI per selezionare diversi salvataggi… e quindi, quello che credo sia successo è che avrò sbagliato a spostare le cartelle da PC per scegliere il backup da ripristinare, prendendone uno troppo vecchio (…o, forse, semplicemente non ne avevo uno più nuovo che non fosse già distrutto); fatto sta che solo ora mi sto accorgendo dell’errore. 😭

Il danno ora è chiaro, ma la beffa stavolta è più subdola del solito: al momento, su due piedi, non trovo più questi miei fantomatici backup di ACNH, né tantomeno quel tool (che ormai sarà deprecato), di cui non ricordo nemmeno il nome! Mentre credo che il secondo non sia un vero problema, perché JKSM dovrebbe comunque leggere tranquillamente la cartella esportata, ad ogni modo senza le copie dei salvataggi non si va da nessuna parte. Se va bene, forse staranno da qualche parte tra i miei fin troppi e fin troppo disordinati dischi e dispositivi, dove almeno una o due volte avrò ciclicamente svuotato la microSD di Switch per liberare spazio o per formattare… ma, francamente, a questo punto, accetto il bruh momento e piuttosto inizio un nuovo salvataggio di New Leaf (e sarebbe l’ennesimo…) ma in giapponese (…perché ai tempi Animal Crossing era region-locked e il salvataggio non è cross-compatibile, ho provato), e forse riuscirò a copare. 😤
E questa qui, ovviamente, non è la foto che cercavo all’inizio. Rappresenta sempre adeguatamente il mio stato d’animo e d’essere, ma solo relativamente a questa ennesima rivelazione dei miei infiniti problemi di skill, e non a cos’altro avevo da scrivere prima. Non si capisce nemmeno se sto piangendo, o starnutendo, o mi voglio semplicemente buttare nel fiume così da farla finita con tutte le merdate che per via del software mi accadono (in questo caso per colpa mia, ok, ma comunque)… e ciò non era voluto, ma forse è meglio così. (E, c’è da dire, le foto sceniche sono davvero l’unica cosa che manca a New Leaf, a parte il poter piazzare mobili fuori.) 😾
#ACNH #AnimalCrossing #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons #BruhMoment #hacking #Mannaggia #NewHorizons #salvataggi #savegame #SkillIssue

BRUSSELS — Romania’s fledgling government is made up of the country’s most pro-European politicians, but that hasn’t stopped them citing Brussels as a key reason why they need to impose a drastic set of tax hikes and spending cuts to avert financial collapse.

For the past five years, Romania has been spending way beyond its means — in the words of new President Nicușor Dan, eating a large pizza while only paying for a medium-sized one — and has a projected budget deficit of around 9 percent of economic output this year, the highest in the European Union.

That record of poor fiscal management has provoked repeated reprimands from the European Commission, which Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan now says can no longer be ignored. This week, ministers from EU countries will vote to decide on a strict plan setting out exactly what Romania must now do to restore order to its public finances.

politico.eu/article/romania-re…

President Donald Trump has presented himself as a strong champion and consistent supporter of artificial intelligence. Upon returning to the White House, one of his first acts was to issue an executive order to “sustain and enhance America’s dominance in AI.” On his second day in office, he announced the Stargate Project, calling it “the largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history.”

The president has courted AI luminaries, most notably Sam Altman, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. His “big, beautiful budget bill” contains a provision prohibiting states from regulating AI over the next decade, in the hopes that this will help secure U.S. supremacy in the global AI race.

However, though Trump appears to support AI, that does not mean AI supports him, as our recent AI analysis of some of the president’s many questionable public statements shows.

To counter any inadvertent bias or systemic failures, we asked each of five leading AI models—OpenAI’s ChatGPT; Anthropic’s Claude; X/xAI’s Grok (owned by Elon Musk); Google’s Gemini; and Perplexity—to verify the president’s most oft-repeated claims or assertions. The systems are completely independent, with no known ideological filters and no revealed perspective biases among the model trainers. Statisticians would call this methodological verification a check for inter-rater reliability.

Artificial intelligence discredited all the Trump claims we presented, fact-checking the president with startling accuracy and objective rigor.

Across all questions, AI model responses disproving Trump’s claims or rejecting his assertions were always in the majority (i.e., 3 out of 5 responses or greater). All five models generated consistent responses firmly denying the claims in 16 of the 20 questions. In 15 of those consistently firm responses, all five AI models debunk the claims. (Note: Question 19 in the comprehensive analysis addresses the models’ lack of inherent bias against Trump and is one of those 16 responses, bringing the technical total down to 15 instead of 16.) But even those responses that we categorized as “less firm” partially refute Trump’s claims.

Consider the following sample of responses. Most questions with “less firm” responses have been included and are denoted by an asterisk.

What Happened When Five AI Models Fact-Checked Trump

President Donald Trump is an AI booster, write Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-authors Stephen Henriques and Steven Tian. So they thought it was fair to ask the leading chatbots to evaluate some of Trump’s frequently repeated claims.

^{Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld (Yale Insights)}

https://www.reddit.com/r/FDroidUpdates/comments/1lu0yzd/mon_07_jul_2025_174143_gmt_1_apps_added_11/

About this app:
This project grew out of my Advanced Radio Player widget.
Now it’s a full-fledged radio app.

Features:
- Create your own library where you can add your favorite stations

• Easily search and discover new radio stations
• Automatic recognition of tracks if is possible
• Adaptive application layout, compatible for small and large screens

Source

https://www.vulture.com/article/tiktok-us-version.html

While this governmentwide review will cut only a small fraction of .gov websites, some agencies are making more drastic cuts to their online presence than others.

The Small Business Administration, for example, is planning to eliminate more than half of its total websites. SBA is shuttering websites for defunct pandemic aid programs, and is consolidating some small-business certification websites into MySBA Certifications, a one-stop shop for federal contracting certifications.

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to eliminate more than 7% of its websites. Among them, HHS plans to eliminate vaccines.cdc.gov, a website that tracks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s state-by-state investments “in achieving national immunization goals and sustaining high-vaccination coverage rates to prevent death and disability” from vaccine-preventable diseases.

Documents obtained by Federal News Network state that vaccines.cdc.gov “is no longer maintained.” HHS also plans to cut 18 webpages that are part of cancer.gov, but the main site would remain.

Agencies plan to decommission hundreds of .gov websites following GSA review

Thomas Shedd, commissioner of GSA's Technology Transformation Services, directed agencies to eliminate the “low-hanging fruit” of unnecessary federal websites.

^{Jory Heckman (Federal News Network)}

In a surprising and possibly unlawful act, five state legislators were denied entry Thursday into a taxpayer-funded migrant detention center deep in the Everglades, raising questions about what will happen behind the razor-wire fences that are being erected surrounding the controversial facility the state has named Alligator Alcatraz.

Armed only with state law and a growing list of humanitarian concerns, state Senators Shevrin Jones and Carlos Guillermo Smith, along with Representatives Anna V. Eskamani, Angie Nixon and Michele Rayner, arrived at the gates of the facility to conduct what they saw as a legally authorized inspection.

What they encountered instead was silence, locked doors and a bureaucratic wall. The state’s shifting justification for not letting them in — first a flat denial, then vague “safety concerns” — only fueled suspicions.

In mid-June, a federal judge issued a stinging rebuke to the Trump administration, declaring that its decision to cancel the funding for many grants issued by the National Institutes of Health was illegal, and suggesting that the policy was likely animated by racism. But the detailed reasoning behind his decision wasn't released at the time. The written portion of the decision was finally issued on Wednesday, and it has a number of notable features.

For starters, it's more limited in scope due to a pair of Supreme Court decisions that were issued in the intervening weeks. As a consequence, far fewer grants will see their funding restored. Regardless, the court continues to find that the government's actions were arbitrary and capricious, in part because the government never bothered to define the problems that would get a grant canceled. As a result, officials within the NIH simply canceled lists of grants they received from DOGE without bothering to examine their scientific merit, and then struggled to retroactively describe a policy that justified the actions afterward—a process that led several of them to resign.

Judge: You can’t ban DEI grants without bothering to define DEI

A written ruling details why a judge restored funding for many NIH grants.

^{John Timmer (Ars Technica)}

Dozens of people who help coordinate travel for complex inspections of foreign drug-making factories have been let go, and though some have since been rehired, inspectors said the ongoing strain of policing an industry spread across more than 90 countries has exhausted staff and could compromise the safety of medications used by millions of people.

For years, inspectors have uncovered dirty equipment, contaminated supplies and fraudulent testing records in some overseas factories — serious safety and quality breaches that can sicken or kill consumers. Last month, ProPublica reported that a generic immunosuppression drug for transplant patients could dissolve too quickly when ingested, increasing the risk of kidney failure. The drug was made at an Indian factory with a history of quality violations that was banned from the U.S. market. The company previously told ProPublica it believes the medication is safe.

FDA Cuts Will Limit Scrutiny of Troubled Foreign Drug Factories, Inspectors Say

Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked with rooting out dangerous manufacturing practices.

^ProPublica