the projected cost to taxpayers for President Donald Trump’s vanity projects has soared to more than $1.8 billion.

Royal College of Nursing cuts ties with Israeli drug company (Guardian, 2026-10-02)

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/02/royal-college-of-nursing-cuts-ties-with-israeli-drug-company [Teva UK]
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>> The #RCN represents more than 500,000 nurses in the UK. Teva UK is the British arm of the global drug giant Teva Pharmaceuticals, which is one of the NHS’s biggest suppliers of medicines.

>> It acted after coming under pressure from campaign groups Nurses for Palestine and UK Healthcare Petitions to Royal Colleges (UKHPRC) to end its relationship with #TevaUK.

>> Teva has been ordered to pay about £1bn in fines and other payments by the European Commission and US authorities over the last decade for bribery, price-fixing and abuse of its market position…

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I am so incredibly excited for her release!

Tens of thousands of people in India have taken to the streets in recent days to protest the deletion of 130 million names from the voter rolls, a large majority of which are believed to be opposed to Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP party. The demonstrations, joined by leaders from India’s opposition parties, are being led by students and the youth-led ++“Cockroach” movement++. Tens of thousands of security forces, including paramilitary and police, were out on the streets over the weekend cracking down on the uprising, detaining protesters en masse, including lawyers, journalists and protest leaders.

‘I’ve gotten 5 anti-Troy Jackson ads in the last 24 hours,’ an Oregon resident wrote on social media. ‘I choose to believe they mixed up Portlands’

A Republican group’s attempt to boost Maine Sen. Susan Collins landed thousands of miles off target when its advertisement ran in Portland, Oregon — not Portland, Maine.

The ad, created by Defending Main Street SuperPAC Inc., targets Collins’ opponent, Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson, MS NOW reported. Titled “So Many Taxes,” the ad zeroes in on Jackson’s tax policy record, accusing him of increasing costs for Maine residents.

As much as $25,000 was spent to run the spot in and around Portland, Oregon.

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The most nuanced findings on Amazon’s automation drive may come from a research study published in the journal ILR Review in April 2025. That analysis showed Amazon’s robotic warehouses had a 40 percent decrease in severe injuries compared to legacy fulfillment centers—which suggests some benefits from having robots take on the most physically challenging and risky tasks.

However, the same study also found that robotic fulfillment centers had a 77 percent increase in less severe injuries associated with physical strain from repetitive motions.

“At least one of the mechanisms by which this appears to be manifesting is through the pace of work, in that pick rates for the robotic fulfillment centers are off the charts higher,” said Greenwood at George Mason University, who was one of the paper’s coauthors.

A faster pace of work driven by partial automation could mean “the robot is dictating the pace of work” and spurring human employees to perform certain repetitive actions more quickly, Greenwood told Ars. “That appears to be what’s driving the strains and the sprains that we observe,” he said.

Optimizing getting the most out of human bodies before they fall completel apart!

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