Australian women win right to sue Qatar Airways over invasive searches
Australian women win right to sue Qatar Airways over invasive searches
The women were strip-searched and invasively examined after a baby was found at Doha airport in 2020.Tiffanie Turnbull (BBC News)
Permit revoked for MAGA musician's concert at Parks Canada site, but show will go on
Parks Canada says a U.S. singer and rising star in the MAGA movement will not perform at a national historic site near Halifax after the federal agency revoked the organizer's permit, but the show is slated to go on at a new venue.
Christian rocker Sean Feucht was scheduled to play a concert on Wednesday night at the York Redoubt National Historic Site, a fortification constructed in 1793 to help protect the port city.
Feucht, who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Congress as a Republican in 2020, is also a missionary and an author who has spoken out against the 2SLGBTQ+ community, abortion rights and critical race theory on his website.
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Currently living in Canada. Can confirm Canadians absolutely hate MAGA/Trump and are energized against it.
(Except for Alberta, we don't talk about them)
World's smallest-known snake found under rocks in Barbados after nearly 20 years
World's smallest-known snake found under rocks in Barbados after nearly 20 years
Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct before it was rediscovered in March.CBS News
Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220M in deal with Trump to restore federal funding
Columbia University announced Wednesday it has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus.
Under the agreement, the Ivy League school will pay a $200 million settlement over three years, the university said. It will also pay $21 million to resolve alleged civil rights violations against Jewish employees that occurred following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the White House said.
Columbia has agreed to a series of demands laid out by the Republican administration, including overhauling the university’s student disciplinary process and applying a contentious, federally endorsed definition of antisemitism not only to teaching but to a disciplinary committee that has been investigating students critical of Israel.
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-trump-deal-00eef5dca9f003e593d2cb151f5cce17
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You may not know this but Columbia had departments that used to be one of the loudest voices against Palestinians genocide.
They were the home of Edward Said, a Palestinian American, who through sheer intellectual force changed an entire academic discipline, by pointing out the majority of Western "Orientialist" studies were nothing more than a thin veneer for racism.
Few people have done more for me intellectually. That's what makes this such a tragedy. They were the backbone of a nuanced view on the middle east even very recently.
Columbia University says it has suspended and expelled students who participated in protests
NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University announced disciplinary action Tuesday against students who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the Ivy League school’s main library before final exams in May and an encampment during alumni weekend last year.
A student activist group said nearly 80 students were told they have been suspended for one to three years or expelled. The sanctions issued by a university judicial board also include probation and degree revocations, Columbia said in a statement.
The action comes as the Manhattan university is negotiating with President Donald Trump’s administration to restore $400 million in federal funding it has withheld from the Ivy League school over its handling of student protests against the war in Gaza. The administration pulled the funding, canceling grants and contracts, in March because of what it described as the university’s failure to squelch antisemitism on campus during the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023.
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Big Pharma is increasingly reliant on Chinese biotech advances
AstraZeneca, Pfizer and other multinational drug companies have spent a record amount on medicines developed by Chinese biotechs this yearAstraZeneca has signed the most licensing deals with Chinese biotechs, at least $13.6bn of licensing deals with five companies so far this year
US pharmaceutical companies AbbVie, Merck, Pfizer and Regeneron also signed multibillion-dollar licensing deals in the first half of 2025.
Pfizer signed the biggest Chinese licensing deal this year, a $6bn agreement with 3Sbio to develop a cancer drug
All this [pharmaceutical] money has gone into China because China has invested in their industry while the US government has not,” Axelsen said.
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GitHub - mattermost-community/focalboard: Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. - mattermost-community/focalboardGitHub
Ah, you mean for fediverse to work as an LDAP?
My point is
Let's imagine we have a board on some instance. You use your account on another instance to ask the owner of the board to give you access to the board.
The contents of the board are, IMO in most cases of such boards, "members only". So any changes happening inside should not be sent out to federating instances. Otherwise, privacy of such boards would be at the mercy of privacy of other instances. If restricted changes were sent out, technically speaking, any server it federates to can choose to show that content to everyone.
Which means you won't be able to access the contents via any other instance. Apart from the logging in part, you will still need to go to the instance hosting the board.
Unless it would be for publicly accessible boards only, like codeberg issues. That use-case could work
PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy
PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy
Studies link public broadcasting to higher voter turnout, better factual knowledge and lower susceptibility to extremist rhetoric. Those contributions to democracy may be diminished by Congress’ cuts.The Conversation
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US contractor recounts gruesome details of Gaza aid delivery
US contractor recounts gruesome details of Gaza aid delivery
A US mercenary unloaded an entire can of pepper spray into the face of a Palestinian man picking noodles off the ground, and other contractors shot into crowds of starving people trying to collect food in Gaza, a US security contractor told Israeli m…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Temporary tattoo can instantly test drinks for unwanted drugs: study
Published Wednesday by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the study from Korean researchers developed a multicoloured temporary tattoo that reacts to the presence of GHB, a compound described as “commonly associated with drug-facilitated sexual assault.”
According to the study, the chemicals in the tattoo can detect concentrations of GHB in beer, liquor or coffee, changing colour from yellow to red in order to alert the wearer that their beverage may have been spiked.
“In practice, a wearer could dip a finger into a beverage, touch the drop to the sticker and see the result almost immediately,” the release reads.
The newly developed tattoos not only allow the users to test their drinks discreetly, but also act far faster than some older tests, delivering results in less than a second, rather than minutes.
Researchers also say the results last for up to a month, which can help preserve evidence of suspected tampering.
Also direct link to ACS
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Temporary tattoo can instantly test drinks for unwanted drugs: study
An experimental kind of temporary tattoo can near-instantly test beverages for the presence of unwanted drugs, a new study has found.Charlie Buckley (CTVNews)
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This feels like a a product in search of a market rather than a product designed to solve a problem. I mean yeah it's a cool thing but realistically do they expect people to buy (or be given) these temporary tattoos, remember to apply them before a night out, and then subtly drip bits of their drinks on their skin before drinking them to avoid getting drugged? Do the tattoos actually stay on during a night of dancing and sweating?
This is a bad product with a bad design that "solves" a problem in a convoluted and silly way that could just as easily be solved with a paper card or strip with the color changing indicator on it that you can use to test your drinks and just keep in your purse or pocket without having to remember to apply it or worry about it rubbing off. Maybe this could find use as something for a spy to wear to subtly detect poison but even that requires a healthy stretch of the imagination.
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it's impossible to misplace or not have on hand
That was a big part of my criticism - it is convoluted to use and remember, and it kind of does scream that because you still have to do something weird and potentially noticeable to do the test. I am not criticizing the fact that tests that are designed to be subtle exist. I just think this particular one is kind of a stupid idea. There's a reason it's being reported on by a chemistry journal rather than a medical or business journal - it's simply not a viable product when compared to existing technologies, even if it's a cool technology.
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Brazil to join Gaza genocide case against Israel, led by South Africa, at ICJ
Brazil to join Gaza genocide case against Israel, led by South Africa, at ICJ
Countries including Spain, Turkey and Colombia have also sought to join the caseLisandra Paraguassu (The Globe and Mail)
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Are anxious Mondays associated with HPA-axis dysregulation?
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Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.Neuroscience News
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Flow-induced 2D nanomaterials intercalated aligned bacterial cellulose
Flow-induced 2D nanomaterials intercalated aligned bacterial cellulose - Nature Communications
NCOMMS-24-62603C.The potential applications of bacterial cellulose (BC) have been limited by challenges in aligning nanofibrils at the macroscale and creating BC-based multifunctional nanosheets.Nature
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Tulsi Accusing Russia of Interfering in 2016 Election Goes Viral Amid Obama Conspiracy Allegations
Tulsi Accusing Russia of Interfering in 2016 Election Goes Viral Amid Obama Conspiracy Allegations
Tulsi Gabbard’s September 2018 conversation with Joe Rogan about Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election gained new life this weekAlex Griffing (Mediaite)
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Hell yeah, buddy! Jolie is THE Queen for signing that sternly worded letter with twenty five other people! So massively proud of her, I could just Kiss her all over. I don't even care that her and Gibeault (my Rep) were completely silent on the issue for the past two years.
Edit: shit, forgot it's Anand now.
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China is the king of those.
We don't like this. But we like trade so we literally won't change anything.
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mass popular resistance did.
Neat, where is it? I am not trying to be an asshole here, but many of my fellow lefties here keep acting as if the elections didn't have a consequence. There aren't mass protests, certainly not at the scale we need them. Insofar as what the relief Palestine needs; nothing is in place and it will take months we no longer have.
I don't know that the suppression by the government during those protests was anything like what is going on today though. The government has been detaining regular protestors alongside movement leaders/organisers to scare people into thinking that nobody is safe. The Trump administration has even been targeting people for deportation based on the fucking Canary Mission.
Another big difference is the fact that many of the protestors back then were at risk of being directly affected via the draft, whereas the impact of the Palestinian genocide on the majority of Americans is minimal to nonexistent.
I don't know that the suppression by the government during those protests was anything like what is going on today though.
The 60s and 70s were the height of COINTERPRO and CIA shenanigans so if anything protesters today have it good, but that aside:
Another big difference is the fact that many of the protestors back then were at risk of being directly affected via the draft, whereas the impact of the Palestinian genocide on the majority of Americans is minimal to nonexistent.
True, but we're really not looking at just the genocide here. There's a whole full-speed march to fascism that already is and will continue affecting the majority of Americans, so really what we should be seeing is mass anti-fascist resistance that would naturally have strong anti-Zionist presence. The fact that there's no mass anti-fascist resistance is the big problem here, but that's not due to lack of impact on the average American. Also given that the IDF trains American cops using lessons learned from their subjugation of Palestinians, I'd say there's a fair bit of impact on minority communities.
What I meant was the difference in who was targeted. My understanding, which could be wrong, is that specific groups (and more specifically, their leaders) were primarily targeted by the operations carried out back then, whereas today they are also detaining/deporting etc people who genuinely have no offenses or ties to such groups. Even Trump supporters and their family members are being persecuted. I think it's these seemingly indiscriminate actions that make the average person less willing to take a stand, especially if they don't feel as though they've been affected badly enough yet to risk sticking their neck out.
In any case it's a terrifying and truly fucked situation.
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Urgent help for Ahmed's family
"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.Chuffed
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They really don't care. They are indoctrinated into thinking they are the victims and the world hates them for being chosen by God.
As long as they exterminate all the Palestinians it's mission accomplished. They have enough puppets in the West to make sure the blowback isn't too severe.
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Fossil discovery in Greenland ice stuns and worries scientists: "Don't buy a beach house"
“We now have direct evidence that not only was the ice gone, but that plants and insects were living there,”...Near‑complete melting of Greenland’s ice over the next centuries to a few millennia would lead to some 23 feet of sea‑level rise.
Greenland ice discovery stuns scientists: 'Don't buy a beach house' - Earth.com
Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests a different pastEric Ralls (Earth.com)
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This is REALLY good news, because Republicans on the committee also voted to subpoena. There's a chance that the Epstein files will be seen by this committee—that is HUGE.
Three Republicans on the panel voted with Democrats for the subpoena, sending it through on an 8-2 vote tally.The Republican subcommittee chairman, Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, said that work was beginning to draft the subpoena but did not give a timeline for when it would be issued.
Again, I will never get excited about Trump being held accountable until it happens.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... Can't get fooled again!
Japan trade deal info on Trump's desk was altered by hand with a marker
Japan trade deal info on Trump's desk was altered by hand with a marker
Details of the Japan deal seen in a photo posted by Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff, show discrepancies and last-minute edits.Alex Harring (CNBC)
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