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05 August 2025 10:06

🇺🇸 Millions of Californians, from the Bay Area to parts of Southern California, have likely just lived through the coldest first two months of summer in their lifetime.

All areas highlighted in dark blue have recorded their coolest June 1–August 1 period on record since the dataset began in 1979.

Petaluma, in the North Bay, has had weather more typical of Fairbanks, Alaska, this summer.

San Francisco has seen just two days above 70°F since June 1.

Monterey’s highest temperature this summer has been 71°F. Every other summer on record since World War II has had at least one day reach 74°F or higher.

Lompoc, on the Central Coast, is having its coldest summer so far since 1971.

🔗 Colin McCarthy

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05 August 2025 08:44

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced today that the Russian Armed Forces will no longer abide by “self-imposed restrictions” under the Short-Range and Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), which banned the deployment of nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and missile launchers with ranges of 1,000–5,500 km (620–3,420 mi) and 500–1,000 kilometers (310–620 mi).

The United States under President Donald J. Trump suspended participation and eventually withdrew from the treaty in August 2019, due to reported “non-compliance” by Russia. Russia also announced their suspension of the treaty in February 2019. Since then, NATO and Russia have both ramped up their development of ground-based missile systems, such as the “Typhon” Strategic Mid-range Fires System (SMRF) and the “Dark Eagle” Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW).

🔗 OSINTdefender

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05 August 2025 08:01

🇺🇸📝 At NOVA, we believe in taking care of our people in times of disaster.
When the government lets us down, it's that much more important to get involved.

🔗 NOVA

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05 August 2025 07:13

🇨🇳/🇺🇸🛢 China rejects US demands to halt Russian, Iranian oil imports

China is pushing back against U.S. demands to stop purchasing oil from Russia and Iran, the Associated Press reported on Aug. 4.

Beijing insists it will continue to secure its energy supplies based on national interests despite pressure from Washington and the threat of punitive tariffs.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose secondary sanctions on Russia's oil buyers, unless Moscow agrees on a ceasefire before Aug. 8.

https://kyivindependent.com/china-rejects-us-demands-to-halt-russian-iranian-oil-imports/

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05 August 2025 00:49

🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸 - They still might do it. They're just not saying it out loud right now.

An original guidance from DHS explicitly stated that federal disaster funding was barred from states that allowed boycott of Israel. The WH changed this explicit language after widespread outcry BUT the DHS tweet makes it clear the admin reserves the right to deny these funds on BDS grounds based on the Anti-Boycott Act

🔗 Saagar Enjeti

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04 August 2025 21:53

🇺🇸🇮🇱 The Trump admin decision to withhold disaster relief funds is even more insane than I thought: It extends a ban on disaster funds from our tax dollars to anyone who refuses to deal with "Israeli companies"

🔗 Saagar Enjeti

📝 Based and Brave: American disaster victims will now get punished because they don’t support a foreign government? Totally normal. Totally constitutional.

No foreign nation should dictate how OUR disaster aid is distributed.

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04 August 2025 20:01

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇵🇸 BREAKING: The United States has given Israel the green light to initiate 'powerful military actions' in Gaza, and likely to annex / indefinitely occupy parts of the Gaza Strip – Yedioth Ahronoth

@Middle_East_Spectator

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04 August 2025 19:31

🇮🇳❌🇺🇸 The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs pushed back against the criticism coming from the US and European Union for continuing to purchase Russian oil.

The Indian MFA reminded that the US continues to trade with Russia and imports Russian uranium, palladium, hexafluoride, fertilizers and other metals and minerals.

The Indian MFA also reminded that the EU, despite years of promises of stopping imports of Russian oil & gas still continues to import these resources.

New Dehli claims that because of this EU demand to buy oil from other countries left India no choice but to abandon its traditional suppliers in the Middle East and trade with Russia.

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04 August 2025 19:25

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hillel Biton Rosen, of Israeli Channel 14, says the decision to annex Gaza entirely has not yet been made. Rosen says the majority of the cabinet approved the plan. The decision will be made tomorrow, in a follow-up security cabinet meeting at the Kirya.

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04 August 2025 19:11

🇺🇸 U.S. president, Donald Trump, was booed at the WWE SummerSlam 2025 on MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

📝 Trump is losing his populist magic. These are the consequences of becoming Israel first over America First.

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04 August 2025 18:37

🇮🇱🇺🇸 After being dropped by AIPAC for repeated calls to starve out the population of Gaza, U.S. congressman, Randy Fine, has gone to Jerusalem to pray at the Roman Wall (Wailing Wall).

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04 August 2025 18:24

🇺🇸🇮🇱 The Trump administration has said states and cities will not receive funding to prepare for natural disasters if they choose to boycott Israeli companies, according to FEMA.

States must certify that they will not cut off “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies” to receive the money from the FEMA, according to the agency’s terms for grantees.

📝 Mel: Cities and States can boycott American companies all day long…but if they boycott Israeli companies, the Trump administration will cut off their federal funding.

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04 August 2025 18:14

🇮🇱 Netanyahu moves to fire attorney general prosecuting him for corruption

Why it matters: This is the first time an Israeli government has ever voted to fire an attorney general. The move sparked immediate accusations Netanyahu was seeking to protect himself and his aides.

Before the cabinet vote, the supreme court told the government this procedure for firing the attorney general was inappropriate and made clear it would issue an injunction if it passed.

While the supreme court is likely to rule against the government, Netanyahu and his loyalists pushed this move to rally their political base, delegitimize the attorney general and put pressure on her to resign.

🔗 https://archive.ph/H4KT5

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04 August 2025 17:04

🇮🇳 For decades, India has been known as a young nation.

With over 65% of its population below 35, the country has traditionally enjoyed a demographic advantage that has fuelled its economic engine. But the tide is turning—quickly.

Already, 10.5% of India’s population, or about 150 million people, are over 60. By 2050, this number is set to reach 380 million (or 21% of the total population). To put that in perspective, India’s elderly population alone will surpass the current population of the United States. In fact, CBRE estimates that India will account for 17% of the world’s senior citizens.

Is India ready? Does it have the facilities/infrastructure/healthcare? Will it open up more employment opportunities to people above 60 and raise its retirement age in govt and private sector? Are there enough senior living communities? Are there adequate social clubs and activities? Are the current pensions adequate?

🔗 https://www.marketbrew.in/weekly-insights/young-to-ageing-indian-population

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04 August 2025 15:44

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces continued their offensive on Kupyansk and have reached the city centre.

Russian forces advanced in two areas. In the east, they pushed south down the highway, clearing houses on Lenina Street, while significantly advancing in the area of Michurina Street.

In the west, Russian forces cleared the rest of the western industrial zone, and crossed the Kupyanka River into central Moskovka, establishing a bridgehead on its western bank in two different residential streets.

Russian forces have rapidly reached the city centre from the north, and are now just 1.5km from the main bridge over the Oskil River connecting the Ukrainian bridgehead on its eastern bank - including in eastern Kupyansk - to the rest of Kharkiv Oblast.

Once this highway is cut, all supplies into the pocket will have to go via a bridge to the south in Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, or over pontoon bridges (although this brings its own separate issues). This creates a bottle neck that can easily be targeted, which will naturally result in the collapse of the bridgehead, the alignment of the front along the river, and a refocusing of efforts to complete the capture of the city and the surrounding areas.

Supply is already difficult for the AFU in the bridgehead, and the only thing preventing the current Russian assault operations there from achieving breakthroughs is the natural obstacles and significant fortification that lie in Russia's way.

While the fall of Kupyansk may not be imminent, there is a real threat of this northern bridge being cut, which will undoubtably create massive problems for Ukrainian forces in the area.

🔗 AMK Mapping

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05 August 2025 09:46

🇺🇸 Massive, mysterious ‘hot blob’ beneath Eastern US is moving toward New York, puzzling scientists

UK scientists have discovered a massive “blob” of rock underneath the Appalachian mountains that’s slowly oozing its way toward New York City, per a slimy new study published in the journal Geology.

“This thermal upwelling has long been a puzzling feature of North American geology,” the study’s lead author, Tom Gernon, Professor of Earth Science at the University of Southampton, said in a statement.

Officially dubbed the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), this subterranean slimeball sits 125 feet deep underground and extends 220 miles across New England. The team reportedly discovered it using seismic tomography, a method akin to taking a giant CAT scan of the Earth.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/04/science/mysterious-underground-blob-of-superhot-rock-moving-toward-nyc/

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05 August 2025 08:23

🇺🇸📝 If the United States government refuses to help my people.

I will continue helping them myself.

🔗 PNWGUERILLA

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05 August 2025 07:40

🇮🇪🇮🇳 In 2023, Ireland issued the second highest number of residence permits to Indian nationals in the entire European Union

🔗 Séamus Mac an Bháird

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05 August 2025 06:26

⚖️👨‍⚖⛓😎 — #BREAKING: Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) to be placed under house arrest this Monday (4). The decision was made after the judge found that Bolsonaro had violated precautionary measures previously imposed by the Court.

According to Moraes, the former president posted content — he made a phone call which was broadcast at a public demonstration — on his son's social media accounts that violated court-ordered restrictions. The justice pointed out that Bolsonaro acted deliberately to circumvent the STF's decisions.

"Jair Messias Bolsonaro's conduct, deliberately disregarding the decisions handed down by this Supreme Court, demonstrates the need and appropriateness of more severe measures to prevent the defendant from continuing to commit crimes, even with the imposition of precautionary measures other than imprisonment"

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05 August 2025 00:49

‼️🇺🇸🇮🇱 The Trump Administration has removed the language requiring states not allow the boycotting of Israel to be eligible for disaster funds

The section "Discriminatory prohibited boycott means refusing to deal, cutting commercial relations, or otherwise limiting commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies or with companies doing business in or with Israel or authorized by, licensed by, or organized under the laws of Israel to do business" has been removed.

It still bars recipients from operating programs that benefit illegal immigrants.

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04 August 2025 20:01

—❗️🇮🇱/🇵🇸 BREAKING: Itay Blumenthal, Israeli war correspondent for Channel 11, confirms that Netanyahu has decided to indefinitely occupy Gaza, and possibly to annex it formally 'when time allows'

@Middle_East_Spectator

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04 August 2025 19:37

🇮🇳🇷🇺🛢 India's crude oil imports by source!

There is NO replacement for Russian oil. End of story

🔗 Anas Alhaji

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04 August 2025 19:25

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu's Press Office has announced a security cabinet meeting for tomorrow, confirming Hillel Biton Rosen's report.

No decision on the Gaza annexation plan has been made yet - it will be made tomorrow.

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04 August 2025 19:25

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is threatening to resign if the security cabinet go ahead with the Gaza annexation plan.

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04 August 2025 19:04

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 Amit Segal, reporter for Israeli TV Channel 12:

A senior official in Netanyahu's office: We are going to conquer the Gaza Strip - the decision has been made. Hamas will not release any more hostages without total surrender, we will not surrender. If we do not act now, the hostages will die of hunger - and Gaza will remain under Hamas control

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04 August 2025 18:33

🇨🇳 It appears China has flown a 3rd type of 6th gen tailless fighter design.

It isn't clear if this is manned or unmanned.

Man or unmanned, it is clearly a supersonic, ultra-stealthy air combat aircraft.

🔗 Zhao DaShuai

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04 August 2025 18:21

🇮🇱🤝📱 Israel pressured X/Twitter to remove the blue checkmark from the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese.

Albanese has criticised repeatedly Israel's massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, called for cessation of hostilities and for Israel to end the apartheid regime against the Palestinian Arabs and integrate them into Israeli society.

These calls drew her the wrath of the Israel lobby who has started a campaign to slander Francesca Albanese's name, discrediting her work and seeking her removal as the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.

Recently, Foreign Secretary, Marco Rubio, had Albanese sanctioned as part of Israel's push to avoid any accountability for the systematic murder and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

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04 August 2025 17:06

🇮🇳🇨🇳 No, India is not ready to deal with the consequences. That’s why migration is inserted into nearly every trade deal it negotiates. The West is seen not as a partner, but as a pressure valve for India’s surplus of unemployed youth.

The West, especially the US, has spent several decades as a safety valve for India and China's overproduced elites. Now our grad job market is coming to resemble theirs'. Not good.

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04 August 2025 16:58

🇰🇷 How Excessive Use of C-Sections is Hurting Fertility in Korea and Around the World

In Korea, an incredible 59% of deliveries are by C-section. This is one cause of South Korea's low birthrates since C-sections significantly lower the number of births a woman will have.

These rates in Korea and other countries are far above international guidelines for best maternal and neonatal outcomes (around 10-15 C-sections per 100 births).

Where rates of C-section are high, fertility tends to be much lower, by ~ 1/3 birth/woman in advanced countries.

The same relationship holds for US states. Although the variation in the rate of C-sections is just 23% to 38%, we still see that a higher rate of C-sections is linked to fewer births.

Numerous studies have confirmed this relationship. But why?

Demographer Lyman Stone explains how C-sections reduce future fertility

First, studies find the ability to conceive is reduced after a C-section, likely because of scar tissue in the uterus.

Second, doctors advise women to avoid becoming pregnant again after 2-3 C-sections

But what is going on with Korea? Why are doctors performing so many C-sections in South Korea when they are so damaging to a woman's future fertility?

Is this medically necessary? Mostly no. The prevalence of C-sections in South Korea looks random.

The reason for excessive C-sections is money.

In Korea, doctors are compensated very little for vaginal delivery (one fifth to one third of similar countries). Combined with lawsuit risk, profitability for obstetricians was low.

Many OBs went out of business. Many others increased profitability through C-sections.

🔗 More Births

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04 August 2025 15:33

🇬🇧📝 eigenrobot on X: 26yo british protester dead in police custody

no matter what the investigation finds no one, reasonably, is likely to believe it

expect it's probably low grade civil war for britain for the foreseeable future

🔗 eigenrobot