Predominant Racial Group By US County

"Lupe" picks green beans in Santa María. "We aren't working a lot of hours and I can’t make ends meet with just one job when I only work 4 hrs/day. In the afternoon I pick green beans. I'm paid piece rate, and often don't even make min wage, but I need to pay my rent." #WeFeedYou

We are now on Day 11 of Ukraine’s 40-Day Operation.

What began with isolated strikes has grown into a campaign against the systems that keep russia’s military running.

Today, #Ukraine reached more than 2,500 km into russia to strike one of the country’s largest oil refineries, while also targeting S-400 air defenses, an Iskander missile brigade, military training grounds, occupied Crimea’s power grid, and 47 military targets in a single operation.

Source: United 24 Media

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@at5RSSbot/116874628403491523

Huh, fascinating. I was shocked to hear that this hospital building near me was being demolished, because it looks perfectly fine to me. However, it turns out that its “pixel art” appearance is not just a facade choice but because it’s actually hundreds of modular micro-buildings taped together, and it was always meant to be temporary until the proper new building down the street was ready. (Unsurprisingly, they stayed in the temporary building far longer than planned.)

They say about half the modules can be refurbished and will be installed in refugee centers as housing

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/07/06/1

“Come with us, ma’am—and if I were you, I’d get a good lawyer. No one’s gonna buy that my-husband-was-only-hibernating story.”

I'd like to welcome our sister #repaircafe to Mastodon @repaircafecoventry

Other #repaircafes are available.

As soon as they were given the right to appeal, FIFA took it away

...#Belgium formally objected to that decision, saying it had “no alternative..."

#FIFAs appeal committee, however, has rendered the request submitted by the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) as “inadmissible”. on the grounds that “the RBFA is not a party to the proceedings and, as such, has no standing to appeal the decision,” a statement from FIFA said...

#WorldCup

https://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/article/world-cup-2026-belgium-has-appeal-denied-after-fifa-reversed-usmnts-folarin-balogun-1-game-ban-after-red-card-123613835.html

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7424790/2026/07/06/folarin-balogun-red-belgium-explanation/

🔈️ #Audio accounts to follow:

RETRO AUDIO
@vwestlife_makertube - Videos on classic retro tech, especially audio equipment
@obsoletemediauk - Online museum of obsolete physical formats in audio, video, data

AUDIO FICTION
@theendupdates - Listing audio fiction series now complete and ready to be binge-listened
@audiofiction - Audio fiction discussion group

AUDIO DESCRIPTION
@socialaudiodescription.com - Producing audio description for film/TV/etc

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Happy aphelion! At 1:30 p.m. Eastern US time today the Earth will be farthest from the sun as it will be all year.

To celebrate, I'm taking 25% off annual subscriptions to my newsletter!

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/aphelion-day-and-a-subscription-sale

Also: an exoplanet was discovered using relativity. Whoa.

Happy Aphelion Day. Today, Earth is farthest from the Sun in its slightly elliptical orbit.

In recent times, aphelion occurs about two weeks after the June solstice, perihelion, about two weeks after the December solstice.

As Earth's movement is slower around Aphelion than Perihelion, summers are a bit longer in the northern hemisphere than the southern one, in modern times.

Also, Earth's axial tilt has lot more influence on temperature than orbit.

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/home?rate=0&time=2026-07-06T17:13:14.092+00:00
#Science #Space
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Trump regime apparently making plans to quicken the pace of deportation of children, by moving them first to Texas. https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/03/trump-texas-doj-indigent-defense-unaccompanied-immigrant-children/

Aussie Nazi says being photographed with doing a Nazi salute has made him unemployable

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9305351/nazi-unemployable-after-salute-during-holocaust-movie/

If you’re a #Linux admin just entering holiday mode, you’ll be excited to find out there’s a new local privilege escalation Linux kernel exploit, no workarounds ☺️

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-46242

Report: Ten western countries "have barred Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir & Bezalel Smotrich from entering their territories: UK, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Ireland, New Zealand & France."

Ben-Gvir cancelled a planned trip to NY to attend a UN police summit amid planned protests & calls for his arrest.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260706-10-countries-ban-ben-gvir-smotrich-from-entering-their-territories/

#USPol #EUPol #news #israeliCrimes #GazaGenocide #BenGvir #BDS .

Layoffs announced this year:

UPS: 30,000
Oracle: 30,000
Amazon: 16,000
Dell: 11,000
Meta: 9,500
Microsoft: 4,800
Block: 4,000+
Cisco: 4,000
Intuit: 3,000
Nike: 2,175
Walmart: 1,000

And we’re only in July.

Russia had exactly one refinery among its gasoline giants that Ukraine hadn't touched.

Eleven of eleven. Ukraine's strike on Omsk—2,500 km out, past the Urals—means every one of Russia's biggest gasoline producers has now burned. The system was still under pressure when the drones arrived.

The same night's strikes: Yaroslavl, Vysotsk, Ust-Luga, Kaluga, a missile brigade base, a fuel terminal in occupied Kerch.

🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/07/06/10-of-russias-refining-half-of-siberias-fuel-the-omsk-plant-just-lost-its-2500-km-protection/

One key myth of Zionism is that in the early 20th century, Palestinians opposed all Jewish immigration to Palestine--or even rejected Jews out of antisemitism. In reality, many Palestinians were initially open to Jewish immigration and only started opposing Zionism after it became clear that Zionists didn't just look for a shelter for persecuted European Jews, but aimed to establish complete Jewish sovereignty over Palestine.

#Israel #Palestine

The Belgian soccer federation wants explanation from #FIFA about a decision to let #US forward #FolarinBalogun play at the #WorldCup despite getting a red card in his previous game.

The Belgian federation ( #RBFA) said it has still not received either “FIFA’s decision or any explanation regarding this matter. In these circumstances, it has no choice but to challenge the player’s eligibility for the upcoming match.”

#Belgium #UnitedStates #Trump
https://apnews.com/article/world-cup-balogun-belgium-fifa-84795f69bc7a2b6ebe5f7486f34654d7

Trilobites saw the world through lenses made of actual rock - and solved an optical problem 400 million years before humans did.

Their eyes were built from calcite, the same mineral in limestone and marble. Every other animal that ever lived uses soft protein lenses. Only trilobites evolved image-forming eyes from a hard, brittle crystal.

Here's the wild part: calcite is birefringent, meaning it splits light into two rays (double vision). Trilobites solved this by perfectly orienting each crystal so light traveled along the one axis where birefringence doesn't happen. They also exploited calcite's high refractive index (1.66 vs ~1.38 for our eyes), which works far better underwater where organic lenses struggle.

Some phacopid species went further - they grew a double-lens system with a magnesium-rich inner layer that eliminated spherical aberration. That's the same optical trick Huygens worked out in the 1600s. Evolution cracked it ~400 million years earlier.

Source: Towe (1973), Science - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.179.4077.1007

#science #paleontology #evolution #trilobites

Take that, #noFIFA. The UEFA calls you out for what you are.

"Yesterday’s decision to suspend for a probationary period of a year the implementation of the one-match automatic suspension following the red card issued to the player Folarin Balogun crossed a red line. [...] When the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake and the credibility of a competition is undermined."

https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-2109c8e9ef81-de5a993db109-1000--uefa-statement-on-the-balogun-case/