New York Times Pitchbot:
The House GOP is working with a Russian agent to bring down the president, the nation’s eighth largest hospital stopped performing IVF, and Donald Trump is encouraging military attacks on our allies. But the biggest story of the day is Joe Biden’s age.
https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1760629537547923940

Please #SupportUkraine

Good Morning Beautiful Souls!
🥰🤗🥰
Today I'm thankful for the resilience of the human spirit. We bend, we break, but we never truly shatter. We adapt, we learn, and we emerge even stronger.
Have an awesome Thursday and remember we are capable of great things and a thankful heart 💖is a happy heart.

Hamas’s Secret Financial Empire
Panorama

#Gaza #Israel #iPlayer #CoSoTV

Following the attacks of 7 October, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas. But can it? With access to some of Hamas’s most closely guarded secrets, John Ware investigates its network outside Gaza

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wkqz

#mindfulness #humor be mindful of your breath

@p3R1n01D @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN Don't forget the team building where my region coined the now legendary term "forced fun". My buddy in industry still uses it.

Jay in Kyiv:
The marine drones that are decimating the Russian Black Sea Fleet are made in Ukraine, mostly with crowd sourced funding.

If you'd like to contribute, go here.
https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1760626667729613143

A 101-Year-Old’s Fight Against Book Banning

https://steady.substack.com/p/a-101-year-olds-fight-against-book

>> The 3rd largest political party in the United States is now allowing the Kremlin to write their tweets.

Let's go $INTC!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079336/microsoft-intel-chip-partnership-foundry-tsmc

Allow me to take dibs as I contribute this one for #BlackHistoryMonth

Several major cell phone companies are experiencing outages, tracking website says. The cause of the service disruption is not yet known. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/index.html

#Politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm0rSfJASi8

Research of long Covid brain fog reveals blood brain barrier leaking may be the mechanism contributing to the symptoms. Patients studied were in the cohort of initial wave, 2019/2020 Covid; later variants impact on the blood brain barrier unknown.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01576-9

#Space #SpaceCoast

#BlueOrigin rolls out its "New Glenn" pathfinder to #CCSFS Launch Complex 36. Owned by Jeff Bezos, Blue is anticipated to be a competitor to #SpaceX.

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-origin-debuts-new-glenn-on-our-launch-pad

FYI, that "we" in the first line should really be "oui"... a kind of throwaway addon Trinis make at the end of sentences

#Humour

#Space #NASA #Moon

U.S. company Intuitive Machines will attempt today to become the first private company to land on the Moon. Landing target time is 5:30 PM EST. #Odysseus is carrying a number of NASA experiment packages. The NASA broadcast is scheduled to start at 4:00 PM EST.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2024/02/21/intuitive-machines-nasa-science-progress-toward-moon-landing/

The House Oversight killed a full paragraph about Alexander Smirnov when writing a letter to Amos Hochstein. Jim Jordan & James Comer killed the paragraph, though Huffington Post reviewed an earlier version of the document in w/c it was included.
https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-delete-biden-impeachment-witness-info/

Trump's very close political partners are just more crooks. #CPAC

It is just like Putin is speaking.