Why Clarence Thomas Just Handed a Major Legal Victory to Wounded Veterans How exactly did these six justices come together in such an important case?

Unexpected but big win.
Federal Government Contractors can be held accountable for negligence.
#milsky #veterans
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Water to surge into drought-depleted Lake Powell but at costs elsewhere Desert canyons in eastern Utah will be churning this spring with huge volumes of water in a desperate attempt to keep a reservoir on the Colorado River generating electricity.

“they plan to eventually let out as much as a third of the water in Flaming Gorge Reservoir upstream on the Green River in Wyoming and Utah, which would exceed a record 2022 surge that kept electricity flowing.”
#drought
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🚨 Strong Communities of Arizona v. Yavapai County Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Arizona Court of Appeals AFFIRMS dismissal of rightwing lawsuit challenging election administration practices in several Arizona counties. Another big win for the ELG team and our clients! www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizon...

“Global prices of jet fuel have risen more than 70 percent since the start the war at the end of February”

www.upi.com New York AG sues Coinbase, Gemini over illegal gambling - UPI.com

New York AG sues Coinbase, Gemini over illegal gambling #UPI

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

“We were just working, waiting for the last trawler to return,” said Jhonny Sebastián Palacios, one of the fishers. “Everything was perfectly fine.”
#milsky #demsec
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Advocates criticize proposed NC PFAS strategy for lack of enforcement power A public hearing on Monday night in Raleigh will focus on a PFAS plan that critics say lacks limits. Residents can weigh in as the state considers rules that could affect water safety and costs.

“Emily Donovan, co-founder of Clean Cape Fear, said the plan would leave too much responsibility on communities already dealing with contamination.”
@ncgov.bsky.social @ncdp.org
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Scientists discover skincare compound that kills drug-resistant bacteria A popular Korean skincare ingredient may be far more powerful than anyone realized. Scientists have discovered that madecassic acid—derived from the herb Centella asiatica—can stop antibiotic-resistan...

“A Korean skincare ingredient may be far more powerful than anyone realized. Scientists have discovered that madecassic acid, derived from the herb Centella asiaticsa can stop antibiotic-resistant bacteria in their tracks, including dangerous strains of E. coli.
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2 dead, 5 hurt after planned fight leads to mass shooting at Winston-Salem park Two people have been confirmed dead after a mass shooting at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation announced.

Mass shooting in Winston Salem NC kills 2 kids and 8 injured Schools nearby all went on lockdown all day! Not even a blip on the radar really. 😔🤷🏻‍♀️ #NC #NCpol wlos.com/news/local/m...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Suspect dead after 8 children killed, 2 women wounded in Louisiana shooting The suspect, who was the father of seven of the children, was killed after a vehicle chase, police said. The slain children were 3 to 11 years old, authorities said.

This "president" has said nothing-- NOTHING-- about eight kids killed in a mass shooting in Louisiana today. Ages range from 1 year to 14 years. Children.

And they rate not a single comment.

I detest that bucket of filth and the way he's lowered the bar for all.

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EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.

The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

How the American oligarchy went hyperscale The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.

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Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency helpfully no longer considers the impact on human lives when setting air pollution limits ...

Is This Acceptable⁉️

ICE deported 174 Daca recipients through most of last year, agency head says in letter So-called Dreamers – undocumented immigrants who arrived as children – were allowed to stay in US under Obama-era program

“From January through September 2025, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 174 people who were renewing their protections from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program”
#DemSec
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My son got his first lesson in budgeting when gas prices spiked! #NC07 #ncpol #gasprices

Ukraine: Gunman shot dead after killing spree in Kyiv The mass shooting, in a busy central district of the Ukrainian capital, left 14 others wounded, officials said.

“A gunman opened fire in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Saturday, killing six people and wounding more than a dozen others, authorities said.”
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Trump signs order to speed review of psychedelics, including the controversial drug ibogaine President Donald Trump has directed his administration to speed up reviews of certain psychedelic drugs, including ibogaine.

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China invents game-changing process that turns desert sand into fertile soil in just 10 months Scientists have used lab-grown cyanobacteria microbes to bind loose desert sand into a thin, stable layer that wind cannot easily blow away.

“Researchers at Shapotou Desert Experimental Research Station in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region have created a technique using cyanobacteria to form a biomass-rich crust over desert sand”
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When it took them a week to return our fallen heroes, I knew they did not prep the battle space & had no logistics in place.
CENTCOM policy for evacuating a fallen service member to Dover is 72 hours from time of death.
Hegseth needs to go!

Netanyahu has removed 40 thousand homes in Lebanon in less than a month . This war criminal needs to be brought to final Justice.

NC voters could be questioned about citizenship under new elections rule North Carolina is expected to begin checking voter registration data against a federal citizenship database under a new State Board of Elections rule. If records don’t match, voters could be required ...

“There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud by noncitizens. But the elections board says a small number of noncitizens have appeared on voter rolls, often due to misunderstanding or administrative error.”
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Middle East conflict causes a fluoride shortage for US drinking water Some U.S. water systems are cutting back on fluoride because of a key chemical is in short supply. Israel is one of its main producers.

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Ask the Meteorologist: What are the chances of our drought ending anytime soon? With water use restrictions now in place for the city of Raleigh and little rain in sight, the drought conditions across our area have been top of mind. Let's look at how much rain we would need withi...

“The chances of our drought ending within a one-month time period are quite low. Most of our area has a less than 1% chance of seeing an end to the drought within that time period.”
#NC
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Unusual airborne toxin detected in the U.S. for the first time Scientists searching for air pollution clues stumbled onto something unexpected: toxic MCCPs drifting through the air for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. The likely source—fertilizer made fr...

“Scientists searching for air pollution clues stumbled onto something unexpected: toxic MCCPs drifting through the air for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. The likely source—fertilizer made from sewage sludge—points to a hidden route for contamination.”
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The world's worst dealmaker screws up the Iran negotiations Forget the "Art of the Deal” myth.

New in PN: The world's worst dealmaker screws up the Iran negotiations

"All of Trump’s weaknesses as a negotiator are now on display: His childish understanding of power, his inability to grasp the perspective of his opponents, his belief that anything can be accomplished by threats and violence."

Trump makes a profane post threatening genocide on Easter, trashes the Pope for refusing to worship him, and posts a depiction of himself as Jesus healing the sick.

The right-wing political pastors who promoted this scumbag fake Christian as someone chosen by God are charlatans.

Even his cultists on Truth Social aren’t thrilled with this one from the demented megalomaniac.

We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war.

Art of the deal, baby.