John Navas ⛵🌉
San Francisco Bay Area
I block incivility
• software, network & security expert
• troubled company rescue
• aerospace engineer (NASA missions)
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- Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times. www.wired.com/story/intell...
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- What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved? ft.com/content/085430ab-27…
- Military briefing: How Turkey became vital to European security ft.com/content/1de61da8-24…
- US explores Latin American troop deployment to Haiti to fight gangs ft.com/content/d34b1310-56…
- Inside the Trump administration’s quiet shift on Ukraine ft.com/content/9a75a55d-21…
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- Reminder: when Sean Duffy was a congressman, he and other Republicans voted against upgrading air traffic control systems. Now, he’s trying to blame those systems for Newark airport’s outages – while claiming DOGE’s cuts of critical support staff at the FAA had nothing to do with it. Hello?
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- It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.
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- Yes, Trump climbed down from his original project of total trade embargo vs China. But pay attention to what remains: tariffs on adversaries and friends alike to raise unilateral executive revenue from poorest to offset Trump tax cuts for richest. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- Today's news roundup: -ICAO rules Russia was responsible for downing Malaysia Airlines' MH17 flight in 2014 -One in five Gazans face starvation, report warns -White House Correspondents’ Association "disturbed" by exclusion of wire services from Air Force One 👇 www.justsecurity.org/113316/early...
- Zelensky will not meet with any other representative of Russia in Istanbul, except for Putin , said Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of the Ukrainian President's Office. suspilne.media/1016363-zele...
- "There will be no truce" – a message from the Russians on UAVs they launch at Ukraine.
- "Zelensky is only willing to meet with Putin in Istanbul." - stated Mykhailo Podoliak. According to him, any meetings at a lower level are considered pointless by the Ukrainian side, as Kyiv believes it is essential to discuss the key issues of the war directly with the President of the RF.
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- Number of (reported) golf outings for Trump since inauguration: 16. Number of ‘daily’ intel briefings: 12. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- Who’s surprised? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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- “All of this hullabaloo about nonsense deals with Britain and China serves to distract from the brute reality of the Trump and MAGA trade agenda,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social. “Fiscal redistribution from poor to rich: That is the goal.”
- "The administration isn’t even pretending that it forced China to pay any special price for its defiance," @jonathanbchait.bsky.social writes. It is "moving on as if the point this whole time was to get along better with Beijing":
- JUST IN: Trump maintains 120% cheap goods tax on China, hitting Shein and Temu
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- Deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad has an estimated net worth of $2 billion or more. Mark J. Wood argues that Assad’s fortune should be used to compensate the victims of the Syrian war, including refugees returning to their home country this year. #Syria
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- The world is more divided than ever, but there’s still something (nearly) everyone agrees on: The US is unloved. Meanwhile, China keeps improving its global standing 👇 www.politico.eu/article/usa-...
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- BREAKING: The Israeli military says American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander is with the Red Cross after being released by Hamas.
