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Former kit manager sues Arsenal after being sacked for anti-Israel comments
(www.theguardian.com)
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How does it feel that your name is just flipped Lando Carlrissian
I was addicted to vape during the Juul days. It was just so easy to buy from nearby 711. So easy to bring to work and smoke outside, without lingering smell of cigs. At one point I was smoking 2 Juul pods a day, which is nicotine intake of 2 cig packs a day. Only managed to "quit" becaue Juul got banned and I moved to vape mods. At one time the addiction became so expensive, and I was so sick of paying for shitty leaky pods where the wick just burnt out and taste horrible I moved onto RDA type vape where you have to make the coil and the wick yourself to save money. The RDA vape was such a lifesaver, because you can't continuously and mindlessly inhale, you have to prep the wire, wet the wick before each inhale. I managed to eventually quit because it was just too much of a hassle. So the lesson is switch to RDA vape, it worked at least for me.
Anakin "killin' younglings"just like me FRFR
Yours truly future school shooter
Also, what happened to our chudjak emoji?
State of political discourse in America
Your guy's wife is ugly
Your guy's wife is a sl*t
Anglo engineering at its finest
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The virgin former real estate salesman president vs. the chad former war criminal president
I'm the one who platformed Dave Rubin and Jimmy Dore
I will not apologize
Good thing is once the hurricane made landfall, people will forget about the initial (bad) forecast. FEMA and their inevitable bungling of disaster response will take the brunt of the blame.
They basically fired bunch of people saying that "your work does not align with current agency priorities" then open the same position with much much lower salary. Of course they are struggling to fill positions. The worst thing about this is once they gutted enough core functions, people will complain that the service is shitty (e.g., social security, medicaid, VA service), then the agency public approval will go down and we will get gutted even more - creating a vicious circle. As it stands currently the National Weather Service (NWS) which is under NOAA is the fed agency with 2nd highest national approval rating, we are only losing to the National Forest Service which is equally beloved by Republicans and Dems.
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Coming up June-November 2025: prepare for the worst hurricane season forecast in living memory
(hexbear.net)
The 155 vacancies the agency is seeking to fill by May 27 include key weather forecasting positions at offices in coastal Texas and Louisiana that could soon face hurricane threats when the Atlantic season begins in a few weeks. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the weather service’s parent agency, is also asking large numbers of meteorologists to move to offices in Alaska and across the northern Plains in Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota. Without the transfers, there are fears that some offices could struggle to monitor weather threats, issue aviation forecasts and launch weather balloons around-the-clock, according to current and former weather service officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for the agency. Agency officials did not immediately respond to questions from The Post.
The solicitations lay bare how significantly the Trump administration has whittled away the corps of public servants responsible for the forecasting, warnings and information that can protect lives and property when extreme weather strikes. An estimated 500 National Weather Service employees have taken early retirements or been fired this year, out of a staff that numbered more than 4,200 before President Donald Trump began his second term, the officials said. But the action is spurring some hope that, after five months of efforts to cut staff, administration officials are heeding concerns that the nation could now be less prepared for major storms or other events, said Brian LaMarre, who retired from the weather service last month after a career that included 17 years as meteorologist in charge of the forecasting office in Tampa, Florida.
The number of vacancies underscores how in the administration’s efforts to streamline government and boost efficiency it may be threatening core agency functions, he said. “We’ve got to be careful on how much efficiency we’re looking for,” said LaMarre, who had been working on a National Weather Service initiative to reinvent the agency’s staffing model. “The more efficient we make something, sometimes it becomes less effective.”
Such requests for transfers have always been relatively common at such a large agency but never covered so many positions and rarely included an offer of moving expenses, the officials who spoke with The Post said. The vacant positions include 76 meteorologists, including rank-and-file forecasters as well as the managers who run each of the service’s 122 forecast offices around the country. Other roles include technicians and analysts who are essential to keeping agency radar and computer systems running.
On the Gulf Coast, the Lake Charles, Louisiana, office needs a meteorologist-in-charge and two senior meteorologists. In the forecasting office that oversees the Houston region, the agency is also seeking a meteorologist-in-charge and a senior meteorologist.
The office in Fairbanks, Alaska, needs five meteorologists. The Hanford, California, office is seeking four meteorologists, an electronics systems analyst, an electronics technician and an information technology officer. An office in Goodland, Kansas, needs three senior meteorologists, while several offices in Arkansas, Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming are seeking two senior meteorologists. Offices overseeing the Cleveland and Cincinnati regions are seeking a meteorologist-in-charge.
NOAA is asking four meteorologists to move to the U.S. territory of Guam to fill forecasting positions there.
"Maybe"
Palestinians = prisoners
Israelis = hostages
Merriam-Adelson-Webster dictionary, look it up
Learn more about Mosab Abu Toha
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When a country with highest incarceration rate is also a country with worst public transport
(hexbear.net)
Rebecca Jaramillo stepped out of the Santa Fe jail and into the cold one night in January 2021. After two days in a cell, she was free, but no one was there to pick her up. So, with a snowstorm coming, she began the long walk toward town.
The jail in Santa Fe, surrounded by barbed wire and tumbleweed, sits on a remote stretch of highway far from the city’s bustling plaza and historic churches. It is nearly two miles down the highway to the closest gas station, three miles to where a sidewalk starts and eight miles to the nearest homeless shelter.
Ms. Jaramillo, 33, made it only about a mile from the jail that night before she was hit by a sheriff’s deputy driving a police pickup truck at 57 miles per hour. Her body was thrown more than 100 feet, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
of course it has to be a cop driving a pickup truck
BRO LOOK AT THE STATE OF YOUR STATE ORANGE CHEETO IN DA HOUSE
Joined by North Korean generals and the leaders of China and Brazil, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Friday marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany with a Red Square military parade designed to place Moscow at the vanguard of a rising, non-Western world order.
The parade — at one point featuring drones used in Ukraine being trucked past the stands to the tune of a military band — punctuated a geopolitical moment for Mr. Putin in which Moscow’s global fortunes seem to be rising thanks to the Russia-friendly approach taken by President Trump.
But despite Mr. Trump’s apparent openness to dealing with Mr. Putin, no senior American officials were known to be in attendance at the Victory Day parade, the annual patriotic high point on Russia’s calendar. The two leaders congratulated each other via aides, the Kremlin said, according to Russian state media. Instead, Mr. Putin was joined by more than 20 foreign leaders from countries that largely position themselves as neutral or hostile to the West.
During the parade, Russian state television showed Mr. Putin bantering with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, seated next to him. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia were also in attendance. Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia was the only leader from a European Union country. Afterward, the television cameras followed Mr. Putin as he shook hands with North Korean generals, who saluted him in their medal-spangled dress uniforms.
The Kremlin has sought to show the large number of foreign dignitaries as evidence of Russia’s global clout despite Western efforts to isolate Mr. Putin after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Trade with China has helped keep Russia’s economy afloat, while North Korean troops helped Russia drive Ukrainian troops out of the swath of Russian territory that Ukraine captured last year.
In a speech at the parade, Mr. Putin referred only briefly to the continuing war in Ukraine, saying that Russia has been engaged in a “righteous fight,” and that “the whole country, society and people support the participants of the special military operation,” using the phrase the Kremlin uses to describe the war.
Speaking from stands fit with a large roof apparently designed to protect from drone attacks, Mr. Putin linked the country’s past victories with its current conflicts. A regiment of 1,500 Russian troops taking part in the war marched through the square.
“Our fathers bequeathed to us to firmly defend our national interests, our thousand-year-old history, culture and traditional values,” said Mr. Putin, whose father fought in the world war.
But three years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the display of military might did not reflect Russia’s record on the current battlefield. The country’s military has not achieved a decisive victory in Ukraine, and has made only incremental gains in recent months. The Russian economy has also been slowing because of falling oil prices and interest rates that have been kept high as the country tries to tame inflation.
The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, did not attend the parade, and North Korean troops did not march through the square as many had expected they would. Several North Korean generals watched the parade from the stands. At the end of the parade, Mr. Putin approached them and could be heard saying “thank you very much,” an apparent reference to North Korea’s role in Kursk. Image People in red and navy blue military attire near red and yellow flags. Russian service members participating in the parade. The event is being used to highlight Russia’s past glories and justify the war with Ukraine.Credit...Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters
Overall, more than 11,500 servicemen and women took part in the parade, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Among them was a regiment of Chinese troops, and troops from some Moscow-friendly former Soviet nations.
In recent decades, the May 9 Victory Day holiday has served as a rare, unifying commemoration in Russia and across the former Soviet Union, given that some 27 million Soviets perished in World War II. But Mr. Putin has stoked divisions by trying to use the Soviet triumph in 1945 to legitimize his invasion of Ukraine, where Russia, the Kremlin falsely claims, is fighting “Nazis.”
Heavy-handed security measures were introduced across Moscow on Friday; the entire city center was blocked for traffic and metro stations were shut down in the vicinity of the Kremlin. Access to the internet has been sporadic, including through landlines. Many in Russia feared that Ukraine could use one of its long-distance drones to strike the city on the day of the parade, especially after a Ukrainian drone attack forced the closure of all four major Moscow airports earlier this week.
Friday’s parade was the biggest since the invasion of Ukraine, according to numbers provided by the Russian Defense Ministry. More than 180 military vehicles, including tanks, howitzers and nuclear missile launchers, rolled through the square, the ministry said. Last year’s parade featured only one tank — a Soviet-era model — along with other military equipment.
This year’s parade ended with a flyover of Russian jets.
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In retrospect, Luke and Leia's behavior in ANH were unhinged. Luke had his entire livelihood, his surrogate parents (Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru) incinerated into skeletons. Leia had her entire planet nuked into stardust by the Death Star. They both shrugged these off and just went to happy-go-lucky banter adventure with Han and Chewie.