Report: China’s taste for ’blood timber’ may be fueling Mozambique conflict (www.voanews.com)
Who is Harrison Butker's Wife? All About Isabelle Butker After NFL Star's Controversial Speech Shocks Internet (haor.org)
Isabelle Butker (age 30, born in May 1994) is a former college basketball player. She is widely known as the wife of Harrison Butker, the placekicker for the
University of Georgia pulls out of ‘Cop City’ lawsuit requesting public records (www.theguardian.com)
Dean of law school orders first amendment clinic to curtail core work, including on Atlanta Police Foundation case...
Biden quadruples tariffs on Chinese electric cars (www.bbc.com)
Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: April 2024 Progress Report - The Thunderbird Blog (blog.thunderbird.net)
China Sells Record Sum of US Debt Amid Signs of Diversification (www.bloomberg.com)
China sold a record $53.3 billion of US Treasury and agency bonds in the first quarter of 2024, likely due to escalating trade tensions and a desire to diversify its assets....
[Factorio] Friday Facts #411 - All about asteroids (factorio.com)
Building My Home Server | Kev Quirk (kevquirk.com)
I came across this blog today while searching and I’m finding it very detailed, human, and instructive. For a beginner like me, this kind of resource is invaluable. What does a server failure feel like at a personal level? How do you make decisions about cost or utilizing existing hardware? These kind of thoughtful reflections...
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Trump-linked dark-money group spent $90m on racist and transphobic ads in 2022, records show (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: Citizens for Sanity was one of top political spenders last election cycle and is back for 2024 with more extreme messaging...
Google layoffs: A timeline of the company's job cuts and restructuring into 2024 (www.businessinsider.com)
Google layoffs in 2023 affected about 6% of the company's global workforce, or about 12,000 people, starting in January....
When you have to use multiple browsers because one place doesn't work (kbin.social)
I use ProtonMail as my primary e-mail client. For some reason, I cannot get to ProtonMail to verify an e-mail that I used to register elsewhere. I keep getting the hourglass on Firefox. So I go a try Chrome and it's the same deal....
Putin Visiting Xi Underscores Limits of Pressure to Divide Russia and China (time.com)
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‘I’ve been here for 40 years’: Newsagent’s fight for UK passport (www.thetimes.co.uk)
Netanyahu fends off criticism at home and abroad over his lack of a postwar plan for Gaza (apnews.com)
Research and espionage: an institute staffed by Russian intelligence officers is recruiting students and scientists abroad (theins.ru)
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Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show (www.washingtonpost.com)
A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group....
South Africa calls on ICJ to order Israel to end Rafah offensive (www.theguardian.com)
South Africa has asked the international court of justice (ICJ) to urgently order Israel to end its assault on Rafah, halt its military campaign across Gaza, and allow international investigators and journalists into the territory....
Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester (apnews.com)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon Thursday for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice....
Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on (apnews.com)
BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah this week struck a military post in northern Israel using a drone that fired two missiles. The attack wounded three soldiers, one of them seriously, according to the Israeli military....