the Guardian
More than 200 leading cultural figures call for release of jailed Palestinian leader
Group including Margaret Atwood, Ian McKellen and Richard Branson sign open letter to free Marwan Barghouti
 A campaign calls on Israel to release Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti from imprisonment without trial, hoping he can end the fighting among Palestinians and then negotuate peace with israel.
the Guardian
Trump officials threaten to withhold Snap funds from Democratic-led states
Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins threatens to pull funds unless states turn over recipient data to US government
 Magat officials have threatened to withhold food stamp funds from states that don't hand over all their personal data about all recipients.
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the Guardian
How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for e...
 *A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes.* The companies let such errors accumulate systematically "by accident"; not doing the work required to update the price stickers on the products themselves. When they are caught, the fines are minuscule.
the Guardian
Pentagon says every national guard soldier deployed in Washington DC ‘is now armed’
Move to arm all 2,375 estimated troops marks shift in rules of engagement for domestic military deployments
 *Pentagon says every national guard [soldier] deployed in Washington DC "is now armed." The hate-spreader is using an shooting attack on some national guard troops in Washington as an opportunity to make it easier for violence against civilians to occur. Such violence serves his purposes.
Glossary
The Onion
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandati...
 (satire) *[The bullshitter] Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers.*
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trump-admin-sides-with-bayer-over-cancer-patients-in-supreme-court-bid-to-block-pesticide-lawsuits The magat government wants to shield pesticide companies from lawsuits by people who accuse pesticides of causing them cancer.
the Guardian
‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30
Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet
 *Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet.*
Glossary
the Guardian
‘Problematic precedent’: expert says Australia could be next as UK agrees to pay 25% more for new US medicines
US has said it hopes other countries will follow as health policy experts say the agreement signals a shift away from value-for-money assessment
Glossary
 The wrecker has bullied the UK's NHS into paying more for patent medicines from the US. This is the bully's fight to make medical treatment more expensive and deny it to many poor people.
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the Guardian
More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances
Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds
 *Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds.* This practice was effectively used for millennia, so I wonder whether the waste contained toxins back then or not. Perhaps it was chemically safe back then because these toxic substances had not been invented yet. Or perhaps some were present but nobody was