The Political Thread

[Grim]

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[Chris]

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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/28/live-updates-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-sentencing.html

Was about the crypto bro

 

[Chris]

New Pollution Rules Aim to Lift Sales of Electric Trucks

The latest in a string of ambitious climate regulations aims to clean up the heaviest polluters on the road. But truckers are worried.

www.nytimes.com

The Biden administration on Friday announced a regulation designed to turbocharge sales of electric or other zero-emission heavy vehicles, from school buses to cement mixers, as part of its multifront attack on global warming.

 

[Chris]

Heart Pump Is Linked to 49 Deaths, the F.D.A. Warns

The agency faulted the device maker for delayed notice of mounting complications, citing increasing reports of how use of the device perforated the walls of the heart.

www.nytimes.com

A troubled heart pump that has now been linked to 49 deaths and dozens of injuries worldwide will be allowed to remain in use, despite the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to issue an alert about the risk that it could puncture a wall of the heart.

 

[Comrade Khan]

New Pollution Rules Aim to Lift Sales of Electric Trucks

The latest in a string of ambitious climate regulations aims to clean up the heaviest polluters on the road. But truckers are worried.

www.nytimes.com

The Biden administration on Friday announced a regulation designed to turbocharge sales of electric or other zero-emission heavy vehicles, from school buses to cement mixers, as part of its multifront attack on global warming.

But the ppl mad at tik tok talks told me they do nothing about real problems

 

[Samoa Looch]

For those, who can't see tweets

Spoiler

 

[Chris]

Hospitals Must Get Written Patient Consent for Pelvic Exams, H.H.S. Says

In a letter to teaching hospitals, the federal health agency said that institutions could lose Medicare funding if they didn’t comply.

www.nytimes.com

The Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that hospitals must obtain written informed consent from patients before they undergo sensitive examinations — like pelvis and prostate exams — especially if the patients will be under anesthesia.

A New York Times investigation in 2020 found that hospitals, doctors and doctors in training sometimes conducted pelvic exams on women who were under anesthesia, even when those exams were not medically necessary and when the patient had not authorized them. Sometimes these exams were done only for the educational benefit of medical trainees.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Good new rule, disturbing reason why it had to be put into place

 

[Chris]

Syria says an Israeli airstrike has destroyed Iran's consulate building in Damascus, killing or wounding all inside

Syria says an Israeli airstrike has destroyed Iran's consulate building in Damascus, killing or wounding all inside

abcnews.go.com

DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria says an Israeli airstrike has destroyed Iran's consulate building in Damascus, killing or wounding all inside.

 

[Comrade Khan]

on what grounds is ISrael bombing Syria (serious q)

 

[Samoa Looch]

Israel has hit multiple Iranian targets over the last 6 months and it's already been established that Israel doesn't give a damn about borders, so I guess that's the "grounds"

 

[Spitfire]

Outrage after Met officer says swastikas 'need to be taken into context’

The video was taken during a pro-Palestine march in London on Saturday

www.standard.co.uk

 

[Samoa Looch]

I do actually wonder in what context the symbol was used in this instant... because over the last couple of months it's not the first time I read about people comparing Israel's actions to what happened 80 years ago (because genocide and all that).

Also

Campaign Against Antisemitism told the MailOnline the interaction was “absolutely gobsmacking”.

They said: “The very notion that a British police officer could imagine a context in which the Nazi swastika is an acceptable image to be displayed in public is distressing.”

... reads to me as if that group doesn't know the actual history behind the symbol itself. Obviously, in the Western world, we all know what that symbol is connected to in the first place, but overall you have to say that yes, the context still makes or breaks it.

 

[Chris]

Person Infected With Bird Flu in Texas After Contact With Cattle

The case adds another worrying wrinkle to a global outbreak that has devastated bird and marine mammal populations, and recently appeared in cattle herds.

www.nytimes.com

At least one person in Texas has been diagnosed with bird flu following contact with dairy cows presumed to be infected, state officials said on Monday.

The announcement adds a worrying dimension to an outbreak that has affected millions of birds and sea mammals worldwide and, most recently, cows in the United States.

 

[Deezy]

Ok when Israel starts busing Palestinians to internment camps and executing them....let's not compare them to Nazi's.......hyperbole only lessens history.