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NEW: New Mexico AG, @nmdoj.bsky.social, just announces that a judge has issued a judgment in the amount of $25 BILLION against Meta for lying to consumers and users about how Meta collected, protected, shared, and used their personal information.

Exécution ratée de l’Américaine Christa Pike : l’ONU appelle à renoncer à une nouvelle tentative www.lesoir.be/774298/artic...

The @AllisonInquiry is the #1 news item in Canada for a third day in a row The voices of the COVID-19 vaccine injured are being heard not just in Canada, but around the world

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-Year-Old Mia Heller From Virginia, USA, Invents a Water Filter That Eliminates 96% of Microplastics From Drinking Water

Paint them things please. #climate #windpower #birds

A dog takes his first steps on a custom 3D printed prosthetic after weeks of fittings and physiotherapy, and his gait changes instantly.

Researchers have identified a speed demon at the heart of the Milky Way. This fast-moving star may yield insights into the black hole parked at the center of our galaxy. n.pr/4cQENUm

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-Year-Old Mia Heller From Virginia, USA, Invents a Water Filter That Eliminates 96% of Microplastics From Drinking Water

As Nigeria grapples with a rapid rise in cancer cases, patients say they often feel as if they are on their own.

The largest dinosaur weighed around 85 tons. Some male blue whales weigh as much as 200 tons. A blue whale's heart is 6 feet wide and weighs 400 lbs. The largest animal that ever lived.

The human brain, with 86 billion neurons and a million billion connections between them, runs on 20 watts, less than a lightbulb. Think we may be going down the wrong road believing data centres, needing megawatts or gigawatts of power, with all the environmental & climate costs, are the way to go.

Trump is glistening

La pétition contre le « permis de tuer » de la police vient d’être classée sans suite par la commission des lois. 732 000 personnes méprisées par 35 député·es.

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, welcomed their fourth child on Sunday.

Yup … technology is not all it’s cracked up to be … #cdnpoli

GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems.

Cuba is First in the World to Invent a Lung Cancer Vaccine Despite Decades of Sanctions and Blockade. hrnews1.substack.com/p/cuba-is-fi... -

Three egg producers will pay $3.3 million and donate 53 million eggs to food banks and nonprofits to settle a price-fixing lawsuit with the DOJ. None of the producers have to admit any wrongdoing. Is this really justice? Or just the cost of doing business?

“We don’t tax wealth, we tax income. For people who have a huge amount of property and are ultrawealthy, they can avoid having very much income.” Unrealized gains are, essentially, ­income—just ask the bankers who accept them as collateral. But Congress has never touched them.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Inside a women’s prison, a domestic violence victim began collecting others’ stories of abuse. 156 women answered her call. Together, they became “survivor sisters” — and helped shape a new law offering them a path toward freedom. But would it work? Listen to the full episode:

In echoes of past outbreaks, community members are attacking clinics, distrusting doctors and following burial traditions that could lead to more cases of Ebola. n.pr/4uHaxSZ

If American history was taught correctly.

L'homme est fou. Il adore un Dieu invisible et détruit une nature visible, inconscient que la nature qu'il détruit est le Dieu qu'il vénère. - Hubert Reeves

Breaking News: The Trump administration is investigating the admissions policies of three major medical schools, taking aim at the heart of scientific authority in the U.S. The schools targeted are Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego.

Did I just read that WNBA players won a 400 PERCENT raise thanks to their labor union? Pull that out the hat next time someone pulls one of those anti-union rants.

Darren Indyke, longtime attorney for Jeffrey Epstein, testified he "did not know" of Epstein's sexual abuse of women and girls. He also confirmed the existence of hard drives held by Epstein's estate. n.pr/4bEhJHh

Ethelda Bleibtrey: 1917: Contracted polio; began swimming for rehab 1918: Started training seriously 1919: Broke world records in the backstroke & freestyle 1920: Won 3 Olympic gold medals, setting world records in each event From swimming for rehab to world dominance in the sport in 3 years. #wow

#OTD in 1943, young Sophie Scholl was beheaded together with her brother Hans and Christoph Probst. Found guilty of, ..., distributing leaflets. #WeisseRose #FreedomOfSpeech #LestWeForget

Victims are not faceless. Stripped of her German citizenship, Hildegard Rheinstein was deported on Sept. 16, 1942 to the Theresienstadt ghetto. On Oct. 23, 1944, she was transported to Auschwitz and murdered.

Dr. Patricia Bath & Marian Croak were the first two Black women inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2022. Bath saved the sight of millions with her Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment. Croak did pioneering work in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. #WomenInSTEM #BHM

C’est grande douleur qu’aimer, Et douleur qu’ignorer cette douleur ; Mais de toutes les douleurs La plus grande est d’aimer, Et d’aimer en vain. (Abraham Cowley, poète anglais) Douce nuit, mes amies, mes amis... 🧡

Beatrice Tinsley was born #OTD in 1941. British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of #astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow, and die. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

Sur la tour Eiffel, les noms de 72 femmes scientifiques bientôt gravés au côté de leurs pairs masculins www.telerama.fr/debats-repor...

Rep. Mike Collins (a US Senate candidate) suggests Georgia high school students who walked out to protest ICE are stupid

Marjory Stephenson was born #OTD in 1885 + Helped establish modern microbial biochemistry + Wrote foundational textbook 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 (1930), shaping the discipline for decades + Co-founded, Society for General Microbiology + 1 of the first 2 women Fellows, Royal Society, 1945 #WomenInSTEM

The Sombrero galaxy (Messier 104) is in the Virgo cluster & is 1 of the most massive objects in that group, equivalent to 800 billion suns. It's 50,000 light-years across & is 30 million light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA/ESA & The Hubble Heritage Team More info: esahubble.org/images/opo03...

augmentation du salaire minimum en 2025: 2.2%

.Tout le monde en parle. hier : remarquez le stratagème; on a invité un ex-aide de camp de Legault pour n’en dire que du bien et Léger -des -sondages qui va nous dire ce que les québécois doivent penser

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Six of the top 10 are either in a kinetic conflict or threatening one, with each other or a neighbour. Or they’re under blanket sanctions. Or both. Yet oil is at ~$60 a barrel.

michel chartrand pensait que les politiciens ont fait de la défense du français un slogan politique: « j'ai toujours été contre ces nationaleux qui voulaient sauver la langue et laisser crever ceux qui la parlent. » -chartrand

si ce vote là passe... je n'aurais jamais cru que l'état de droit serait autant menacé au canada, et pas par les conservateurs!

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.