V NYTimes
Trump’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year would close 10 laboratories run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that research the ways a warming planet is changing weather, among other things. That work is essential to more accurately predicting life-threatening hazards. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/climate/floods-trump-cuts-disaster-preparedness-fema.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WE8.8ACd.OxYFw53ljMkP&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Be careful folks; this is the kind of thing that's involved in a rescue from some of the more remote places.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/article/mount-williamson-hiking-california-20761930.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL291dGRvb3JzL2FydGljbGUvbW91bnQtd2lsbGlhbXNvbi1oaWtpbmctY2FsaWZvcm5pYS0yMDc2MTkzMC5waHA%3D&time=MTc1MjMzMzM0NzA4Mw%3D%3D&rid=ZjZmMmQ3YjgtNjRhMy00ZmM1LWFlMmItZTNmNzM5MTExODA5&sharecount=NQ%3D%3D

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V NYTimes:
Ukrainian Intelligence Officer Is Shot to Death in Kyiv Parking Lot

The victim’s unit played a key role in Ukraine’s surprise attack inside Russian territory last summer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/world/europe/ukraine-intelligence-officer-shooting-sbu.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.awK9.y2gRauo3FG7T&smid=nytcore-android-share
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#GiftLink 'Studies suggest removing one million people from the rolls for one year could result in about 1,000 additional deaths. It follows that removing more than 11 million people for a decade would likely result in more than 100,000 deaths. Because this figure fails to take account of the degradation of service to those who remain eligible — it could well be an underestimate.'

Opinion | Lawrence Summers: This Law Made Me Ashamed of My Country - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/opinion/trump-bill-medicaid-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U08.GC-A.aZSUDTx9knfS&smid=url-share

Both Ukrainians and Russians are using #drones that work with kilometers of fiber optic cables to prevent electronic jamming. The WSJ reports that the frontline landscape is covered in thin optic cables, and at least one bird nest was found made of it (photo can't be verified). But environmentalists fear big problems ahead for animals, as they get entangled in webs of optic fiber and ingest the material.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-russia-drones-fiber-optic-cable-6c96a9f1?st=vn9fyL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #nature #war #ukraine #giftlink

Holy crap! This is scary stuff. The Atlantic. Google knows way too much personal info.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/google-drive-personalized-chatbot/683436/?gift=jDw299G8PAYpd8-JGed7UePi_SURhakCNM5-FXEMIXU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

"... so outraged Spanish Americans that they began to talk of there being two irreconcilable Americas. Affixing the adjective “Latin” to America, they cast themselves as more humanist, spiritual and attuned to the social interdependence of human existence than their grubbing, individualistic, egotistic, conquering, enslaving “Saxon” neighbors to the north."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/opinion/trump-america-.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UE8.vfKP.3iXuKtZPi4O_&smid=url-share

V NYTimes:
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/magazine/trump-civil-rights-law-discrimination.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk8.5T85.roEAs48S7bcN&smid=nytcore-android-share
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#GiftLink One of my dogs likes flies, so this could be a thing:

Don’t Like Eating Insects? Your Pet Might. - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/science/pets-food-insects-lab-meat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk8.uKmz.H91B4KfF6EgP&smid=url-share

The ban on #AI regulation Trump and Silicon Valley wanted just died in the Senate, according to the Washington Post.

https://wapo.st/3GoXf9K #GiftLink

From The Atlantic: What happens when FEMA is gone?

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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/06/fema-states-disasters/683103/?gift=jDw299G8PAYpd8-JGed7UckLgUGVeGNeeUZw5M4v1ug&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

It's fascinating to look back at the last 25 years through the lens of this list: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/movies/best-movies-21st-century.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.nAsA.e96MTpqoWOZK&smid=url-share

V NYTimes:
Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party enacted the ban, but Budapest’s mayor allowed the event to go on. The police sat on the sidelines.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/world/europe/hungary-orban-gay-pride.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.7Uts.SxhShntNttPL&smid=nytcore-android-share

“with deep sadness” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/uva-president-resigns-jim-ryan-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SE8.y1rj.YXpVfH6dRlKu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #GiftLink #UVa #HigherEd #USPolitics #DEI #education #Virginia

In their zeal to prevent access to climate data (in this case sea ice extent) the Trump crime organization has cut off a key tool for hurricane monitoring.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-26/as-hurricane-season-picks-up-key-forecasting-tool-access-set-to-end?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1MDk4MjEwMywiZXhwIjoxNzUxNTg2OTAzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWUhKVUNUMEFGQjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJERDE0RUMwNTNBNEE0MTMyQTExQzQ2M0JFQ0VGQjRGQiJ9.yV1T96lWzYsNKMhOzcTedyGo_Ijt-IGgksEVtYb3gjc

#NYC Mayor's #Primary Tightening Between Ugandan born #Socialist #Assemblyman Zohran #Mamdani & Disgraced Democrat Ex #Governor #Cuomo, who resigned top state office under cloud of sexual harassment claims despite decades of erstwhile establishment ego, ol' fashioned #NY #Nepotism aiding his image.

A former adviser to Mr. Cuomo, said that the biz elite favorite had run a “grim and joyless campaign” compared to upstart candidate endorsed by #WorkingFamilies Party, #AOC and #DJT enemy Letitia James. The night before #election day, Mamdami appeared on #CBS TV with Stephen Colbert and sent email to supporters noting “It is essential that we turn out in record numbers in order to turn the page on #AndrewCuomo, his billionaire donors, and the #politics of big money and small ideas”

#RankChoice voting makes predicting outcome harder than usual in the multi candidate mayoral race, but Mamdani has momentum since leaping double digits in polling over past month, while third place to likely to go to his ally and city #Comptroller Brad Lander, who was recently talk of town after being body slammed and arrested by #ICE.

http://nytimes.com/2025/06/23/nyregion/mayor-primary-mamdani-cuomo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.syZZ.Zlkcz8iwilBF&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #ArticleShare #GiftLink #NYTimes #ManhattanMelodrama

V WaPo:

Following strikes on Iran, these U.S. bases could become targets

https://wapo.st/4lgqSZF

V NYTimes:
A U.S. Attack on Iran Would Show the Limits of China’s Power

China, which depends on Iran for oil and to counter American influence, has a lot to lose from a wider war. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/world/asia/us-iran-israel-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QU8.pLOR.JbuY80r85Tvs&smid=nytcore-android-share
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