Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
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These people are ghouls. I'm not trying to make comments about her appearance, but just look at her eyes. There is no light, no life, and she looks miserable.
This is what a lifetime of hate does to you. Hope everyone has a good day.
RIP Camera V3 💀 🗿 ! Eruption Wipes Out Live Webcam With Lava Fountains! Episode 38 of Kilauea
Eruption Wipes Out Live Webcam With Lava Fountains! Episode 38 of Kilauea
Kilauea's dramatic Episode 38 eruption did not disappoint. Join geology professor Shawn Willsey to see how this eruption differed from others and watch it ta...YouTube
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For the impatient, the camera feed from this particular segment starts around 7:08 and it actually gets destroyed around 9:20.
Also, it's nice to see a video with "destroyed" in the title where something actually gets destroyed.
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ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
In a statement issued on Wednesday after its annual meeting in The Hague earlier this week, the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) vowed to uphold the integrity of the Rome Statute and said it was “gravely concerned” by threats and coercive measures targeting the court.
The meeting took place in the shadow of US sanctions already imposed against a number of ICC senior officials, including judges and the chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
Diplomats speaking on the sidelines of the event told MEE that the Trump administration had tried to exert further pressure on the ICC in the leadup to the ASP meeting by calling on the court to drop its investigations into war crimes in Palestine and Afghanistan as a condition for lifting sanctions.
Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
The oversight body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has shunned US demands for the court to drop its investigation into Israeli war crimes and to amend its founding treaty to prevent the prosecution of nationals from countries that do not re…Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)
How do I get a circle on mastodon (or any other non-thread social media)
Hello, I am a person who has only used thread based "social media" their whole life. I never liked platforms such as twitter and instagram and preferred aggregators like reddit, and nowadays, lemmy.
I tried joining twitter once, failed, closed my account and went back to reddit. Same with instagram. Kind of glad that I did not use them.
I recently created an instagram account because my friends use it's messaging feature. And because my generation uses instagram handles like phone numbers of old (i am 20).
I really want an active mastodon account. There are really cool people there and there are some thoughts I can't express with the "forum format".
I mostly repost cool stuff I see, but even after joining a reasonable amount of discourse, and trying not to look like a bot, I am yet to get a workable amount of social circle. Whereas I easily fit into places like lemmy.
what am i doing wrong
edit: Just realized the title looks like a "I wanna be famous" post. It really is not
My profile: toot.community/@yogurtwrong
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Nobel laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk urges Germany to provide Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles, calls on Berlin to act more decisively toward Moscow
Nobel laureate Matviichuk urges Germany to provide Ukraine with Taurus missiles
Human rights defender and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who advocates for Ukraine on the international stage, Oleksandra Matviichuk, has called on Germany to supply Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles and to take a more decisive stance against Russi…Ukrinform
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"Industry does not work miracles": in Germany, production of the Taurus necessary for Kiev has stopped
Production of Taurus cruise missiles has been suspended in GermanyВПК.name
Thomas Gottschild, head of the German representative office of the MBDA missile manufacturer, said that the production of Taurus cruise missiles in Germany has been suspended due …
Is there a way to contact the admin?
It's usually recommended to have a Matrix account or another Lemmy/Piefed community to be able to get news in this kind of scenario
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Major earthquake strikes Japan's north-east coast
A major earthquake of magnitude 7.6 has hit Japan's north-eastern region.The quake occurred at 23:15 (14:15 GMT) at a depth of 50km (31 miles), about 80km off the coast of the Aomori region, the Japan Meteorological Agency said,
It prompted tsunami warnings which have now been downgraded to advisories, while waves of 40cm (16in) were seen in some places.
Local media reports that some people in the region have been injured, while trains have been suspended as a precaution.
Dozens injured after magnitude 7.5 quake strikes northern Japan
Authorities have warned that a stronger tremor could occur in the coming days.Patrick Jackson (BBC News)
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Magnitude 7 earthquakes seem to happen every few years in Japan. Not a every day thing at least.
Fediverse Enhancement Proposals
A Fediverse Enhancement Proposal (FEP) is a document that provides information to the Fediverse community. The goal of a FEP is to improve interoperability and well-being of diverse services, applications and communities that form the Fediverse.The FEP Process is an initiative of the SocialHub developer community, a liaison of the W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group.
Discovered this today. If you're on the developer side of things or are interested in how the Fediverse / ActivityPub is being built and enhanced, take a look at this codeberg repo.
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Re: Fediverse Enhancement Proposals
Indeed, this is where the majority of improvements to the Fediverse are shared for archival.
The very way Lemmy Piefed Mbin and NodeBB can communicate and synchronize communities is detailed in those FEPs. Check out FEP 1b12.
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Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump’s ‘No Scalps’ Rule | Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has created.
Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump’s ‘No Scalps’ Rule
Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has created.Missy Ryan (The Atlantic)
Chinese company Tencent enlisting U.S. cloud hosting provider Vultr to enforce censorship well beyond the borders of China
GreatFire.org - We use AI to Monitor Censorship and Expand Free Speech
Fighting censorship with technology since 2011. We use AI to monitor censorship and expand free speech worldwide.GreatFire.org
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on November 28, 2025, with many of our questions still left unanswered, Vultr closed GreatFire's account at Tencent’s request. In doing so, Vultr acted as Tencent’s vehicle to extend Chinese censorship well beyond the borders of China.
Totally agree. However, freewechat is up - guessing they changed providers pretty quick, maybe already saw this coming. Let this be the Streisand effect they (and China) deserve.
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SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System - John Snow Project
A landmark new study shows COVID-19 isn’t ‘just a cold’: One infection left people with long-lasting immune damage, and those with heart disease lost up to 70% of key immune cells. Reinfections may worsen this.John Snow Project
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Yes but I immediately become skeptical if the findings are cherry picked/exaggerated/early and if the suggested solutions are the right ones.
They are at least non profit according to bloomberg bloomberg.com/profile/company/…
John Snow Inc/US - Company Profile and News
Company profile page for John Snow Inc/US including stock price, company news, executives, board members, and contact informationJohn Snow Inc/US
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Chinese jets directed fire-control radar at Japanese aircraft, Japan says
Chinese fighter jets directed fire-control radar at Japanese military aircraft near Japan's Okinawa islands in two incidents, Japan's defence minister said on Sunday, condemning the move as "dangerous".
"These radar illuminations went beyond what is necessary for the safe flight of aircraft," Shinjiro Koizumi posted on X, adding that Japan had lodged a protest with China over Saturday's "regrettable" incident.
A fire-control radar lock is one of the most threatening acts a military aircraft can take because it signals a potential attack, forcing the targeted aircraft to take evasive action.
Obamacare Users Face Higher Deductibles, Higher Premiums | People who have insurance under the Affordable Care Act are being asked to pay more for plans that will cover less of their care.
Democratic governors say the party's midterm strategy must focus on voters' pocketbook concerns
From the playbook of no shit sherlock.
Of course that's not what ineffective democratic leadership will do.
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"It's the economy, stupid"
Sort of goes back to that whole Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Yea... But like what would you even do?
I genuinely don't even know what Dems can do at this point to fix 4 decades of Republican fuckery and moving wealth to the top?
Little fixes won't do shit, and there is no way Democrats are bold enough to do something massive like taxing the rich at 90% again.
I'm afraid when Dems are back in power they won't be able to do shit, because they don't really have revolutionary ideas and if they did Republicans would stop them.
Republicans have driven the economy into the ditch and over the cliff, changing the wiper fluid won't do shit.
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But thank goodness, he probably put wet ink to paper and didn't use a Communist autopen!
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Obamacare subsidies expire this month. Many Republicans are shrugging.
Obamacare premiums are set to spike for tens of millions of Americans next month. Plenty of rank-and-file Republicans are happy to sit back and ride it out.
Some vulnerable GOP lawmakers up for reelection are scrambling for a last-minute fix to renew the enhanced federal health care subsidies keeping costs down. But even if party leaders and Donald Trump were to rally around a plan in the coming days — and there’s no sign of that happening — many conservatives are likely to revolt.
Democrats have vowed to hammer the GOP in the midterms if they allow the federal aid to expire, but many on the right expect the political fallout to be minimal, or even to backfire on Democrats. For other conservatives, any blowback will be worth it if it means they get to rein in a system the party has fundamentally opposed since its launch more than a decade ago.
China funnelled $80 billion into overseas cleantech in past year, report says
Research from the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University found that 75% of China's low-carbon foreign direct investment is in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.Southeast Asia remained the top destination for Chinese cleantech manufacturing investments, the CEF report found
The Middle East and North Africa were the fastest-growing investment destinations, driven by national strategies for diversifying away from oil.
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in reply to silence7 • • •Yeahhhh. Not going to be buying new furniture anytime soon. It's the plastics in the foam cushions and that nasty particle board that it's made of today.. (there are many things you could do that are worse than getting old stuff made of natural materials for your home) It's the biggest offender.
As I've been saying for quite a while - Since Bush Jr. was president - NEVER assume any man made item that is majority plastic or any "new and improved" chemical is safe.
Something that I haven't seen for a long time, (as I haven't had a TV in 20+ years) but I was always aware of, was that any time there was a threatened bit of legislation over plastics and their component chemicals, the American Plastics Council would put up print and TV ads with the tag line that "Plastics Make it Possible.."
The last one I saw was a print ad featuring the image of a sick baby in a hospital.
Yes, indeed,
Sublime.
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