disguy_ovahea

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

An estimated ~70M voters were just disenfranchised by this bill.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 28 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This is beyond not knowing their customer base. Where are people going to hike once national Parks are clear cut?

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 24 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago) (5 children)

Democrats petitioned for protections for people with a name change and Republicans voted against it. If your birth certificate name doesn’t match your ID, you’ll be needing new documentation if you want to vote. Yes, that includes a married surname.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

You’re right. I misunderstood it as copying the DNA from mammoths, when they were actually editing the mouse DNA to mirror the evolutionary changes that mammoths underwent.

They have some partial DNA that they’re using to try and recreate woolly mammoth-like creatures. That’s probably what mixed me up. Thanks for the correction!

https://colossal.com/mammoth/

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)
[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

They’re already testing out wooly mammoth DNA in mice.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00684-1

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 47 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

Yuppers. It’s market manipulation with a side of insider trading. He had better be charged when he leaves office.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (6 children)

The media is the problem. The geneticists aren’t trying to pass them off as dire wolves. It’s an incredible accomplishment just to successfully get through birth. We can return more recently extinct animals, like the Dodo, with this process. DNA just doesn’t last long enough to clone long extinct species without editing in the missing parts using DNA from a similar species as reference.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 66 points 21 hours ago (12 children)

Yet his Truth Social followers were notified hours in advance.🤔

Insider trading

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 47 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)
 

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The acting Inspector General of the Defense Department will review Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal in a group chat with other key national security officials to discuss military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen last month, the IG’s office announced on Thursday.

 

March 31 (Reuters) - Iran complained to the United Nations Security Council on Monday about "reckless and belligerent" remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump, describing them as "a flagrant violation of international law" and the founding United Nations Charter.

 

March 31 (Reuters) - Iran complained to the United Nations Security Council on Monday about "reckless and belligerent" remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump, describing them as "a flagrant violation of international law" and the founding United Nations Charter.

 

The filibuster is expected to go through the night, against fast-tracked nominees by the Trump Administration. Booker’s protest appears to be in response to a recent wave of Republican nominees being fast-tracked through the confirmation process, many of whom are aligned with Trump’s second-term agenda and Elon Musk’s increasingly influential role in federal advisory circles.

 

Paul Dans, the ousted director of Project 2025, says he’s delighted that Trump is implementing his agenda after all.

 

The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, a research tool that publicizes the status of freedoms and threats to civil liberties worldwide.

 

Tech billionaire Elon Musk agreed on March 2 with a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, for the U.S. to exit NATO and the U.N.

"I agree," he wrote in response to a post from a right-wing political commentator saying "it's time" for the U.S. to leave NATO and the U.N.

The news comes after several Republican lawmakers submitted a bill on the U.S. exit from the U.N., claiming that the organization does not align with the Trump administration's "America First" agenda.

The U.S. was among several countries, including Russia, Belarus, Israel, and Hungary, that voted against a U.N. resolution at the end of February condemning Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Both NATO and the U.N. were founded by the U.S. and other victors of World War II to promote diplomacy and cooperation between nations as well as to prevent another global war.

Musk, an unelected official, currently heads the so-called U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, which has cut significant amounts of government spending, including life-saving foreign aid.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized fellow NATO countries for their perceived lack of contributions to the military alliance and has called for a spending target of 5% of GDP for all members.

Kyiv sees NATO membership as a crucial safeguard against future Russian aggression, but Trump said in February that Ukraine "can forget" about joining the alliance, suggesting its bid was a trigger for the war—an argument echoed by Russian state propaganda.

 
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