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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-08-04

Voices, The Peoples News

August 4, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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This daily Voices, The Peoples News is posted through the blog function of www.MPEN-Ohio.net

# Indigenous
Minnesota Supreme Court rules against disputed mine, says state pollution officials hid EPA warnings: The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the state’s Pollution Control Agency improperly granted permits to a fiercely contested copper-nickel mine and concealed environmental concerns about the project, which critics say threatens to pollute Lake Superior and hurt tribal lands.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lptv.org/mn-supreme-court-rules-against-disputed-mine-says-state-pollution-officials-hid-epa-warnings/*:*:text=UNDATED*20(AP)*20**C20The*20Minnesota,Superior*20and*20hurt*20tribal*20lands__;I34lJeKAlCUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdEKOaoBr$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
mRNA Covid jabs have caused silent heart damage to tens of millions of people, a shocking new study suggests: Moderna’s Covid booster caused 1 in 35 people to have heart injuries detectable with blood tests, Swiss doctors report. Will the Centers for Disease Control or American researchers take note?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/mrna-covid-jabs-have-caused-silent?utm_source=substack&publication_id=363080&post_id=135505226&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdMjGQCG3$

Sex-specific differences in myocardial injury incidence after COVID-19 mRNA-1273 Booster Vaccination Brief: Title: Myocardial Injury after COVID-19 mRNA-1273 Booster Vaccination
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejhf.2978__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdMAST2OG$

Bombshell Emails Reveal Lengths White House Was Willing To Go To Control COVID Narrative: A series of internal Facebook emails obtained by the House Judiciary Committee confirm that the Biden White House placed significant pressure on the company to crack down on “misinformation” related to the Covid pandemic in early 2021.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationalreview.com/news/internal-facebook-emails-reveal-white-house-pressured-social-media-platform-to-censor-covid-misinformation/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdMst0smQ$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Wall Street Stokes Culture War to Fight Swipe Fee Reform: The credit card industry is attempting to whip up right-wing hysterics to fight a bipartisan financial reform.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/power/2023-08-04-wall-street-culture-war-swipe-fee-reform/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdNueTbTx$

# Education / Schools
Florida ‘Effectively’ Bans AP Psychology course: Florida has banned advanced placement psychology classes with its order to school districts “that teaching foundational content on sexual orientation and gender identity” violates state law, the College Board said. Meanwhile, the state’s governor and 2024 GOP presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis vowed to “start slitting throats on Day One” in his quest to transform federal bureaucracy if he gets elected.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/08/04/florida-bans-ap-psych-over-gender-sexual-orientation-content-college-board/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdI50tB0x$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
People are shooting birds off power lines in the West: Gunshots outnumber electrocution as a cause of death, according to a new study. Researchers who examined dead birds found along approximately 120 miles of power lines across four Western states discovered that the majority of them, more than 65% were actually killed by guns, not electrocution.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.hcn.org/articles/birds-people-are-shooting-birds-off-power-lines-in-the-west__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdFyIbyCM$

‘Halliburton loophole’ allows fracking companies to avoid chemical regulation: New research finds fracking-industry exemption for 28 chemicals otherwise regulated by federal law.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04082023/halliburton-loophole-fracking-pennsylvania/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdGN5xnMd$

EPA approved Chevron fuel ingredient with sky-high cancer risk: The Environmental Protection Agency approved a component of boat fuel made from discarded plastic that the agency’s own risk formula determined was so hazardous, everyone exposed to the substance continually over a lifetime would be expected to develop cancer.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/04/epa-boat-fuel-cancer-risk-chevron-mississippi__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdCwsfezs$

2005 Energy Policy Act and its “Halliburton Loophole” Outcomes: Chemicals regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act in US fracking disclosures, 2014–2021. To begin quantifying the environmental and economic impacts of this loophole, this study undertakes an aggregate analysis of chemicals that would otherwise be regulated by SDWA within FracFocus, an industry-sponsored fracking disclosure database. This paper quantifies the total disclosures and total mass of these chemicals used between 2014 and 2021, examines trends in their use, and investigates which companies most use and supply them.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749122017663__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdCzbG-uK$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Greg Casar’s Thirst Strike Got Biden’s Attention. Will It Bring About a Climate Emergency? The Texas lawmaker sat out on the Capitol steps last week to protest worker conditions under extreme heat. “As politicians, we’re famously always a couple of steps behind the people,” he said
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://casar.house.gov/media/press-releases/news-congressman-greg-casar-hosts-vigil-thirst-strike-workers-rights-house__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdA0R3abo$

Following Vigil & Thirst Strike, President Biden Announces Actions to Protect Workers and Communities from Extreme Heat: “I am proud of the Texas workers who have spoken up about the lack of water breaks on the job.” Today, Congressman Greg Casar (D-Texas), who recently was on an all-day thirst strike on the U.S. Capitol steps, releases the following statement on President Joe Biden’s announcement of actions to protect workers and communities from extreme heat.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://casar.house.gov/media/press-releases/news-following-vigil-thirst-strike-president-biden-announces-actions-protect__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdNbt3n33$

The world just got its first real taste of what life is like at 1.5 degrees Celsius, hotter than preindustrial times: According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, this year’s July was the hottest July on record, between 1.5 and 1.6 Celsius warmer than the average before widespread fossil fuel use.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://crast.net/389649/the-world-gets-its-first-real-taste-of-what-life-is-like-at-1-5c/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdL-hy8Hm$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
BPA’s evil cousin: An endocrine-disrupting chemical found in plastic baby bottles, lined aluminum cans, and other plastic food packaging. Truth is that BPA has some dangerous cousins (most commonly known as BPS, BPF, BPM and BPP) that are being used as substitutes for BPA. Why are they dangerous? They are all chemicals called bisphenols and they mimic estrogen just like BPA.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://livinginthechemicalage.com/bpa-and-its-dangerous-cousins/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdG3iDqsp$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Wagner Men Exiled by Putin Threaten New Firestorm in Europe: Poland is now gearing up combat choppers in response to infiltration threats from Wagner fighters in Belarus https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-wagner-fighters-threaten-armed-chaos-on-polish-border-with-belarus__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdHOYxhvF$

Former Russian President Warns of Nuclear Response to Ukraines Counteroffensive: The Russian Security Council’s Deputy Chairman and former President, Dmitry Medvedev, warned of a nuclear war in case Ukraine’s counteroffensive, backed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), against Russia succeeds. “There would simply be no other option. So our enemies should pray for our warriors’ (success). They are making sure that a global nuclear fire is not ignited,” he said on social media.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/russia-s-ex-president-warns-of-nuclear-war-if-ukraine-s-counteroffensive-succeeds/story__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdOdPTlWj$

# Gov / Politics
These Eight States Will Likely Decide Who Wins The 2024 Presidential Election: The outcome of a likely Biden-Trump rematch rests on just eight states. Each has a formidable block of independent voters who are likely to tip the battlegrounds one way or another, it takes 270 votes. Arizona – 11 electoral votes, Georgia – 16 electoral votes, Michigan -15 electoral votes, New Hampshire – 4 electoral votes, Nevada – 6 electoral votes, North Carolina – 16 electoral votes, Pennsylvania – 19 electoral votes, Wisconsin – 10 electoral votes https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/eight-states-could-decide-2024-presidential-election__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdPRuh_5o$

Trump’s political action committee wants a $60 million refund on paying his legal fees – 3 key things to know about PACs: There are different kinds of PACs, but it is not clear if Trump’s use of them to pay his large legal fees violates election or campaign finance laws.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/trumps-political-action-committee-wants-a-60-million-refund-on-paying-his-legal-fees-3-key-things-to-know-about-pacs-210776__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdDuMwNuK$

One Sign Trump Is Really in Trouble: Dems Are Keeping Quiet: The Senate’s most vulnerable Democrats are steering clear of the week’s biggest news: the third indictment of former President Donald Trump. Your Huddle hosts asked seven incumbents expected to face competitive reelections in 2024 to weigh in on the charges but heard nothing but crickets. Their silence stands in contrast to many other Democrats
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/newsletters/huddle/2023/08/04/the-dems-staying-quiet-on-trumps-indictment-00109822__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdNWKpquz$

Trump political operation steers about $130 million in donor money to cover legal fees: Trump’s political network has reported paying $130 million to cover the cost of lawyers and law firms as legal fees soar, with donors footing the bill.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/08/trump-political-operation-steers-130-million-in-donor-money-to-cover-legal-fees/*:*:text=Groups*20in*20former*20President*20Donald,to*20a*20new*20OpenSecrets*20analysis__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdGys4CLT$

# Law Enforcment
[Smile worthy] Police outside of San Antonio arrested a man in June for the most heinous crime imaginable: drawing with chalk on a public sidewalk. Now the city of Leon Valley owes the artist a $16.5k wrongful-arrest settlement. City officials issued a public apology and sweetened the “So sorry about all this” pot with a donated box of chalk.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/leon-valley-chalk-drawing-arrest-18269560.php__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdDxrppwn$

The Abysmal State of Reporting Suicides from U.S. Prisons: Mass incarceration is a public health crisis. Researchers need reliable health data from state prisons to address it.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://undark.org/2023/08/03/the-abysmal-state-of-reporting-suicides-from-u-s-prisons/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdOUvtz-I$

Solitary Confinement Survivors Rally Support for Proposed Federal Ban: With over 122,000 people in solitary nationwide, lawmakers are seeking to end the practice in federal facilities.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/solitary-confinement-survivors-rally-support-for-proposed-federal-ban/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdKb7JjU4$

# Legal / DOJ
Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Trying to Overturn the Election, Despite Us All Witnessing Him Trying to Overturn the Election: The ex-president was arraigned in a DC courthouse on Thursday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-a79f2d3683c7591058635c9b3d870070__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdLQTXiuy$

“Unusually Strong”: A Mueller Prosecutor Says Trump’s Indictment No. 3 Packs a Wallop: Andrew Weissmann runs through the “rock-solid” evidence ahead of a trial that he believes will test “whether we are going to adhere to the rule of law in this country.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/mueller-prosecutor-says-trumps-indictment-no-3-packs-a-wallop__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdDwDxLdw$

Trump’s Own Lawyer Admits He Directed Illegal Scheme to Stop Electoral
Count: Jenna Ellis, an attorney for Donald Trump who helped drive his false claims about the 2020 election results, has admitted in a Colorado disciplinary proceeding that she misrepresented evidence at least 10 times during Trump’s frantic bid to subvert his defeat.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/08/trump-lawyer-misrepresented-jenna-ellis-00086256__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdIfPkvmZ$

Trump lawyer calls indictment an ‘attack on free speech and political advocacy.’ Follow live updates Donald Trump’s attorney John Lauro is calling the latest indictment of the former president “an attack on free speech and political advocacy.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-charged-4-counts-including-conspiracy-defraud-us-101918405__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdHe3fOpA$

A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump: One of the charges against Donald Trump dates back to the 1870s and was designed to give the federal government the power to ensure states held free and fair elections.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-the-ku-klux-klan-acts-1870s-laws-to-protect-black-voters-ignored-for-decades-now-being-used-against-trump-202923__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdK6HeOet$

Laws enacted in the 1870s called the Ku Klux Klan Acts: They are officially known as the Enforcement Acts because they empowered the federal government to enforce the Civil War amendments
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_enforce.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdJqVY9QL$

The Civil Rights Law Used to Indict Trump: As the Brennan Center for Justice points out, in the 20th century the Supreme Court has ruled that all sorts of election infringements violate the Enforcement Acts, including stuffing ballot boxes and bribing voters. A suspect doesn’t have to commit violence against Black voters to violate the law.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/civil-rights-law-could-be-used-indict-trump__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdB3fQFqM$

# Media
USPS Is Asking for These Changes to Your Mailbox, Starting Sunday
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bestlifeonline.com/usps-mailbox-changes-news/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdA50Trwo$

# Medical / Health
When M.D.s Go Union: The wave of professionals who are joining unions has now reached the ranks of physicians. “Many physicians now are employed by consolidated corporate health care systems that span many different communities and increasingly are spread across multiple states,” the JAMA article points out. Health care in the United States has long been notorious, of course, for rationing access to medical care by the calculus of ability to pay
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-08-04-when-mds-go-union/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdDbAA3rP$

# Medical / Health / Global
The World Is Not Prepared for Another Cholera Wave: Cholera is both deadly and highly treatable. While the Vibrio cholerae bacteria can ravage the human body, and even kill untreated victims in as little as a day, a simple oral solution of salt, sugar, and water can often be enough to replenish lost fluids and coax victims back to health. Antibiotics and an IV drip can be used to treat more dire cases, and a vaccine regimen that can help prevent severe disease is available for as little as $1.50 per dose.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://undark.org/2023/08/02/the-world-is-not-prepared-for-another-cholera-wave/?utm_source=Undark*3A*News**A26*Updates&utm_campaign=5417c5c589-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5cee408d66-185e4e09de-*5BLIST_EMAIL_ID*5D__;JSsrJSslJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdMMzvVAz$

# Military / DOD
Two US sailors charged with sharing military info with China: Two San Diego-based sailors have been arrested and charged with providing sensitive military information to China, U.S. federal officials announced. Both 22-year-old sailor Jinchao Wei and Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, are accused in separate cases of sharing military information to Chinese intelligence officials in exchange for cash payments. Both have pleaded not guilty to the charges they face.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/08/03/us-navy-sailors-arrested-china-sensitive-material__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdO78zPTN$

US may put armed troops on commercial ships in Strait of Hormuz: The U.S. military is considering putting armed personnel on commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz to stop Iranian seizures, in what would be an unheard of action aimed at stopping Iran from seizing and harassing civilian vessels, four American officials told The Associated Press
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-military-may-put-armed-troops-on-commercial-ships-in-strait-of-hormuz-to-stop-iranian-seizures-9a355a9d__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdN960cqO$

# Military / Global
Moscow Moving Ahead With North Korea Arms Deals: The White House said U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke last week to North Korean officials during a visit to Pyongyang about increasing the sale of munitions to Moscow for its war in Ukraine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/08/04/white-house-says-top-russian-official-pitched-north-korea-increasing-sale-of-munitions-moscow.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdEqe-wbS$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
Gatekeeper of the Gougers: In a newly unsealed deposition, a former Express Scripts executive (unintentionally) reveals how hard his colleagues were undermining his ‘mission’ to cut drug prices. Express Scripts Chief Medical Officer Steven Miller speaks to CNBC in November 2018 about the company’s role in bringing down drug prices.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-08-04-gatekeeper-of-the-gougers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdOCHy2SZ$

# Social
Houston volunteers face thousands in fines for feeding homeless: Volunteers with a group that has been feeding Houston’s unhoused population since 1994 are facing a potential $80,000 in fines after a crackdown by local police. Food Not Bombs is currently disputing 44 tickets issued by Houston police department for giving food to homeless individuals outside of the Houston Public Library. If a jury finds them guilty, they can be fined the maximum penalty of $2,000 per fine, with the group noting they could owe over $80,000 in fines at this point.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/houston-volunteers-face-thousands-in-fines-for-feeding-homeless/ar-AA1eMHTm?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=fd9e3abaf29742e6b5b4fddc63313974&ei=26__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdJJAHC-2$

# Technology
The Biden administration has implemented a comprehensive energy efficiency plan by enforcing a countrywide ban on several commonly used light bulbs. This initiative, led by the Department of Energy (DOE), prohibits manufacturers and retailers from selling traditional incandescent and halogen light bulbs, which currently make up a significant portion of the market. Instead, they will be required to offer light-emitting diode (LED) alternatives or face significant penalties imposed by the federal government
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/biden-just-banned-popular-household-item-it-s-impossible-for-democrats-to-leave-us-alone/ar-AA1eNWt2?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=fd9e3abaf29742e6b5b4fddc63313974&ei=6__;!!On18fmf1aQ!1XagAjr92c2_ITd-JaVWnq2sBxKaoqoTjWtvP-8U3TLm2E_b2IBT35bPkvDQenUNOMDRsTuSzg891rAN97Qqn1cUdAv5LHb2$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-08-03

Voices, The Peoples News

August 3, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Arrests of noncitizens with criminal convictions at border at record highs: Fiscal year to date, OFO agents encountered more than 15,000 people with criminal convictions, up from roughly 6,500 in fiscal 2021. In fiscal 2022, they apprehended nearly 17,000.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arrests-of-noncitizens-with-criminal-convictions-at-border-at-record-highs__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbrSzrlTo$

2 Dead Bodies Found Stuck to Buoys Texas Officials Were Ordered to Take Down: The Biden administration had ordered Texas officials to take down the buoys due to humanitarian concerns.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/2-dead-bodies-found-stuck-to-buoys-texas-officials-were-ordered-to-take-down/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjboyXt4D1$

Migrants overwhelm Midtown Manhattan sidewalks: “The overcrowding is absolutely, absolutely out of control,” Paladino said. Democratic New York City Councilman Robert Holden also slammed local and federal officials for the ongoing surge amid border security concerns, calling it “absurd.” “We have 100,000 people in New York City that walked across unvetted.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foxnews.com/media/migrants-overwhelm-midtown-manhattan-sidewalks-absolutely-control__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbjFz406Z$

# Corporations / Industry
Chemical companies’ PFAS payouts are huge, but the problem is even bigger: 3M, DuPont, Chemours and Corteva have agreed settlement in the billions for polluting drinking water with ‘forever chemicals.’ But while the sums are impressive on their face, they represent just a fraction of the estimated $400bn some estimate will be needed to clean and protect the nation’s drinking water.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/03/chemical-companies-pfas-payouts-forever-chemicals*:*:text=A*20second*20June*20settlement*20with,protect*20the*20nation’s*20drinking*20water__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbs0oNvGC$

Dam builder fined $1.1M for contamination in Peace River: In B.C.’s Peace River, home to at-risk species, more than three million litres of wastewater contained a concentration of aluminum ‘acutely lethal’ to fish
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thenarwhal.ca/site-c-peace-river-contamination-fine/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbgBj48-A$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Why Is There A Sudden Appearance Of Malaria In The U.S. After Two Decades? On June 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported several cases of locally acquired malaria in Florida and Texas, meaning that patients were infected within the U.S.—the first such cases in over two decades.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/new-malaria-cases-in-the-u-s-manoj-duraisingh/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbmHH_VtZ$

What to know about malaria after U.S. cases were reported: While there’s concern over a potential rise in cases amid increased summer travel, the risk of contracting malaria in the U.S. remains extremely low.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/06/27/malaria-mosquito-cases-rising-explained__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjboKU0WAY$

The world is not prepared for another cholera wave: Sanitation and vaccination can prevent cholera. But recent outbreaks highlight obstacles to stopping the disease. And many experts believe that climate change will make matters worse, by exacerbating the droughts and storms that can spark outbreaks.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.realclearscience.com/2023/08/03/the_world_is_not_prepared_for_another_cholera_wave_970474.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbqFd-841$

# Education / Schools
The U.S. Department of Defense needs to figure out if its Troops-to-Teachers program is meeting its goal to reduce teacher shortages in high-need schools and key subjects such as math, science and special education. A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that it is unclear if the Troops-to-Teachers program is meeting its goals because the Department of Defense lost access to participant data when it canceled the program in 2020
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1bd4edfe-315c-11ee-aa74-b39000aceead.html?a&seyid=80912*utm_source=thecentersquare.com&utm_campaign=*2Fnewsletters*2Flists*2Ft2*2Fnational*2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=read*20more__;PyUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbqNs39wp$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global A look at how much less Antarctic sea ice there is this year: The clear departure from previous years is startling, since sea ice around Antarctica has been slower to respond to climate change than ice in the Arctic Ocean. Antarctic sea ice also set a record low in 2022, but this year’s ice cover is almost 500,000 square miles smaller.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-early-winter-record-low-june-2023__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbjqfUKrX$

We’re gambling with the only good oceans in the universe: Earth’s precious water made life possible. Now it’s simmering. The world’s third-largest barrier reef is dying, and scientists are fishing out coral samples and bringing them to the cool safety of laboratory tanks. One spot along the coastline hit triple-digit temperatures last month, conditions you would expect inside a hot tub. Some coastal Floridians skipped their usual dips in the ocean because it didn’t seem appealing anymore.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/08/marine-heat-waves-earth-climate-change/674892/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbmMXDSPl$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Eyewittness: ‘Zelensky’s Ukraine is no democracy, It’s a thieving, corrupt, murderous gangster regime’: Right now, I’m about to try to get out of Ukraine, and seek political asylum in Hungary. Either I’ll cross the border and make it to safety, or I’ll be disappeared by the Kiev regime. I’m posting this thread just as I’m getting to the border checkpoint. I’m also posting videos on the two channels I have access to, The Roundtable and Gonzalo Lira, Again. If you don’t hear from me in the next 12 hours, whelp! I’m on my way to a labor camp!
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/08/eyewitness-zelenskys-ukraine-is-no-democracy-its-a-thieving-corrupt-murderous-gangster-regime/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eyewitness-zelenskys-ukraine-is-no-democracy-its-a-thieving-corrupt-murderous-gangster-regime__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbk1EDDZd$

China has made its first strike on the West: It is becoming increasingly clear that Chinese computer hackers may have penetrated American military and civil critical infrastructure in ways that could cripple a US response to Chinese armed aggression from the outset. Certainly that would align with Beijing’s strategy, familiar from Sun Tzu’s “Art of War”, which is to win the war before a shot is fired.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-has-made-its-first-strike-on-the-west/ar-AA1eK44k?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=7c73a1e154104b48909c2f0450a15dea&ei=6__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbkvSs2UV$

# Gov / Politics
This Democrat Thinks He Can Do What Beto O’Rourke Couldn’t; Take Down Ted Cruz: Colin Allred, an NFL linebacker turned congressman, accuses Cruz of neglecting Texans while skipping to Cancún and podcasting. “He’s a content machine,” Allred says, “not a legislative machine.” Still, it’s an uphill battle, or potentially, as one strategist warns, a “suicide mission.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/colin-allred-ted-cruz-2024-senate-texas-beto-orourke__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbvakxuDd$

Senate Democrats Blocked Watchdog for Ukraine Aid Ignoring Lessons From Afghanistan: The U.S. special inspector who monitored billions of dollars in U.S. waste in Afghanistan cautions about repeating the same mistakes in Ukraine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/08/02/ukraine-aid-special-inspector-afghanistan/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The*20Intercept*20Newsletter__;JSU!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjblqcJJnl$

Decades later, the US government called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘nuclear tests’: U.S. military strategists were eager “to use the bomb first where its effects would not only be politically effective, but also technically measurable.” The vast majority of the 125,000 who died in Hiroshima were women and children.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.truthdig.com/articles/decades-later-the-u-s-government-called-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-nuclear-tests/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbgoqKzqq$

The Trump vs. Biden rematch really does seem to be happening, but this time, it’s even more cursed: In fact, a solid majority of voters have an unfavorable view of each of the leading candidates, as people wonder whether either man can manage the increasing turmoil coming from all sides.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://rollcall.com/2023/06/21/trump-vs-biden-ii-the-rematch-voters-dont-want/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbqzFnCe1$

# Legal / DOJ
It Took Three Indictments for Mike Pence to Get Tough on Trump: “Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president,” the former vice president said. Meanwhile, House Republicans appear fully committed to ignoring January 6.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/donald-trump-mike-pence-indictment__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbgf8i95N$

Attorney General Ken Paxton and his lawyers are set to appear at 9 a.m. Thursday in Harris County district court for his securities fraud indictment. The impeached attorney general appeared in a Houston courtroom, where lawyers from both sides agreed to return in October to set an expected trial date on charges that have been pending since 2015.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/03/ken-paxton-securities-fraud-courtroom/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbjwOwBnD$

I Was Just Subpoenaed by Trump’s Georgia Grand Jury. Here’s What I’ll Tell Them: The Trump election interference case raises unique questions about the role of a free press in preserving democracy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/31/trump-georgia-grand-jury-subpoena/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The*20Intercept*20Newsletter__;JSU!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbnu3xyOU$

The Man With No Pants Is the Star of Donald Trump’s Latest Indictment: Jeffrey Clark was an obscure government lawyer when he nearly seized control of the Justice Department to help the ex-president overturn the
2020 election results.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/08/02/trump-indictment-justice-department-jeffrey-clark/*:*:text=The*20man*20with*20no*20pants*20is*20the*20unnamed*20star*20of,results*20of*20the*202020*20election__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbsxC9awF$

Boris Epshteyn, a strategic adviser to Trump’s 2020 campaign, appears to be the individual referenced in the indictment as Co-Conspirator 6: The indictment refers to co-conspirator 6 as “a political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-indictment-jan-6-live-updates_n_64b811dce4b08cd259da027b/liveblog_64cab37ae4b03d9b515f7073?utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-morning-email_2023-08-03&utm_term=us-morning-email__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbvNMiXPm$

Utah’s Secretive Medical Malpractice Panels Make It Even Harder to Sue Providers: Prelitigation panels are meant to judge the merit of a complaint against a provider ahead of a lawsuit. But some attorneys see them as “nothing more than an obstruction” for victims. Patients who wanted to file a lawsuit after receiving a “nonmeritorious” opinion had to find an expert who would disagree with the panel and explain why their case had merit, a process that could cost thousands of dollars
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/secretive-medical-malpractice-panels-make-it-hard-to-sue-providers-utah*:*:text=Utah*20legislators*20in*202010*20put,could*20cost*20thousands*20of*20dollars__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbuRoB1tf$

# Military / Global
Pakistani defense conglomerate unveils new drone, missiles at IDEF: Global Industrial and Defence Solutions showed off its Faaz-RF and Faaz-IIR medium-range, air-to-air missiles, as well as the Shahpar III combat UAV.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.defensenews.com/industry/techwatch/2023/08/03/pakistani-defense-conglomerate-unveils-new-drone-missiles-at-idef/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dfn-dnr__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbuhrFwWp$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
The Oliver Twist; How orphan drugs became big business for Big Pharma: Big Pharma’s drive for bigger and bigger profits has made business practices that were once seen as outliers the industry standard.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-08-03-oliver-twist-orphan-drugs/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbnSMALO9$
See also: Series on the business of health care, the inner workings of the monopolies and cartels
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/businessofhealthcare__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjblqALl7q$

# Social
Whitewashing Slavery: The tide of freedom in America is receding. Reproductive rights, affirmative action, lgbtq+ rights and the accuracy and integrity of Black history have been crippled for the comfort and convenience of a radically conservative minority. A minority disproportionately represented in our highest court.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/03/whitewashing-slavery/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x88Bwb4WwQQH7689CI3FyCPHQP2hZ1ZqQnF89S_GLgqSYLhzUZIXOhOLOw01Udgvv1PjvUa7u6S39ctZrXthDBDjbnvLaaAE$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-08-02

Voices, The Peoples News

August 2, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Judge Orders DOI to Move on Rule for Tribes Reapplying for Federal Recognition: A federal judge declined on Friday to order the government to allow the Chinook Indian Nation to reapply for federal recognition, but he did toss out the Department of Interior’s decision to ban such second tries and told the department to re-evaluate the rule.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders-feds-to-reevaluate-tribal-recognition-rule/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMgFngLxA$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Texas is separating families at the border in apparent ‘harsh and cruel’ shift in policy, immigration attorney says: Texas has separated at least 26 migrant family units on the southern border since July 10 under Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border initiative, according to Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid immigration attorney Kristin Etter. “This is just a very harsh and cruel detour from the asylum process,” Etter told CNN in an interview Wednesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-is-separating-families-at-the-border-in-apparent-harsh-and-cruel-shift-in-policy-immigration-attorney-says/ar-AA1eIdxR?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=6eb9217e85a2425d99273ed8602ac50d&ei=242__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMjriGnBJ$

# Corporations / Industry
New Factories Are Coming to the US, Even as Existing Ones Struggle: But even amid the recent upswing in optimism, with US stock indexes now at their highest levels in more than a year, the current soft patch in manufacturing makes it harder to definitively ring the all-clear for the US economy’s ability to avoid a recession.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/677031?utm_source=Newswav&utm_medium=Website__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMghSGyUT$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
U.S. Credit Rating Downgraded from AAA by Fitch: Fitch Ratings downgraded the long-term credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+ on Tuesday, citing the U.S. government’s debt burden and its “expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/fitch-downgrades-united-states-long-term-ratings-to-aa-from-aaa-outlook-stable-01-08-2023__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMv2SFcIb$

Report: Public pensions flagging financially in three Southeastern states: A new report says public pension systems in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina are struggling financially and need reforms to avoid taxpayer bailouts or riskier investments. The Equable Institute, which authored the report, is a bipartisan nonprofit that helps policymakers solve funding challenges with public pensions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/alabama/article_5ad1b9a6-3099-11ee-b3e9-4f126285c894.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMgzekhpc$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure
Why the mosquito that spreads West Nile virus is becoming resistant to insecticides: Scientists are reporting increasing insecticide resistance among American Culex mosquitoes that spread West Nile virus to humans. Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that in laboratory studies, these mosquitoes are living longer when exposed to these products, rather than dying.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vox.com/health/23814358/west-nile-virus-symptoms-mosquito-repellant-disease-bite-insecticide-resistance__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMuDXh1DQ$

# Gov / Politics
Why Trump’s Indictment Matters: For a brief moment, America is refusing to be an accountability-free zone. Will it last? Accountability must extend to Republican authoritarians, as well as Democrats whose betrayals and soft corruption create backlash conditions that fuel right-wing extremists, as Franklin Roosevelt warned. Accountability must finally become the ethos of the electorate and our culture writ large, which is too frequently electing and empowering the politicians in both parties who are committing environmental, war, economic, financial, and human rights crimes.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/email/698ba306-4da2-49d5-a837-ac99a542e886/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMu3UUtUb$

Adam Kinzinger thinks Donald Trump ‘is guilty of knowing what he did’ in Jan. 6 insurrection The Illinois Republican cited “seditious conspiracy,” Trump’s pressure campaign.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/adam-kinzinger-thinks-donald-trump-criminal-involvement-jan/story?id=85482800__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMltblEm4$

National Security Implications of Trump’s Indictment; A Damage Assessment: The Impact of Donald Trump’s Indictments on US Foreign Policy. The indictments against Donald Trump will undoubtedly have far-reaching consequences, and US foreign policy is not immune to their influence.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.justsecurity.org/86887/national-security-implications-of-trumps-indictment-a-damage-assessment/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMi7b1K1U$

Trump, Biden in dead tie heading into 2024: Newly released polling data shows President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are tied in a general election face-off. Trump saw slightly more support from his base than Biden, with 88 percent of registered Republicans selecting Trump versus 83 percent of Democrats choosing Biden.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/01/biden-trump-2024-poll-00109161__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMk-OBvBY$

# Law Enforcment
Rep. Jackson Thrown to Ground ‘Face First’ in Emergency: The former Trump doctor was also handcuffed during the scuffle, according to a witness. Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas was handcuffed and placed on the ground face-first by local law enforcement while he was trying to assist a teenage girl in medical distress at a rodeo over the weekend, according to a witness who spoke to CNN.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/politics/texas-congressman-detained-ronny-jackson/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMrnUB56q$

# Legal / DOJ
Dallas lawyer Sidney Powell appears to be one of the six unnamed co-conspirators that the Justice Department accused Tuesday of playing key roles in former Pres. Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Though she is not named in the four-count indictment filed Tuesday against Trump, the Justice Department makes numerous references to a “co-conspirator 3” whose description matches Powell, a prominent election fraud conspiracy theorist.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rawstory.com/sidney-powell-2662672954/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMgC7_4Ok$

Who Is Tanya Chutkan, the Judge Assigned to Trump’s Jan. 6 Case? ‘Presidents are not Kings’: Judge Tanya Chutkan has incarcerated all 31 Capitol rioters who have come before her, an unmatched record. She’s also dealt with the former president in a case before.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/tanya-chutkan-judge-assigned-to-donald-trumps-jan-6-case-has-clashed-with-him-before*:*:text=Tanya*20Chutkan*2C*20Judge*20Assigned*20to,Has*20Clashed*20With*20Him*20Before__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMjoD2JGe$

Read the Damning 45-Page Indictment Against Donald Trump: The indictment, unsealed Tuesday, charged Trump in relation to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/read-the-damning-45-page-indictment-against-donald-trump-for-trying-to-overturn-2020-election__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMgjdQEMu$

Donald Trump Indicted for an Astonishing Third Time, Now in DOJ Election Case: This comes on the heels of a separate indictment by the Justice Department and one in New York. The federal investigation is the latest criminal case for Trump as he runs for the White House in 2024.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-investigations-other-charges-b8b064a00caad4306fb54d2f6a320468__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMrWtUT0N$

Trump Plans to Defend Himself Against Election Charges by Throwing His Lawyers Under the Bus: Yes, it is a very big shock that Trump may blame other people for his own actions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4044185-michael-cohen-talks-trump-indictment-doj-docs/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMvRkyPQF$

Trump facing new charges relating to election interference: Former President Donald J. Trump is facing four new federal charges accusing him of conspiracy and obstructing the 2020 general election.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_67121d98-30b5-11ee-831b-5f810668474e.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMmhDmOq9$

Trump Is Collecting Federal Indictments Like Trophies: The federal indictment means Trump faces nearly 80 total felony charges, bringing his legal woes to a new level. With yesterday’s stunning set of federal indictments on conspiracy charges against him for his role in the events leading up to January 6, the former president now faces nearly 80 federal and state felony charges.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-collecting-federal-indictments-like-trophies/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMgSOVivH$

# Medical / Health
‘It’s a Crisis’; Maternal Health Care Disappears for Millions: New data from the nonpartisan health advocacy group March of Dimes shows that the U.S. saw a 4 percent decline in hospitals with labor and delivery services between 2019 and 2020. Access to maternal health care is evaporating in much of the country, as hospitals close and obstetricians become harder to find for millions of pregnant people.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/01/maternal-health-care-crisis-00109106__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMguahD2L$

Malaria cases in Florida and Texas raise prospect of greater transmission in a warmer future: Seven people in the U.S. have contracted the disease from local mosquitoes, the nation’s first such cases in 20 years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082023/malaria-texas-florida-climate-change/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMt-0T7N2$

# Military / Global
Putin launches attack on NATO doorstep and sends troops in for huge military operation: Russia has launched a massive drone attack against Ukraine less than a mile from NATO’s border sparking fears of escalation in the flashpoint region.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1797994/vladimir-putin-russia-baltic-sea-navy-exercise-nato__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMpsyBGXu$

Russia blows up Black Sea port hours after confirming ‘peace talks’ with Turkey: Vladimir Putin will make a diplomatic trip to Turkey in the coming weeks, his first visit to a Nato-affiliated country since the start of the war in Ukraine. Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan confirmed the visit and told Putin that ‘no steps should be taken that will escalate tensions in the Russia-Ukraine war,’ emphasising the significance of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which he called a ‘bridge for peace.’
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/02/russia-attacks-black-sea-port-after-confirming-peace-talks-with-turkey-19239171/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMpjXx7tU$

Putin on a possible war with NATO: “We are prepared for any scenario.”: At a meeting with Russian journalists in the Kremlin after the two-day Russia-Africa summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked about a possible war with NATO. He assured that Russia is prepared “for any scenario.” This is reported by the German news magazine Berliner Zeitung.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-on-a-possible-war-with-nato-we-are-prepared-for-any-scenario/ar-AA1eFNci?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=6eb9217e85a2425d99273ed8602ac50d&ei=53__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMvLEpdYB$

# Social
Our open border is creating Bidenvilles of homelessness: New York’s dense population and high rents make it harder to hide the homeless than in cities more spread out. With his city’s shelters full, Adams has rented hundreds of hotels and opened dozens of emergency facilities, from churches to parking lots , to house supposed asylum-seekers. He’s even tried to pay private homeowners to put them up. It’ll never be enough, as he now seems to understand.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/our-open-border-is-creating-bidenvilles-of-homelessness__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMm0YDZ5j$

# Water
Not ‘toilet to tap:’ CA will turn sewage into drinking water: Under California’s draft rules, waste would undergo extensive treatment and testing, providing a new, costly but renewable water supply.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/08/california-toilet-to-tap-water/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xvkAbaxsMGCvONi1NZaB62LTYvQw-H3TkBzuss-qEgD_Z78dzDrUOW80lw-fWlM7x6CJqtQeaJ8WbNNDACHyxGVLMrSYRAIN$

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August 1, 2023
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
The Pentagon is pulling 1,100 troops from the US-Mexico border mission: The 1,100 troops will conclude their 90-day mission by Aug. 8; the remaining 400 will be extended through August 31, a defense official said on the condition of anonymity to discuss details ahead of an announcement.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/us-military-remove-troops-mexico-border-immigration-b82a32f5c82c421f1c645a64715dabb1__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjlBo3_fa$

New York City paying Covid test company millions in no-bid contract to dump migrants: New York City paid a mobile medical services company 432 million to carry out the mayor’s plan to bus thousands of migrants to upstate towns that didn’t want them. Asylum seekers are allegedly coerced or lured onto buses with fake promises of jobs and legal documents. Instead, they said, they were given fake work and residency permits, some printed on phony New York City letterhead, all rejected when they tried to present them at the local Department of Motor Vehicles to secure an ID.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rt.com/news/580629-new-york-migrants-covid-dumping/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjovfnt8c$

# Censorship?
Texas County to Restrict ‘Objectionable’ Library Book Access: It will also boost politically conservative books in the hope of offering “balance.” Montgomery County Commissioners Court voted unanimously this month to prevent visitors under 18 from accessing ‘explicit or questionable’ books, including those with LGBTQ+ themes, at its public libraries. They also will be adding more materials with politically conservative themes.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/texas-book-ban-sexually-explicit-material-7ecc8a95bde453cd3cae3aa167ee8655__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjgIFzzjq$

# Children / Youth
Nearly 1 in 10 US kids diagnosed with developmental disability: The number of American children that have been diagnosed with developmental disabilities has increased, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. The agency unveiled new findings showing that nearly one in 10 children in the US were diagnosed with a developmental disability in 2021, an increase from previous years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/13/nearly-1-in-10-us-kids-diagnosed-with-developmental-disability-cdc/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjio6lyRR$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
SCIENCE Magazine Finally Admits mRNA Vaccines’ Dangerous Side Effects! Shots linked to Long Covid, Neurological Damages and Cardiovascular POTS https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/07/science-magazine-finally-admitted-the-mrna-vaccines-dangerous-side-effects/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjlG5Pq_o$

Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults: In 2020, prior to COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the Brighton Collaboration created a priority list, endorsed by the World Health Organization, of potential adverse events relevant to COVID-19 vaccines.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36055877/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjoK5Ex-J$

Adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines and measures to prevent them: Recently, The Lancet published a study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the waning of immunity with time. The study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals 8 months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among the unvaccinated individuals.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-022-01831-0__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjk0UvH-Y$

More Young People Dying of Heart Attacks: “Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, heart attack deaths across all age groups have become more common in the U.S.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thevaccinereaction.org/2023/07/more-young-people-dying-of-heart-attacks/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjumkB_YU$

Myocarditis Cases in U.S. Military Spiked by 130 Percent: Myocarditis, Malignant Neoplasms, Embolisms, Ovarian Dysfunction Increased After COVID Shot Mandate
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thevaccinereaction.org/2023/07/myocarditis-cases-in-u-s-military-spiked-by-130-percent/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjs_lSvfn$

House Republicans Accidentally Released a Trove of Damning Covid Documents: House Republicans on the subcommittee probing the origin of the Covid-19 virus appear to have inadvertently released a trove of new documents related to their investigation that shed light on deliberations among the scientists who drafted a key paper in February and March of 2020. The paper was the subject of a hearing on Capitol Hill, which coincided with the release of a report by the subcommittee devoted to the “Proximal Origin” paper.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-republicans/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjs5C5YKM$

Key Scientist In COVID Origin Controversy Misled Congress on Status of $8.9 Million NIH Grant: Democrats repeatedly characterized the argument in terms of a “bribe” being paid in exchange for a paper that exonerated a lab in Wuhan, China, that the NIH had been funding to do the kind of risky research that could spark a pandemic . Rather than a bribe, though, the question is one of leverage. “I hate when politics is injected into science – but it’s impossible not to, especially given the circumstance,” [said scientist Kristian Anderson]. “We should be sensitive to that.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/21/covid-origin-nih-lab-leak/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjtL3Rt51$

Biden Officials Launch Office for Studying and Preventing Long COVID: The office is soon launching clinical trials to study potential treatments for the illness that affects millions. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the formation of the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice on Monday. The office will study the illness that leaves some with chronic exhaustion, pain, brain fog, and more for months or years after contracting COVID-19.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/biden-officials-launch-office-for-studying-and-preventing-long-covid/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjh-tqe0j$

# Employment / Labor
Five critical lessons from UPS’s union workers: The UPS Teamsters’ negotiations with the world’s largest delivery company offer the American labor movement lessons in organizing. While the union did not win everything it wanted, it secured a majority of its demands in what it called “the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS.” Union members will vote on whether to accept the deal between August 3 and 22.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.alternet.org/five-critical-lessons-ups-workers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjv3E4mqK$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Climate activists and Steve King unlikely allies in Iowa pipeline fight: Liberal environmentalists and conservative landowners, led by the former congressman Steve King, are pressuring Republican candidates to oppose https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://asapnews365.com/local-weather-activists-and-steve-king-unlikely-allies-in-iowa-pipeline-battle/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjomB2m-l$

Regulators deny Steve King’s request to participate in pipeline hearing: Aformer northwest Iowa congressman who has recently spoken out against the use of eminent domain to build carbon dioxide pipelines will be excluded from participating in an upcoming permit hearing as an “intervenor,” according to the Iowa Utilities Board.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/regulators-deny-steve-kings-request-to-participate/article_e73014e4-ab3c-53e5-a4d1-cfc2edca6268.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjky9ADRA$

‘An Important Step Forward’: Deep-Sea Mining Not Approved During International Talks: Weeks of meetings and negotiations by the 168-member International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Jamaica regarding the deep-sea mining of minerals has ended without approval of or regulations for the controversial practice.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/deep-sea-mining-international-seabed-authority.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjgAIXiXd$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Massive Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctic Brunt Ice Shelf – View From Space
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjyWFsCvflg__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjimEkf-a$

The Far Right Has a ‘Battle Plan’ to Undo Climate Progress Should Trump Win in 2024: The 920-page proposal, if implemented, would not only undo any progress the Biden administration has made to reduce emissions and fund clean energy development and other climate-related efforts, but it would make it far more difficult for a future administration to pursue any policy that seeks to address global warming at all, according to a report last week by POLITICO.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/far-right-climate-plans-00107498__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjqBsllfT$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals For the love of God, stop microwaving plastic: A study of baby-food containers shows that microwaving plastic releases millions upon millions of polymer bits.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wired.com/story/for-the-love-of-god-stop-microwaving-plastic/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjkvDDOaT$

# Gov / Politics
DeSantis Unveils Economic Plan Attacking ‘Failed Elites’: As he looks to revive his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Florida governor Ron DeSantis on Monday introduced a 10-point economic plan built on both populist talking points and long-standing conservative doctrine.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://finance.yahoo.com/news/desantis-unveils-economic-plan-attacking-225246931.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjv-lpfrp$

1 in 5 Republicans Who Think Trump Committed Crimes Say They’ll Vote for Him: The poll results are indicative of just how strongly Trump has convinced his followers that he can do no wrong.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/1-in-5-republicans-who-think-trump-committed-crimes-say-theyll-vote-for-him/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjuNZa6dK$

# Law Enforcment
‘People are dying’: Texas prisoners say heatwave turns cells into ovens: Inside temperatures are estimated to rise regularly above 115F (46C), and have even been recorded to reach as high as 149F, pushing individuals to the point of mental or physical breakdown, or even death. With Texas set to enter the hottest part of the year over the next two weeks, and with a brutal climate-crisis-fuelled heatwave pummeling the US south, conditions inside its dilapidated and overcrowded penal institutions are reaching crisis point. Inmates have told the Guardian that they are stuck virtually around the clock inside cells they described as ovens.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/31/texas-prison-heatwave-temperatures-cells__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjuPHMrZm$

Illinois Gov. Pritzker allows non-US citizens to become police officers with new law: ‘Fundamentally bad idea.’ Critics slammed the law allowing eligible foreign nationals to become police officers as ‘madness.’ Democratic governor allows foreigners to become police officers with new law, will have ability to arrest U.S. citizens.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.foxnews.com/media/illinois-gov-pritzker-allows-non-us-citizens-become-police-officers-new-law-fundamentally-bad-idea__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjp2MLKJz$

Texas police held a Black family at gunpoint and handcuffed their son after an officer mistyped while running their license plate. The officers pointed their guns at the couple as they commanded them to leave the car and even handcuffed their son. The car drew their attention, the Frisco Police Department said, because it had out-of-state plates and because Chargers were high-theft vehicles, according to WFAA-TV in Dallas. That led to what the police described as a “high-risk traffic stop” on the Dallas North Tollway.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/police-held-family-at-gunpoint-typo-misidentifies-car-stolen_n_64c8618ee4b024f8ebcab0ef__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjjqBQdO1$
Video: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2RXzRpF_Y4__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjrKN-Z63$

# Legal / DOJ
U.S. Appellate Court Blocks Injunction Against Federal Agencies Acting to Censor Free Speech: Freedom of speech in the United States was delivered a blow on July 14, 2023 when a U.S. Federal Appeals Court issued a temporary stay blocking a preliminary injunction which limited the U.S. Justice Department’s communication with social media companies seeking to remove “content containing protected free speech.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thevaccinereaction.org/2023/07/u-s-appellate-court-blocks-injunction-against-federal-agencies-acting-to-censor-free-speech/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjmWWUVM_$

Hunter Biden friend testimony ramps up investigation into presidential family: House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., laid out a litany of new evidence in the ongoing investigation into an alleged Biden family “bribery scheme” Monday after interviewing one of the Biden family’s business associates https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hunter-biden-friend-testimony-ramps-up-investigation-into-presidential-family__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjheO9uwS$

Breaking: Trump indicted in federal election probe on four counts –This is Trump’s second federal indictment. Smith charged Trump with four counts, including conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-indicted-federal-election-probe__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjto8vbmE$

2 Trump Cronies Charged With Michigan Vote Machine Tampering: Indicted alongside DePerno is fellow Republican Daire Rendon, a former Michigan state representative. Rendon has been charged on conspiracy to commit undue possession of a voting machine and false pretenses.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/1/2184626/-Two-TFG-Cronies-Charged-with-Felonies-in-Michigan-for-Vote-Machine-Tampering-in-2020-Election__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjibCNX7J$

# Medical / Health
Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed? 26% of the papers had problems that were so widespread that the trial was impossible to trust, he judged — either because the authors were incompetent, or because they had faked the data. Carlisle called these ‘zombie’ trials.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02299-w__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjrPO7pOW$

Over the past fifty years, our health care system has steadily shifted into the model we see today, where private corporations receive public dollars to make a profit off of patients. This model is largely due to the long career of one bureaucrat turned private equity tycoon you may not have heard of: Tom Scully, the man behind Medicare Advantage, physician payment plans, Medicare Part D, and more. Tom Scully is as responsible as anyone for the way health care in America works today.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-08-01-patient-zero-tom-scully/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjpczcTYR$

# Military / DOD
How A Notorious Georgia Army School Became America’s Training Ground For Global Torture: “The school is controversial partly because of its role in promoting US hegemony in Latin America,” James Jordan, national co-coordinator at Alliance for Global Justice, told MintPress, adding, “But even worse, it is how the school has promoted this: teaching methods of torture, even publishing torture manuals, counterintelligence, psyops, repression of political voices that don’t meet the approval of Washington DC.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mintpressnews.com/notorious-georgia-army-school-became-americas-training-ground-for-global-torture/285223/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjj35pWQs$

Biden chooses to keep Space Command headquarters at Peterson SFB in Colorado: President Joe Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado, overturning a decision by former President Donald Trump to move it to Alabama, the Pentagon announced.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-07-31/biden-space-command-colorado-10920264.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjtGYqGzs$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
FDA approves 2nd over-the-counter drug to treat opioid, fentanyl overdoses: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a second over-the-counter drug to combat opioid overdoses, including those caused by fentanyl. RiVive, 3 milligram (mg) naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray was approved as the second over-the-counter (OTC), nonprescription nasal spray for the treatment of a known or suspected opioid overdose.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_a8b1b970-2fcf-11ee-be1d-5bad8062191f.html*:*:text=RiVive*2C*203*20milligram*20(mg),known*20or*20suspected*20opioid*20overdose__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjp2YxsNT$ .

# Science
New Docs Link CIA to Medical Torture of Indigenous Children and Black Prisoners: The CIA, along with the U.S. and Canadian military and powerful U.S. charitable foundations, are directly implicated in this ordeal. The Memorial Institute was home to MK Ultra “Subproject 68.” Under the leadership of psychiatrist Ewen Cameron, whom Ponting accused of raping her, experiments in this subproject sought to “depattern” people’s minds using violent methods Cameron termed “psychic driving.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/new-docs-link-cia-to-medical-torture-of-indigenous-children-and-black-prisoners/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjgz-dy5f$

# Security
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens: Such data may be useful, it says, to “identify every person who attended a protest or rally based on their smartphone location or ad-tracking records.” The size and scope of the government effort to accumulate data revealing the minute details of Americans’ lives are described soberly and at length by the director’s own panel of experts in a newly declassified report.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cacm.acm.org/news/273811-the-us-is-openly-stockpiling-dirt-on-all-its-citizens/fulltext?mobile=false__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjl0C50Hw$

# UFO Disclosure / Other
NewsNation’s UFO Special Outpaces CNN in Key Ratings Demo: The emergent station has recently cashed in on the public’s interest in UFOs, seeing double-digit audience growth across its programming as it gives wide coverage to the topic. could UFO-Alien disclosure be the pivotal moment, like CNN’s war coverage, to change all that?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fortune.com/2023/07/14/meet-the-little-known-cable-tv-network-thats-cashing-in-on-renewed-interest-in-ufos-aden-ikram/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xjLBxzSBmvbBZex0nhFwEA0J-ZmUBJgNnf6xRNxDxMlx4mQWZeQ7AYDYpVYBdkJ_mOOzRaqKQgeKxVaI-OKaehDtjto9HYwH$

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July 31, 2023
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# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Banning the cyanide bombs, planted throughout the American West in service of the livestock industry, has been the Mansfield family’s mission: The weapons, known as M-44s, are placed by an under-the-radar federal agency called Wildlife Services. The agency was created to protect the livestock industry’s bottom line by killing off the
competition: namely, wild predators. The so-called cyanide bombs do kill predators, but they can also kill anyone else unlucky enough to stumble upon them. And they have a hair trigger.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/27/cyanide-bombs-poison-wildlife-services/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wuq1woXT$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Exclusive: Survivor of CDC COVID Protocols Says She Was ‘Just a Paycheck’: In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Gail Seiler describes how she was treated at a Texas hospital after they asked — and she told them, she wasn’t vaccinated.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gail-seiler-cdc-covid-protocol/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20230731__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wjhpnOh5$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
‘Rigged’ US tax code blamed as wealthy see major retirement account gains: “It is unacceptable that taxpayers are forced to spend billions of dollars subsidizing the retirement accounts of the wealthiest people in America,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/07/31/rigged-us-tax-code-blamed-as-wealthy-see-major-retirement-account-gains/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wvN5BHhz$

# Education / Schools
How Much Do Japan’s Millennials Know about World War II: Are Millennials in Japan as equally unaware of history as their American counterparts?
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/07/how-much-do-japans-millennials-know-about-world-war-ii/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wrVTyymA$

# Employment / Labor
Why the GOP is trying to take credit for union workers’ infrastructure victory: As Republicans try to take credit for the infrastructure program, it’s important for union members to continue pointing out the truth.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.alternet.org/gop-taking-credit-infrastructure-victories/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wh1LMvA2$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Ethanol Is the Solution to Transportation Problems: Not only does ethanol lower prices at the pump but it also decreases emissions. If the president’s stated goal is to pursue cleaner transportation alternatives, then ethanol should be at the top of the list of solutions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dcjournal.com/ethanol-is-the-solution-to-transportation-problems/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wqduhm0o$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure ‘Era of global boiling’ has arrived, UN chief says: “The consequences are clear and they are tragic: children swept away by monsoon rains; families running from the flames; workers collapsing in scorching heat.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecowatch.com/global-boiling-era-guterres-climate-change.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wr1YncTQ$

Sanders, Warren: Justice Department Must Sue Big Oil for Decades of Lies on Climate Crisis: The lawmakers say the industry has broken a slew of laws in perpetuating its lies about the climate crisis.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/sue-big-oil__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wktulFks$

Countries’ Paltry Climate Pledges Will Let the International Working Class Burn: The elevated risks from delaying structural change could mean no transition at all — and a pathway to catastrophe.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/countries-paltry-climate-pledges-will-let-the-international-working-class-burn/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wjxEsDIV$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global Extreme Rain From Atmospheric Rivers and Ice-Heating Micro-Cracks Are Ominous New Threats to the Greenland Ice Sheet: At the current level of human-caused global warming, extreme rainfall from atmospheric rivers, as well as an extensive network of previously undetected micro-cracks, could degrade large parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet faster than expected and accelerate melting toward worst-case projections for ice loss and sea level
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31072023/greenland-ice-sheet-microcracks-atmospheric-rivers-tipping-points/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wnROYPoV$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers – here’s how the US could reduce their risk: Agriculture is one of the most dangerous industries in the US, with workers exposed to vehicles, chemicals and heavy equipment. Women working on farms face another risk: sexual assault.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/sexual-violence-is-a-pervasive-threat-for-female-farm-workers-heres-how-the-us-could-reduce-their-risk-204871__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wuF0OJt-$

# General News
Donald Trump’s political action committee reportedly spent over $40 million on legal fees in the first half of 2023 amid a growing maelstrom of lawsuits and indictments, as charges loom for the former president in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-save-america-pac-legal-fees-40-million_n_64c7275ae4b044bf98f5e573?bce&utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-morning-email_2023-07-31&utm_term=us-morning-email__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wnt1-xht$

# Gov / Politics
DeSantis’ Donors Want More Than a Reboot. They Want Him to ‘Clean House’: In an attempt to revitalize his campaign which has been heavily criticized for its digital focus on contentious cultural issues, Governor Ron DeSantis has failed to alter the direction of his campaign, causing key supporters and donors to consider withdrawing their support.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.menzmag.com/news/desantis-donors-more-reboot/?utm_source=Newswav&utm_medium=Website__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wjnb6sGw$

US pledges to help Australia manufacture guided missiles by 2025: The United States will expand its military industrial base by helping Australia manufacture guided missiles and rockets for both countries within two years
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/australia-austin-blinken-5d9f0e53b637b4923b4715362ed93d9a__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wpCC1Nj6$

# Law Enforcment
Justice Department launches civil rights investigation of Memphis police – 4 essential reads about holding police accountable: The Justice Department has launched a civil rights probe of the Memphis Police Department to examine allegations of excessive force, improper stops and searches and racial disparities.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.arcamax.com/currentnews/newsheadlines/s-2858460__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wl-U8u7q$

“FBI-Orchestrated Conspiracy”: Judge Orders Release of 3 of Newburgh 4 Tied to Fake NY Bomb Plot For the past 14 years, relatives of four men jailed on terrorism charges in Newburgh, New York, have accused the FBI of entrapment.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/31/newburgh_four?utm_source=Democracy*Now*21&utm_campaign=5b98c04124-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-5b98c04124-192408441__;KyU!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wtVmI08u$

# Legal / DOJ
Mar-a-Lago Manager Makes First Court Appearance in Docs Case: Carlos De Oliveira is the newest co-defendant in special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal case against Trump: The property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate made his first court appearance on Monday facing charges in the classified documents case against the former president, but he did not enter a plea because he has not found a Florida-based attorney to represent him.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/carlos-de-oliveira-trump-classified-documents-maralago-f7e6879fe80e96a321b46279b150bdf9__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wga8336_$

# Medical / Health
A Sick System, The business of health care in America is deeply out of whack: While American life expectancies are in free fall, our agencies and institutions and algorithms are all nurturing an industry that has taken to the promotion of death rather than treatment, which would be infuriating even if health care weren’t consuming a fifth of the GDP.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/health/2023-07-31-sick-system-business-health-care/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wtbTxCqL$

Common Antibiotics Linked to Increased Risk of Kidney Stones, Especially in Kids: They found that five classes of oral antibiotics were associated with a diagnosis of kidney stone disease. The five classes were oral sulfas, cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, nitrofurantoin, and broad-spectrum penicillins.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.chop.edu/news/study-finds-link-between-antibiotics-and-kidney-stones*:*:text=They*20found*20that*20five*20classes,*2C*20and*20broad*2Dspectrum*20penicillins__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wuqTzRFB$ .

# Nuclear
Hiroshima attack marks its 78th anniversary – its lessons of unnecessary mass destruction could help guide future nuclear arms talks: The United States and Russia, the two biggest nuclear powers, have no imminent plans for talks on a nuclear deal. That should change, writes a former US diplomat.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/hiroshima-attack-marks-its-78th-anniversary-its-lessons-of-unnecessary-mass-destruction-could-help-guide-future-nuclear-arms-talks-210115__;!!On18fmf1aQ!3O7Nl3_MtY-Mo3xxRi71qauwoAXx5hsqpbYq4mdTCkwcwH2p6N7Wv9IxFQUq9mC1sG3BOWNqWvlsorUwjmHciID9wuhroWxF$

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July 30, 2023
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Cost of Joe Biden’s open borders: $200 billion, paid by you: An internal City Hall memo says Biden’s open border will cost New York City taxpayers $4.2 billion through the middle of next year, double Mayor Adams’ previous estimate. And those costs won’t stop even if Washington magically decides to start enforcing the immigration laws, because millions are already here.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/02/10/cost-of-joe-bidens-open-borders-200-billion-paid-by-you/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j9UfQjhU$

A June report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform makes for very sober reading. There are now at least 16.8 million illegal migrants living in the United States: According to a recent New York Times report, cartels and “coyotes” (human smugglers) are earning a whopping $13 billion annually “guiding” migrants across the southern border. And helping them succeed is a web of bribery and corruption that’s been allowed to flourish with impunity.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/29/ending-the-border-crisis-means-keeping-guards-hands-clear/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8jyPuNPNE$

Democrats Tell Biden NYC at ‘Breaking Point’ After Receiving 90,000 Illegal Aliens: Republicans just gained an unlikely ally in their attacks on the president’s immigration policies: the Democratic mayor of New York, for centuries a beacon to migrants seeking a new home in America.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/29/eric-adams-new-york-immigration-00094491__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8jwp1XwBB$

# Corporations / Industry
‘Nobody cares’: Russia’s arms buildup in Barents Sea creating toxic legacy: Indigenous people and experts say Moscow’s military push and increased shipping and mining will destroy Arctic environment. The Barents Sea port of Severomorsk is the base of the Russian navy’s Northern Fleet and, since 2014, when Russia first invaded eastern Ukraine – it has become the main administrative hub for all of Russia’s Arctic military activities.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/24/russia-barents-sea-toxic-legacy-military-buildup-mining-shipping-indigenous__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8jwF0bcS2$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Coronavirus is back, but how worried should you be? “Risk of getting infected is still fairly low, but clearly rising now,” Dr. Tatiana Prowell, a Johns Hopkins oncologist, wrote on Twitter. “Be aware.” Masking continues to be an easy means of protection, especially when traveling or gathering in crowded settings like concert venues or sports arenas.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/7/28/23808360/covid-19-2023-summer-cases-vaccines-boosters__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j0sEyP3J$

Has COVID-19 become a summer illness? Cases and hospitalizations are on the rise again: COVID rates in the U.S. have risen for the fourth summer in a row, elevating hospitalization rates and adding more weight to the argument that the virus has found summer seasonality, in addition to winter.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fortune.com/well/2023/07/28/does-covid-spike-summer-rise-cases-hospitalizations-us/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j4y08SUL$

Are COVID Boosters Behind Increase in Cancer Among Younger Adults? Research shows the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein obliterates 90% of the DNA repair mechanism in lymphocytes, white blood cells that help your body fight infection and chronic disease, including cancer. Cancer rates have increased since the introduction of the COVID-19 shots and are now one of the top three leading causes of premature death among younger adults, a trend that in turn is driving down U.S. life expectancy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-boosters-increase-cancer-young-adults-cola/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j8mAcu5D$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
A New Bill Proposes Eliminating Social Security’s Most-Hated Tax. Does It Have Legs? Ensuring the financial health of Social Security is of paramount importance to more than 49 million current retired workers, as well as the well over 100 million working Americans who’ll one day be eligible for a monthly benefit. For some on Capitol Hill, this means a complete overhaul of the program.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/a-new-bill-proposes-eliminating-social-securitys-most-hated-tax.-does-it-have-legs__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j5syNWrJ$

Congress pressing IRS for answers on 30 million destroyed documents: Lawmakers are looking for answers on the destruction of 30 million tax documents by the Internal Revenue Service in March 2021.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1b65ee5c-2d9e-11ee-8de6-df5b5e35220e.html*:*:text=(The*20Center*20Square)*20**C20Lawmakers,Revenue*20Service*20in*20March*202021__;I34lJSXigJQlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j3KRLFxR$

No more ‘fire-breathing dragons’? Biden has slashed IRS funding by $21B as part of his debt limit deal — here’s how the tax agency plans to cope. Biden signed a bill to put the brakes on the debt limit until January 2025. However, it comes with plenty of caveats and cuts to planned spending. Here’s what some of those changes cover — and most importantly, what’s getting clawed back.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-more-fire-breathing-dragons-170000618.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8jzLJ10kb$

Biggest winners and losers from the Fed’s interest rate hike: The Federal Reserve announced that it’s raising interest rates by 0.25 percentage point, following its July 25-26 meeting, boosting the federal funds rate to a target range of 5.25 to 5.5 percent. With the move, the Federal Reserve has now raised rates a total of 11 times during this economic cycle in an effort to significantly reduce liquidity to the financial markets and tamp down high inflation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.bankrate.com/banking/federal-reserve/fed-interest-rate-decision-biggest-winners/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8jzakJuFH$

# Education / Schools
Houston ISD to convert libraries into disciplinary centers: The Houston Independent School District, the largest public school system in Texas, will convert libraries into disciplinary centers. The change would eliminate librarian and media specialist positions at the 28 underperforming schools originally targeted to be overhauled under the NES program. Officials would also review 57 additional schools that opted into NES on a case-by-case basis. A petition has since been started to prevent the transformation of libraries into disciplinary centers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/07/29/houston-isd-convert-libraries-disciplinary-centers/1941690669650/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j4h8SsTe$

The Nightmare of American Public School Teaching: Moral injury is driving public school teachers all over the country to quit the profession. To retain teachers, we need to provide them the resources and support they need.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/education/2023-07-26-nightmare-of-american-public-school-teaching/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j5aQU_04$

# Employment / Labor
Green Industrial Policy in Deep-Red Georgia: Dalton, Georgia was once the carpet manufacturing capital of the world. Now it’s home to a giant South Korean solar manufacturing plant, already one of the town’s biggest employers. Read Luke Goldstein on how this small town is an example of Bidenomics in action.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/environment/2023-07-27-green-industrial-policy-deep-red-georgia/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j9ttRy5y$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
South Korea Emerges As Key Partner for America’s Energy Transition: More than a third of all manufacturing investments under the Inflation Reduction Act went to South Korean firms, but the country struggles to ramp up clean energy projects domestically.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24072023/south-korea-emerges-as-key-partner-for-americas-clean-energy-manufacturing/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j6lAOjxY$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Lone Pine Creek fire spreads across boarder to U.S: Out-of-Control Wildfires Trigger Evacuations in B.C.’s Southern Interior; Second Firefighter Dies on the Front Lines.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lone-pine-creek-fire-spreads-across-the-board-to-the-u-s/vi-AA1exqxE?ocid=weather-verthp-feeds*details__;Iw!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j_NZmwyu$

Willamette National Forest, Ore: Fire crews making progress against Cedar Creek Fire. As of Saturday, the fire had grown to 16,303 acres, according to officials. That was up from 9,199 acres on Friday. The Lane County Sheriff’s Office has issued a LEVEL 3 (GO NOW) evacuation notice for several areas near the fire.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.kezi.com/news/fire-crews-making-progress-against-cedar-creek-fire/article_34635664-2c1a-11ed-b8bd-7778de819135.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j-lF6Qua$

Thousands evacuated as wildfires spread across western US: Massive Oregon blaze threatens more than 2,000 homes as drought, extreme heat spark fires across western United States.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/12/thousands-evacuated-as-wildfires-spread-across-western-us__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j4kFxFwI$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global If turtles could talk – a Kenyan fisherman’s stand against poachers: A conservationist named Runi, passes down the responsibility of wildlife protection to younger generations, in a short documentary by Toni Adero.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-new-yorker-documentary-if-turtles-could-talk-a-kenyan-fishermans-stand-against-poaching__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j5ScfnT5$

New ocean discovered that is beginning to split Africa in two: “As we get more and more measurements for GPS, we can get a much better idea of what is happening,” Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of California, noted. The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden will flood the Afar region and the East African Rift Valley and become a new ocean, while the East African part will become a separate continent.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2023/03/26/6420955d268e3e48158b4568.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j3DyaZzi$

Antarctica is missing an Argentina-sized amount of sea ice – and scientists are scrambling to figure out why: As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of winter, another terrifying climate record is being broken. Antarctic sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year. Every year, Antarctic sea ice shrinks to its lowest levels towards the end of February, during the continent’s summer. The sea ice then builds back up over the winter. But this year scientists have observed something different.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/30/world/antarctic-sea-ice-winter-record-low-climate-intl/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j0qdsypJ$

# Gov / Politics / Global
North Korea vows to ‘annihilate’ U.S., says country will be terminated this century: “Should the U.S. choose to offend our Republic, we will annihilate them by using all our military power that we have gathered so far,” the North Korean diplomats said in a statement Thursday, the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-vows-annihilate-u-233737924.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8jzynbrEj$

# Gov / Politics
Biden Cut a Massive Check to Ukraine After Forcing a Family to Pay $60,000 to Move Soldier’s Remains: Reports reveal a family who lost their daughter in Afghanistan while serving the U.S. was billed $60,000 to move her remains to her final resting place.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/07/27/biden-cut-a-massive-check-to-ukraine-after-forcing-a-family-to-pay-60000-to-move-soldiers-remains-n2626315__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j9tcVJP2$

Zelensky: Ukrainian loss could force US to choose between ‘collapse of NATO’ or war: Speaking through an interpreter, Zelenskyy issued a stark warning to any American politician or 2024 presidential candidate who is skeptical about providing more aid to equip Kyiv in its war against Russia. “Is he ready to go to war? To fight, to send his kids? Are they ready to die?” Zelenskyy asked. “Because anyway, they will have to do this if NATO gets involved.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/16/zelenskyy-news-nato-russia-war-ukraine/70328925007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j8guGZGx$

Russia is ready for confrontation with NATO: Russia is “always ready for any scenario,” President Vladimir Putin told journalists on Saturday, commenting on a potential direct confrontation between the Russian and NATO militaries. Afull-blown NATO war with Russia is the West’s “worst-case scenario” but is possible, according to the commander of the Czech Republic’s armed forces, as the gulf between the Western world and Moscow grows wider amid the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/russia-nato-conflict-ukraine-alliance-karel-rehka-czech-republic-1803322__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8jyHx1pcZ$

# Legal / DOJ
Hunter Biden’s Proposed Plea Deal Lays Out Just How Much He Got From Chinese, Ukrainian, Romanian Sources In 2017: Hunter Biden’s proposed plea deal on two misdemeanor tax charges shows the president’s son earned millions from foreign sources in 2017. During calendar year 2017, one of the years Hunter Biden is charged with failing to pay taxes in their entirety, the president’s son earned “just under $1 million https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/27/hunter-biden-plea-deal-foreign-earnings-ukraine-china-romania/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j2o8O_pf$

Judge Noreika Banned Hunter Biden’s Attorneys From Contacting Clerks Again After Tricking Them Into Removing Filing Under False Pretenses of Representing GOP Lawyer: Furious Judge Maryellen Noreika ordered the lawyers representing Hunter Biden, who had deceived and lied to a court clerk into removing a legal document by falsely claiming to represent GOP lawyer Ted Kittila, to cease all direct communications with court clerks.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/furious-judge-noreika-issues-order-prohibiting-hunter-bidens/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j15L_O96$

# Media
Teamsters Deliver A UPS Deal: Amid a looming strike deadline, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union and United Parcel Service
(UPS) reached a tentative contract agreement to avert a 340,000-person work stoppage, at least temporarily. UPS employees had been requesting pay raises to match UPS’s record profits, air conditioning in trucks, and higher pay for part-time workers.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/ups-teamsters-strike-labor-logistics-delivery-a94482dbff7bfb67ad82f607ab127672__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j5wKtmRP$

# Medical Science
Rogue Biolab Discovered in Calif. County Had Over 900 Mice ‘Genetically Engineered to Catch and Carry the Covid-19 Virus’: On March 3, 2023, an illegal bio lab was discovered in a believed-to-be vacant building in Reedley, California, in Fresno County. City Code Enforcement stumbled upon the building in December 2022 when they discovered a garden hose running into the building through a hole in the wall. CDC found potentially infectious agents at the location.These included both bacterial and viral agents, including chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, herpes 1 and 5 and rubella. The CDC also found samples of malaria.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/china-linked-bio-lab-fresno-co-california-had/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j4a1xQNL$

# Military / DOD
US Air Force troops told to prepare for war with China within next two
years: A top US Air Force general has warned war could break out with China in as little as two years and has readied his troops.
Gen. Michael A. Minihan has raised the alarm over an imminent conflict as US-China relations sink to a historic low as tensions over Taiwan and Russia boil https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/1796606/us-air-force-china-war-taiwan-russia__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j_aDiKNg$

This Air Force general is rallying his troops for war with China: Gen.
Mike Minihan, who as head of Air Mobility Command oversees the U.S. Air Force’s cargo and tanker fleet, urged airmen to be “unrepentantly lethal” in preparation for potential war with China that may be two years away.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/02/01/this-air-force-general-is-rallying-his-troops-for-war-with-china/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j66rd6WW$

Why the US Military is Preparing for War With China – YouTube [Must see!] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plHRRFHZ_f0__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j2qnqSqK$

What to make of the US military’s movements in the Pacific and a general’s wild warning about war: Multiple developments in recent weeks reinforce the US military’s new hyperfocus on China. The US is beefing up its presence in the Pacific with a new military base – its first in
70 years – on the island of Guam, a US territory.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/02/politics/air-force-china-war-2025-what-matters/index.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j-IYgoix$

# Military / Global
Russian tank destroys Ukrainian armored column: A single Russian tank supported by artillery has stopped a Ukrainian attack that involved around a dozen armored equipment pieces. A column of Russian tanks and armored combat vehicles was methodically obliterated by Ukraine Marines armed with portable missile launchers in the Donetsk region, a heart-pounding viral video shows.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/03/31/ukrainians-wipe-out-entire-column-of-russian-tanks/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j4k-FQee$

Poland raises alarm as Wagner forces move closer to border: PM Mateusz Morawiecki expresses concern over movement of Russian mercenary fighters in Belarus near the Polish border. “We have information that more than 100 Wagner mercenaries have advanced towards the Suwalki Gap, not far from Grodno in Belarus,” Morawiecki told a news conference on Saturday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/29/poland-raises-alarm-as-wagner-forces-move-closer-to-border__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j7K2Wpfc$

Drone attack strikes heart of Moscow in huge explosion just miles from the Kremlin: A very high-end business district in Moscow located only a few kilometres from the Kremlin has been rocked by a drone attack, Russia has claimed. The Russian Ministry of Defence accused the Ukrainian government of launching an overnight drone attack against Moscow.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/106395/ukraine-live-moscow-drone-strike__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j6hNTYee$

Russians launch air strike on Snake Island for third time in a month: Two Russian Su-24 aircraft conducted four strikes with air-dropped bombs on Ukraine’s Zmiinyi (Snake) Island, a small but strategically important outpost in the Black Sea, overnight on Feb. 11, Odesa City Council reported citing Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command. No further details have been provided.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://kyivindependent.com/russia-conducts-4-air-strikes-on-snake-island-overnight/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j6K1qUnB$

Ukraine Situation Report: The Curious Case Of Kyiv’s North Korean Rockets: Artillery crews are pounding Putin’s invasion forces with Pyongyang-made munitions that can ‘do crazy things’
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ft.com/content/96e1f526-ae3d-4cff-bc37-8f9dd7d5975f__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j5FKKQHu$

Russia signs military deals with 40 African states, Putin says: “Russia has signed agreements on military-technical cooperation with more than 40 African states, to which we supply a broad range of armaments and hardware.” Putin stated that African states received a wide range of weapons and technology, some for free “with the aim of enhancing the security and sovereignty of the countries.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://guardian.ng/news/russia-signs-military-deals-with-40-african-states-putin-says/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j-O1Nw97$

# Space
Watch: ‘Magical two suns’ appear in the sky over China
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://metro.co.uk/video/double-sun-phenomenon-seen-china-2986503/?ito=vjs-link__;!!On18fmf1aQ!x_KuEIfodEJ-tXYSDOk5fjXbnh_XdbTNdgB3QvLtJzPVtAbNaX6Z6AkCsCce8GwY1c8oHMbIQyHtVIACHhuTqoR8j61kfRUk$

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Voices, The Peoples News No. 2023-07-28

Voices, The Peoples News

July 28, 2023
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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As suicides rise in the US, the 988 hotline offers hope –
but most Americans aren’t aware of it: The 988 Suicide &
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emotional distress, substance abuse issues or mental
health problems. Suicide continues to be a leading cause
of death in the United States, it’s the 12th-leading cause
of death among all ages. In 2021, there were 48,000
suicide deaths in the U.S., which is about one every 11
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# Indigenous / Global
Mercury pollution is worsening mental health for the Grassy Narrows First Nation: Mercury poisoning among members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario, Canada, is contributing to high rates of attempted suicide. “Our way of life has been totally destroyed.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/mercury-pollution-mental-health-crisis-grassy-narrows/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXNxrnOgt$

‘I want Lula to see this’: Indigenous chief continues fight for Amazon: Raoni Metuktire Kayapó has battled against deforestation all his life and is inviting Brazil’s president to see the damage to his land. Indigenous chief Raoni Metuktire Kayapó stares at the scars, tinted red, blue, green, white, brown, yellow and grey, and jabs his finger in anger. “I don’t like this at all. The destruction is so big and the land will never go back to what it was.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/27/indigenous-chief-raoni-metuktire-kayapo-continues-fight-amazon-brazil-president__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXLR8Ei7Y$

That other war, this conflict will not be televised: It’s been devastating, even if no one’s paying attention. Three months of fighting in Sudan between the army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Force (RSF) has left at least 3,000 people dead and wounded at least 6,000 more. Over two million people have been displaced within the country, while another 700,000 have fled to neighboring nations.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/07/28/that-other-war/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXJtvnh-I$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
At Texas-Mexico border, Ron DeSantis unveils immigration platform with Trump in mind The Florida governor calls for deputizing local law enforcement to police the border and deport migrants, saying his plan is “more aggressive” than the former president’s proposals.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/26/ron-desantis-texas-border-mexico/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXGAEzg52$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Why US debt will continue to rise: The mismatch between revenues and spending continue to grow. The COVID-19 pandemic and legislative response to mitigate its impact led to a significant amount of federal borrowing; the primary driver behind the nation’s rising debt is the structural mismatch between federal receipts and outlays
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ft.com/content/61823af9-c6c1-4e3d-bcea-83b638c204a3__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXB6hKlOi$

US Economy Defies Expectations as Growth Picks Up: Despite fears of a slowdown amid rising interest rates, economic growth accelerated to an annual rate of 2.4% in the second quarter of 2023, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2023/07/27/US-Economy-Defies-Expectations-Growth-Picks__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXLV_jaFw$

Top 5 largest US pharma firms’ net earnings topped $81.9 billion last year: PhRMA and the Chamber of Commerce were two of the top three federal lobbying spenders in 2022, spending $29.2 million and $81 million, respectively, to lobby on a range of issues including drug price negotiations, according to federal lobbying disclosures analyzed by the nonpartisan money-in-politics sleuths at OpenSecrets.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4116604-five-largest-us-pharma-firms-net-earnings-topped-81-9-billion-last-year-watchdog/?emci=ffddb5af-9d2c-ee11-b8f0-00224832eb73&emdi=46e78372-cb2c-ee11-b8f0-00224832eb73&ceid=8400680__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXOmqWHCz$

# Education / Schools
Houston to Eliminate Librarians in 28 Schools; Booksellers Sue over Texas Book Ban Bill: The Houston Independent School District is eliminating librarian positions at 28 schools in the upcoming school year and will replace some libraries with so-called team centers, essentially disciplinary centers for students. The widely blasted move comes after state Republicans forcibly took over the Houston Independent School District earlier this year. Those most affected will be children of color in lower-income areas.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/28/headlines/houston_to_eliminate_librarians_in_28_schools_booksellers_sue_over_texas_book_ban_bill__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXK6ZVY3T$

The nation’s oldest Black fraternity said it will no longer hold its 2025 convention in Orlando, making it the latest group to switch venues out of disdain for the divisive policies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who is seeking the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation’s oldest Black fraternity, said it will no longer hold its 2025 convention in Orlando, making it the latest group to switch venues out of disdain for policies implemented by Florida’s hard-right Republican governor, Ron DeSantis https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/28/2183762/-Another-convention-pulls-out-of-FL-citing-DeSantis-s-attacks-on-the-Black-community__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXBx8rmuU$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Record-Breaking Rains in Chicago Underscore the Urgency of Flood Resiliency Projects, City Officials Say: As the risk of flooding in Northeastern Illinois increases, with millions in federal funds available, investments in water management and nature-based solutions are seen as crucial to protect vulnerable communities.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28072023/record-rain-chicago-flood-resiliency/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXJci-mCS$

Florida Waters Reach Hot Tub Temperatures of 101.19 Degrees Fahrenheit: Earlier this week, south Florida saw sea surface temperatures equivalent to a normal hot tub. At Manatee Bay, inside Everglades National Park, a water temperature buoy about five feet underwater showed a temperature of 101.19 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday afternoon, with other buoys in the vicinity reaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/57603/20230726/florida-ocean-temperature-world-record-temperature-climate-crisis.htm__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXCEDFrfL$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure / Global Nearly 100 Pilot Whales Die After Beaching in Australia: Nearly 100 pilot whales became stranded on Cheynes Beach in Western Australia on Tuesday. Most of the pod, 52 whales, died overnight, and the rest have been euthanized, according to officials, as rescue efforts over two days have failed.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/australia-beached-pilot-whales-euthanized-a9ef026881fb9bf9464ad244d0cf6a4e__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXGWaXCCp$

# General Recalls / Alerts
Check Your Freezer: The USDA Just Recalled Over 50 Frozen Meat Products: The meat was produced in rooms outside of official inspection by Kingsland Food Processing Corp. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) just announced a large recall of frozen meat and poultry products sold by Kingsland Food Processing Corporation. Meat from the company was shipped through distributors to wholesale customers in Florida, Texas, and four other states.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.southernliving.com/kingsland-food-meat-recall-7567125__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXCmV6GKG$

# General News
Ford recalls 870K F-150 pickups in US because parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly: The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. Ford’s F-Series pickups are the top-selling vehicles in the US.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.business-standard.com/industry/auto/ford-recalls-870k-f-150-pickups-in-us-parking-brakes-turn-on-unexpectedly-123072800667_1.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXIzoAMmS$

# Gov / Politics
State Department Orders Staff to Leave Haiti ASAP: The families of U.S. government employees have been told to go too. The U.S. State Department on Thursday ordered non-emergency government personnel and family members to leave Haiti as soon as possible, citing “kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and poor health care infrastructure.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-department-orders-all-non-emergency-government-staff-to-leave-haiti__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXExaeZYY$

With Spending Fight Looming, House Starts August Recess Early: The House on Thursday passed one annual spending bill, punted on another and then dismissed lawmakers early for a six-week recess, setting up a crunch to avoid a government shutdown by the September 30 deadline.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/07/27/house-republicans-august-recess-appropriations__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXHdcEkaR$

House GOP Bails on Funding Fight Amid Conservative Impasse: Republican leaders punted their agriculture and FDA spending bill until September, a setback for their hopes of unity.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/house-gop-funding-fight-00108524__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXM-R4pN1$

Health Deadlines Pile Up as Congress Adjourns for August: Spending bills, key health reauthorization measures leave Congress with a hefty to-do list before Sept. 30
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://rollcall.com/2023/07/27/health-deadlines-pile-up-as-congress-adjourns-for-august/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXHc0O3ef$

Where’s All That Military Aid for Ukraine Going? Perhaps you’ve heard this narrative: The U.S. is pouring billions of dollars into Ukraine and no one knows where all the weapons and cash are ending up. This is more fiction than reality, but President Biden should welcome a Senate effort to shore up public confidence in support for Kyiv.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.realcleardefense.com/2023/07/28/wheres_all_that_military_aid_for_ukraine_going_969160.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXOj7lP7E$

Biden Allies Now Want to Run Against ‘Collapsing’ DeSantis Over Trump: “Some of Biden’s closest confidants have in recent weeks told the president that DeSantis has performed so poorly in the primary, that the governor would likely be notably weaker than the twice-indicted Trump in a match-up against Biden… Biden has at times agreed with this premise in private conversations.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://politicalwire.com/2023/07/27/biden-allies-now-want-to-run-against-collapsing-desantis/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXH-wTdEr$

Giuliani claims the First Amendment lets him lie: To what degree can the First Amendment be used to protect someone from the consequences of lying? “When the rights and liberties of others are in serious jeopardy, speakers who provoke others into violence, wrongfully and recklessly injure reputations or incite others to engage in illegal activity may be silenced or punished.” Wrote Lynn Greenky, a communications scholar at Syracuse University.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/giuliani-claims-the-first-amendment-lets-him-lie-3-essential-reads-210514__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXL2MQT9W$

The White House said there’s no possibility of a presidential pardon for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, a day after a federal judge rejected a plea deal for him over felony tax and gun charges: The big picture: A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Hunter Biden’s plea deal on tax charges and said that she wasn’t ready to accept the terms of a revised deal.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2023/07/27/white-house-pardon-hunter-biden__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXDIl2Gua$

Senate Passes Defense Bill With Bipartisan Support, But Clash Looms With House Over Social Issues: Senate passage, 86-11, sets up a clash with the House, which passed its own version of the annual defense bill along party lines earlier this month after pointed debates over social issues like abortion access and diversity initiatives.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/senate-defense-bill-russia-bipartisan-9529180a3c79aa3c28d96bd074983e45__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXNIW-R5z$

The New Abnormal: That Mitch McConnell Video Is F*cking Scary and Terrifying. The scary moment, which prompted members of his leadership team to suggest that he take a rest, raises new questions about the 81-year-old Republican leader’s future. McConnell’s term runs through the end of 2026, and he previously said that he expects to stay on as leader.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4121752-scary-moment-for-mcconnell-raises-questions-for-gop/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXFL4wwvb$

Democrats Have Just About Had It With Kevin McCarthy Caving to the Right: “They’re on a Fast Track to a Shutdown”: Amid funding battles, acrimony is spiking on Capitol Hill as the Republican Party’s right flank continues to push an extreme agenda at every turn. “They need to keep their bans off our budget and leave the culture wars to Fox News,” said one Democrat.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pscks.com/2023-07/democrats-have-just-about-had-it-with-kevin-mccarthy-caving-to-the-right-theyre-on-a-fast-track-to-a-shutdown/?utm_source=Newswav&utm_medium=Website__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXBzazfRS$

Southern Lawmakers Devise Discriminatory Measures That Undermine Disabled Voters: Advocates are challenging efforts to implement voting policies that make it harder for disabled people to cast a ballot.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.facingsouth.org/2023/07/southern-lawmakers-undermine-ballot-access-voters-disabilities__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXP62spTj$

Senate Passes Defense Policy Bill, Setting Up Another Clash With the House: The Senate on Thursday night easily passed its version of the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act for 2024 before heading out for its August recess. The broadly bipartisan vote, 86-11, comes a couple of weeks after the House passed its own version of the NDAA, which included controversial provisions sought by conservative Republicans targeting abortion policy, transgender care and diversity programs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/senate-oks-defense-bill-setting-up-clash-with-house-over-abortion-lgbtq-measures-00108682__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXNRBeXmz$

# Law Enforcment
Tennessee Cops Watched Man Drown for 13 Minutes: The suit alleges that the officers even warned bystanders not to help the man. In a 32-page lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Kimberly Williams-Clabo alleges that the public employees contributed to her son’s drowning by not only refusing to make any serious attempt to rescue him but also by warning private citizens not to do so.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/28/knoxville-police-drowning-lawsuit/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXEFSW5Q-$

# Legal / DOJ
Trump Tried to Delete Mar-a-Lago Security Footage to Thwart Investigators: The Justice Department has brought additional charges against former president Donald Trump alleging that Trump and two of his employees conspired to destroy Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage requested by federal authorities.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/trump-allegedly-ordered-staffer-to-delete-footage-in-classified-docs-case/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXAZkUxkI$

New Trump indictment adds twist to Mar-a-Lago documents case: Trump faces additional charges. Special counsel Jack Smith has brought three new felony charges against former President Donald Trump, including explosive claims that he asked an employee of his Mar-a-Lago club to delete security camera footage sought by investigators probing his handling of classified documents.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/feds-add-new-charges-against-trump-in-classified-documents-case-00108667__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXEWw9sl6$

Months after the death of Tyre Nichols, the Department of Justice is investigating whether the Memphis Police Department is discriminatory against Black people: The investigation will examine whether the police department systematically used excessive force and discriminated against Black residents
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/27/justice-civil-rights-memphis/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXEUVl0R2$

How Republicans flipped America’s state supreme courts: In 2018, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the state constitution included a right to abortion, finding that “nothing could be more fundamental to the notion of liberty.” Just four years later, the court reversed itself. Iowa’s constitution does not, the justices decided, guarantee a right to abortion after all. That 2018 ruling? It had “a one-sided quality to it,” the new majority found. Iowans could no longer rely on a constitutional protection that existed just hours before.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2023/07/24/republicans-flipped-state-supreme-courts-impacting-voting-lgbtq-abortion/70357917007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXGwE7UpF$

State high courts get limited attention. Here’s how to change that: State supreme courts have the final word on interpreting state constitutions. Their decisions have massive implications for abortion access, taxes, LGBTQ+ rights, labor, policing and other issues that affect people’s lives. State supreme courts are in the midst of a partisan sea change. These tips can help reporters dig in.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://publicintegrity.org/politics/high-courts-high-stakes/state-high-courts-limited-attention/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXKY0tfDp$

US Says Trump Ordered Video Deleted, Charges Second Employee in Documents Case: Donald Trump ordered employees at his Florida resort to delete security videos as he was under investigation for retaining classified documents, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday as they broadened the case against the former president and charged a second member of his staff
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/27/us-special-counsel-names-third-defendant-in-trump-classified-document-case__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXBL9JGsK$

Hunter Biden Investigation: DOJ Enforced Foreign Lobbying Rules On Hunter’s Business Partners: Hunter Biden worked closely with multiple people who disclosed their lobbying for foreign companies under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, raising questions about whether he broke the law by not registering himself for doing the same work
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/hunter-biden-investigation-foreign-lobbying-rules*:*:text=Hunter*20Biden*20worked*20closely*20with,for*20doing*20the*20same*20work__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXE-Cmkmt$

# Media
USPS Is Suspending Services in Illinois, Colorado, and Vermont, Effective Immediately: Some people are still facing persistent postal problems, as the USPS has now suspended services in five different states. Read on to find out about the Postal Service’s ongoing struggles.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yahoo.com/now/usps-suspending-services-5-states-205802314.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXPtLrkS7$

# Medical / Health
One Texas family is scrambling after their 3-year-old child, who has disabilities, becomes one of nearly half a million Texans who have lost continuous Medicaid coverage: When Texas started scrubbing people from Medicaid after a three-year pause on removals during the pandemic, one family lost the insurance coverage that helped provide all treatments for their medically complex child. But her daughter Amelia can’t see her doctors anymore. She can’t undergo scheduled brain tests because the Medicaid coverage that provided access to all her treatment — for her six congenital heart defects, her cerebral palsy and her autism — was revoked.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/28/texas-medicaid-children-disabled/*:*:text=When*20Texas*20started*20scrubbing*20people,for*20their*20medically*20complex*20child__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXCy-3O_R$

Private Equity Wreckers Come For Your Health Insurance: The implosion of Friday Health Plans, which offered plans on seven state health insurance exchanges, comes as other private equity-backed insurers have faced similar issues. Bright Health, which was backed by private equity titan The Blackstone Group among others, had to end its insurance business on the exchanges last year, leaving hundreds of thousands of people to find new insurance policies for 2023. “They’re extracting value from the health care system, they load them up with debt and then they pay it back by lowering the quality of care,” said Katz Olson. “Health insurance is just another niche that private equity is destroying. They keep buying up these places, extract the value, and then spit them out.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/private-equity-wreckers-come-for-your-health-insurance/*:*:text=**BThey’re*20extracting*20value*20from,and*20then*20spit*20them*20out.**B__;I37igJwlJSUlJSUl4oCd!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXIpl2Gog$

“I can’t survive this”: 3 women share their stories about the real side effects of Ozempic for weight loss. Ozempic for weight loss has swept the internet following celebrity exposure, but users warn the reality of taking the drug is very different from expectation. Ozempic, Wegovy, and semaglutide are words that once circulated exclusively in doctor-patient rooms, but have come to dominate corners of the internet this past year.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.womanandhome.com/health-wellbeing/ozempic-for-weight-loss-side-effects/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXLig0ZOc$

The Post-Pandemic Medicaid Purge Nears 4 Million: More than 3.8 million Americans across 39 states and the District of Columbia have been removed from Medicaid since April after the expiration of a pandemic-era provision ensuring that they could keep their coverage throughout the health emergency.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03/29/medicaid-pandemic-benefits-ending/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXHxY8GtH$

# Medical / Health / Global
Anorexia and the will to live: Canada poised to expand physician-assisted suicide to those with mental illnesses: Canada legalized assisted death in 2016 for people with terminal illness and expanded it in 2021 to people with incurable, but not terminal, conditions. The legal changes were precipitated by court rulings that struck down prohibitions on helping people to die. The new mental health provision will make Canada one of the most expansive countries in the world when it comes to medical assistance in dying (MAID)
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/07/27/anorexia-and-the-will-to-live-canada-poised-to-expand-physician-assisted-suicide-to-those-with-mental-illnesses/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXJp8HCt6$

# Military / DOD
Senate Overwhelmingly Votes Down Sanders’s NDAA Amendment Slashing Defense Budget by 10%: Members voted 88 to 11 against the motion, which would cut down the Pentagon’s annual budget “excluding accounts and funds relating to military personnel, the Defense Health Program, and assistance to Ukraine,” according to text of the amendment.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/bernie-sanders-ndaa-defense-budget-cut-amendment-fails__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXLJ4NMZc$

# Space
# UFO Disclosure / Other
Whistleblower calls for government transparency as Congress digs for the truth about UFOs: All who testified before a congressional subcommittee claimed that UFOs pose a threat to national security, though there’s still no public evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/whistleblower-calls-for-government-transparency-as-congress-digs-for-the-truth-about-ufos-210435__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXOjAsNu-$

# Technology
Jordan Releases ‘Smoking Gun Docs’ Confirming Facebook Bowed to White House Censorship Demands: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) today released today a series of unredacted emails from Facebook, that he characterized as proof the White House and other federal agencies exerted pressure on the social media company to censor authors whose posts ran counter to the government’s official pandemic narrative.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/jim-jordan-white-house-facebook-censorship/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2q7gGgpqAgieSf7wxX-ZZOxvFUzi8GMiQ3jIAkKwR2J2EZbva5Bcza_Y3X7SwfXZ3O6YHbMW47cJluVau2rLgsHVXFdnN2fd$

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July 27, 2023
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# Indigenous / Global
Managed retreat? Please, not yet: As climate impacts grow, an Indigenous Fijian community weighs what it means to leave. As climate change rolls on, and as the sea level continues to rise, this low-lying island off the southern coast of Viti Levu, one of the country’s two largest islands, seems like an obvious candidate for relocation efforts, and its inhabitants the latest face of climate refugees. Fiji’s national government has offered its support to help the island’s 100 or so inhabitants move. Yet almost all are choosing to stay put.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hakaimagazine.com/news/managed-retreat-please-not-yet/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1cZ-vrGc$

A fight for salmon fishing rights connects Indigenous peoples across the Pacific Ocean: Inspired by Indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwest, Japan’s Ainu people want to rebuild their self-determination and food sovereignty. For the Ainu, salmon is king, as fundamental to life as the air, mountains, and sea. In fact, shipe, one of several Native names for the fish, is synonymous with food itself. “It returns to us year after year,” says Sashima, “as though it were a promise.” “Salmon is central not just to our cuisine, but to our identity.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://civileats.com/2023/07/26/a-fight-for-salmon-fishing-rights-connects-indigenous-peoples-across-the-pacific-ocean/*:*:text=For*20Japan’s*20Indigenous*20Ainu*20people,reclaiming*20their*20historical*20fishing*20rights__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1QEb7CNM$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Texas State Police Purchased Israeli Phone-Tracking Software for “Border Emergency”: The software was licensed as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s troubled Operation Lone Star border crackdown. Among other effects, the disaster declaration opened a spigot of government money to a variety of private firms ostensibly paid to help patrol and blockade the state’s border with Mexico.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theintercept.com/2023/07/26/texas-phone-tracking-border-surveillance/*:*:text=July*2026*202023*2C*203*3A03*20p.m.&text=The*20Texas*20Department*20of*20Public,documents*20reviewed*20by*20The*20Intercept__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1Vu2g_lC$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
Fed Raises Rates to Highest Level in 22 Years as It Renews Inflation Fight: The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 5.25% to 5.5%, its highest level since 2001. The Fed has now raised rates 11 times since March 2022 by a total of 525 basis points as part of its campaign to bring inflation under control.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/20230726-Fed-Jacks-Rates-Highest-Level-22-Years__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1XeKCpkV$

Progressives Unveil Bill to Tax Billionaire Wealth Up to 8 Percent: The bill would create four tax brackets to tax those with “runaway wealth.” The bill would levy a 2 percent tax on wealth between 1,000 and 10,000 times median household wealth; a 4 percent tax on wealth between 10,000 and 100,000 times median wealth; a 6 percent tax on wealth between
100,000 and 1 million times median wealth https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vox.com/money/23634085/biden-2024-budget-billionaire-tax-capital-gains__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1XLlGLpZ$

# Employment / Labor
Will the Teamsters’ Gains at UPS Help Them Unionize Amazon? The wage increases matter, but banning the constant surveillance of workers should really resonate with Amazon employees. The Teamsters were out not just to win sizable gains for their members, but to make those gains so significant that they’d bolster the union’s prospects for its next, decidedly herculean, venture: unionizing Amazon.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-07-27-will-teamsters-gains-ups-help-unionize-amazon/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1VNteUUo$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
Mountain Valley pipeline construction moves forward, thanks to Supreme Court: Environmental groups have estimated that the pipeline could have a yearly emissions impact equivalent to 26 coal plants. The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a pair of lower court orders that temporarily halted construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 300-mile fracked gas project that has long been a top priority of Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, a close ally of the fossil fuel industry.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/27/supreme-court-mountain-valley-pipeline/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1ROLXCuS$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Military Officers Claim to Have Deposed Niger’s President: Mutinous soldiers claimed to have overthrown Niger’s democratically elected president, announcing on state television late Wednesday that they have put an end to the government over the African country’s deteriorating security.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/niger-tensions-presidential-guard-96f8f63b838af5467d4c95ba7b998b32__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1QxdheTq$

World Leaders Condemn Apparent Coup in Niger: The United States, France and the United Nations have strongly condemned an apparent military takeover in Niger, after soldiers in fatigues appeared on national television to announce the removal of President Mohamed Bazoum’s government.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/27/world-leaders-condemn-unconstitutional-military-takeover-in-niger__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1bcmgrzb$

# Gov / Politics
DC Uniparty kills House resolutions to end US Emergency Powers in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen: In a massive show of support for limitless executive power, Congress rejected legislation that would have terminated national emergency powers allowing Washington to wage war across the Middle East.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thegrayzone.com/2023/07/20/resolutions-emergency-iraq-syria-libya-yemen/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1a61SrFA$

How an Illinois City Council Passed Unprecedented Local Human Rights Protections: A new human rights title will house a bodily autonomy ordinance and any additional rights the council adopts over time. It prohibits city employees, officers and departments from cooperating with states seeking extradition or even just providing information about out-of-state visitors seeking lawful medical treatments in Illinois.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/how-an-illinois-city-council-passed-unprecedented-local-human-rights-protections/*:*:text=On*20July*2011*2C*20in*20front,autonomous*20decisions*20about*20medical*20care__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1bwXZJ8H$

5 crises Republicans made up to distract you: Are they using fake crises to disguise what’s really going on?Here are five totally made-up “crises” Republicans have invented to distract from the real crises facing Americans today: the growing concentration of wealth, the worsening climate crisis, and the undermining of our democracy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/07/27/5-crises-republicans-made-up-to-distract-you/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1WFnjjpC$

# Law Enforcment
Brutal Ohio police dog attack on black truck driver: An Ohio police officer filmed unleashing a police dog on an unarmed Black truck driver during a July 4 traffic stop has been fired.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-ohio-release-k-9-dog-truck-driver-black-man-appeared-to-be-surrendering-circleville-body-cam-footage/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1X9VcHX2$

Ohio cop who sicced dog on unarmed black man fired after video goes public: The Circleville Police Department said actions taken by officer Ryan Speakman “did not meet the standards and expectations we hold for our police officers.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4121687-ohio-officer-who-released-k-9-on-unarmed-black-man-fired/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1SkSLJPU$

Racism Unleashed: Attack Dogs Maul, Bite & Terrorize Prisoners Across United States: Many men were prone or shackled when the dogs attacked. Several men said officers shouted racial slurs as dogs bit into their flesh.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uk.style.yahoo.com/style/patrol-dogs-terrorizing-mauling-prisoners-100001289.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1eZcrCkc$

# Legal / DOJ
Black and Hispanic residents in Lubbock have filed a civil rights complaint against the city over its zoning code, citing a decadeslong practice of placing industrial companies and super polluters near their neighborhoods.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2023/07/26/lubbock-residents-file-federal-complaint-alleging-discriminatory-udc/70466749007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1ag87-XV$

Trump Lawyers Arrive at Special Counsel’s Office: Trump’s team is reportedly making preparations for a federal grand jury to vote on charges against him: It is not uncommon for defense attorneys to meet with federal prosecutors before an indictment, as Trump’s team did four days before he was charged with mishandling classified documents in a separate case in June. Trump is the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges and has already been indicted twice
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-07-27/trump-lawyers-arrive-at-office-of-u-s-special-counsel-abc-news__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1bzRT6Mz$

Feds Tell Trump’s Lawyers to Expect Another Indictment: Trump’s team met prosecutors at the office of special counsel Jack Smith early Thursday ahead of a potential indictment.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-classified-documents-explained-a367fbd0__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1X3p3rE7$

# Medical / Health
Home Sweet Parking Lot: Some Hospitals Welcome RV Living for Patients, Families, and Workers: The spots help patients keep close to their medical providers and avoid paying for hotels. If patients don’t have access to an RV or would rather stay in a hotel, Dodson’s team refers them to the on-site lodging that OHSU runs in partnership with the local chapter of Ronald McDonald House Charities or a nearby hotel that gives patients a discounted rate.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hospitals-rv-living-for-patients-families-workers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1fyeAtsA$

# Military / Global
Wagner Group Disappeared and Executed Civilians in Mali: The Russia-linked mercenaries worked with Mali’s longtime U.S.-backed military to kill and loot with impunity, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. “Malian armed forces and foreign fighters apparently from the Russia-linked Wagner Group have summarily executed and forcibly disappeared several dozen civilians in Mali’s central region,” HRW said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/24/rights-group-says-mali-army-foreign-fighters-executed-civilians__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1Vf4q9RS$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
Factory That Fills Wegovy Shots Repeatedly Broke Sterility Rules: Wegovy-maker Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO) and its manufacturing partner Catalent (CTLT.N) have said publicly that shipments of the drug were delayed throughout 2022 as Catalent addressed problems raised by the two FDA inspections, without elaborating on what was found.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wegovy-weight-loss-injection-factory-plagued-by-sterile-safety-failures-2023-07-27/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1XIgs_Ht$

# UFO Disclosure / Other
Ex-intel official claims feds ‘absolutely’ have UFOs, bodies of ‘non-human’ origin during bombshell hearing: U.S. government has a long-standing program that retrieves unidentified flying objects, and said “nonhuman” “biologics” were found at crash sites where the objects were recovered. A former Air Force officer and intelligence official told Congress he believes the government is hiding captured UFOs, and claimed he could not reveal whether anyone was murdered to keep the secret contained.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/26/members-of-congress-had-ufo-sightings-of-their-own-rep-burchett/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1TisW4Tk$

At House UFO Hearing, Military Members Push for Answers: “It Is Long Overdue”: Two former Navy pilots and a former intelligence official called for a safe and transparent system of reporting the phenomena. “If everyone could see the sensor and video data I witnessed,” one said, “our national conversation would change.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/26/house-ufo-hearing-wednesday/70469518007/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1dZt6kYT$

Explosive claims, impossible craft and questions of ‘murder’: House UFO hearing probes alleged alien technology defying laws of physics. One witness claimed that ‘non-human biologics’ were recovered from alleged UAP crash sites by the US government. The witnesses agreed that the US is lacking in a proper reporting system for UAP sightings, with Mr Graves noting that both military and commercial pilots who claim to have encountered the craft feel as though they cannot report the sightings without suffering stigma and potential career retaliation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/house-ufo-hearing-aliens-physics-b2382921.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1Z5EYHRD$

UFO whistleblower claims he’s under threat for revealing secret ops: The former airman told lawmakers that he’d learned of the clandestine UFO program while working at the National Reconnaissance Office. “I’ve suffered retaliation for my decision, but I am hopeful that my actions will ultimately lead to a positive outcome of increased transparency,” Air Force Maj. David Grusch told the House Oversight Committee Wednesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/07/26/ufo-whistleblower-claims-hes-under-threat-for-revealing-secret-ops/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1W7Mvfwc$

# Veterans / VA
VA to review link between military toxic exposures and additional cancers: The Department of Veterans Affairs will review whether three more types of cancers will be added to the list of conditions presumed to be caused by exposure to toxins from military burn pits, the agency announced.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2023-07-25/veterans-affairs-burn-pits-toxic-exposure-cancers-10854739.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0OQ2db1Qa7-JOUoOJWLKanx7T828per6LfrCx80uJuNtkmzq9Mhe6jRnHzjeK58Y2udKMmgVu-pe4jwVafKAPBHC1TuiOwTV$

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July 26, 2023
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# Indigenous
A Scientist Said Her Research Could Help With Repatriation. Instead, It Destroyed Native Remains: Federal agencies have awarded millions of dollars to scientific studies on Native American human remains, undermining the goals of NAGPRA as tribes fight for repatriation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.allsides.com/news/2023-07-21-0546/federal-state-and-tribal-powers-scientist-said-her-research-could-help__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgih2rPibX$

# Border / Immigration / Migrants
Federal judge deals major blow to Biden administration with ruling on immigration policy: The Biden administration was dealt a major blow in its efforts to control the ongoing border crisis on Tuesday when a federal judge blocked a rule introduced in May that makes migrants ineligible for asylum if they have entered illegally and failed to take advantage of expanded lawful pathways set up by the federal government. He found the rule is “both substantively and procedurally invalid” and has delayed his ruling from taking effect for 14 days to give the administration time to appeal.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/biden-asylum-policy-immigration-00108074__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgivd-tJes$

Gaetz introduces bill to end ‘unqualified birthright citizenship’: U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., introduced a bill Tuesday that would deny automatic citizenship at birth to children born within the United States whose parents are not U.S. nationals https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4118478-gaetz-introduces-legislation-to-end-unqualified-birthright-citizenship/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgihCDU826$

Immigration doesn’t drive up crime rates and this study proves it: The study by Stanford University researchers found evidence that immigrants haven’t contributed to increased crime rates in the US over the past 140 years. In fact, first-generation immigrants haven’t shown a higher likelihood of imprisonment compared to individuals born in the US at all
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/migrants-dont-cause-crime-rates-to-increase-but-false-perceptions-endure-anyway-198054__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgimahZHM0$

# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks
How the Ultrawealthy Use Private Foundations to Bank Millions in Tax Deductions While Giving the Public Little in Return: It’s a simple bargain: The rich get huge tax breaks by donating art, property and company shares to benefit the public. But some donors collect millions while offering little or no public access.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/how-private-nonprofits-ultrawealthy-tax-deductions-museums-foundation-art*:*:text=How*20the*20Ultrawealthy*20Use*20Private*20Foundations*20to*20Bank*20Huge*20Tax,little*20or*20no*20public*20access__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgityrHaMf$

Addressing Tax System Failings That Favor Billionaires and Corporations: Biden’s Build Back Better plan addresses key failings of the U.S. tax system that let the wealthy and corporations avoid paying their fair share; Congress can and should do even more. For years, many policymakers have decried the tax code as being slanted against working people. They now have a rare opportunity to fix it, with a mandate from and the strong backing of the American people.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.americanprogress.org/article/addressing-tax-system-failings-favor-billionaires-corporations/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgisbm04C0$

How the Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law: Congress outlawed tax deductions on “wash sales” in 1921, but Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Steve Ballmer see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical investments.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.moneylife.in/article/how-the-wealthy-in-us-save-billions-in-taxes-by-skirting-a-century-old-law/69820.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgijvp0_yl$

IRS dodging oversight after destroying 30 million records: Lawmakers investigating reports the IRS destroyed tens of millions of taxpayer records say the federal tax agency is not cooperating with the investigation. They argue the agency has “willfully ignored” their request, which dates back to last year. The inquiry comes after a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report showing the IRS destroyed roughly 30 million taxpayer documents in 2021.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.independentnews.com/news/national/lawmakers-irs-dodging-oversight-after-destroying-30-million-records/article_caf010fe-166d-5222-a5b1-4587ff50dac8.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgioL5UcDl$

# Education / Schools
School district woes likened to ‘environmental racism’ in Flint, Mich: Flint, Michigan’s catastrophic public health crisis collided with an economic downturn, systemic racism. All 13 school buildings in East Ramapo received a failing rating in a recent state-mandated survey. General Motors took its plant off the Flint water supply because the water was corroding engine parts. It was more than a year before anything was done for the 100,000 people living in the city, approximately 30,000 of whom were children.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/the-truth-about-science/when-environmental-racism/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgijf8cHHn$

“We’re Huge in Learning Loss!” Cashing in on the Post-Pandemic Education Crisis: Test scores are plummeting while tens of billions in federal aid flows to schools. A visit to a recent education technology convention provides a glimpse of the frenzy to profit from the recovery efforts.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/education-technology-covid-pandemic-crisis-schools__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgirCeNztJ$

The Nightmare of American Public School Teaching: Moral injury is driving teachers out of the profession. Here’s how to help them stay. Becoming a teacher to help students, only to be forced to participate in a system that fails them at every turn, creates moral injury.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/education/2023-07-26-nightmare-of-american-public-school-teaching/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgio7IdK_5$

Based on the Biden administration’s new interpretation of Title IX, schools could only keep federal funding for basic student assistance programs like free or discounted lunches if they began: *Imposing gender pronoun policing;
*Permitting biological males to compete in female sports; *Permitting biological males to use female restrooms and locker rooms; and *Assigning dorms based on gender identity, rather than on biological sex.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/no-free-lunch-biden-admin-will-pull-meal-funding-for-schools-that-dont-comply-with-its-lgbt-agenda/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgivKPwNJg$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
New Taxes on Oil and Gas Could Cause Economic Pain in Alaska and Across America: As the Biden administration escalates its crusade against American energy, perhaps no state has more to lose than Alaska, where the oil industry and its tax dollars are responsible for up to a third of the state’s economic output and a quarter of its jobs.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/05/08/devastating_alaskas_oil_and_gas_industry_wont_help_taxpayers_898125.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgiomIFovs$

Mining companies are eager to dig up the ocean. That’s a dangerous idea: We already know the damage that mining can cause on land. It could be devastating to the deep sea. It’s a cruel irony that renewable energy, at least at this point of technological development, is thought to require nonrenewable deep-sea minerals, pulled from ecosystems we know so little about. But we can’t protect our planet by destroying it, nor can we mine our way out of the climate crisis.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/mining-companies-deep-sea-dangerous__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgijgqJ6If$

Ocean Depths Targeted for Mining Are Rich in Complex and Unknown Marine Life, Scientists Find: Like the dry land on the surface of our planet, the ocean’s depths are made up of a variety of terrain, from plains and canyons to volcanic seamounts. Scientists believe there are as many as
10 million undiscovered marine species living on the ocean floor.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://phys.org/news/2023-07-deep-ocean-rich-unknown-life.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgim9DPzcM$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Florida seawater hits hot tub level and may have set world record: The water temperature on the tip of Florida exceeded 100 degrees (37.8 degrees Celsius) two days in a row. Meteorologists say that could potentially be the hottest seawater ever measured. The warmer water is fuel for hurricanes.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://apnews.com/article/record-hot-water-florida-coral-climate-change-6414d44c6f120507d3ee37c059fb75cd__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgijk_7UDk$

Amid Heat Wave, GOP Adds Climate Denial To Spending Bills: As scientists warn of a mass extinction and ecological tipping points, congressional Republicans are helping their fossil fuel industry donors by quietly inserting provisions into annual spending bills designed to bar the American government from combating and researching climate change
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://newrepublic.com/post/174310/earth-hotter-ever-ted-cruz-republican-solution-gut-climate-funding__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgimPvfxp8$

# General News
Zelensky Associate Was Present at Biden Bribery Meetings – Then Went to Work for President Zelensky Who Now Is Holding Blackmail Information Against Joe Biden. Author Peter Schweizer went on Jesse Watters Primetime on Monday, where he proceeded to drop another bomb on the Bidens. According to Schweizer, who wrote the best-seller Secret Empires on Biden family crimes, one of Volodymyr Zelensky’s top officials was sitting in the room when they were discussing bribing the Bidens, Joe and Hunter.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/breaking-update-zelensky-associate-was-present-biden-bribery/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgiokQ6H0j$

Hunter Biden Partner to Testify to Congress as White House Says President ‘Never in Business’ With His Son. Hunter Biden’s former business partner is scheduled to testify to Congress as lawmakers look to dig deeper into connections between President [sic] Joe Biden, his son, and foreign nationals. Devon Archer, the associate of Mr. Hunter Biden, is slated to testify to the House Oversight Committee on July 31.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/joe-bidens-a-liar-hunters-a-grifter-devon-archer-testimony-proves-it/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgiuAVolo8$

McCarthy: Biden case will ‘rise to impeachment’ as 16 Romanian payments allegedly went to ‘shell companies’: Biden notably boasted in 2016 how he told then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire a prosecutor looking into Burisma. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted Republicans will gather enough evidence soon to mount an impeachment inquiry against President [sic] Biden, as the corruption scandal enveloping him and his son Hunter continues to grow.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/mccarthy-biden-impeachment-inquiry-fox-news__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgiucEK0af$

# Gov / Politics / Global
Using Ukraine as Cannon Fodder: Ukrainians are disposable in the quest to ‘weaken Russia.’ Potentially tens of thousands of Ukrainians have died in the counteroffensive, which produced no sizable gains for Kyiv. In reality, neither HRVP Josep Borrell nor the US President Joe Biden said: “Ukraine is our army.” HRVP Borrell said in his Munich speech that the EU should be quick in providing Ukraine with weapons to help it stand up to Russian aggression https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/eu-us-and-nato-use-ukrainians-as-cannon-fodder__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgigoWGsaN$

# Gov / Politics
Coup 2024 already underway: Democratic law firm argues mail boxes ‘unsecure’ for voting, in suit pushing for ballot drop boxes. Marc Elias, whose law firm filed the lawsuit, advocated for states to switch to mail-in voting because of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. In a lawsuit to overturn a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that concluded ballot drop boxes are illegal, a Democratic election law firm is now arguing that U.S. Postal Service mailboxes are in fact “unsecured.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the-republican-war-on-drop-boxes-continues/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgigrYkKjb$

# Legal / DOJ
Hunter Biden Plea: Four Key Questions Before ‘Sweetheart’ Deal Court Hearing: Hunter Biden, in June, agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter into a pretrial diversion program that will allow him to bypass prosecution on a separate felony gun charge. However, the plea deal process may have gotten much more muddy after a Tuesday afternoon clash between the attorneys for the younger Biden and a top House Republican seeking to introduce IRS whistleblower testimony to the court docket.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/four-things-to-watch-hunter-biden-plea-agreement__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgiipiALrj$

Judge Says Member Of Hunter Biden’s Legal Team ‘Misrepresented Her Identity’ On Eve Of Plea Deal Hearing: The judge who will review Hunter Biden’s plea deal on Wednesday accused a member of Biden’s legal team of misrepresenting herself in a phone call to the court, a bizarre episode that prompted the judge to threaten sanctions even as Biden’s lawyers insisted it was all a misunderstanding.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/hunter-biden-judge-plea-deal-phone-call-00108184__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgii9artq_$

The Fulton County Case Against Trump May Be the Most Serious: Georgia prosecutors eye criminal solicitation charges in Trump inquiry. Among the state election law charges that prosecutors were examining: criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud, as well as solicitation of a public or political officer to fail to perform their duties and solicitation to destroy, deface or remove ballots, the people said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/trump-georgia-investigation-fulton-county-prosecutors__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgitAedrKE$

# Medical / Health
How Executives and Well-Connected Investors Make Exquisitely Timed Trades in Health Care Stocks: Secret IRS records reveal dozens of highly fortuitous biotech and health care trades. One executive bought shares in a corporate partner just before a sale, and an investor traded options right before a company’s revenues took off, netting millions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.propublica.org/article/biotech-executives-investors-trade-health-care-stocks__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgiuKoj1hx$

Hospices in Four States to Receive Extra Scrutiny Over Concerns of Fraud, Waste and Abuse: Federal regulators have announced enhanced oversight of new hospices in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas, targeting providers highlighted by a ProPublica investigation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bioethics.com/archives/71330__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgijNWiRfO$

# Pharmaceuticals / Drugs
From Philadelphia to California, officials on alert over xylazine threat: A veterinary sedative embedded in the nation’s illicit drug supply has public health officials, state lawmakers and federal leaders on alert as it helps fuel the nation’s overdose epidemic
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_894826c8-2b01-11ee-8fcf-934f158258d8.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgipm-Ytsp$

# Social
The Overwhelming Evil of the Global Slave Market: The latest Jim Caviezel movie, Sound of Freedom, is absolutely riveting. Everyone should see it. Brilliantly done. Stay thru the credits as Jim then speaks to the audience. He tells us, once you know it is happening, you must work to stop the evil. Jim asks the audience, “Can we love God’s children more than we fear evil?” “The Sound of Freedom brings this truth to light,” said Bob Unanue, President and CEO of Goya Foods, and Executive Producer of Sound of Freedom. Goya Cares, inspired by the movie, is a global initiative dedicated to combating child trafficking and educating on child mental health.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://newswithviews.com/the-overwhelming-evil-of-the-global-slave-market/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!xyFLd3JVPFR1VSZUevQTi-WPSzmyKJX_DFP3Vk9wpWb8aWW9UefAY_7xVKL6F_Q7_StA60iZYkfvu3dUbglF4ODgiv2ZchoL$

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July 25, 2023
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants
DOJ Threatens to Sue Texas Gov. Abbott for Installing Barrels Wrapped in Razor Wire in Rio Grande The U.S. Justice Department is threatening to sue the state of Texas after Republican Governor Greg Abbott installed barrels wrapped in razor wire in the Rio Grande https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2023-07-21/doj-to-sue-texas-over-gov-abbotts-operation-lone-star-border-security-program__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4n-FRnFK$

# Bundy Rides Again
Jury Decides Ammon Bundy Must Pay More Than $50M for Defaming Hospital: Ammon Bundy Must Pay More Than $50M for Defaming Hospital: The anti-government leader waged a crusade over treatment of an ally’s grandson, known as Baby Cyrus.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.yahoo.com/jury-decides-ammon-bundy-must-015348942.html*:*:text=Anti*2Dgovernment*20agitator*20Ammon*20Bundy,officials*20determined*20he*20was*20malnourished__;I34lJSUlJSUlJQ!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4sMiuNYY$

# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
14-Year-Old’s Death After Pfizer COVID Shot a “Significant Public Concern,” Coroner Says: Historically, inquests investigate suspicious or mysterious deaths and set precedents for the medical community, bridging the gap between criminal justice and public health. The multi-day inquest for the family of Joseph McGinty is in progress and a jury will hear evidence surrounding the teenager’s sharp decline and death less than a month after being administered the COVID shot.1
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thevaccinereaction.org/2023/07/14-year-olds-death-after-pfizer-covid-shot-a-significant-public-concern-coroner-says/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4jGQfiT6$

Debilitating Autonomic Nervous System Disorder after COVID Vaccines: Several studies have reported adverse events following vaccination, including an increasing number of reports of several neurological and cardiovascular manifestations that are inclusive of POTS. POTS is a common autonomic nervous system disorder that is characterized by tachycardia or an increase of 30 beats/minute or more during 10 minutes of being in the standing position and orthostatic intolerance symptoms. POTS symptomatology includes palpitations, pre-syncope, generalized weakness, light-headedness, nausea, and headache that lasts for more than three months.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221220/Study-finds-increased-risk-of-POTS-after-SARS-CoV-2-infection-or-COVID-vaccination.aspx__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4qnsiolC$

U.S. Military Confirms Myocarditis Spike After COVID Vaccine Introduction: Cases of myocarditis soared among U.S. service members in 2021 after the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out, a top Pentagon official has confirmed. There were 275 cases of myocarditis in 2021—a 151 percent spike from the annual average from 2016 to 2020
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/07/pentagon-confirms-myocarditis-cases-in-troops-spiked-after-covid-vax-rollout/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4g0U2CeI$

Insane in the membrane: Biden admin allocates $5 billion for new COVID vaccines with little manufacturing guidance: The initiative, known as Project NextGen, has left manufacturers confused about whether they are even eligible for funding.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/biden-admin-allocates-5-billion-new-covid-vaccines-little-manufacturing__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4hvJ1aRQ$

# Education / Schools
Veterans Push Back Against Military Recruitment in Schools: In order to counter both the narrative and incentives that military recruiters offer young people, veterans try to share the truth about traumatic personal experiences as well as practical information. With these challenges in mind, [the nonprofit] NNOMY produced a video called “Before You Enlist!” The 16-minute video seeks to lay out a case against military service that preempts the military’s psychological recruitment tactics. With veteran stories and statistics, the video debunks perks, such as “free education” and job training, that the military uses to appeal to potential recruits.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2023/04/03/military-recruitment-veterans-push-back__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4u5ih0VP$
See also: Before You Enlist! https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://beforeyouenlist.org/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4lDb9vDl$

# Energy / Pipelines / Mining
New North Sea oil and gasfields will emit as much carbon as 14m cars, report says: Carbon dioxide pollution from fossil fuel emissions is a significant driver of climate change, with far-reaching health effects. As carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, they trap heat, leading to global warming. This warming contributes to more frequent and severe extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and disruptions to ecosystems, impacting human health in various ways
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dailyclimate.org/new-north-sea-oil-and-gasfields-will-emit-as-much-carbon-as-14m-cars-report-says-2662331712.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4g0maGCz$

Proposed Regulatory Changes Would Raise the Cost of Oil Drilling on Public Land: The new rules would raise more money for cleanup operations and bring more revenue to oil-producing states, but are a far cry from fulfilling President Biden’s promise to end extraction on public lands.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/07/124836-proposed-regulatory-changes-would-raise-cost-oil-drilling-public-land__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4jtlA6Op$

Analysis details how Wall Street underwriting quietly funnels billions into fossil fuels: “Underwriting is a huge missing piece of net-zero transition plans, allowing big U.S. banks to continue to help fossil fuel companies raise billions of dollars with limited scrutiny,” said one campaigner. Since 2016, the six largest U.S. banks—JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs—have provided more than $433 billion in lending and underwriting to 30 of the companies doing the most to increase fossil fuel extraction and combustion worldwide, the report notes.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.commondreams.org/news/wall-street-underwriting-fossil-fuels*:*:text=Since*202016*2C*20the*20six*20largest,combustion*20worldwide*2C*20the*20report*20notes__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSUl!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4kzEvFCK$

# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure For unhoused people in America’s hottest large city, heat waves are a merciless killer: People experiencing homelessness are dying in cities throughout the U.S. as climate change caused by burning fossil fuels results in record-breaking heat waves.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/07/for-unhoused-people-in-americas-hottest-large-city-heat-waves-are-a-merciless-killer/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4vEel_Y7$

The environmental impacts of war: Research by Brown University is shedding light on the impact of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflict zones, finding that the U.S. military, among others, contributes significantly to climate change, becoming one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters through the fighting of battles. Militaries consume enormous amounts of fossil fuels. Bombing and other methods of modern warfare directly harm wildlife and biodiversity. Pollution from war contaminates bodies of water, soil, and air. Warfare releases greenhouse gas emissions.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/ClimateChangeandCostofWar__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4qKYYhUf$

The United States Helped Block a G20 Deal to Boost Renewables, an Ominous Sign for COP28: The United States actively blocked what would have been a major agreement between some of the world’s wealthiest nations to dramatically increase their development of renewable energy, largely because the proposal didn’t include language supporting carbon capture technologies, hydrogen fuel and other controversial solutions for addressing climate change.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072023/united-states-helped-block-g20-clean-energy-deal-cop28/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4pCWlTSt$

# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals
‘Outrageous’: MEPs condemn pesticide companies for withholding toxicity data: The pesticide companies Bayer and Syngenta have been excoriated in a European parliament hearing after failing to disclose studies on the brain toxicity of their products. The pesticide companies Bayer and Syngenta have been excoriated in a European parliament hearing after failing to disclose studies on the brain toxicity of their products https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/meps-condemn-pesticide-companies-withholding-toxicity-data__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4vPI_F2P$

# Gov / Politics
Will Kevin McCarthy’s “Crazy Bastards” Bring the Economy to the Brink Again? The Speaker’s far-right flank is already threatening to force through another hard-line wish list, potentially teeing up a budget scuffle that could end in a shutdown. Both parties have long anticipated a September showdown over keeping the government funded. This week, House Republicans will take their first shot in the fiscal battle
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.yahoo.com/house-republicans-start-funding-rumble-083000918.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4u2_z1gl$

Former Anti-Abortion Leader and Aide to Alabama Lt. Gov. Arrested on Child Sex Abuse Charges: Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth once called Cole Wagner “a whiz-kid” and a “bright, young guy.” The former chair of an anti-abortion committee in Alabama was arrested last week on charges of sexual abuse of a child younger than 12, according to the Alabama Political Reporter
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ca.style.yahoo.com/alabama-anti-abortion-advocate-charged-190424945.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4kIxug-m$

Trump Returns to Pennsylvania With a $35,000 Unpaid Bill: Erie Mayor Wants Cash Up Front for Trump Rally: The city never received the $35K+ it is owed from Trump’s 2018 event, he said.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/trump-returns-pennsylvania-35000-unpaid-bill-1814996__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4v3auXlM$

Senator Targeted? Fire at Rand Paul’s Office Day After He Referred Fauci for Prosecution : According to a Fox News report, a fire broke out at Senator Ran Paul’s office in Kentucky just one day after the lawmaker referred COVID doctor Anthony Fauci to the DOJ for prosecution.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://hannity.com/media-room/senator-targeted-fire-at-rand-pauls-office-day-after-he-referred-fauci-for-investigation-watch/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4n6UtXKG$

The Plutocratic Policies of No Labels: Today on TAP: Cutting Social Security, nixing increases to family benefits, No Labels’ economics are old-school Republican. At a time when most Americans believe the United States has become a plutocracy, a candidate like Manchin and a “party” like No Labels can justly be attacked as plutocracy’s friends, just as Trump can be attacked as an autocrat-in-waiting.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-07-25-plutocratic-policies-of-no-labels/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4hiP1dy5$

Ron DeSantis Axes a Third of Paid Campaign Staff in Shakeup: The cuts reportedly total 38 staffers in all. The cuts, which were confirmed by advisers, will amount to a total of 38 jobs shed across an array of departments.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/desantis-lets-go-of-more-than-1-3-of-campaign-staff-as-reset-continues-00108046__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4rYRQcgq$

# Law Enforcment
Police Say He Stabbed a Man to Death While Shouting the N-Word. He’s Charged With Only ‘Peace Disturbance’: The 4th of July killing of Mike Rone in Kansas City is sparking outrage, as the alleged killer may soon make bail
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/fury-man-who-killed-black-victim-racist-incident-not-yet-charged-1814726__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4lBNjBh8$

Fake-Ticket Champ in Connecticut Trooper Scandal, Revealed: As outrage grows over the fraudulent tickets that marred the state’s racial-profiling data, the governor announces an independent investigation
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.yahoo.com/connecticut-police-allegedly-issued-26-180637523.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4sKPrKLh$

# Legal / DOJ
Key Figure In Effort To Overturn 2020 Election Gives 1,000s Of Files To Special Counsel: Bernard Kerik worked with Rudy Giuliani to investigate unfounded claims of voter fraud after the 2020 presidential election.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernard-kerik-trump-special-counsel-documents_n_64bf12c7e4b0dcb4caba05d0?mpq&utm_source=cordial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp-us-reg-morning-email_2023-07-25&utm_term=us-morning-email__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4q_GPa-x$

# Media
The Magical Math Behind Disney’s Content Purge: Streaming services are pulling content to avoid paying workers, and could claim a tax break for doing so.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.levernews.com/the-magical-math-behind-disneys-content-purge/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4uczpnOa$

Strike Averted as UPS Workers Get ‘Best Contract in History’: “We demanded the best contract in the history of UPS, and we got it,” Teamsters said. UPS and the Teamsters union have reached a tentative contract on working conditions for the 340,000 unionized employees at the shipping giant, both parties announced Tuesday. The contract, if ratified, would avert a strike that was shaping up to be the biggest in 60 years.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://newrepublic.com/post/174578/ups-teamsters-reach-most-historic-labor-deal-ever-likely-averting-strike__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4kqA7ZfW$

# Medical / Health
Pittsburgh-area hospitals tackling climate emissions, pollution and waste: “We realized early on that we need to be part of the work, not just make an ask of the system. I want the planet to be a safe place for my kids and my grandkids and the next generation.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ehn.org/hospitals-sustainability-2662289794.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4umSc_ol$

Hospitals hope new Congress doesn’t bring new DSH cuts to safety-net hospitals: A collection of nine hospital groups wrote to congressional leadership Monday calling for action to stave off $8 billion in cuts to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments that could start Oct. 1. While Congress has traditionally delayed the cuts, Republicans and Democrats have been sparring lately on whether the GOP aims to cut Medicaid.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/hospitals-hope-new-congress-doesnt-bring-new-dsh-cuts-safety-net-hospitals__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4sjl_r6B$

The WHO Is a Real and Present Danger: Our governments intend to transfer decisions over our health, families, and societal freedoms to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), whenever he or she declares it necessary. The success of this transfer of power depends on public ignorance of its implications, and of the nature of the WHO itself and its recent pandemic policy reversals.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/who-real-and-present-danger__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4pqA6rGq$

# UFO Disclosure / Other
Tennessee Republican Representative Tim Burchett said this week that Americans “deserve to know” about aliens and UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs). “That’s what it is about: aliens … I think people deserve to know,” Burchett told Politico, while speaking about a potential House Oversight Committee hearing on UFOs and UAPs. The comments by Burchett come amid ongoing discussion about UFOs, UAPs and aliens throughout the U.S. after Air Force veteran David Grusch, told NewsNation that the U.S. Military has a secret program that previously recovered wreckage of a UFO.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsweek.com/congressman-says-people-deserve-know-aliens-1812881__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4sEY0gIe$

Ezra Klein Interviews Leslie Kean: A decorated former combat officer and an intelligence officer named David Grusch, who had worked on the government’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, said he had turned whistle-blower, and he had testified under oath that he has been told reliably, and given evidence of, secret government programs that have, over a long period of time, recovered and definitively analyzed crash materials, that we have this stuff, and it is being kept from Congress, it is being hidden. And if it were just him, maybe you would dismiss it.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-transcript-leslie-kean.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4j8oKjXH$

# Water
Funding poised to dry up for water projects in Ohio and other states if proposed budget cuts become law: The House proposal would now slash total funding for the clean water state revolving fund by about two-thirds, from $1.6 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2022 and 2023 to $535 million. And total funding for the drinking water state revolving fund would go from about $1.1 billion as of FY 2022 and 2023 to about $460 million.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072023/funding-poised-to-dry-up-for-water-projects-in-ohio-and-other-states-if-proposed-budget-cuts-become-law/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!0G_4879cuEFPAsYw00e17St5j_onLo_l6QmAB3wB259PSP3JKh4Oy_aCsaolaCQzPP17eTh4DGhZRH1bN_nkmsRS4jDuuQ7D$

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