Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Via multiple sources:

Per Sen @Feinstein
team:

“Senator Feinstein briefly went to the hospital yesterday afternoon as a precaution after a minor fall in her home. All of her scans were clear and she returned home.”

#COVID #Canada 🇨🇦 (& everywhere else)…

“Since EG.5 is an Omicron descendant, Dr. Prabhat Jha, a scientist at Unity Health Toronto, says the boosters coming out this fall should also work to protect against this new subvariant.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-variant-1.6930281

Parts of Iran could be uninhabitable in 30 years due to climate change.

According to the Middle East Institute, some 70% of all Iranians might need to leave the country to survive by 2050.

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-754167

Come on, #Ontario!🤦🏻‍♀️🇨🇦

“Ontario government's process for choosing protected Greenbelt land to open up for housing development was heavily influenced by a small group of well-connected developers who now stand to make billions of dollars, the province's auditor general says.” #Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-auditor-general-greenbelt-report-1.6930390

I hate quoting Alberto Gonzales, but:

"We are not seeing Repubs arrested for wearing their MAGA hats or Don’t Tread on Me bumper stickers, both fine ex of free speech. Diff is: Speech that leads to crime=never been protected from prosecution. Wearing 2A shirt not a crime but conspiring to commit murder is a crime, sep from the murder itself. Lying to Americans that right to vote was taken away, encouraging them to take it back by any means can, based on evidence beyond reasnbl doubt= a crime"

I'm going to write up this remarkable Alberto Gonzales column on Trump's indictment but in the meantime, WaPo appears to have buried it, so go read it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/08/justice-department-bias-against-republicans/

U.S. Treasury Department expands Belarus sanctions https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/08/09/Belarus-sanctions-expanded-Treasury/4361691595719/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #worldnews #upi

More interesting deets from that really good TPM interview piece about Conspirator #5, Ken Chesebro:

• Violence was the plan: "Chesebro told Eastman that 'the odds of action before Jan. 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be "wild" chaos on Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way'.”

• He's rich. And not just lawyer rich: "Manhattan, where he recently bought a penthouse apartment."

• Maybe he cashed out his Bitcoin to buy the Manhattan penthouse? "Tribe said that the most recent substantial contact the two had had was Chesebro offering to get Tribe involved in Bitcoin investments in 2019."

• This is why I've long had a rule never to trust a male lawyer who was on his high school debate team: "Tribe told me[,]... 'Ken would come up with weird ideas from time to time, quite weird ideas, and seem to lack judgment about whether they were sound or not, and didn’t really care about whether they were legitimate'.”

Id.

2/ Via Angry Staffer:

Search was so secret that Twitter was barred from telling Trump the search warrant had been obtained. Twitter was fined $350,000 because it delayed producing the records.

This is REALLY important.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Let that sink in. It costs less than accepting homelessness.

#Finland #Helsinki #homeless #cities #homes
https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

Lock them up.

Tamar Hallerman:

#RubyFreeman and #ShayeMoss received death threats and were targeted by pro-Trump conspiracy theories during the 2020 election cycle. Now the #Trump supporters who harassed them could face criminal charges. #legal https://t.co/TxHgN4QzUL

3/ Via Kyle Cheney:

Here's how prosecutors and Judge Howell decided on the level of financial penalties for Twitter's noncompliance:

"The court adopted that suggestion, noting that Twitter was sold for over $40 billion and that its owner's net worth was over $180 billion. Twitter did not object ton the sanctions formula. Accordingly, the district court ordered Twitter to produce ..."

Beryl Howell Held Elon Musk's Xitter in Contempt

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/09/beryl-howell-held-elon-musks-xitter-in-contempt/

I can’t listen to the former guy for more than 3 seconds without throwing up.

A Utah man killed during an FBI raid allegedly posted online threats against President Biden, sources tell CBS News

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/342510

The world’s most tracked whale. https://www.flightradar24.com/BGA234N/31844174
#Flightradar24

Rhysida ransomware behind recent attacks on healthcare - The Rhysida ransomware as a service (RaaS) operation that emerged in May 2023 is graduall... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rhysida-ransomware-behind-recent-attacks-on-healthcare/ #healthcare #security

"One of Britain’s biggest boiler makers is to start manufacturing electric heat pumps to keep pace with what it describes as the biggest transformation since the switch from coal to gas devices in the 1930s."

#UK #UnitedKingdom #HeatPumps #Energy

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/07/ideal-heating-to-kickstart-electric-heat-pump-production-in-hull

Geopolitique 1990 - Disk 1, Side B - copy 0 #ApplesauceFDC #Apple2Forever #AppleIIForever

#capybara

Capybara Fact: Capybaras have sharp incisor teeth that continuously grow throughout their lives.