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riversedge's JournalBaby John John in Jacki Kennedy Rose Garden.......
Now the youngins would have to walk on cement!!
https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/1951736649530151412
snow "Kangaroomen"
I knew Australia had snow--but just a bit every now and then-- but seems--by the comments very unusual for the amount and for parts of Aussi land.
I have not seen a kangaroo 'snowman' before. Delightful to see.
https://x.com/AnnVole/status/1951614236565848221
https://x.com/ScepticalAussie/status/1951601481628672433
https://x.com/volcaholic1/status/1951600583497916731
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Rare snow in "northern NSW"
because there are parts of Australia which do get regular or occasional snow in winter
Not the fun event 7 News chose to show
Stuck vehicles & road closures, damage & power outages from strong winds
https://x.com/SVFAV1/status/1951637370400616857
Student debt forgiveness for ICE agents, but not for nurses or teachers is more proof that the US is a fascist police st
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Student debt forgiveness for ICE agents, but not for nurses or teachers is more proof that the US is a fascist police state
https://x.com/davenewworld_2/status/1951269198946066861
Claim:
U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) offers student loan repayment benefits to new recruits.
Published July 31, 2025
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-student-loans/
Rating:
True
https://mediaproxy.snopes.com/width/200/
As the mass deportation efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration continued to dominate headlines in July 2025, a rumor that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offers student loan repayment programs as part of its benefit package circulated online.
Texas AI centers guzzle 463 million gallons, now residents are asked to cut back on showers
So let me get this straight… Texans need to cut back on showering because Microsoft’s Stargate AI data center in Abilene needs the water?
Did Americans vote for showering less so they can get an AI technocracy in return?
https://x.com/zeee_media/status/1951083694355272122
Texas AI centers guzzle 463 million gallons, now residents are asked to cut back on showers
Texas AI data centers water usage: Amid the ongoing worsening drought condition in Texas, the State's residents face an unexpected water dilemma: while communities are urged to conserve every drop, even cutting back on simple showers, massive new AI data centers are quietly using millions of gallons daily to keep their operations running, as per a report.
Microsoft’s Stargate Campus Leads the AI Data Center Boom
Microsoft’s Stargate campus in Abilene is leading a surge in data center construction, promising to become one of the world’s largest hubs supporting advanced artificial intelligence technology, as per a report by Techie + Gamers.
Experts Stress the Industrial Scale of Data Center Water Use
The scale of water use is massive, as the Texas Water Development Board projections estimate that data centers in the state will consume 49 billion gallons of water in 2025, soaring to nearly 400 billion gallons by 2030, as per Techie + Gamers report. That’s about 7% of Texas’s total projected water use, according to the report.
Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/texas-ai-data-centers-water-usage-texas-ai-centers-guzzle-463-million-gallons-now-residents-are-asked-to-cut-back-on-showers-ai-news/articleshow/122983253.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Republican senators raise concerns about Trump's firing of Labor Dept. official
Source: nbc
Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday after the agency released a jobs report that showed a significant slowdown in hiring in the U.S.
Updated Aug. 1, 2025, 7:44 PM CDT Brennan Leach and Raquel Coronell Uribe
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Several Republicans told NBC News that they would take issue with the firing of Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the BLS, if it is the result of Trump disliking the jobs report numbers, which showed the U.S. job market in the past months has been considerably weaker than previously thought.
Trump defended his decision Friday, saying without evidence that the report’s numbers were “phony” and accused McEntarfer of releasing favorable jobs numbers before the election to give former Vice President Kamala Harris an edge.
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wy., said if the data is untrustworthy, the public should find out, but firing the commissioner before knowing whether the numbers are inaccurate is “kind of impetuous.”
“If the president is firing the statistician because he doesn’t like the numbers but they are accurate, then that’s a problem,” Lummis said. “It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate and that they’re not what the president had hoped for.”................
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., blasted Trump’s decision to fire McEntarfer as well.
“If she was just fired because the president or whoever decided to fire the director just did it because they didn’t like the numbers, they ought to grow up,” Tillis said...........
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/republican-senators-raise-concerns-trumps-firing-bls-commissioner-rcna222584
“BLS operates as a federal statistical agency and is afforded autonomy to ensure the data it releases are as accurate as possible,” it added.
https://nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/republican-senators-raise-concerns-trumps-firing-bls-commissioner-rcna222584 via @nbcnews
https://x.com/moonbreeze2/status/1951457693228736748
🚨🚨🚨This man is knocked unconscious after complying with officer orders. ID these Juneau officers. They have no busine
Seems to me that the officer was more concerned about checking his pockets than seeking help for an unconscious man!!
A post below says The Gov asked the Louisiana police to come work here.
I know nothing about that or if it is true.
But I do know that if a person is unconscious you don't jerk him around like the officer did.
🚨🚨🚨This man is knocked unconscious after complying with officer orders. ID these Juneau officers.
They have no business having badges.
www.ktoo.org/2025/07/31/m...
— (@shedevilpatrol.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T22:45:08.519Z
Good god. Does anyone know how this fellow is doing? That looks like a very serious head injury, and no matter the infraction, it was clear he wan not struggling one bit again that cruel and poorly trained cop. Completely unnecessary. Maybe good cops are not a thing, even in the minority, anymore.
— (@esworld1111.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T22:25:33.887Z
Today is the last day for many Education Department workers. Here's what they did
Source: npr
August 1, 20258:55 AM ET
..............These employees performed a wide range of jobs, from safeguarding students' civil rights to helping borrowers navigate a bewildering federal student loan system.
Nearly 1,400 department workers are being fired as part of a broad reduction in force (RIF) that began on March 11. Days later, when President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Education Department, he said, "We're going to be returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs."
He also claimed that many department employees "don't work at all" and that "we want to cut the people that aren't working or are not doing a good job."
Trump's education secretary, Linda McMahon, called the mass firing "a significant step toward restoring the greatness of the United States education system."
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To mark their departure, half a dozen department workers spoke with NPR, eager to tell their side of this story about the work they did and why they think it matters.
David Downey, Office of Grants Management, 30 years of service
The Education Department sends billions of dollars to states to help pay for public education. Downey's role was to help state and local officials understand how to apply for that money and then "ensure that they're using taxpayer dollars properly. That's where I hang my hat."
Downey says he served Democratic and Republican administrations, ...........
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5482492/last-day-education-department-workers
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An illustration shows a group of people walking out of a building and into the mist.
LA Johnson/NPR
Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a 'farce' full of misinformation
Source: msn.com
Story by Dharna Noor and Oliver Milman • 6h • 6 min read
A new Trump administration report which attempts to justify a mass rollback of environmental regulations is chock-full of climate misinformation, experts say.
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to undo the 2009 “endangerment finding”, which allows the agency to limit planet-heating pollution from cars and trucks, power plants and other industrial sources. Hours later, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a 150-page report defending the proposal, claiming scientific concern about the climate crisis is overblown.
“Climate change is a challenge – not a catastrophe,” wrote the energy secretary, Chris Wright, in the report’s introduction.
The esteemed climate scientist Michael Mann said the report was akin to the result he would expect “if you took a chatbot and you trained it on the top 10 fossil fuel industry-funded climate denier websites”.
The energy department published the report hours after the EPA announced a plan to roll back 2009’s “endangerment finding”, a seminal ruling that provided the legal basis for the agency to regulate climate-heating pollution under the Clean Air Act. If finalized, the move would topple virtually all US climate regulation.
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Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scientists-slam-trump-administration-climate-report-as-a-farce-full-of-misinformation/ar-AA1JJIP3?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=d7d795974bda423cfd0bfde6368256cb&ei=11
We get a report from the WH Admin that is full of lies and misinformation or we get a real report like the one from today from the Labor Depart that Trump does not like so he fires the scientist.
damn.
ICE raids Florida family home--arrest U.S. citizen mother & children. Daughter answered door--agents pointed guns & stor
I am sure there will be a follow up to this story.
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻 @LongTimeHistory
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ICE raids Florida family home—arrest U.S. citizen mother & children.
Daughter answered door—agents pointed guns & stormed in.
"They took all of us, but they're not supposed to. We're American citizens."
She & her brothers were arrested—forced to wear ankle monitor for release.
Her mother was charged with assaulting agents—she was holding a pot with eggs inside it for breakfast.
#DemsUnited #KnowYourRights
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1951380435390628088
WFLA
Tampa family says ICE entered their home without warrant; ICE says no warrant needed
Jeff Patterson
Thu, July 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM CDT
2 min read
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tampa-family-says-ice-entered-214914153.html
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Federal agents were looking for Marvin Isaac Caceres Maradiaga. Caceres is from Honduras and a federal judge ordered him to be deported in 2023, but he never left.
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Federal officers came to a home on 41st Street in Tampa, and found Caceres, but authorities said the family tried to prevent them from making an arrest.
Brendaliz Fuentes, the stepdaughter of Caceres, denies the claim.
“When they came, they were saying to open the door and things like that and they tried to grab him and they pointed guns at him,” Fuentes said.
She said federal agents arrested everyone in the home...........
Caceres was in custody Thursday and is due to be deported. The family said they have an attorney.
Suspect at large after multiple people shot at business in western Montana: ATF
Source: abc news
Suspect at large after multiple people shot at business in western Montana: ATF
Montana's governor called it an active shooter situation.
By Emily Shapiro August 1, 2025, 3:10 PM
1:11
Multiple people have been shot at a business in Anaconda in western Montana, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said.
The shooting suspect, Michael Paul Brown, is at large and believed to be armed and dangerous, the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Law Enforcement Center said.
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte said on social media that he's "closely monitoring the situation involving an active shooter in Anaconda."
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-people-shot-business-western-montana-atf/story?id=124287817
So many shootings
One article said 4 were dead.
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An undated photo of Michael Paul Brown.
Anaconda - Deer Lodge County Law Enforcement Center
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