#StarTrek

Israel was in touch with several countries about Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and relocate its population, under what Israel has termed “voluntary emigration." Trump doubles down on Gaza 'Riviera' and plans for the U.S. to redevelop the war-torn enclave as a “big real estate site.”

Israel plans to capture all of Gaza under new plan, officials say | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israel-plans-to-capture-all-of-gaza-under-new-plan-officials-say

Ninety minutes of modern choral and vocal music starting in two minutes - at 4pm ET - on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings

@ricci @jonathankoren and blue sky tweets.

Billionaires are AI.
https://sleepyhe.ad/@vestige/114456395139508967

@kcarruthers no joke

Oh. My. Lack. Of. God.

What the heck else are they doing while distracting us by cancelling alk media?
https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DJRuuYeJ2k_

And sometimes it's not the stereotypical "Alpha Male"...

"Among the gorillas studied was Titus, a silverback adult male gorilla who lost his father and many other group members to poachers and whose mother died when he was only four.

He became the dominant male of his group at the early age of 15 and had an unusual leadership style, being exceptionally gentle and calm. His nature made him attractive to females and contributed to his 20-year tenure as dominant male..”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/05/gorillas-offer-clues-to-how-social-relationships-work-in-humans-study

“Even after the most severe losses, we are able to live to the fullest” – Quadruple amputee veteran debuts at charity race

Veterans with prosthetic limbs joined professional athletes in a barrier-free half marathon in Lviv that raised 2.2 mn hryvnias for rehabilitation programs
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/05/even-after-the-most-severe-losses-we-are-able-to-live-to-the-fullest-quadruple-amputee-veteran-debuts-at-charity-race/

#giftArticle, because they may be swinging elections, including the US one. They tend to vote against the rule of law, so for those promising mafia states like Trump, AfD, Reform. They've been convinced this is their most likely path to a home, family, or any other metric of success. Economies have to be built to transparently give them better options.
https://wapo.st/4d1VUBr

Doesn't even listen to his own oaths. Why does anyone listen to his executive orders, which as far as I understand, have way less legal standing? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/04/trump-nbc-interview-constitution-economy/

"“My children said, ‘how will you cope in a cell in the summer without air conditioning and sharing one toilet with 40 other people?’ People like me in small towns don’t have the resources to survive an onslaught by the police,” she says."

sounds like the circumstances of the Harvard postdoctoral cancer scientist #Trump has in jail in Louisiana https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/russian-born-harvard-researcher-describes-detention-at-ice-facility-and-deportation-fears

given the climate of fear that has built up in #India, her media outlet has made it clear that her reports on topics such as sexual violence against lower-caste women and the harassment of Muslims are no longer welcome.

When the Hindu nationalist BJP party, which rules nationally, won power in Uttar Pradesh for a second term in 2022, the outlet told her to stop travelling altogether. Its finances were already fragile, and it feared losing government advertising.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/they-threatened-to-bulldoze-my-house-fear-and-violence-stalk-journalists-in-modi-india?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US
https://www.wired.com/story/why-balcony-solar-hasnt-taken-off-in-the-us/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Security News @security-news-WIRED

German intelligence says the AfD “aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society, to subject them to unconstitutional unequal treatment and thus to assign them a legally devalued status”. #Germany‘s constitution bans that kind of thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/marco-rubio-germany-afd?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

European intelligence agencies say Moscow has launched a campaign of sabotage, arson and disinformation against the continent. Sometimes, it is focused on specific targets related to support for the Ukrainian war effort, but more often it is simply aimed at causing chaos and unease.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/these-people-are-disposable-how-russia-is-using-online-recruits-for-a-campaign-of-sabotage-in-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"“My children said, ‘how will you cope in a cell in the summer without air conditioning and sharing one toilet with 40 other people?’ People like me in small towns don’t have the resources to survive an onslaught by the police,” she says."

sounds like the circumstances of the Harvard postdoctoral cancer scientist #Trump has in jail in Louisiana https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/russian-born-harvard-researcher-describes-detention-at-ice-facility-and-deportation-fears

https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3locdtrkshs27

given the climate of fear that has built up in #India, her media outlet has made it clear that her reports on topics such as sexual violence against lower-caste women and the harassment of Muslims are no longer welcome.

When the Hindu nationalist BJP party, which rules nationally, won power in Uttar Pradesh for a second term in 2022, the outlet told her to stop travelling altogether. Its finances were already fragile, and it feared losing government advertising.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/they-threatened-to-bulldoze-my-house-fear-and-violence-stalk-journalists-in-modi-india?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other