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There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones -Mark Knopfler - Verse from the song "Brothers in arms"

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FromFB: BOOM! There you go! Now make them pay for every drop of water at consumer rates, and prove they are sustainable and won't use every drop available... then we can talk. 😼

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#Switzerland is installing #solarpanels on the sides of mountains — and the results are rewriting everything engineers thought they knew about alpine energy production. Switzerland is not fighting its mountains. It is turning them into power stations. #renewables #solarpower #ActOnClimate

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waste, fraud and abuse

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Then they came for the children: ICE agents attempted to question a group of middle and high school-aged U.S. citizens about their immigration status. Even in self-designated sanctuary cities such as Manhattan, apparently no one is safe from the Trump administration. https://trib.al/UvJn4oZ

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BREAKING: Prince Andrew is now free to travel internationally after the FBI quietly shut down its investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. No charges. No accountability. Just a royal hall pass. One survivor. Multiple accusations. But when you’re born into a crown, justice bends the knee

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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

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I spoke to billionaires, CEOs, bankers, models, celebrities, scientists, a Kennedy... I sat on my couch and phoned up royalty, spoke to ambassadors, irritated a senior adviser at Blackstone, and left squeaky voicemails for what must constitute a considerable percentage of the world oligarchy.

motherjones.comI called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

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⚡️Ukraine's HUR destroys Russian command post in occupied Melitopol in joint operation with partisans. Ukraine on July 10 destroyed a Russian command post and killed five Russian soldiers in occupied Melitopol in a joint operation by military intelligence (HUR) and partisans.

kyivindependent.comUkraine's HUR destroys Russian command post in occupied Melitopol in joint operation with partisans"As a result of the explosion, a satellite communication hardware station—intended by Russian military leadership to coordinate occupying forces—was also destroyed," Ukraine's military intelligence sa...

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Lacking Black officials to blame in Kerr County, and too timid to criticize Republicans for anything, Charlie Kirk spins a conspiracy theory to implicate the closest Black official he can find — the fire chief in Austin, more than a hundred miles away. www.chron.com/politics/art...

chron.comCharlie Kirk blames 'DEI fire chief' for Texas flood deathsThe right-wing pundit shared conspiracies about Austin's Joel G. Baker on a recent podcast.

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We are in new territory with Trump’s latest trade letter, threatening a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil starting Aug. 1 —The US runs a rare trade surplus with Brazil, so there’s no deficit to fix —Trump says these duties are explicitly over political concerns, not economic ones

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The victim screams, "My god! My knee!" And you can see why. Knees don't bend like that. This is what CBP did to him.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

NEW — Video shared with me by a bystander shows Customs and Border Patrol violently arresting people yesterday outside a Home Depot in Van Nuys, CA. One man screams in agony as he’s handcuffed, while another is on the ground with two agents on top of him. The agents refuse to identify themselves.

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Ireland's sovereign wealth fund has pumped millions into companies who hold lucrative contracts to assist the Israel Defence Forces. The companies have also been named on a UN database as contributing to settler activity in occupied Palestinian territories.

jrnl.ieIrish sovereign wealth fund pumped millions into companies contracted by Israel Defence ForcesThe two companies were among eight with links to illegal settlements that the ISIF invested in.

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Trump regime ICE forces brutally attacked a man who screamed for help at a Walmart in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Walmart staff removed the witness filming, the employees were collaborating with ICE in covering up the incident. #3E #StopICE