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Easily-distracted researcher and sometime maker/artist/tinkerer.

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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He keeps tabs on what is getting attention on FB. For example: "The immigration cluster does sit atop a dispute: DHS said in January that about 70% of arrestees are criminals (DHS), while Deportation Data Project data show 73% of July arrests involved no criminal conviction (DDP)."
patreon.com
Disinformation dashboard: Sep 29 2026 | Joohn Choe
These are the most prevalent and popular Facebook right-wing influencer narratives as of Monday, September 29 2026. These are the most popul
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Nearly every automaker sent data to outside companies. ...personally identifiable information, including names and precise geographic locations [to data brokers and marketers/ads]" "Features sometimes won’t function without agreeing to this."
consumerreports.org
Your Car Is Sharing Data With Big Tech Companies, Study Finds - Consumer Reports
New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They've already cut grants for women's health issue research, because we're not really human. In addition, it's clear that the Administration thinks that education CREATES liberals, so they're restricting it any way they can, including restricting student loans.
science.org
Yet Another Attempt to Strangle Scientific Funding
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“There is the possibility that they are baffled by the data,” Loeb told me. “Or,” he added, his voice trailing off, “it could be they are using me.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
Trump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.
The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have friends harmed by working at game companies. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
The video game industry is brutal. Now it's unionizing.
Workers at Microsoft's flagship game studio have won a landmark contract after years of fighting.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thousands of "pet owners around the world have begun training domesticated animals to use Augmentative Interspecies Communication devices, contributing to the first ever large-scale study on interspecies communication." Introducing a new global citizen science approach to interspecies communication
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In addition, Louisiana has school dress codes that specifically prevent images from certain religions. thesatanictemple.com/blogs/news/t...
thesatanictemple.com
The Satanic Temple Files Federal Lawsuit After Iowa Denies Equal Access to State Capitol
Read the court documents: Complaint Plaintiffs' Motion For Preliminary Injunction Brief in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion For Preliminary Injunction Exhibits Civil Rights Complaint   For three years, I...
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pick from an artifically-narrow menu of religions which does not include Atheist (and many others) any longer. www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2026/09/mrff...
militaryreligiousfreedom.org
MRFF Condemns Unconstitutional USAF And USSF Order Forcing All Airmen and Guardians to Choose a “Standardized” Belief System – Lead Story on Military.com — Video Response from Mikey Weinstein
“Previously, when updating my emergency data, atheist was always an option,” the individual, a MRFF client, told Military.com on Saturday. “But it didn’t take long to see that it was purposely exclude...
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“In a field known for its creativity, science fiction and fantasy has let its readers, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, down. But I am happy to say this is changing, and it’s mostly changing because readers are getting to hear a lot of great Indigenous voices telling their own stories in the genre.”
reactormag.com
Five Indigenous Speculative Fiction Authors You Should Be Reading - Reactor
Let’s face it, Native Americans/First Nations characters don’t show up very often in mainstream science fiction and fantasy stories, and when they do, they’re often plagued by stereotypes. They’re mon...
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“To explicitly say that the US has an on-orbit weapon was very much not expected,” says Victoria Samson, chief director of space security and stability at the Secure World Foundation in Washington D.C.” There’s a Space Weapon Circling the Planet. Here's What We Know. - National Geographic
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There’s a Space Weapon Circling the Planet. Here's What We Know. — National Geographic
Orbital weapons have implications for both space junk and diplomacy.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI: Top Execs Knew Their Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal And Would Put Authors Out of Work
(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their p...
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I would like a lot more of Rocky’s voce/ chief puppeteer (James Ortiz) doing improv on set. He said he did a lot of it with Ryan between takes. “the initial “assembly” cut of Project Hail Mary was almost four hours long”
reactormag.com
Project Hail Mary Deleted Scenes Include a Fascinating Grace and Rocky Theory From the Book - Reactor
The Project Hail Mary deleted scenes restore one of the book's most fascinating theories
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t know how I feel about this. deadline.com/2026/07/liza...
deadline.com
'Lizard Music' Movie Cast Adds Alicia Silverstone & Tim Heidecker
'Lizard Music' has added Alicia Silverstone and comedian Tim Heidecker to its cast. Benny Safdie is directing the book adaptation for Amazon MGM/UA.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Great to see an angel depicted Biblically!
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'Those states [which have left the agreement] have kneecapped their ability to maintain accurate voter lists and combat fraud, in service of conspiracy theorists who seem more concerned with raising money and diminishing American election integrity than actually contributing anything substantial.”
motherjones.com
States already have a good way to ensure election integrity—and MAGA hates it
The rejection of ERIC by GOP officials has, ironically, undermined their own voting systems.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Also we need automatic hand recounts . www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
detroitnews.com
Sending armed ICE agents to polling places would be a federal crime, lawsuit says
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., comes eight days before in-person early voting begins in some states.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think movie sucess statements "biggest movie EVER" should be based on tickets sold vs. the population in question, not money. Inflation means that statements based on unadjusted box office revenue are useless. Occasionally we see inflation-adjusted figures, but it's rare.
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Kirk Hamilton @kirkhamilton.com · 03/09/2026
I'm so excited to announce 'Definitely Fiction,' a new podcast about books! I'm making the show with my good friend Sam Parrish, and we're kicking it off with a series on The Vorkosigan Saga, a fantastic collection of Sci-Fi novels by the great Lois McMaster Bujold. More here:
kirksnotes.com
Announcing 'Definitely Fiction' - A Podcast About Books
We're kicking it off with a fantastic sci-fi series
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Katie Phang News interviewed a woman who said that she voted for Obama for his first 4 years, because he was an Outsider. But when the second election came around, she said he no longer counted as an Outsider, so she voted for someone else. This behavior dooms the US to everlasting inconsistency.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I hate the construction "What if I told you..." Just effing TELL ME. None of this contrived framing in an attempt to increase drama. Get to the point. It will stand on its own or it won't.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's now cool enough so I can again use my Elvish wool shawl from NZ! The Fellowship cloaks were made of this fabric by Stansborough; while you can buy a cloak from them, it's very expensive. Buy a wood-grain wool* and have a circle cloak made locally. Lord of the Rings/Tolkien * buy moth traps
Two pictures show a broken wool twill in dark grey and white, producing a light grey fabric with a distinctive grain pattern reminiscent of woodgrain or leaves.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Either you're subject to US jurisdiction or you're not. … Impeach everyone who is responsible for this defiance of the Supreme Court.”
DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION STUDIES AT THE CATO INSTITUTE

@David J Bier
DHS just issued an interim final rule, stating that any child born here to a foreign government employee is not a US citizen because they are not subject to US jurisdiction "for purposes of birthright citizenship." 
HA! Sorry. That's not a thing... Either you're subject to US jurisdiction or you're not. You don't get to say
"subject to all US laws, except for birthright citizenship, so we can still prosecute you for crimes." Impeach everyone who is responsible for this defiance of the Supreme Court.

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(a) Person born to a foreign government employee -(1) Status of person. A person born in the United States to a foreign government employee is not subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States for purposes of birthright citizenship, unless at least one
parent of the person is a United States citizen. That person is not a United States citizen
under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Such a person may be considered a
lawful permanent resident at birth.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Anthropic appears to be building a broader surveillance system to monitor activists who oppose the rapid growth of AI, according to job postings and interviews with senior security staff." futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities
The AI lab is reportedly building out a dragnet not just to surveil protestors, but to predict "threat engagement" before it happens.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Invented in the 1970s. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
yahoo.com
The fight over the ‘Obama switch’ shows how Trump weaponizes minor irritations
From low-flow showers to stop-start engines, the president turns his annoyances into indictments.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is so corrupt, and unconstitutional that it's breatthaking. www.axios.com/2026/08/27/t...
axios.com
Trump is pulling every lever to reshape U.S. elections
A fight over USPS is only one part of Trump's campaign to change how elections operate.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalond: Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death." Women have fewer rights than men; fewer rights NOW than we did a few years ago.
Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalond... Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime.
That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death."
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This should be nigh-automatic impeachment and removal. Trump is pulling every lever to reshape U.S. elections www.axios.com/2026/08/27/t...
axios.com
Trump is pulling every lever to reshape U.S. elections
A fight over USPS is only one part of Trump's campaign to change how elections operate.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Regency VR? The shape is right for a headset, aside from not projecting 4” forward…
Screencap of an episode of Bridgerton: sketch of a lady at a ba ll wearing a mask that is quite close to the shape of a VR headset.
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Charley S 🐈☕️🍩🎲🏳️‍🌈 @sees.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm sick of headlines implying age was the main issue of this campaign when they should say, "Proven Progressive Senator Easily Defeats Opportunistic Centrist Challenger" I don't love that Markey's 80, but his age wasn't going to make me vote for Moulton, whose policies change with the wind.
Headline for an article from Time Magazine which reads, "80-Year-Old Senator Ed Markey Holds Off Younger Challenger in Democratic Primary" and shows a picture of Markey in a blue suit with his arms outstretched in front of flags a supporters holding "Power to the People" signs.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On the scale of Gross Things To Clean, scrubbing years of aerosolized cooking oil off of kitchen furnishings is nearly as unpleasant as cleaning infant bottoms. And it goes on for MUCH longer.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is your occasional reminder that medieval unicorns are NOT horses. They are closer to deer, or goats. I'm fairly sure that "Unicorn = Horse with Horn" is a relatively recent* misunderstanding. It may have started due to contagion with "Pegasus = Horse With Wings." *recent = 100-150 years
The sense of Touch, from the series Lady and the Unicorn (French: La Dame à la licorne) 3.15 m × 3.58 m, circa 1500, on display in the Musée de Cluny in Paris.
The image shows a white lady in a blue brocade dress holding a flag on a pole with one hand, and the horn of a unicorn with the other.  The unicorn's head is at thigh level, with the horn reaching from up to chest level.
There is also a lion, a rabbit, a monkey, a dog, and other animals in the red millefleur background, as well as several small trees.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fans of Swordheart/ Daggerbound AUDIO-books: There apparently was a decision to have the internal character monologues be rendered more quietly in Daggerbound than the rest of the book. If you are listening, suddenly there will be vague mumbling. CustSvc is useless on the topic. @tkingfisher.com
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is like talking about lung cancer without mentioning cigarettes. “absent from the event’s three days of speeches on water policy was the reason why the situation on the Colorado River is bad and getting worse: human-caused climate change.”
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What climate science tells us about the causes of the Colorado River crisis — Colorado Newsline
Elected officials from across Colorado’s political spectrum continued a 68-year-old tradition last week when they took to the stage at the annual summer conference of the Colorado Water Congress in St...
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com was worth the bookshelf space (which is scarce with all our bookshelves stuffed to the gills, if shelves had gills, but if they did, they’d look a lot like book pages, don’t you think? Halla’s cousin caught a fish once, and it had scales, not like the Rat’s…
Photo shows three books by T. Kingfisher on a bookshelf, with a silver tagine in front, a sword-shaped cocktail-skewer array, an Intell bunnysuit beanie from the 1990s, and a mysterious vegetable-adjacent item.
I keep a lot of tchotchkes on the shelves to keep the books company.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
nytimes.com
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Trump administration is withholding funds for first responders in Nashville unless the city adopts its preferred election and ballot-counting procedures.
nashvillebanner.com
Nashville sues feds over election-linked FEMA grant cuts - Nashville Banner
Nashville is part of a lawsuit against the federal government that alleges DHS grant conditions tied to election administration rules is unconstitutional.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Independent reporting of facts is threatened
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A filter with a MERV13 rating is about $24 from a big box store; a square floor fan is about $22. Image from Your Local Epidemiologist
Image: drawing of a MERV13 filter taped to a square floor fan. 
Text: Your Local Epidemiologist
 Low-cost air cleaner
WHAT YOU NEED:
• 20" x 20" box fan
• 20"x 20"x 2"MERV13 or higher rated (i.e. HEPA)
filter
• Duct tape
HOW TO ASSEMBLE:
• Attach the filter to the back of the fan with duct tape. The filter's air flow should be going in to the unit.
• Place on a small table.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This size particles get into your brain and cause problems. Wear a KN95 mask outside, use filtraton inside. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/when-wildf...
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
When wildfire smoke hits home
With a son on the fire line, what I’ve learned about protecting the air we breathe.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In an extremely rare move, a federal judge in MN orders the Trump DOJ to turnover ALL of its grand jury materials for her review in the case against Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, & others. Why this ruling puts the Trump DOJ in the spotlight for prosecutorial misconduct: youtu.be/pRf432N9A50?...
youtu.be
Trump DOJ FACES BOMBSHELL Review In Don Lemon Case After Judge's SHOCKING RULING!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Election Truth Alliance @electiontruthalliance.org · 18/08/2026
Federal voting machine researchers found vulnerabilities with critical equipment used during the 2020 U.S. election, but could not yet verify if they were exploited. Their work abruptly ended after Trump ally pushed back on their findings. #Cybersecurity #ItsUpToUs #VerifyTheVote #TruthMatters
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"The ruling is the first by a federal judge to recognize a constitutional right to abortion in ​certain circumstances since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
reuters.com
Idaho must allow abortions to preserve women's health, US judge rules
A U.S. judge has ruled that Idaho's near-total abortion ban is unconstitutional because it provides exceptions when abortions are ​life-saving and not for broader risks to pregnant women's health.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Planning to sell sunlight at night. darksky.org/news/darksky...
darksky.org
DarkSky and Allies Ask the FCC to Reverse Its Approval of the Reflect Orbital “Space Mirror”
On August 6, 2026, DarkSky International filed a formal Application for Review asking the full FCC to reverse its Space Bureau’s approval of Reflect Orbital Inc.’s Earendil-1 satellite.
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
No trials, no evidence = murder. "asserted repeatedly and without evidence that the boat strike victims, who now number more than 220, were “narcoterrorists.”" theintercept.com/2026/08/11/w...
theintercept.com
“Total Whitewash”: New Pentagon Report Claims U.S. Killed No Civilians in Boat Strikes
Government officials told The Intercept the War Department’s latest civilian casualty report was “sickening” and a “joke.”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/08/2026
Damn those Democrats and their sinister plot to… improve people’s lives.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
⚠️ GREENLAND GAMBIT UNDERWAY? “An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities.”
theguardian.com
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Other articles say the drone was controlled through the cell phone network. www.reuters.com/world/german...
reuters.com
Bus driver kicked explosive drone out of the air at German airport, lawmaker says
A bus driver knocked an explosive-laden drone out of the air, potentially preventing an ‌attack this week at a German airport that serves as a major NATO and cargo logistics hub, a senior lawmaker sai...
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CV @redmeanshelp.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Apparently the US has used up oodles of heavy munitions in the illegal war. Did it get started to boost the fortunes of his buddies that sell munitions?
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