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Fauci is a great American servant. This is untruthful and deeply destructive to our proud tradition of public service.
Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸Of course, here's Trump jumping in to attack Anthony Fauci and lie about his own role during the pandemic. Fuck him, fuck Rand Paul, and fuck all of these lying filth.
European Commission: "Under the new rules, businesses must prioritise keeping products in use by selling them (including through discounts or alternative markets), donating them to charities or social enterprises, or preparing them for reuse (repairing, refurbishing or remanufacturing)."
Ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into applicationUnder the new rules, businesses must prioritise keeping products in use by selling them or preparing them for reuse.environment.ec.europa.euOliver"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares
What happens when you don't know what you're doing and are advised by officials whose sole qualification is that they are obeissant "Yes men".
Nick Anderson - political cartoonistForever War Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org
"With a fresh conflict in the Middle East accelerating food price inflation again this year, the cost of filling their refrigerators, freezers and pantries has become a frustration for Americans and made affordability a central issue in the fall midterm elections."
Shoppers rewire grocery routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 yearsLiving through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habitsabcnews.com"In 2025, nearly one in five adults ages 18 to 64 — almost 20% — paid for groceries with savings, and nearly one in 20 — more than 5% — bought them with cash from a payday advance loan. ...two of the findings of a survey by the Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C.–based nonpartisan think tank..."
Nearly 1 in 5 Americans tapped savings to buy groceries - AOLFood affordability persists as a key issue for many, study shows.www.aol.ca"Wang joins an exceptionally small group of women to receive the Fields Medal. Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani was the first, in 2014, followed by Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska in 2022. No woman received the award at all in the nearly 80 years before Mirzakhani's win."
Fields Medal 2026 winners include mathematician Hong Wang — the third woman to ever win in the award's 90-year history — for solving decades-old needle conjectureHong Wang, a mathematician at New York University, helped solve a decades-old geometry problem and is now the third woman to win math's most prestigious award.www.livescience.comRobin Williams would have turned 75 today.🥹
Robin Williams Would Have Turned 75: The Role He Called His Favorite of All TimeRobin Williams left behind countless beloved performances across comedy and drama, but the role he treasured most was not one of the films fans usually mention first.spoiler.bolavip.com"For centuries, kings embroiled England in numerous wars on the European continent,... This bitter experience convinced our nation’s Founders of the importance of giving Congress, not the president, the power of the purse. ...[The] White House is snatching that power [from] a feeble Congress."
Congress rejected some of Trump’s proposed budget cuts. OMB is making them anyway.President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.thehill.com1) Tr. Adm. fired most of staff of the B.E.A. 2) Fired director when her bureau reported inflation numbers he didn't like. 3) *Estimates* vastly more price data than past admins "because short-handed". *Now*, 4) is changing formulas such that headline number will be lower. No pattern here, right?
A Statistical Revamp Is About to Lower Inflation, at a Critical TimeThe Bureau of Economic Analysis is altering how it measures several components of a price gauge watched by the Fed.www.wsj.com'Immigrations and Customs Enforcement shared Medicaid data it improperly obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service with data analytics firm Palantir, NPR reported Friday. Palantir's "ELITE" app is utilized by ICE agents to show addresses of noncitizens... '
ICE Shared Improperly Obtained Medicaid Data With Palantir: NPRPalantir's "ELITE" app is used by ICE to show addresses of noncitizens potentially subject to deportation.malaysia.news.yahoo.com