Friday, July 4
Robert Reich
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill is fascist — not only in what it does and authorizes, but in how it got enacted
Friends,
Trump’s 940-page Big Ugly Bill was passed today by the House and is now on the way to the White House for Trump’s signature.
It is a disgrace. It takes more than $1 trillion out of Medicaid — leaving about 12 million Americans without insurance by 2034 — and slashes food stamps, all to give a giant tax cut to wealthy Americans.
It establishes an anti-immigrant police state in America, replete with a standing army of ICE agents and a gulag of detention facilities that will transform ICE into the most heavily funded law enforcement agency in the government.
It will increase the already-bloated deficit by $3.4 trillion.
It’s also disgraceful because of how it came to be.
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> British band Oasis' reunion tour kicks off tomorrow after nearly 16-year hiatus; band is set to play 41 dates across the UK, Ireland, and North America (More)
> NHL to allow players to compete in 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics; will mark first time NHL players participate since 2014 (More)
> The 112th Tour de France begins this weekend from Lille, France; see a stage-by-stage breakdown of the 23-day bicycle race (More)
Science & Technology
> First complete human genome from Ancient Egypt sequenced; 4,800-year-old DNA reveals ancestry was 80% North African, 20% Mesopotamian (More) | Ancient Egypt explained (1440 Topics)
> New study reveals how plants heal damage to their protective outer layer; oxygen and ethylene in the wound trigger cellular repair mechanism; findings may lead to new varieties of resilient crops (More)
> Air pollution and other environmental factors, including some traditional herbal medicines, may lead to lung cancer in never-smokers; heavy pollution linked to 400% increase in the same mutations seen in smokers (More) | Cancer explained (1440 Topics)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow -0.0%, Nasdaq +1.0%); S&P 500 hits new record (More) | Robinhood shares close up 6%, with stock topping $100 in intraday trading for the first time (More)
> Tesla reports 384,122 vehicle deliveries in Q2, a 14% decline from a year ago and the second consecutive quarterly drop (More) | Rivian reports 10,661 vehicle deliveries in Q2, a 23% year-over-year drop (More)
> Microsoft to lay off roughly 9,000 employees, or about less than 4% of its global workforce; action comes after the company eliminated 6,000 roles in May (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Bryan Kohberger pleads guilty to one count of burglary, four counts of first-degree murder over fatal stabbing of University of Idaho students in 2022, avoiding possible death penalty; Kohberger faces up to four consecutive life sentences and maximum 10 years in prison for burglary when he is sentenced July 23 (More)
> US Defense Department halts shipments of promised weapons to Ukraine amid reports US' overall stockpiles are too low (More) | Iran suspends cooperation with the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, blocking inspectors from monitoring nuclear activities without approval (More) | Trump administration strikes tariff deal with Vietnam including 20% levy on imports of Vietnamese-made goods (More)
> Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down 1849 abortion ban, allowing most procedures until 20 weeks of pregnancy to continue (More) | Education Department withholds over $6B for summer and after-school programs for low-income Americans (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Independence Day
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July 4, 1776, is when the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE was adopted, and 13 colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
These 13 colonies, soon to be states, were:
- New Hampshire
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut
- New York
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Maryland
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Georgia
The leaders and followers of these 13 colonies/states, could have been HANGED FOR TREASON, if they had lost the war with Great Britain. Fortunately, they did not.
It took great courage to do what these leaders and their followers did...
Shortly after the passage of the Declaration of Independence, our Founding Fathers wrote the US CONSTITUTION which contained THE BILL OF RIGHTS, giving us the FREEDOMS that we all enjoy and are mostly taken for granted.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH is the one of which I am most supportive because it gives AMERICANS what citizens of other countries do not have.
I am not very fond of the Second Amendment because I believe it was designed to only be TEMPORARY until we established a military and police force.
I am patriotic, not just because I am an American, but because I live in the greatest country in the world and we are the envy of everyone else because they don't have and will never have what we have.
I will fight to the death to protect the country to which I belong... regardless of all the mistakes she has made and will continue to make.
Physicist Solves 120-Year-Old Thermodynamics Puzzle and Corrects Einstein
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| A thermodynamics mystery dating back to 1905 has been resolved by University of Seville professor José MarÃa MartÃn-Olalla, who demonstrates that the Nernst theorem is inherently tied to the second law of thermodynamics. His reinterpretation corrects a long-standing assumption made by Einstein, reframing how physicists understand the behavior of entropy near absolute zero. Credit: SciTechDaily.com |
Professor José MarÃa MartÃn-Olalla of the University of Seville has published a paper addressing a thermodynamics problem that has remained unresolved for 120 years. In doing so, he corrects an idea proposed by Albert Einstein more than a century ago.
The paper links Nernst’s theorem, an experimental observation from 1905 stating that entropy exchanges approach zero as temperature approaches zero, directly to the second principle of thermodynamics. Published in The European Physical Journal Plus, the study extends the implications of the second principle, which states that entropy in the universe tends to increase.
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