Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

For more than four decades, France has had trains 3.5x faster than any of ours in the U.S. today.

We built the transcontinental railroad 156 years ago. What in the world are we waiting for?

Klobuchar dined with Minnesota lawmaker just hours before she was killed The Minnesota senator remembers Hortman, a friend of decades, as a "skilled legislator," she told POLITICO.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing.

“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.

It is Happening Here… With a Flag, a Cross, and a Bible

It is Happening Here…
With a Flag, a Cross, and a Bible
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The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵

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YouTube video by Leading The Man Who Gets Under Trump's Skin: Michael Wolff

Every day is ignorant ‘conflict generation’ day (50’)

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The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau

📷: Eastern Bluebird

A while back I was helping examine the security of the Starlink terminal and found a very obvious bug in the bootloader that was only unexploitable due to the memory layout of the terminal. Critical infrastructure shouldn't depend on Starlink without a shitload of auditing.

RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.

NEW:

“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”

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Neo-Nazis targeted a majority-Black town. Locals launched an armed watch. Residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, have organized armed guards after a neo-Nazi march and the spread of Ku Klux Klan leaflets rocked the Cincinnati suburb.

"'When we saw that the police wasn’t helping us, every able-bodied man in the neighborhood, with or without a gun, has stood guard and has been standing guard ever since,' said Dominic Brewton Jr., who runs a maintenance and repair company in the town..."
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Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?

"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."

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Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

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"IMPERIAL DELUSIONS: A WET DREAM OR A REVENGE TOUR?" Trump sees beachfront property, and his real estate instincts kick in.

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Ukraine did not start this war — Russia did. Assertions to the contrary are dangerous, and leave Ukraine and our European allies in grave danger. It is vital America stand for Liberty in Ukraine in the face of Vladimir Putin’s brutal, illegal war. We cannot abandon our friends in their time of need.

A federal judge temporarily halted the firing of 11 U.S. intelligence officers The officers are among 51 employees at the CIA and the Office of Director of National Intelligence who were told to report to work today with their badges and without lawyers.

"51 employees at CIA and the Office of Director of National Intelligence received calls Friday from their human resources office telling them to report to the visitors center at CIA headquarters in Virginia at 8AM on Tuesday with their badges and without lawyers..."

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Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere What’s more, we’re expanding.

“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.”

Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.

King and Goffin began writing "The Loco-Motion" inspired by the sound of Dee Dee Sharp and brought in Eva to record the demo. The Cookies sang backup on the demo and King herself played piano and sang. Don Kirshner loved Eva’s demo so much that he decided to release the demo. #blackhistorymonth2025

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

"I will bring down inflation on day one."

😂😂😂😂

Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."

Anti-Racism Racism Allyship Bias DEI Diversity Diverse Confirmation Bias Equity Equitableness Feminism Gender Gender Identity Inclusion Inclusive All-Inclusive Inclusivity Injustice Intersectionality Prejudice Privilege Racial Identity Sexuality Stereotypes Pronouns Transgender Equality

2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.

This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:

Elon Musk leads a group of investors that want to buy ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI | CNN Business Elon Musk is leading a group of investors that have offered to buy OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, for $97.4 billion.

In a high-stakes bid that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk is leading a group of investors that have offered to buy OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, for $97.4 billion.

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Tulsi Gabbard is a national security threat, and the Senate votes on her today. A vote to confirm her as Intelligence Director is a betrayal to our nation, and will put us all in danger. Call your Senator now and tell them Tulsi is too great a risk: 202-224-3121 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bInd...

Is Elon Musk Serving Two Masters? Elon Musk’s efforts to slash the U.S. government could be a huge boon to China—a country to which Musk has significant financial ties.

Ultimately, China views the next four years under Trump to be a remarkably unstable period for the U.S.—and one that they’re more than ready to seize on for long term, international gains.

Some may. This one doesn’t. Traditional medicine is palliative and very poor, for example, on widespread issues like diabetes 2.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone here at Bluesky for the follows and the conversations and the constructive, substantive interaction. It's a great forum, a great resource for circulating and talking about the news, and -- most of all -- a pleasure. I'm grateful!

Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.