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Kash Patel, the FBI's agent of chaos The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.

The biggest little scandal in Washington right now? How bad Kash Patel is at his job.

‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK British American Tobacco pushed Zambian ministers to drop or delay ad bans, health warnings and restrictions on flavoured products, letter shows British American Tobacco has been accused of “utter hypocrisy” for lobbying against tobacco control measures in Africa that are already in place in the UK. A letter seen by the Guardian, sent from the company’s subsidiary in Zambia to the country’s government ministers, asks for plans to ban tobacco advertising and sponsorship to be abandoned or delayed. Continue reading...

‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK

Immigration agents take day care worker from inside North Center facility In a video circulating on social media, agents in vests can be seen dragging the woman out of the school building shortly after 7 a.m.

madness & daycare workers feared for their lives… www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/d...

No food aid for the poor.
Disruptions to air travel for vacations or to see family or for business
Deteriorating conditions at national parks, the National Weather Service, and other critical federal functions.
More layoffs.
All so the Republicans and MAGA can destroy Obamacare at last.

Here's a tease:
Next week we're releasing a major update of the Pacific Institute's Water Conflict Chronology -- the best open-source database on violence over water resources.

The news isn't good.

Any journalists interested in getting embargoed info prior to the release, reach out to me.

Want an example of how we're going to lose the education race by eviscerating our universities?

I've been invited to help develop a course on Water and Civilization.
To be taught to 10,000 students.
In one university.
In China.

There are literally no decent republicans

#WaterSecurity

Lawmakers to Trump: Punish Mexico for missing water deadline The state’s citrus industry is at risk, farmers say, after Mexico failed to deliver water it owes Texas as part of a 1944 treaty.

Texas’ congressional delegation wants Trump to punish Mexico for missing key water deadline. #water #internationaborders #Mexico #Texas www.texastribune.org/2025/10/25/t...

#WaterSecurity #SDG6

It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts Guidance from health and human services secretary contradicts decades of dietary recommendations

The chaos is constant 😔

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Who are the architects with no morals? well its
McCrery Architects (202) 737-5444

My god, he really is just flat out destroying the People's House

Microbes for sustainable Wastewater Treatment:
Nature’s Cleanup Crew www.biology-journal.org/fulltext/v40...

At a Mass Burial in Gaza, Palestinians Mourn the Unknown Dead

Reem Hammad, 21, was at the graveside in Deir al-Balah as the bulldozers lowered bodies into the ground.

“It’s unbearable to watch,” she said. “I can’t imagine how it feels for a mother to stand here, unsure if one of these bodies is her son.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/w...

Effect of Preventive Interventions on Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Regarding Schistosomiasis among Primary School Children in Osun State, Nigeria: A Quasi- Experimental Study - f120dd75-7f73-4a3b-9d99-fe103b14edc4.pdf assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-760...

A feminism that cannot name Gaza is not feminism | Opinion ***

"In Gaza, women are not asking for boardroom seats or missions to Mars. They are asking for bread. For water. For soap. For a sanitary pad. For their children to wake up in the morning. If our feminism cannot hold space for that who is it really for?" Nadine Quomsieh

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

UNC Water and Health Conference Collection This collection reflects the ongoing partnership between the Water Institute at UNC and PLOS, bringing together a range of research articles and narrative pieces published in PLOS Water and PLOS Susta...

UNC Water and Health Conference Collection - Collections bringing together a range of research articles and narrative pieces published in PLOS Water and PLOS Sustainability and Transformation from the annual UNC Water and Health Conferences. collections.plos.org/collection/u... @plos.org

2025 UNC Water and Health Conference The Conference is only one week away ( waterinstitute.unc.edu/our-work/unc...

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon | Alaska Beacon Search and rescue efforts continued into Monday in the Kuskokwim River delta in the aftermath of ex-Typhoon Halong.

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon, reports Corinne Smith for @alaskabeacon.com

Sorry, but we don't give "peace" prizes to war criminals based on the recommendations of other war criminals.

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

Republicans hate whales, seals, sea lions but love offshore oil and gas companies and corporate fishing fleets.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Risk Factors for Stunting in Toddlers in the Mogang Community Health Center Work Area, Palipi District, Samosir Regency in 2024 Background: Based on the 2023 Indonesian Health Survey (SKI) in Samosir Regency, the prevalence of stunting was 22.4%, with Palipi District recording the highest rate. As of August 2024, the incidence...

Risk Factors for #Stunting in Toddlers in Samosir Regency... Indonesian 2024 | J of Pharmaceutical and Sciences maternal nutritional status, childcare patterns, maternal ed level, family income, & sanitation are significantly associated with stunting among toddlers journal-jps.com/new/index.ph...

Trends & Gaps in #WASH Research in #Ethiopia: Bibliometric Review www.preprints.org/frontend/man... "need further collaboration in integrating sub-disciplines ... for ensuring better public health &env. ...reinforces need for holistic approaches to tackle challenges in WASH & health"

Optimization of WASH-DR and Rwanda Ceramic HWTS Systems - supplementation
of chlorine to ceramic filter & MadiDrop+ system reliably achieved complete elimination of coliform bacteria, even under conditions of extremely high contamination, . pdf scholarship.rollins.edu/cgi/viewcont...

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

Senate Confirms Neil Jacobs, ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist, to Lead NOAA Neil Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics after an investigation into an incident that centered on an altered hurricane forecast map in 2019.

The Senate confirmed a new leader of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, installing Neil Jacobs, the acting director during the hurricane forecasting controversy of the first Trump administration known as “Sharpiegate.”

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

More are united around a simple message: RFK Jr should not be HHS Sec. His decisions undermine our public health capacity and put lives and health at risk.

As 6 former Surgeon Generals argue:

"He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."

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