Key Senator Calls to Delay Meeting of New RFK Jr. Vaccine Panel
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"But if killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is? Law-abiding protest has so far failed to stop the genocide. More than 50,000 innocent children have been killed or injured. In what circumstances could civil disobedience ever be justified if not now?" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally RooneySally Rooney (The Guardian)
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Von Kiew nach Teheran: Völkerrecht à la carte
Der Westen zeigt sich bei Völkerrechtsverletzungen selektiv empört. Während Russlands Angriffskrieg harte Sanktionen nach sich zieht, bleiben andere Konflikte folgenlos. Wohin das führt, diskutiert dieser Telepolis-Leitartikel.
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Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers: no evidence of a sizeable negative impact of AI on workers’ well-being and mental health.
We find no evidence of a sizeable negative impact of AI on workers’ well-being and mental health. If anything, there is evidence of an improvement in health status and health satisfaction, which may be explained by the decline in job physical intensity. Overall, our results are consistent with the lack of negative effects of AI on the labor markets.
Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers - Scientific Reports
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Substack's Secret
"Substack's One Weird Marketing Trick was leveraging the economic interests of traditional media employees against their publishers to get positive "earned media"."Ben Werdmuller (Werd I/O)
The Book About the Spanish Inquisition Everyone Is Talking About!
"The Spanish Inquisition: A Time of Fear" by Andy Reven stands as a luminous beacon in the realm of nonfiction, an extraordinary achievement that commands admiration and respect from all who seek a profound understanding of one of history’s most tumu…Telegraph
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The Big Dipper standing out from a sea of stars, photographed over Bandelier National Monument. Quiet skies, ancient light.
#Photography #BigDipper #NightSky #Astrophotography #Bandelier
The delicate beauty of this flower, captured in all its glory. A touch of pink to brighten your day!
#flower #pink #nature #photography #springvibes #beautiful
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🗳️ ■ Más Madrid propone citar en el Congreso al responsable de seguridad internacional en Acciona por su pasado en la UCO ■ La representante de Más Madrid también ve "sospechoso" que en la empresa se haya cesado al que era director de Construcción para España, Justo Vicente Pelegrini.
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Más Madrid propone citar en el Congreso al responsable de seguridad internacional en Acciona por su pasado en la UCO
Las diputadas de Más Madrid en el Congreso, Tesh Sidi y Alda Recas, quieren que el responsable de seguridad internacional en Acciona, Manuel Sánchez Corbí, comparezca en la Comisión de Transportes del Congreso para rendir cuentas por su pasado en la …Redacción HuffPost (El HuffPost)
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【ポケカ】メガブレイブの予約・抽選情報まとめ【6月23日更新】 SNKRDUNK「ポケモンカードゲーム」よりメガシンカに注目した新拡張パック「メガブレイブ/メガシンフォニー」が8月1日発売！（HOBBYYAYAFA
Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images
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The Chiarina Chamber Players perform Bartók, a Moya's world premiere and Brahms in Washington - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
The Chiarina Chamber Players perform: BARTÓK: Contrasts. Reinaldo MOYA: I Will Dance, and Dance with You, world premiere. BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114. Recorded....www.worldconcerthall.com
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Mitchell Lane, #Glasgow
#photography #photographie #architecture #immeubles #MitchellLane #sign #tabac #reflections #reflexiones
Por que a IA para escrever textos do LinkedIn não é usada? CEO explica
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Notebook gamer Acer Nitro V 15 com RTX 4050 roda tudo custando pouco no KaBum!
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Receita de caneta emagrecedora deve ser retida na compra a partir de hoje (23)
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Korean Consumer Confidence Jumps to 4-Year High on Stimulus Hope
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My neighborhood association's summer concert series started up today at Stuyvesant Cove Park on the East River, with weekly concerts of blues, jazz, salsa, and cover bands until early August. I can see and hear these from my window and try to stop by for a few minutes. If those musicians can work in this heat, I can surely sit and listen!
#NYC
Insight Partners investiert in LAP Coffee - Superscale sammelt 5 Millionen ein - DealCircle kauft DUB.de - deutsche-startups.de
+++ #DealMonitor +++ Top-Investor Insight Partners investiert in Berliner Kaffeekette LAP Coffee +++ Marketing-Startup Superscale sammelt 5 Millionen ein +++ Finanzspritze für TaxTech Steuerboard +++ DealCircle und Amber übernehmen DUB.de +++Team (deutsche-startups.de)
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#betergejatdanslechtbedacht #art #artvisual #photooftheday #moeitewaard #impressive #streetphotography #visuals #artoflight #artinstallation #performance #myworldinonephoto #video #videooftheday #short #interesting #youbringonthesun #youmakeitshine #leeuwarden #photography #gabekamphuis #visualstoryteller #photovisionary
🗳️ ■ La OTAN cree que a España no le basta el 2,1% y tendrá que llegar al 3,5% del PIB para cumplir con los objetivos militares ■ El secretario general de la OTAN, Mark Rutte, ha negado este lunes que haya concedido una cláusula de exclusión a España para que no se comprometa a gastar el 5% del PIB en Defensa.
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La OTAN cree que a España no le basta el 2,1% y tendrá que llegar al 3,5% del PIB para cumplir con los objetivos militares
Ni el 5% que propone Donald Trump ni el 2,1% que asegura el Gobierno. Según el secretario general de la OTAN, Mark Rutte, España tendrá que gastar al menos el 3,5% de su PIB en Defensa si quiere cumplir los objetivos militares que ha pactado la Alian…Redacción HuffPost (El HuffPost)
Israel is building a tunnel to cut off Palestinians from the heart of the West Bank
Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to remove the Palestinian presence around Jerusalem.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
Zum #FotoMontag "mein" Monatsausflug Juni. Im Jahr 2025 habe ich mir ja vorgenommen, jeden Monat einen neuen Ort zu erkunden.
Letzte Woche ging es beruflich ins Erzgebirge. Die abendliche Freizeit habe ich genutzt um mal aus dem Tal hochzuwandern und ein bisschen Licht einzufangen.
Ein bisschen Sonnenfeeling.
Heute ist es zwar warm, naja eigentlich schwül, und stürmt phasenweise aber irgendwie fehlt die Sonne.
#unterfranken
#photography
#sonne
#matzework
🚘 Tesla has officially launched its fully autonomous Robotaxi in Austin!
💸 $4.20 per ride
🧠 No driver. Just AI.
🎵 Netflix, Spotify, & more on board
This is the future of urban mobility.
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#TeslaRobotaxi #SelfDriving #ElonMusk #AutonomousVehicles #EV #TechNews #FutureOfTransport #FOSS #Mastodon
Tesla Robotaxi Launches in Austin with $4.20 Rides
Tesla Robotaxi in Austin offering $4.20 rides. A new era of smart, driverless travel begins. Explore the future of autonomous mobility today.Manoj (All New Trending)
Wat is dat voor onzin. Daar zadel je dan die landen mee op die de buitengrenzen van de #EU hebben. Redelijk egoïstisch zeg.
D66 verandert migratiekoers: asielaanvragen alleen nog buiten de EU nos.nl/l/2572145
D66 verandert migratiekoers: asielaanvragen alleen nog buiten de EU
"Van migratie die ons overkomt, zullen we naar migratie moeten die we zelf in de hand hebben", zegt partijleider Jetten.NOS Nieuws
Gli Usa non sono la Russia: l’Occidente giustifica i raid
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‘I’m scared to death to leave my house’: immigrants are disappearing from the streets – can US cities survive?
Heavily immigrant towns and cities in California resemble ghost towns as fear of Ice raids grip local residentsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Our Gestapo in action. It is enough to make me ashamed to be an American.
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❗️War between 🇮🇱#Israel and 🇮🇷#Iran. A thread covering all events. Day 9
Last night, around 3 a.m., Iran launched #ballisticmissiles at Israel. At least 6 missiles were fired, with one hitting the city of Holon, south of #TelAviv. The other 5 missiles were intercepted.
Hinge CEO Says Dating AI Chatbots Is 'Playing With Fire' - Slashdot
In a podcast interview with The Verge's Nilay Patel, Hinge CEO Justin McLeod described integrating AI into dating apps as promising but warned against relying on AI companionship, likening it to "playing with fire" and consuming "junk food," potentia…slashdot.org
Mitchell Lane, #Glasgow
Sadly The Lighthouse still closed, so we couldn't visit it .
#photography #photographie #architecture #immeubles #MitchellLane
Terminando de cocinar un post para el blog de #Juncotic, con el feedback de la encuesta del viernes.
Sí, era mucho para explicar directamente en #mastodon 😆
En un rato se publica!
Desde ya, gracias a todos por participar en estas encuestas! 🥰
#gnu #linux #poll #lpi #lpic #AprenderLinux #juncotic #learnlinux
The post Berlin: Puppe mit Judenstern und Kalifats-Flagge bei Gaza-Demo – 50 Festnahmen
Berlin: Puppe mit Judenstern und Kalifats-Flagge bei Gaza-Demo – 50 Festnahmen nach Gewalt am Potsdamer Platz - Apollo News
Tausende haben am Samstag unter dem Motto „United4Gaza“ in Berlin gegen Israel protestiert – mit Völkermord-Vorwürfen und Kalifatsflaggen. Eine Teilnehmerin trug offenbar eine erhängte Puppe mit Judenstern.Redaktion (Apollo News)
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#Walking #Northumberland
Die #USArmy hat 4 neue Lieutenant Colonels vereidigt - allesamt Zivilisten, die jetzt Zugang zu brisanten militärischen Informationen haben:
#andrewbosworth ( CTO von #meta #markzuckerberg )
#shyamsankar ( CTO von #palantir #peterthiel )
#kevinweil #bobmcgrew ( #openai #samaltman )
#maga
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Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity quietly ended the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project, a program that offered free services to vulnerable critical infrastructure sectors and was first launched in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.David DiMolfetta (Nextgov/FCW)
🇫🇷 En Inde, débâcle écologique au « pays des dieux »
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#climate #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #india #wereallgoingtodie
En Inde, débâcle écologique au « pays des dieux »
« L’Himalaya en surchauffe » (1/6). « Le Monde » consacre une série de reportages à cette chaîne montagneuse où les principaux fleuves d’Asie, indispensables à la survie de près de 2 milliards d’habitants, prennent leur source.Sophie Landrin (Le Monde)
President Trump indicated openness to regime change in Iran, contradicting senior officials’ insistence that the US attacks were solely aimed at Tehran’s nuclear program.
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Trump floats possibility of Iran regime change
Trump’s remarks in a post on Truth Social came after American bombers hit Iranian nuclear facilities, and with Israel still striking Iranian targets.Tom Chivers (www.semafor.com)
found an amazingly sad climate graphic in a 2001 report.
it projected a possible 450ppm for carbon dioxide ~ year 2100, when levels might stabilize, in this best scenario.
their projection graph has world about 1.6ºC above industrial around that same time - 2100.
well, we hit 1.6ºC last year, even tho that was a particularly hot year, looks pretty likely we'll breach 1.5 before 2030. & CO2 levels? oh... mang. look where they are now - 430.5 ppm in May 2025.
#ClimateChange #Climate #science
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"Respectability politics is, in many ways, a social-level expression of the fawn response — one of the four ways humans react to perceived threat, alongside fight, flight, and freeze."
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
How Respectability Politics Rewire the LGBTQ Brain - Prism & Pen - Medium
Every year, as Pride Month begins, a familiar voice resurfaces within our community — a voice that urges us to embrace respectability politics. It tells us to make ourselves palatable to the…Dayna A. Ellis (Prism & Pen)
European Space Agency joins forces with Blue Origin for future low-Earth orbit access
At present, the International Space Station (ISS) has been humanity’s orbiting laboratory. But its planned...
#engineering #technology
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ESA teams up with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin for commercial space station
Orbital Reef is envisioned as a truly versatile "mixed-use business park" in low Earth orbit.Mrigakshi Dixit (Interesting Engineering)
New Inn Yard Kendal - Canvas Print
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Another old lane that caught my eye. This is the New Inn Yard in Kendal, Cumbria. The light was just right, creating shadows that draw you in. And look at those cobbles, beautiful.
#PhotoOfTheDay #Kendal #Cumbria #Travel #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Art #CanvasPrint #InteriorDesign
New Inn Yard Kendal Canvas Print by Justin Farrimond
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I thought this was already a given.
> Grok AI to be retrained solely on Fox News and Elon Musk retweets newsthump.com/2025/06/23/grok-…
#EliCologne #SocialMedia #AISlop #AI #tech #FauxNews
Grok AI to be retrained solely on Fox News and Elon Musk retweets
In a bold move to combat what he calls the “woke mind virus” and what everyone else calls “facts,” Elon Musk has announced plans to retrain his AI chatbot, Grok, using only …NewsThump
New York City, I beg you: Please, PLEASE don’t rank Cuomo! 🙏🏻
And yes, Zohran Mamdani all the way! He would be number one on my ballot, if I were eligible to vote there. (Alas, I’m only a spiritual New Yorker, not an actual New Yorker.)
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Zohran Mamdani appears to pull ahead of Andrew Cuomo, according to new poll
Progressive assemblyman may be leading the former governor in race for New York City mayor, survey findsEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
The tax trick pitting old-guard Republicans against the populist new right
Republicans are in a fix. Medicaid costs have exploded over the past six years, and the system is rife with waste, fraud, and abuse. Democrats don’t want to do anything meaningful about it, but large majorities of voters support most of the Republicans’ proposed tweaks. Well ... all except [em]one[/em], which pits old-guard Republicans against the populist insurgents.
But a solution exists.
As a body, the Senate is reliably more than a decade behind the rest of the country, politically. But political realities still do have an impact.
Medicaid — federally subsidized health care for the poor — is out of control. Since 2019 (or during COVID and President Joe Biden’s time in office), the federal expense has ballooned 56.5%. There are currently 72 million people on the rolls, or about a quarter of the American population. Republicans want to do something about it, and they’re right to.
Some of the GOP’s proposals are remarkably popular with the American public. Cutting the deceased from the rolls, for example, polls at 86% approval — about as close as you’re going to get to [em]everybody [/em]these days. Similarly, cutting illegal immigrants from the rolls polls at 82%.
Democrats say it isn’t happening — but they sure seem [em]angry [/em]about it.
Take work requirements. A new rule would make able-bodied adults without dependents do something — anything — to qualify for benefits. Work. Volunteer. Train. Whatever. And Americans overwhelmingly support the idea.
As it turns out, so do most people collecting benefits.
Then there’s this: thousands of working-age adults who self-report spending four or more hours a day watching TV or playing video games. Requiring [em]those[/em] folks to work polls lower, but still polls at 72% approval.
Now comes a less popular idea — but no less important.
Some states are dodging their share of Medicaid spending by gaming the system. A convoluted scheme lets state governments shuffle money back and forth with hospitals, inflating how much they appear to spend. That trick boosts their federal match and lowers what they actually have to pay.
Here’s how it works. States are supposed to split Medicaid costs 50-50 with the federal government. But instead of paying a hospital $100 for a procedure and getting $50 back, a state will pay $106, then slap the hospital with a $6 tax — so the state’s net cost is still $100. But because the state “spent” $106, Washington reimburses the state $53 instead of $50. Congratulations: The federal taxpayer just got fleeced for an extra three bucks.
That example comes from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget — a nonpartisan watchdog group that wants the loophole closed.
It’s a classic shell game. It undermines the spirit of federal aid and violates basic fairness. Yet it persists — partly because it’s buried in bureaucracy and partly because few politicians want to pick a fight with hospital lobbyists or state budget directors.
The scam may be obvious. Fixing it won’t be.
That’s because nearly every state south of Alaska plays this game to some degree — but rural, low-tax states depend on it the most.
Rural hospitals operate on thinner margins. Fewer beds. Older, poorer patients. Less insulation from federal policy swings. Obamacare made a bad situation worse.
In the past 15 years, 139 rural hospitals have either shut down completely or converted to outpatient-only facilities. A third blamed Obamacare directly. That’s more than three times the annual closure rate of urban or suburban hospitals.
Bigger hospitals typically collect the lion’s share of the kickback under the provider tax scam. But rural hospitals live on the edge — which makes them more dependent on that extra funding and more exposed if it goes away.
And that’s where the GOP’s internal conflict begins.
Rural states tend to lean Republican. So do rural voters more broadly. Cities and suburbs go blue; the countryside votes red. That means this fight pits two factions within the party against each other: fiscal conservatives who want to end the grift vs. populist conservatives more concerned with shielding vulnerable Americans — the “forgotten men and women” Trump made central to his coalition.
For one group, it’s about principle. For the other, survival.
The fight also feeds into Democrats’ hoped-for battle, which ignores all the pesky details about illegal aliens, dead recipients, and able-bodied men and instead focuses on any threats to rural hospitals and the poor. They’d much prefer to say Republicans cut your health care — a talking point that polls strongly in their favor — and run on that in the midterm election.
The White House is well aware of this reality, so it wants a fix. Republican Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.), Susan Collins (Maine), and Jim Justice (W.V.) all represent just the sorts of states a provider tax crackdown would impact hardest and have proposed a separate Rural Hospital Stabilization Program to soften the blow and protect the 700 or so hospitals already on the margins. It’s a long-needed fix, but the kind of thing previously ignored by a Republican Senate that leans toward traditional supply-side economics.
As a body, the Senate is reliably more than a decade behind the rest of the country, politically. But political realities still do have an impact, and this is just the type to push senators to action. The rest of their cuts are important and poll very well. Instead of cracking down on a faulty system that has already just slowed the problem down, there’s a chance here to come up with a better solution. It’s worth taking seriously.
Glenn Beck: No, Mike Lee isn’t paving over Yellowstone for condos
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, 2016: Provider tax limits should be on the table for Medicaid reform
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I am glad the fighting is over—for now.
👉🏾 Live updates: #Trump says #Israel 🇮🇱 and #Iran 🇮🇷 agree to ‘complete and total ceasefire’ apnews.com/live/iran-israel-wa…
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