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This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.
The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.
And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.
Record-breaking temperatures.
A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.
The response?
Yank out the instruments and walk away.
That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.
For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.
The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.
That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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How many times do we need to explain that it doesn't matter if it's placeholders or whatever? If it's generative, it's harmful. Gen AI is theft. It's polluting and it's making it so electronic hardware is unaffordable. If you care about even one of those things, don't defend AI
Took a philosophy class that covered assisted dying. One guy wanted to die because he couldn't afford his disability equipment so his life was shit and he had no independence. Apparently "why don't they just give him the equipment instead of killing him" was the wrong answer?????
Spending time with these sweet souls is always my favorite part of the day🐾❤️I’m live right now from the shelter, feeding the cats! Tune in to watch and spread some love.🐈🆘🙏💞[ https://t.co/bUftOnTu7q ] https://t.co/B7RCzdwmYi
Palestinians are being blocked off right now, they need your help. With only two weeks left I desperately need people to retweet or donate. We have raised $0 today but your single retweet or $5 donation can literally save lives
That giant 20,000 acre building over there takes all your fresh water, pollutes the air, raises local temperatures, makes annoying noises all day long, increases your utility bills and provides a whole 14 jobs. That building’s only job is spying on you.
🚨 Trump's new Medicaid rules just made it official: having cancer is not enough to be exempt from work requirements. You have to PROVE cancer is stopping you from working. While you're in chemo.
This week, the Trump administration released its final 400-page rule on how states must enforce the Medicaid work requirements that were buried inside last year's "One Big Beautiful Bill." Starting January 1, 2027, most low-income adults on Medicaid must prove every single month they are working, volunteering, or attending school for at least 80 hours — or lose their coverage.
For months, advocates for cancer patients and people living with HIV had been pushing for a blanket medical exemption. What they got instead was a trap. The new rule ties the definition of "medically frail" — the exemption category — directly to a person's ability to work. That means cancer patients who are still capable of working, even in between chemo rounds, do not automatically qualify. A woman with early-stage breast cancer receiving radiation treatment? May not qualify. A man living with HIV who takes medication and still reports to work? No exemption.
And here's the part that should stop you cold: Harvard health policy professor Adrianna McIntyre told reporters that even cancer patients who ARE technically exempt could still lose coverage — because the paperwork process is so complex that "a recently diagnosed cancer patient who is employed might lose Medicaid coverage due to errors in completing the necessary paperwork." Cancer will not wait while a Medicaid office sifts through forms.
The American Cancer Society ran the numbers. Researchers at the University of Chicago published a study in JAMA Oncology projecting that over 1 million mammograms and colorectal and lung cancer screenings will be missed within the first two years of these rules. That translates to more than 2,300 undetected cancer cases — hundreds at advanced stages — and an estimated 155 avoidable deaths from just three types of cancer alone.
A coalition of 48 patient advocacy groups signed a joint statement calling the rule "life-threatening." The American Academy of Pediatrics said it will "harm those whom Medicaid is intended to support." The HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute's director said bluntly: "We will lose individuals from Medicaid, and many will become ill and die as a result."
68 million Americans depend on Medicaid. The CBO says at least 5 million will lose coverage. And Dr. Oz went on TV to defend it by saying Medicaid recipients watch too much television.
Remember that recent viral tweet that was like "environmentalism is conservative now", and every second headline since then is some variation of "republicans to allow national park to be reduced to smouldering wasteland"
🫂💚🙏My wonderful friends, I wish you all the best and a happy day.. Today my son and I visited al-Shifa hospital to complete a check-up for his arm, and the doctor told us that he needs more time for his arm to heal. I am happy to tell you that he said that Salem's arm is healing well and he is feeling no pain now, and we will return soon to have another check up, God willing. I have some wonderful news to share, my dear friends, there are more kittens in our shelter! Yesterday we found this wonderful cat with her group of four kittens, and we brought them into the shelter. She was living in the rubble of a house that was destroyed near the start of the war, at the same time as our shelter was first destroyed. It felt like a wonderful sign from God that these kittens were brought to us from this rubble, my dear friends.. We are very happy and pleased to have these wonderful creatures brought into our life.. The night was difficult of course, but we have enjoyed a calm moment with the animals and when we visited our friend Hisham with the dogs again. The summer is very hot now, and I am putting water out for the animals, but the insects are overwhelming everything and everyone. I am constantly thinking about our friends in the camp, and how difficult it will be for them. My dear friends, we gave them their monthly payments from your donations, and in a week or two we will bring them to the store like we often do. There they will be able to buy whatever they need with your help, my dear ones. I hope that you will be able to help them, and I hope that you will not give up on us even though this has gone on for so long.. I appreciate and love you from the bottom of my heart and I pray that there will be better days soon and I will not have to ask so much from you.. 🫂🙏💚🌿🐈🐾🕊🇵🇸♥️😻🐈🐈🐈🐈
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we're so full right now but I couldn't say no to this senior boy who was living in a colony and was hit by a car. It happened 2+ weeks ago but I was just alerted to the situation yesterday. His pelvis is broken and his hind leg is now necrotic and infected and so painful.
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Our days are very difficult, my friends, I can barely afford to live and I feel like I am failing my family when I cannot provide them with healthy food and basic supplies. 😥💔 Why is the world allowing this to happen to the people of Gaza? So many children are experiencing inhumane living conditions and people will turn a blind eye to them. It makes me angry, my friends, it makes me sad. 😢 I do not know what to do to escape from this situation. Please will you think of the many cats? 🐈🥺 They are on the streets starving, my friends, it would mean so much to me if you helped them. Please remember us and think of us, my friends. 🙏❤️ My family needs you, as do many others.
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Uncle Iroh voice actor Greg Baldwin criticizes Paramount over the state of the 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' franchise
“Paramount doesn’t care about ATLA ... The new regime at Paramount is straight up evil"
"I can speak freely because I’m 65 years old and my pocketful of fucks is seriously depleted"
"Working as a paralegal at various studios in LA for thirty years…I had the opportunity to observe studio executives closely. They’re generally a slippery and clueless bunch who shouldn’t be allowed near anything remotely creative…but the new regime at Paramount is straight up evil"
"These soulless bastards have nothing but contempt for a show about grace and redemption and the struggle against fascism"
"ATLA is a mystery to them."
"They. Do. Not. Value. The. Franchise."
"Who should lose their jobs to AI? Answer… Studio Executives. Ironically…those cockroaches will be the last to go"
"In conclusion… Fuck you, Paramount"
(via @GregBaldwinIroh)