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Six years ago WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Despite tens of millions of deaths, the world has not sufficiently addressed the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and we are more vulnerable to future pandemics due to anti-science officials leading government agencies around the world.

U.S. court allows state bans on gender-affirming care for adults in unprecedented ruling While bans on trans youth’s care have been numerous in recent years, this is the first to restrict care for transgender adults.

NEWS: It was never about the children.

Transgender adults now face care restrictions after the ruling of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.

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Strait of Hormuz is chokepoint for sulphuric acid and critical metal processing - The Oregon Group - Critical Minerals and Energy Intelligence The Middle East accounted for around 24% of ​global sulphur production at 83.87 million metric tons last year; including 50% of seabourne trade of

In addition to oil, the war has bottled up the world’s main supply of sulphuric acid, setting back a lot of heavy industrial supply chains. theoregongroup.com/commodities/...

Dozens of U.S. service members in Kuwait suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, sources say About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.

That deadly attack on US service members also left "dozens w/ injuries including brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns. At least one may require the amputation of a limb."

More than 30 are hospitalized.

And credit where due: This is a strong story from CBS News.

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Pentagon reportedly tells Congress first week of Iran war cost more than $11.3 billion. Follow live updates. - The Boston Globe The briefing appeared to be the most comprehensive assessment Congress had received so far amid mounting questions about the war, according to reports.

Pentagon officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that they estimated the cost of the war against Iran had exceeded $11.3 billion in the first six days, according to reports on the meeting.

Trump at wartime

Mirrored bar plot showing the distribution of estimated probabilities for different terms, for US and UK respondents. Will happen is ranked most likely, and almost no chance is least likely. Points highlight the median which are identical for both groups except for may/might happen and highly likely where US medians are higher.

A really fun dataset for this week's #TidyTuesday, looking at how people interpret different probabilistic statements 📊

There's so many aspects of this to visualise, but I decided make some barcode plots comparing how people from the UK and US responded!

#DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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On average spring bumblebee queens tend to be larger yet lighter than autumn queens.
Why?
Queens lose 80% of body fat over winter.
Big #bumblebees more likely to survive hibernation.
So larger yet lighter #bees more likely to emerge.
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Grey wolf

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

The email provider Proton Mail shared data that the FBI used to identify Stop Cop City protesters in Atlanta, 404 Media reports:

There's a reason I'm writing a paper titled LLMs as Artificial Sophistry

Trump: "The Straits are in great shape"

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DOOCY: If Iran tries to hit us back, have you been briefed about how many Iran sleeper cells there could be inside the US right now?

TRUMP: I have been, and a lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border. But we know where most of them are.

Gavin Newscum’s interview weeks ago was, perhaps, the most self destructive interview I’ve ever seen. In one fell swoop, he took himself out of even being considered as the Presidential Nominee of the Crazy (as proven at the State of the Union Address) Democrats. He said, in a speech, he was dumb, had low Boards, can’t read, has dyslexia, and has a mental disorder — A Cognitive Mess! On top of that, Black People are angry because he is obviously a racist. While we all want to be politically correct, having a mental disorder is not a positive campaign event. Also, this was a politically suicidal act. The only thing he didn’t say is he is losing his look, but nobody wants to say that about one’s self. He is no longer a viable Presidential Candidate! President DJT

Trump on Newsom: "Black People are angry because he is obviously a racist. While we all want to be politically correct, having a mental disorder is not a positive campaign event. The only thing he didn’t say is he is losing his look, but nobody wants to say that about one’s self."

Duckworth: "If they're gonna retaliate, this is all on Donald Trump. He decided to do this."

“They used all of these resources and frankly brazenly violated the Constitution...” said NIJC’s Mark Fleming to @nbcchicago.com on the impact of ICE's South Shore raid.

Watch this video unpacking lies that the administration told to justify unlawful raids against our community members:

Muting “excursion”.

Sorry about setting off a global energy crisis guys here’s a fresh tariff. 🤡

FETTERMAN: We should kill every last member of Iran's leadership

VARGAS: His son is now in charge

FETTERMAN: They should kill him too

DOJ nopes out of Ticketmaster antitrust suit Trump gets donations, you get surcharges.

"Trump gets donations, you get massive Ticketmaster surcharges — service fees, platinum fees, per-order fees, payment processing fees, facility fees, magical money-sh*tting unicorn fees — on top of already sky-high ticket prices." — @lizdye.bsky.social

INGRAHAM: Sorry to interrupt. But what now? They're launching projectiles still at ships. If you have crews on these ships afraid for their lives, how do you break the logjam?

WRIGHT: The most important thing right now is US military degrading their ability to project power. It'll take some time

VARGAS: I mean, 9 months ago Trump said we 'obliterated' Iran's nuclear threat, and now we're back bombing again

FETTERMAN: That was semantics

picture of Trump adjusting a mic with the back of his right hand visible and looking a bit the worse for wear

Trump's black hand adjusts the mic for a woman at his rally today in Kentucky

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After watching this shit show in Iran can we now agree that maybe having academics isn’t a bad thing?

Tracing Tomahawks: US Missiles Bound for Iran Spotted Over Iraq - bellingcat Geolocated videos show Tomahawk missiles heading for targets in Iran.

As a longtime admirer of the work of @bellingcat.com, really pleased to speak to @easybakeovensz.bsky.social about international law and overflight for this piece.

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I have no idea what that fish is. A whole lot of fin action going on. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 721 #eruptionarchives #MarineLife

US responsible for killing Iranian schoolchildren. Trump previously blamed Iran. New reporting confirms American Tomahawk missiles destroyed Shajarah Tayyebeh school on the last day of February. The president earlier said he “just doesn’t know enough about it.”

The United States is responsible for killing at least 175 people, many of them children, in a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school on the last day of February.

Donald Trump has previously suggested, without evidence, that Iran was responsible for the strike.

Are we in the Golden Age yet, Donald Trump?