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in reply to Sunshine

The other option was to disperse them as previously done...

In a statement shared with NPR, the State Department confirmed that the U.S. will spend $167,000 to destroy the contraceptives at a French facility that handles medical waste.

Several international humanitarian organizations, including MSI, Doctors Without Borders and UNFPA — the United Nations' sexual and reproductive health agency — say they tried to buy the supplies from the U.S. but were rejected.


Never forget the cruelty is the point. This isn't about "saving money".

Honestly, the UN should just confiscate the supplies and disperse them.

in reply to Midnitte

100%. It was never about saving money Etc. They will literally burn money of it allows them to persue their bigotry.

in reply to Sunshine

Cool, so we're finally going to call a genocide a genocide and stop sending aid to Israel? We're going to finally take on the health insurance industry and pass Medicare for all?

What, no? We're not doing that, you say? We've gotta continue pandering to our rich donors? Okay cool, then STFU about "changing the status quo", rat man.

in reply to Sunshine

Nothing in the US will ever return to "status quo". Their democracy is broken, 30% of them believe that Trump was chosen by god. They will either continue on their path to becoming a white Christian nationalist authoritarian state, or the people will rise and create an actual democracy based on humanity instead of wealth.

My bet is on the former.



Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen


pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250728-… - podcast
youtube.com/watch?v=3av5g0hAKw… - video

The video is heavily euphemised and I think I got away with it

in reply to David Gerard

Baldur Bjarnason has given his thoughts:

I mean… yeah.

Also, between this and seeing tech types link glowingly to a crazypants “colonise the light cone by exploring latent space” type of delusional bullshit and I’m staring to worry that computers, as a concept, might not be salvageable after these clowns have run the show into the ground



Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents


US immigration officers made false and misleading statements in their reports about several Los Angeles protesters they arrested during the massive demonstrations that rocked the city in June, according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian.

The officers’ testimony was cited in at least five cases filed by the US Department of Justice amid the unrest. The justice department has charged at least 26 people with “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers and other crimes during the protests over immigration raids. Prosecutors, however, have since been forced to dismiss at least eight of those felonies, many of them which relied on officers’ inaccurate reports, court records show.

The justice department has also dismissed at least three felony assault cases it brought against Angelenos accused of interfering with arrests during recent immigration raids, the documents show.



European companies dominate wind turbine manufacturing outside of China


The headline is about China. But their second figure shows the situation outside of China:


Overall, the top five western OEMs represented 93% of the global volumes outside of China.


Out of these, only Genereal Electrics is Amercian. Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, Nordex, and Enercon are all EU-based.

This post suggests that the role of General Electrics decreased in 2024:
linkedin.com/pulse/wl-106-top-…



European companies dominate wind turbine manufacturing outside of China


cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/30659576

The headline is about China. But their second figure shows the situation outside of China:


Overall, the top five western OEMs represented 93% of the global volumes outside of China.

Out of these, only Genereal Electrics is Amercian. Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, Nordex, and Enercon are all EU-based.

This post suggests that the role of General Electrics decreased in 2024:
linkedin.com/pulse/wl-106-top-…



European companies dominate wind turbine manufacturing outside of China


The headline is about China. But their second figure shows the situation outside of China:


Overall, the top five western OEMs represented 93% of the global volumes outside of China.


Out of these, only Genereal Electrics is Amercian. Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, Nordex, and Enercon are all EU-based.

This post suggests that the role of General Electrics decreased in 2024:
linkedin.com/pulse/wl-106-top-…



in reply to PhilipTheBucket

Public input was nothing but a facade anyways. We all know under current president they are being gutted and only listen to corporations.


Don’t Turn That Old System On, First Take It Apart




Tom Lehrer, acclaimed musical satirist of cold war era, dies aged 97


From today's "wait, he was still alive?" files.

Fucking brilliant musician. Many videos in the link.



Best (financial) background I've seen on Epstein so far -- Patrick Boyle


This is an interesting traipse without stumbling into tinfoil land. Boyle is one of my subscriptions.



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Deadly airdrops and a trickle of trucks won't undo months of 'engineered starvation' in Gaza, Oxfam says


July 27, 2025 09:28 EDT

Oxfam has said the airdrops into #Gaza are wholly inadequate for the population’s needs and has called for the immediate opening of all crossings for full humanitarian access into the territory devastated by relentless #Israeli bombardments and a partial aid blockade.

Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam policy lead for the Occupied #Palestinian territory, said:

Deadly airdrops and a trickle of trucks won’t undo months of engineered starvation in Gaza.

What’s needed is the immediate opening of all crossings for full, unhindered, and safe aid delivery across all of Gaza and a permanent ceasefire. Anything less risks being little more than a tactical gesture.



Deadly airdrops and a trickle of trucks won't undo months of 'engineered starvation' in Gaza, Oxfam says




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What to know about civil commitment, Trump's new policy for homelessness


President Trump's new executive order to combat homelessness encourages local governments to revive civil commitment, a process to place people with mental health issues in treatment facilities without their consent.

Why it matters: Involuntary civil commitment has historically been used as a preventative method to confine people before they harm themselves or others, and most frequently affects vulnerable groups such as LGBTQ+, people of color and people with disabilities, according to several studies.

Context: The order Trump signed Thursday calls for shifting homeless individuals into "long-term" institutions for "humane treatment" which the administration says will "restore public order."


Cool. Just one more thing to be worried about from a failed system. I'm guessing "humane treatment" doesn't include access to the outside world.

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/25/civil-commitment-trumps-homelessness-policy

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in reply to Powderhorn

Another boon for private prison systems, and another way to incarcerate people that Republicans don't like, now without even needing to manufacture a crime; just define LGBT+ and non-conservative as mentally unsound and go ham.
in reply to t3rmit3

The way education has gone downhill such that pattern recognition is a rare trait, "First they came for" simply isn't on the radar. You don't build up these systems, get all the migrants out and then say "sorry about the food supply, but you'll be happy to know we're shutting these facilities."
in reply to Powderhorn

The smirk on his face in that photo really does make one wish he steps on a Lego. For eternity.

Good luck, guys, this is all going according to plan, and the plan is fucking evil to the core.




Cash bail myths debunked by plummeting city crime data




Why risky coastal real estate continues to attract buyers







Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US


The road to four struggling rural hospitals now hosts a political message: “If this hospital closes, blame Trump.”

In a series of black-and-yellow billboards erected near the facilities, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) seeks to tell voters in deep red states “who is responsible for gutting rural healthcare”.

“UNDER TRUMP’S WATCH, STILWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL IS CLOSING ITS DOORS,” one sign screams. The billboards are outside hospitals in Silex, Missouri; Columbus, Indiana; Stilwell, Oklahoma; and Missoula, Montana.

The fate of rural hospitals has become a politically contentious issue for Republicans, as historic cuts pushed through by the GOP are expected to come into effect over the next decade. Trump’s enormous One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) cut more than $1tn from Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans, insuring more than 71 million adults.

in reply to Powderhorn

This is a good idea. I hope it helps somehow, buuuut... I live near one of these, and I don't have much hope. The brainwashing and propaganda and lifelong indoctrination is too strong. It's stil extremelyl important to try, though. Even if it wakes up a single person to the truths of the situation, that's a positive.
in reply to Zoop

This is indeed an important step.

One of the biggest failures of the Democratic party over the past 20 years was the complete abandonment of some "red" areas. After winning with the 50-state strategy in 2008, they just abandoned it. They wouldn't run candidates in some congressional elections, let alone local ones. Pelosi prevented most congress people from going on Fox News for years, etc.

This made the Rove-inspired painting of the Democratic party as "elite", "coastal", "urban" etc etc much easier for OP-aligned messengers.

While the Democratic party policies are usually more beneficial to most citizens than GOP policies, it's not a surprise many voters still felt like the Democratic party was not theirs.








This Week in Plasma: Printer Ink Level Monitoring


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Israeli army intercepts Gaza-bound ship loaded with much needed food aid




Gaza Freedom Flotilla Handala has been entered by Israel commandos in international waters!


cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/16352355

Livestream seit ca. 22:50 unterbrochen. Szenen des Entermanövers sind in den letzten Minuten zu sehen.

youtube.com/watch?v=A4hF5rA-v-…




Trump’s Panama Canal Chaos


in reply to Sunshine

It is criminal that the reporter didn't open with "A man, no plan, a canal ..."

I detest irrelevant ledes, but sometimes you have to bend the rules. The day Leslie Nielsen died, we nearly ran the refers of both sides of the flag (keying to the same story, and having horizontally flipped the cutout on the right) with the left saying "Nielsen dead at ##. Surely, you can't be serious." On the right was "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." It went all the way to the top to get shot down ... my boss was totally on board.

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California’s NPR and PBS Stations Will Cut Staff and Programs After Funding Slashed


in reply to Sunshine

If you really, really believe, then it's time to donate DIRECTLY to your local NPR/PBS stations. If you don't, you might as well become a registered member of the GQP.

in reply to laz

Nope, I’m just a fella copying and pasting actually lol. It’s kind of going around the Lemmy subs right now.



Spineless Mike Johnson Grovels to Trump and Shutters the House Early


The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson—probably the worst speaker in American history—shut down the House early this week before its five-week vacation. He wants to avoid holding votes on releasing the Epstein files that reportedly include, among other notables, President Donald J. Trump.

This is the latest valet service provided by a spineless Johnson, a Trump toady, whose groveling has no known boundaries. Imagine Johnson, a lawyer, took an oath to uphold the Constitution yet has no interest in safeguarding the independence of the congressional branch of our government.

in reply to greenfire

It's only spineless if he actually wants the files released but is crumbling under pressure. I suspect he doesn't want them released.


At Eleventh Hour, Enablers of Israel's Mass Starvation of Gaza Do 'Reputational Damage Control'


As Common Dreams reported this week, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has said that 85% of people in Gaza are now in Phase 5 of famine, defined at "an extreme deprivation of food."

Organizer and attorney Aaron Regunberg said that instead of simply doing "reputational damage control by speaking up in these very last moments," powerful political leaders must "shut shit down."

”You want history books to not record you as an evil genocide supporter?" said Regunberg. "One speech now—after countless speeches condemning those who have been speaking out—ain't gonna cut it... You need to go to Gaza. You need to actually make an impact, NOW."