Who needs #BioLabs when there's all sorts of #bacteria about to be exposed after thousands of years!

Researchers issue warning after making grim #Antarctic discovery: 'We are only beginning to understand'

Story by Daysia Tolentino, January 29, 2026

Excerpt: "A study published in the journal #Biocontaminant examined the effects of #GlacialMelting on our #WaterSupply.

"#Glaciers serve as reservoirs for #AntibioticResistanceGenes, or #ARGs, and other #microbes. When they are released from the ice, they enter our water systems, posing a major health risk to people downstream.

"Millions of people get their water from glacier-fed rivers and lakes. ARGs are strands of DNA that make bacteria more resistant to drugs. When ARGs in #meltwater make their way into our water supply, they become a global public health risk.

"The study emphasizes the importance of viewing glaciers, rivers, and lakes as being part of a 'glacier continuum.' This means they are an interconnected system rather than separate environments.

Why are melting glaciers concerning?

"From our gas-powered cars to #overconsumption, human activity has contributed to the production of heat-trapping gases that warm the planet. Rising global temperatures have caused glaciers to rapidly melt, causing elevated sea levels and releasing ARGs.

"ARGs from melting glaciers are worrisome because they help facilitate the spread of diseases. This threat is compounded by the fact that our growing #microplastic problem is also helping #AntibioticResistant #bacteria breed. As a result, #medicines are being rendered less effective."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/researchers-issue-warning-after-making-grim-antarctic-discovery-we-are-only-beginning-to-understand/

#WorldPol #USPol #FossilFuels #FossilFools #Degrowth #RenewablesNow #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #HumanFolly #NewDiseases

Breaking #news. Senator Turtle McConnell is alive but has been unconscious for weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2S9U4_U4Q

#unitedstates #uspol #MitchMcConnell

Weekend at Bernie's vibe

#USpol #USpolitics

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-live-updates_n_6a4b6bc0e4b05c9d0338a117/liveblog_6a4bcfdce4b0c806bbeed2f9

Yesterday, my 85-year-old aunt went on a full-fledged sailor curse spree that could be heard 10 rows in each direction on Trump in the middle of Kroger. I think she was hoping a MAGA would try to rebuke her. She is thirsty to whoop one. #USPol We were embarrassingly proud.😂 During checkout, everybody knew her $100 order should only cost $35 at the most.

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older lady sitting on a wicker bench, pink shirt, blue cushions with legs crossed

Moscow thanks you Comrade Trump, Putin's toilet bowl, you corrupt son of a bitch.

https://masto.ink/@knotfeed/116873897291131574

#Ukraine #Russia #Putin #Trump #corruption #fascism #USpol

I should also mention that he went on to casually admit that he didn’t know what a red card was, despite his understanding sports really well. #Trump #USPol #worldcup

So um is Mitch McConnell dead or what

https://www.wlky.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalization-kentucky-washington-dc/71836202

#USPol

I don't think it's too much to ask for the people of a state to know whether or not one of their two U.S. Senators is still alive

#USPol

The kind of question where if the spokesperson will not say "yes" the answer is no

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-live-updates_n_6a4b6bc0e4b05c9d0338a117/liveblog_6a4bcfdce4b0c806bbeed2f9

#USPol

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Jennifer Bendery 2 hrs 55 mins ago Mitch McConnell's Office Won't Confirm If He's Conscious

Nearly all companies are dictatorships. When a politician implores us that we must run the country like a business, this is what the two-faced alien creature means. It means it intends to instigate a slow succession of unstoppable, not containable, not accountable, bullying, pig-headed, increasingly incoherent tyrants, their offspring, and their cronies, stealing from everyone, everywhere, all of the time.

You are here. ⬆️

Question - who would broadcast mass media, and traditional mass media like the NYT and WaPo, support - AOC or JD Vance? This isn't a difficult question to answer. The selling of the president, someone you have never personally known, requires their cooperation. Which one?

#USpol #corruption #Republicans #Democrats #DNC

If we don't understand fascism and recognize fascism when we see it, it might crop up again — under another label — and cause another war.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

Since Dec,🚨CNN & CNBC have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. Existence of a FIN relshp btw the NETs & #Kalshi➡️disclosed to viewers inconsistently.

CNBC:🚨pub 58 articles: do little more than advertise the existence of a Kalshi mkt rlt to a news event. Some of their rptg incls➡️disclosure🚨*at least 22 cases *written about Kalshi haven't disclosed: FIN conflict.

Political mkt:🚨least accurate.

#Corruption #PredictionMarkets #USPol
https://popular.info/p/how-kalshi-infects-the-news

My note to Sen Schiff. I left messages w/Sen Padilla & Congressperson Chu. Please spread the word & let the fediverse know if you've contacted your reps.

Dear Senator Schiff,

Please do everything you can to find out if Mitch McConnell is alive, dead, capable of serving or not. This needs to be resolved before time runs out and a special election can't be held because of Kentucky rules. Do not let McConnell -- even in death or someplace in between -- continue his assault on democracy.

#USPol

Is this the definition of 'banana republic'? or is it of a 'shithole country'?

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk

The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications

https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/georgia-voter-fraud-elon-musk

#EveryoneHatesElon #elonmusk #uspol #fuckelon #VoterFraud #USfascism #ShitholeCountry #BananaRepublic

Report: "Children & Infants With Bound Hands in Gaza Mass Graves"

Civil Defense teams at Nasser Hospital "recovered more than 390 bodies from three mass grave sites.... 78 children were among the dead."

"Bodies found with bound hands & gunshot wounds to the head indicated field executions."

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has been systematically documenting mass graves across Gaza since October 2023, so far recording 130+ sites.

https://israelpalestinenews.org/euro-med-monitor-documents-children-and-infants-with-bound-hands-in-gaza-mass-graves-as-un-demands-investigation/

#USPol #EUPol #GazaGenocide #news .

Interview: "Inside the Collapse of Global Accountability for Israel"

* Israel’s renewed push for so-called “voluntary migration” of Palestinians;

* New revelations about the Hannibal Directive during Oct7;

* The myth of Israeli military invincibility;

* Israel is pushing Lebanon towards civil war as part of a wider regional strategy.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260701-inside-the-collapse-of-global-accountability-for-israel-palestine-this-week/

#USPol #EUPol #israeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #displacementReplacement #gazaGenocide #news #palestine #Lebanon #IranWar #news .

Never let these genociders rest.

Report: Hind Rajab Foundation has welcomed reports that Israeli genocider Itamar Ben-Gvir has cancelled his planned trip to NY for a UN policing conference.

He cancelled the trip following calls for his prosecution & planned anti-genocide demonstrations.

Israeli leaders have travelled the world expecting impunity. That expectation is beginning to erode.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260705-israels-ben-gvir-to-skip-un-police-summit-in-new-york-amid-legal-pressure-reports/

#USPol #EUPol #IsraeliCrimes #news #gazaGenocide #palestine #ArrestGenociders .

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Hind Rajab: i'm so scared please come

"SunCruz fraudster Adam Kidan who paid Trump millions draws pardon from Trump"

by Dan Christensen for @floridabulldog

#trump #news #uspol #pol

https://www.floridabulldog.org/2026/07/suncruz-fraudster-adam-kidan-who-paid-trump-millions-draws-pardon/

Interview: The Gaza genocide is a world historical event.

"If we look at this proportionally — it’s a small place, with 2 million population — then "the proportion of people devastated by this... genocide, is unprecedented."

Israel says it plans to expel all of the people from Gaza. And "Gaza is without any support anywhere. That’s why the Israelis may do to it what they please."

https://www.juancole.com/2026/07/genocide-world-historical.html

#USPol #EUPol #news #palestine #GazaGenocide #IsraeliImpunity .

Board of Trump's plan for concentration camps in Gaza to go ahead

"Palestinians will be herded into fenced 'humanitarian shelters' policed by foreign forces."

"The plan matches leaked documents for a surveilled, checkpoint-controlled ‘planned community' that’s designed to force Palestinians into what amounts to an Israeli panopticon”.
~Drop Site News

https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/02/palestinians-to-be-herded-into-humanitarian-shelters-in-gaza/

https://truthout.org/articles/the-board-of-peace-is-planning-to-concentrate-gazans-in-hamas-free-enclaves/

israeli source:
https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/06/30/board-of-peace-to-open-hamas-f7ree-humanitarian-zones-in-gaza/

#USPol #EUPol #news #palestine #gazaGenocide .

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truthout The board has selected the Tel Sultan neighborhood in Rafah as the first area where it will “direct” Palestinians in Gaza to enter in the coming weeks. Israel Hayom states that multinational forces under the board’s control will arrive in the area with “nonlethal weapons” in order to “maintain order in the humanitarian zones” while the Israeli military will expand its control over other areas of Gaza. These so-called “humanitarian zones” are enclaves facilitating the further concentration of Palestinians in Gaza into smaller and smaller areas as Israel deepens its control over the Strip.

#Trump #USPol #worldcup

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GENTLEMEN I AM SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO FIND CORRUPTION GOING ON IN FIFA Picture shows Claude Rains accepting his winnings in Casablanca while pretending he is shocked to find gambling going on in Rick’s.

It's on the players that voted for Trump though, this is their world and what that looks like.

#WorldCup2026 #USMNT #Trump #USPol #USPolitics #Corruption #FIFA

“I saw the play” says a man who is clearly extremely familiar with the rules of association football.

#Trump #USPol #worldcup

Absolutely classic Donnie, no notes.

You cannot even do a little light corruption with this daft bastard because he will *immediately* boast about it to the whole world and also take the opportunity to wax lyrical about his own athleticism at the same time.

#Trump #USPol #worldcup

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President Donald Trump on his phone call with Gianni Infantino: "I spoke to Gianni... ! saw the play. I'm a person that loves sports and was a good athlete. I understand sports really well. Really well. That wasn't a foul. That was two guys running full speed that happened to crash into each other."

National Guard, working within a federal task force, have now shot and killed a civilian in Tennessee.

Military under federal guidance killing Americans on the streets: where we now are in the democracy backslide/authoritarian takeover attempt we all now face.

https://apnews.com/article/memphis-tennessee-national-guard-shooting-0ee15a07db84a17d709a1f0345858465

#USpol

"White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US."
https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion
(#paywalled)

"The deletions by the Trump administration are broad and indiscriminate. While pages that would support Mamdani’s request to lower thermostats were deleted, so too were pages about water conservation, types of insulation, and its solar decathlon challenge."

Here are preservation copies of the deleted pages in the Internet Archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/*

#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

@vicfroh And don't forget about the new Medicaid rules which require folks to work 80 hours a month, unless they can prove they are “medically frail."

Many disabled folks who are unable to work will have difficulty proving it.

25 states are suing:

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/01/oregon-lawsuit-trump-administration-medicaid-work-requirements/

See also #MEAction's "Frail and Furious" campaign:

https://www.meaction.net/frail-and-furious-usa

#USPol #Disability #Medicaid #Resist

Like everything else, Trump puts his grubby, greedy, fascist fingers into, he has now hollowed out a US victory in the World Cup, if there is a victory to be had. You would think the president would have better things to do than defecate on a soccer field.

#FIFA
#USPol

I hear Infantino gives out FIFA Peace Prizes like candy.

After today, I really don’t want mine anymore.

#FIFA #Trump #Infantino #Balogun #USPol

So, the story was true.

trump did call FIFA president Gianni Infantino to get the suspension of U.S. player Balogun lifted.

Unpresidented!

https://apnews.com/article/falorin-balogun-suspension-world-cup-e5a5cab5731a916808601be93cb36832
#WorldCup #UsPol
17/n

They're so proud of their country that they hide their faces.

#USPol

Yes Republicans, you're right. You are way more tolerant than the Dems.
We would never tolerate a member of our party colluding with an enemy to commit treason. And we wouldn't tolerate a Dem trying to destroy the country. And we wouldn't tolerate a Dem stealing classified documents and selling them to foreign enemies. And we wouldn't tolerate a Dem who rapes women and little girls. So yeah. I guess you win the tolerance competition.
Congratulations. - Mindy Fischer
#USpol

ICYMI:🚨”Trump Admin🚨Pays Duke Energy $129M to Halt Offshore Wind Farm.”

“Duke Energy🚨didn’t pay federal income tax in 2025, largely by relying on tax breaks from Trump’s“One Big Beautiful Bill.”

Duke🚨reported $5.1B in net income last year.”
-DemsKeys

#Climate #Wind #Renewables #Corruption #Trump #TrumpRegime #Oligarchs #BBB #Uprising #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/climate/trump-offshore-wind-duke-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t1A.DPi8.ZrsuP8UGUmKi&smid=url-share

GOP MOC🚨own this #kleptocracy, they’ve enabled #Trump for 10 years, knowing that he’s a #traitor, #conman, & #MobBoss.

BerlusconI, Italy’s PM & billionaire mogul, who died in 2023, looks like an amateur compared to Trump, with his mastery of the news media, gilded taste, family’s🚨brazen #theft, by profiteering off the presidency…

Experts say:🚨he’s moved into an echelon of enrichment more assoc with strongmen, like #Putin in Russia, & Erdogan in TR.
#Corruption #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/world/europe/trump-world-leaders-corruption-wealth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vVA.kufG.8-iEI7s1IXf2&smid=url-share

🔥🔥🔥

❝ Whoever wins the House and Senate will decide on the chamber’s leadership. If the Democrats win them both in November, there needs to be a fight over who leads us. If new progressives from around the country are elected they’ve gotta demand leadership that can meet the moment. This is a transformational moment. They can’t just roll over. ❞

Kick the Democratic Establishment While They're Down https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-to-beat-the-democratic-party-establishment

#USpol #DemocraticParty #democrats

If it weren't for Democrats, most of America would starve.

#NoRepublicansEverAgain #WelfareQueens #USPol

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US Map of Donor vs. Welfare States. Most Republican states are welfare states.

Cartoon by Dennis Goris

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaYfvUlxc-s/?igsh=NGh1cmg1amR1MHNl

#whitesupremacists #DennisGoris #usa #uspol #racism #RacistAmerica #july4th #Freedom259 #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA #PoliticalCartoon #cartoon #USfascism

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Cartoon, three white men wearing with yhe Whitehouse in the background underwear on their faces and caption: tighty-whitey nationalists visit Washington

#Trump is a total fucking lunatic fascist dementor motherfucker

#USPol

NOW PLAYING == This Week In White Supremacy Ep. 287 7/3/26: Blue MAGA

https://www.youtube.com/live/TsA-T9WmTNw?si=duiMzC4yicf4w3v_

#news #culture #uspol #politics #antiracist #antiracism #whitesupremacy #geopolitics #1HoodMedia #BlackMastodon #BlackLivesMatter #leftist #revolution #left #antiimperialist #anticapitalist #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia

Cartoon by Daniel Boris.
#USpol

The fact that the family of #MitchMcConnell is OK with him being dragged around like Weekend at Bernie's and used as a shield for the Epstein Class tells you all you need to know about what kind of person Mitch was.

#Politics #USPol

I am going to call my Congresspeople tomorrow and ask/demand that they find out if Mitch McConnell is dead. Anyone else up to do that?

#USPol
#Democracy
#MitchMcConnell

I'm no patriot, won't fly no flag
You've taken that away, and it's a drag
Used to proudly fly the Red White and Blue
til they told me, buddy, it's not for you

People gave their life, but not for a king
But you've gone and changed it, that's the thing
It's a country for brown, black, yellow, white and red
Any color of skin, that's what they said

But now they're telling us you don't belong here
Just a country for white Christian racists, I fear
So I'll keep the flag folded, in a drawer in the den
Til someday maybe, it will come out again

#poem (human)
#uspol

Didn't he just disclose (illegal) profits in the billions? 5 million is pocket change to this rapist, best friend of #Epstein.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/trump-delay-5m-payout-e-jean-carroll

#USPol

The theme of trump's speech seems to be to thrown in the word "Communist" every minute. That's their campaign strategy for November.

Other themes - militarism, jingoism, Christianity, voter ID, demonization of everyone non-MAGA, ...

America sounds like a very violent country in the speech.

Very low energy crowd; probably few in number and tired and bored.

#UsPol
3/n

Mercifully, it finished before midnight.

#UsPol
4/n

The fireworks grand finale, as seen on TV.
🔥 😱
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RdQuTD3KuY
#UsPol
5/n

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Still from livestream

The Third Red Scare is ramping up.

trump is now twisting the words in the Declaration of Independence to sow fear across the nation..

He spent a lot of time last Friday as well at Mount Rushmore demonizing imaginary communists.

We can expect this theme to continue until the November elections and beyond from trump and the right-wing noise machine.

#UsPol
6/n

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Tweet by Acyn @Acyn Trump: And as our Declaration of Independence tells us, we are all made in the image of one almighty god. And a communist will never say that. With Readers added context they thought people might want to know The Declaration of Independence does not say "we are all made in the image of one almighty god." It states that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.

Average Air Quality Index in Washington D.C. has been in the unhealthy range since the extravagant fireworks last night.

It must be worse in areas close to the fireworks sites last night.

Code Red Air Quality alert for DC for Sunday.

#UsPol
7/n

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1. Tweet by Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci NEW: Hazardous firework-induced smog continues to hover over Washington D.C. this morning. Avoid time outdoors if you can. The air so filled with microscopic particulates (PM2.5) that it’s potentially harmful to exert oneself outside. CODE PURPLE alert in effect. 2. Tweet by AlertDC @AlertDC Automated by @DC_HSEMA [AlertDC] Code Red Air Quality for DC on Sunday, 7/5. Outdoor air quality is unhealthy for seniors, kids, people with medical conditions. General public may experience health issues. Limit time outside. 3. Graph of hourly AQI in DC 4. Graph of hourly PM2.5 in DC