bruno_j_navarro

bruno_j_navarro, 7 days ago to random

The Big Apple should prepare for an orange hazy blanket of smoke from Canadian wildfires to return again this summer, climate experts tell Gothamist.

https://gothamist.com/news/canadian-wildfire-smoke-likely-to-return-to-nyc-and-become-a-new-norm-experts-say

bruno_j_navarro, 8 days ago to random

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/

bruno_j_navarro, 10 days ago to random

In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or twice, but multiple times.

https://apnews.com/article/deadly-police-encounters-guidelines-broken-investigation-e79c708e9123aac2e40dcefd64cce08f

bruno_j_navarro, 20 days ago to random

Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N. World Food Program, became the most prominent international official so far to declare that trapped civilians in the most cut-off part of Gaza had gone over the brink into famine.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/04/1249153712/united-nations-northern-gaza-famine

bruno_j_navarro, 23 days ago to random

Columbia’s police action happened on the 56th anniversary of a similar move to quash an occupation of Hamilton Hall by students protesting racism and the Vietnam War.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-campus-student-protests-war-8b0d3a0cedb17f5e892c6ca43bbdf628

bruno_j_navarro, 27 days ago to random

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco

If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

bruno_j_navarro, 1 month ago to random

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled.

— Mark Twain

bruno_j_navarro, 1 month ago to random

just heard someone refer to tesla as ‘boeing on wheels’ and can’t unhear it

bruno_j_navarro, 1 month ago to random

The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association is urging lawmen to form posses, seize voting machines and investigate baseless claims of voter fraud.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/constitutional-sheriffs-las-vegas-conference-rcna147487

bruno_j_navarro, 1 month ago to random

Speakers at a conference for Constitutional Sheriffs claimed that militias need to patrol polling stations to stop the "expected flood" of immigrant voters.

https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-election-deniers-immigrants-voting/

bruno_j_navarro, 1 month ago to random

A former CIA officer explains how a vast, pro-Putin corruption network uncovered in Europe is a warning sign for the U.S.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180630/russia-corruption-network-europe-buying-politicians-america

bruno_j_navarro, 1 month ago to random

"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another."

— Carl Sagan

bruno_j_navarro, 1 month ago to random

Meta blocked a newspaper’s critical report about it on Facebook and its other social sites for hours, sparking a backlash that intensified after the company appeared to subsequently block links to the website of an independent journalist who republished the report.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/tech/meta-nonprofit-newspaper-independent-journalist-alleged-censorship/index.html

bruno_j_navarro, 1 month ago to random

Her 95-year-old grandmother died several months after a bomb blew out the windows in her apartment. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/victoria-spartz-ukraine-aid-69ef4ed1

bruno_j_navarro, 1 month ago to random

remember ‘incognito’ mode?

Google plans to destroy a trove of data that reflects millions of users’ web-browsing histories, part of a settlement of a lawsuit that alleged the company tracked people without their knowledge.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-pledges-to-destroy-browsing-data-to-settle-incognito-lawsuit-1febfde5

bruno_j_navarro, 1 month ago to random

Water temperatures are currently more than eight weeks ahead of schedule, and are actually warm enough that their schedule says it is already into June and hurricane season.

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2024-03-29-concerning-reasons-atlantic-hurricane-seasons

bruno_j_navarro, 1 month ago to random

These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021

https://popular.info/p/these-50-companies-have-donated-over

bruno_j_navarro, 2 months ago to random

“I don’t see how America will be any more secure if the next owner of TikTok is a MAGA Trump crony backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.”

— Sen. Ron Wyden https://www.semafor.com/article/03/18/2024/senator-ron-wyden-criticizes-mnuchins-tiktok-bid-ties-to-gulf-money

bruno_j_navarro, 2 months ago to random

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

— Fred Rogers

bruno_j_navarro, 2 months ago to random

Biden Administration Announces Rules Aimed at Phasing Out Gas Cars

The regulations would require automakers to produce more electric vehicles and hybrids by gradually tightening limits on tailpipe pollution. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/climate/biden-phase-out-gas-cars.html

bruno_j_navarro, 2 months ago to random

A longtime Nebraska Republican who in the past cast his vote for Trump has created a video in which he declares he will never back a third Trump White House bid.

https://www.rawstory.com/former-trump-supporters-video/

bruno_j_navarro, 2 months ago to random

Eric Parker, leader of the Real Three Percenters of Idaho, a militia-movement group, had played an instrumental role in developing the legislation and pushing it from behind the scenes. ... But the fundamental sticking point was over the bill’s unusual definition of “domestic terrorism,” which required a tie to a foreign terrorist organization.

https://www.invw.org/2024/03/06/idaho-house-puts-bill-to-redefine-terrorism-on-ice/

bruno_j_navarro, 2 months ago to random

For 50 million years our biggest problems were too few calories, too little information. For about 50 years our biggest problem has been too many calories, too much information. We have to adjust, and I believe we will really fast. I also believe it will be wicked ugly while we're adjusting.

— Penn Jillette

bruno_j_navarro, 3 months ago to random

Americans Paid $11 Billion To Make Drugs You Can’t Afford

A bombshell report reveals that taxpayers spent billions developing medicines that drugmakers say shouldn’t face Medicare price negotiations. https://www.levernews.com/americans-paid-11-billion-to-make-drugs-you-cant-afford/

bruno_j_navarro, 3 months ago to random

An Oklahoma bill that would create a database of every person who obtained an abortion is one step closer to becoming law.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/oklahoma-pols-want-a-database-of-everyone-who-has-an-abortion