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A CIA official has been charged with disclosing classified documents apparently showing Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/israel-iran-leak.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Zk4.h_4C.TAUI8SeZwrwm&smid=url-share
C.I.A. Official Charged in Leak of Classified Documents About Israeli Military Plans

Asif Rahman, who worked overseas, was arrested on Tuesday by the F.B.I. and faces two counts of violating the Espionage Act.

The New York Times

Yes heat pumps do work in very old buildings.

Today I visited Trinity College Oxford at the University of Oxford which is getting a ground source heat pump fitted by Rendesco right now.

It will heat its grade II listed Jackson Building, which houses common rooms, teaching rooms and student bedrooms.

One of many similar projects where heat pumps are installed in old iconic buildings.

No, Trump Did Not Win in a Landslide—nor Did He Secure a Mandate

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/harris-trump-election/

No, Trump Did Not Win in a Landslide—nor Did He Secure a Mandate

The election math isn’t as bad as we thought. But the coming Trump administration is shaping up to be worse.

The Nation
Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts

Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian

The Guardian

Florida education officials report hundreds of books removed from schools

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney, and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, among books pulled

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/13/florida-book-bans-removals-education-department-list

#USpol

Florida officials report hundreds of books removed from schools

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, among books pulled

The Guardian

“If more of us valued food & cheer & song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

Planet-heating emissions from coal, oil and gas will rise by 0.8% in 2024. In stark contrast, emissions have to fall by 43% by 2030 for the world to have any chance of keeping to the 1.5C temperature target and limiting “increasingly dramatic” climate impacts on people around the globe.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/13/no-sign-of-promised-fossil-fuel-transition-as-emissions-hit-new-high

‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high

Despite nations’ pledges at Cop28 a year ago, the burning of coal, oil and gas continued to rise in 2024

The Guardian
These unserious people created a department called DOGE and put Musk in charge of it. It’s actually bonkers.
Goddess I love mastodon. I don't know most of what y'all are talking about but it's absolutely spectacular! 🙌🏻
For-profit concentration camps....
Incoming Trump admin is eyeing new immigrant detention centers near major U.S. cities https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/incoming-trump-admin-eyeing-new-immigrant-detention-centers-major-us-c-rcna179843
Incoming Trump admin is eyeing new immigrant detention centers near major U.S. cities

The incoming Trump administration is eyeing locations and talking to private prison firms about drastically expanding the scale of immigrant detention centers.

NBC News