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New famine risk haunts war-torn Sudan with El Niño-driven drought reut.rs/4iDtkdd

WaPo - Defense Secretary Hegseth’s staff tried to relocate an Eisenhower globe but lost control of the artifact and dropped it, sending the priceless piece of American military history crashing onto its base and impaling the fragile shell near Antarctica. wapo.st/3WF2YQo

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith described the fire as “significant and tragic” and said it was affecting many military personnel. on.nbcboston.com/JwIX4x6

Oh crap. M 8.0 earthquake 14 km SW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama. 33 km deep. Exact location and magnitude may change as we get more data earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Deeply alarmed by the ICE raids in New Bedford and the South Coast. Disappearing parents on their way to work or to pick up their kids from school is appalling and does NOTHING to keep communities safe. We must abolish ICE and stop this campaign of cruelty and terror.

In recent cases, it's not that AI somehow "escaped containment" or "went rogue." That's anthropomorphizing at best. It's more like if a Boston Dynamics robot dog nudged open an already open door and walked in.

Announcing: Platypus Economics — a Substack, YouTube channel, and podcast built around one idea: Economics is one of the most useful, surprising, and weirdly beautiful subjects in the world. It belongs to everyone — not just the people who happened to take it in college. 🧵

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 3 Both zinc ore #Sphalerite and calcium plagioclase feldspar #Anorthite will split cleanly if you hit them with a hammer, but only one can claim a larger split of your votes! VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

“It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” one career diplomat said about the second Trump administration's wholesale slashing of foreign aid. “Who knows how much damage was done.” (Published Dec. 2025)

Folks, @callanbentley.bsky.social had me on his youtube show to discuss the Nepal flood disaster. Have a watch. 🧪⚒️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrUx1qYIW4U

Some early reports said that the horrifying flooding in Nepal was the result of an earthquake. However, the signal was actually the recording of the landslide. TL:DR - there was no earthquake, it was a landslide. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano was 29 and had lived in Durham, North Carolina since arriving from Mexico at age three. He was detained this summer at Stewart Detention Center in Georgia and diagnosed with acute leukemia while inside. indyweek.com/news/priscil...

Bossing the bond market around never works ft.trib.al/M88VZe3 | opinion

"The conclusion that emerges from all these events is that the United States’ food-safety system is in deep trouble—and it’s just one of the many serious public-health crises we are facing..." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Preliminary information about the M7.4 earthquake in Colombia

It is interesting how many things we've learned about foodborne disease and specifically Cyclospora. Yet at the same time, it feels like we haven't learned that much. I hope we will recognize there were many, many mistakes made in this outbreak & that we learn from these mistakes. bit.ly/4fsGlG2

Layoffs of Haitian workers could impact the continuity and quality of care for people who benefit from human service programs. https://bit.ly/4pOVt42

One person is reportedly dead following a shooting involving ICE agents in Biddeford, according to a social media post by Maine House Speaker Speaker Ryan Fecteau.

Video appears to show no damage to the vehicle of the man ICE killed in Houston, who had lived in America peacefully for 35 years, despite ICE's claim that he "rammed" an ICE vehicle and "tried to run over" an agent. These people are not credible.

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

#BBCNews - International court tells BBC of breakthrough in Sudan war crimes probe www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police said a 17-year-old girl who was last seen leaving her Waltham home Friday night has a severe food allergy and asthma. She left without an EpiPen or inhaler. on.nbcboston.com/5RQQb1f

More than 4 million people may have experienced very strong, severe, or violent shaking. Causalities and extensive damage are probable and the disaster is likely widespread. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Ok you guys. Here’s the deal. The M7.1 in Venezuela was upgraded to a M7.2. AND it was followed shortly by a M7.5. Not good.

An Iranian woman is among around two dozen migrants who arrived Friday in the Central African Republic on a deportation flight from the United States, lawyers said.

Not a good morning. Absolutely disgusted by what went on in Belfast last night. Need some time off social media, won't be posting much today.

"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)

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NASA let people know over the weekend that the cause of the commotion was a meteor, but they have since revealed even more stunning details. on.nbcboston.com/2UTitBo

A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.

That big boom heard around Boston was like a meteor:

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This is why this outbreak really worries me. It's far further advanced before it being identified, which means way more cases yet to develop and transmission chains yet to be interrupted. For those who have closely followed previous Ebola outbreaks those are the exact ingredients for a big epidemic.

#BBCNews - 'Ebola has tortured us': Fear grips eastern DR Congo as deadly virus spreads www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Ebola #DRC

This is correct Elon Musk’s legacy is >500,000 tiny coffins*—these are coffins of kids in low-income places of the world, so his actions were very fitting with the MAGA/MAHA Administration’s world view (*Brooke Nichols at BU estimates 750,000 deaths by Jan 2026, of which >500k were in kids)

My comment on the recent drone developments to France24 youtu.be/6oD2gROC5Z0?...

Come and get me.

This guy should not be a crossing guard much less acting Secretary of the Navy (especially in a time of war).

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💥🇭🇺🗳️ BREAKING: Péter Magyar says Viktor Orbán called to concede and congratulate him. Magyar will be Hungary’s next prime minister and, as it stands, is set to secure a 2/3 supermajority – enough to fully dismantle Orbán’s system. A 16-year chapter is over.

💥🗳️ I’m speechless. Hungary’s parliamentary election turnout is 66,01% already at 3pm (2022: 52,72%). Budapest and other opposition-leaning cities lead the way. Final turnout in 2022 and 2018 were 70,21% and 70,22%. Polls close at 7pm. It could go well above 80% this time. Bad news for Orbán.

"The espionage accusations surfaced just as the journalist, who has reported extensively on alleged links between Hungarian officials and Moscow, exposed unprecedented Russian influence operations aimed at boosting Orban’s re-election."

East Boston street awoken at 6 a.m. by DHS percussion grenades www.universalhub.com/2026/east-bo...

🔎NEW INVESTIGATION: The hotline between FM Péter Szijjártó and Sergey Lavrov gives Russia strategic insight into key EU matters. Evidence, including a leaked phone call recording shows Hungary’s FM acted for the Kremlin, pushing to delist sanctioned Russians, with Slovak support.

#BBCNews - No Kings protests across the US rally against Donald Trump www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Orbán government is once again using authoritarian tactics to target our journalist Szabolcs Panyi, whose reporting exposes truths inconvenient to the regime.

Meanwhile Hungarian journalist @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social has also been targeted by an apparent spy-and-leak operation following his reporting into the Orban government's ties to Moscow: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...