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“No Newcomers Allowed’: A Midwestern Paradise for Skiers Who Dare New York Occasions (Dr. Kevin). I praised the snow within the Higher Peninsula yesterday, and lookie this!

Bloodbath As Nice White Shark Allowed To Compete In Ladies’s 500 Freestyle Babylon Bee (Chuck L)

Paleontological evaluation reveals famend fossil thought to point out smooth tissue preservation is the truth is simply paint PhysOrg (Chuck L)

‘Past what’s doable’: New JWST observations unearth mysterious historic galaxy Swinburne College of Know-how (Chuck L)

The Brightest Quasar Ever Seen Eats a ‘Solar’ Each Day Scientific American (furzy)

NYC skyscrapers to fulfill on the high with skybridge and infinity pool New Atlas (furzy). Ugly!

Is Philosophy Self-Assist? The Level (Anthony L)

Eliminating mattress bugs: Trickier than ever Knowable Journal. Republished with sexier headline: The ‘Unthinkable’ New Actuality About Bedbugs Atlantic (Dr. Kevin)

To Dwell Longer, Ladies Want Half as A lot Train as Males Time (furzy)

#COVID-19

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Washington State Division of Well being unveils kiosks that provide free COVID-19 and flu checks

Kiosks dispense free COVID-19 speedy antigen checks, multiplex speedy antigen checks (which detect flu sorts A and B in addition to COVID-19), and self-swab PCR checks.https://t.co/ThOGKhDmwI

— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) February 20, 2024

UPDATE: A invoice in California has been launched by @AsmPilarSchiavo to reinstate science-based isolation intervals and sick pay for employees with lively COVID. @CFTunion is sponsoring. Will others comply with? https://t.co/HXYlWMh6Nt(For context: https://t.co/k6QD9tv2j7)

— Laura Weiss/ lauralew105.bksky.social (she/her) (@lauralew105) February 20, 2024

Local weather/Surroundings

Biden is realising simply how unpopular inexperienced EVs are – with assist from the unions Telegraph (BC)

Legislators suggest extension of bipartisan Nice Lakes Restoration Initiative to 2031 WWMT – Information Channel 3, Kalamazoo, Michigan

At the moment in Xinjiang, China, some areas skilled a sudden temperature drop to -52℃ (-61.6℉), a pointy lower of 45 levels. This excessive chilly brought about a big variety of waterfowl to die off.pic.twitter.com/EFVIjc4JiP

— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) February 20, 2024

China?

Pettis has a grim prognosis, not that China will crash, nevertheless it must make adjustments that it appears most unlikely to implement to revive an honest degree of development:

1/7Like practically everybody else, the SCMP is warning that “crippled confidence stays a key hindrance to financial good points”, however I feel it is a very mistaken strategy to view China’s financial malaise.https://t.co/ZyTZaM33N7 through @scmpnews

— Michael Pettis (@michaelxpettis) February 21, 2024

Thai Land Bridge bid straddles a fragile US-China line Asia Occasions (Kevin W)

India

Farmers Protest LIVE updates: ‘Centre prepared to debate MSP, stubble problem,’ says Arjun Munda Hindustan Occasions

India: Police fireplace tear gasoline as farmers resume march to Delhi DW

Haiti president’s widow charged in assassination plot Reuters (furzy)

Gaza

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 137: Israel builds freeway chopping Gaza Strip in two Mondoweiss

UNICEF says 1 in 6 kids in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished as Israel maintains lethal blockade ahramonline (BC)

UN suspends meals help in northern Gaza Center East Eye (BC)

US vetoes name for speedy Gaza ceasefire at UN BBC (Kevin W)

One other Indefensible U.S. Veto on the United Nations Daniel Larison

Andrew Ogles, a sitting member of Congress, says the quiet half out loud.

“I feel we should always kill ‘em all.”

He states WE (America) are accountable for killing all Palestinians (genocide).

Congress + Biden + Whole Cupboard are ALL WAR CRIMINALS

Palestine might be free 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/9JdqFpUqpD

— saira rao 🍉 (@sairasameerarao) February 20, 2024

Smotrich says bringing hostages house ‘not an important factor,’ sparking outcry Occasions of Israel (Kevin W)

February 19, Norway will switch funds to the Palestinian Authority after a monthslong standoff with Israel Echedoros (BC)

⚡BREAKING:

🇷🇺🇵🇸 Putin has invited Hamas for a gathering on February twenty sixth.

Russia has invited all Palestinian organisations, together with Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority for an “Inter-Palestinian Assembly” in Moscow.

Rumors instantly started to unfold that Putin is able to… pic.twitter.com/09RQqMhmlw

— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) February 18, 2024

New Not-So-Chilly Struggle

West needs Kiev to submit targets inside Russia, with causes for placing them — supply TASS (guurst). Hoo boy.

Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Thriller of Nationwide Id Craig Murray (Robert Grey). Essential, however get a cup of espresso first.

“Nord Stream Three” and the Russian seize of Avdeevka Gilbert Doctorow

Screw The Information – Europe Commits Itself To Additional Escalation Moon of Alabama

SCOTT RITTER AND ANDREI MARTYANOV ON NATO’S RUSSIA-UKRAINE CATASTROPHE, NAVALNY’S DEMISE, PLUS MORE! Danny Haiphong. Very informative on the present state of fight, notably adjustments in weaponry over the course of the battle, Russia updating doctrine on an ongoing foundation, and notably how drone doctrine now drives battlefield operations. Additionally in line with our latest publish, that Russia is not going to interact in huge arrow methods however will hold grinding on varied precedence targets till the Ukraine navy falls aside utterly.

White Home: ‘Main’ sanctions bundle towards Russia after Navalny’s loss of life coming Friday The Hill. So what’s left? Cancelling Tucker’s passport?

The British took 30 days of checks earlier than releasing Daybreak Sturgess’s physique for cremation – https://t.co/RKaR90O50A Alexei Navalny’s physique not much less. pic.twitter.com/i7Gdg202BH

— Dances_with_Bears (@bears_with) February 21, 2024

Bullet-riddled physique could also be of a defector who escaped with a Russian helicopter, Spanish police say Related Press (furzy). Distinction uncertainty of ID with this account: Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov who defected to Ukraine ‘shot lifeless’ in Spain BBC

Large Brother is Watching You Watch

Seized ransomware community LockBit rewired to show hackers to world Guardian (furzy)

Fingerprints Can Be Recreated From the Sounds Made When Swiping On a Touchscreen Toms {Hardware}

Vietnam To Acquire Biometrics For New ID Playing cards The Register

Imperial Collapse Watch

Trump’s NATO threats expose limits of Congress’s energy The Hill

‘Extremely problematic’: Consultants, advocates warn towards Brockton calling in Nationwide Guard to quell highschool violence Boston Globe (BC). Once I went to highschool, Brockton was an upscale suburb….

Trump

DA Fani Willis testified she paid money throughout journeys with high prosecutor. One vineyard host remembers her paying in paper payments CNN (furzy)

Parkland survivor trolls Trump’s sneaker enterprise by shopping for area and directing it to gun security web site Impartial (furzy)

Biden

GOP recess turns into sharp weapon for White Home The Hill

The CBO Revised the Value of Biden’s Vitality Insurance policies Up by $466 Billion Michael Shedlock

Biden has a high-tech downside in Michigan Politico (Kevin W)

Alexander Smirnov: FBI supply accused of Biden lies ‘linked to Russian intelligence’ BBC (furzy)

2024

Haley vows to remain in race towards Trump: ‘I’m not going wherever’ The Hill. As in to not the White Home.

Abortion

Oklahoma Pols Need a Database of Everybody Who Has an Abortion Each day Beast (furzy)

Alabama Supreme Court docket Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling New Republic (furzy). We’re a day late to this story.

Immigration

Immigrants will not be hurting U.S.-born employees Financial Coverage Institute

Texas Troopers Say Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star Is ‘A Present HuffPost (furzy)

Our No Longer Free Press

The awards racket was made clear to me once I discovered Jeffrey Epstein organized a gathering between Invoice Gates and a member of the Nobel Prize committee https://t.co/jcpHXwCpDo

— Not voting for Genocide Joe (@DoctorFishbones) February 20, 2024

Woke Watch

Staff forfeits after ladies basketball participant allegedly harm in play with male who identifies as feminine (Video) New York Submit (furzy)

If People Gained’t Learn Your Résumé, Ought to You Let the Robotic? Wall Road Journal. BC:

AI apart, many employers have been utilizing some kind laptop filtering of resumes and functions for years. It’s the usual observe. On this particular use case, AI might be a internet optimistic as a result of the prior laptop matching method was very poor.

‘Emergent’ AI Habits and Human Future, What Occurs When Killer Robots Begin Speaking with Every Different? Michael Klare, TomDispatch

Falling Aside Boeing Airplanes