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• NASA moves next Artemis I rocket launch attempt to September 3rd

• Can we say "consolidation?" Foreign Candy Puts American Candy to Shame

• The International Space Station will deorbit in glory

Horseshit

• Company Tells Employees: Work ‘Voluntary’ Overtime or Go to Jail

  • HN comments

• Is the Internet Killing the Nude Beach?

• Could an Industrial Prehuman Civilization Have Existed on Earth Before Ours?

• Found: Page 25 of the CIA’s Gateway Report on Astral Projection

• A Shocking Number of Californians Are Moving to Texas Unless You Do Basic Math

Obit

• Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, dies aged 92

  • HN comments

  • Mikhail Gorbachev reported dead at age 91

  • Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91

• Ralph Eggleston, a Cornerstone of Pixar's Visual Style, Dies at 56

Musk

• Tesla’s ban on pro-union shirts is illegal and must be rescinded, NLRB rules

• Musk sends fresh letter to scrap Twitter deal after whistleblower claims

• Dish and Viasat’s fight against Starlink satellite deployment fails in court.

• Musk wants to delay Twitter trial following whistleblower claims

• Musk files amendments seeking delay of Twitter trial to November

• Tesla is facing 'unprecedented demand'

• Elon’s New Twitter Gambit

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• Timothy Thibault, top-level FBI agent under fire for role in Hunter Biden investigation, resigns - CBS News

• Biden Says The Military Can Obliterate The Second Amendment

• Android Won't Touch Truth Social Because App Fails to Moderate Violent Content

  • Trump’s Truth Social Barred from Google Play Store

  • HN comments

• The Short Life (And Amazingly Fast Death) Of The FBI’s Mar-A-Lago Play.

• “Two US officials” now saying Thibault wasn’t fired.

• Truth Social is strapped for cash and struggling to find new users

• Trump claims FBI agents ‘threw’ classified documents ‘all over the floor’

• Garland sends memo warning DOJ against talking to Congress | Just The News

  "No department employee may communicate with Senators, Representatives, congressional committees, or congressional staff without advance coordination, consultation, and approval by OLA (Office of Legislative Affairs)," Fox News quoted the memo as stating. The memo only restates existing policy and does not represent a change.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• The growing evidence that Covid-19 is leaving people sicker

• Post-Covid chronic fatigue syndrome following the first pandemic wave in Germany

• The lab-leak theory isn't dead - UnHerd

• Paxlovid Only Cuts Covid Deaths Among People over 65

• Goldman Sachs lifts all Covid protocols, orders staff return to office full-time

• FDA authorizes Pfizer's and Moderna's updated Covid booster shots

• FDA authorizes first revamp of Covid vaccines to target omicron

• L.A. plans end to Covid-19 protections against evictions, rent hikes

• China’s Shenzhen enters new four-day lockdown over COVID-19 outbreak.

• Monkeypox spread appears to be slowing in major U.S. cities

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Bank of America Tests No-Down-Payment Mortgages for Minority Communities

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Permanent Virtual Classes Now Offered at Some U.S. Schools

• Gibson’s Bakery Wins! Ohio Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Oberlin College Appeal

• (Dec 2021) Faculty, wake up to the woke agenda behind your department’s DEI program

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Social-Media Firms Must Consider Children’s Health Under New California Law

• Substack Reins in Cash and Perks for Writers as Creator Economy Retrenches

• Google Play to ban Android VPN apps from interfering with ads

• Rings of Power TV show: Jeff Bezos thanks showrunners for ignoring his notes

TechSuck

• NordVPN Gets Slammed for Shadiness

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• Binance freezes the account of Russia gun manufacturer

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Snap will lay off 20% of staff, report says

• Income Equality, Not Inequality, Is the Problem

• A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply Chain Chaos

  • America's Freight Trains Are Screwed

• Bed, Bath, Beyond will close about 150 stores and reduce its workforce by 20%

  • Bed Bath and Beyond is making a last-ditch effort to save itself

• Getting Inside the Fed’s Head

• The Cantillon Effect and Credit Cards: The $257B Payments Mess

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Washington state county removes an election security device

• America’s fight over abortions has fired up women voters

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• ATF Agents Attempt ‘Solvent Trap’ Confiscation, Man Tells Them To Get a Warrant.

• CIA sued over alleged spying on lawyers, journalists who met Assange

• Jean-Pierre Tells Fox’s Doocy No One Just Walks Across the Border.

• FBI's 'Supervisory Intelligence Analyst' Arrested for Child Sex Abuse.

• Assessing progressive criminal-justice policies

• FBI Arrest Police Union President, Investigating Alleged ‘Fake Fundraisers’

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Solomon Islands to ban US Navy ships from its shores.

  • PM SOGAVARE CLARIFIES MISINFORMATION ON US COAST GUARD VESSEL

• US Army Grounds Entire Fleet of 400 Chinook Helicopters

• Video of Mysterious Drone Swarm over Navy's Most Advanced Destroyer Released

• The Pentagon should release dozens of UFO videos

World

• ‘It’s getting hard’: climate crisis forces China to ration electricity

• Taiwan's military fired live ammunition on Chinese drone

• Unification Church: How Japan politicians counted on members' votes

• Taiwan's lead paint unregulated: standards are 40 years behind the U.S.

• Twitter user arrested after criticizing El Salvador government

• Cloud-seeding rocket nearly hits pedestrians in China as it falls on pavement

• Russia Officially Halts Natural Gas Flows Via Nord Stream 1 | ZeroHedge

  Russian Gazprom has officially halted gas supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, cutting off flows completely to Germany for a period of maintenance that began at 01:00 GMT Wednesday and is scheduled to end at 01:00 GMT on Saturday.

  • Nord Stream 1: Russia shuts major gas pipeline to Europe

• Double agent working for Canada & ISIS smuggled schoolgirl to Syria

• How Italy Lurched from Anti-Fascism to Anti-Politics, Benefitting the Far Right

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine lures Russian missiles with decoys of U.S. rocket system

• Ukraine reportedly using wooden decoys to lure Russia into wasting its missiles

• Ukraine makes push along entire front, Zelenskiy says, as Russia halts gas

• I’m a Ukrainian Soldier, and I’ve Accepted My Death

• Yes, sanctions on Russia are working

• Russia Flaring Around 4.34 Mcmd of Gas Normally Bound for Nord Stream 1

• Ask HN: Is Russia winning the war in Ukraine?

Health / Medicine

• U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback

• Breakthrough results in developing an oral insulin tablet.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• To adapt to climate impacts, come to grips with politics

• The planet is approaching 8B people. We’re not ready

• A simple paint job can save birds from wind turbines

  • HN comments

• Southern Hemisphere stratospheric cooling from injection of water vapor

• Arctic lakes are vanishing in surprise climate finding

• Climate crisis forces China to ration electricity

• Why even environmentalists are supporting nuclear power today

• Nuclear power's having a resurgence, thanks to global energy crisis

• Melting glaciers fueled Pakistan’s fatal floods

• Nearly 90% of U.S. households used air conditioning in 2020

  • HN comments

• Pakistan emits less than 1% of the planet-warming gases. It's now drowning

• The Long, Leguminous Quest to Give Crops Nitrogen Superpowers