*Corporate Media Mostly Ignoring GOP Ploy to Cut Social Security and Medicare.*

If Kroger and Albertsons are allowed to merge, it will probably increase the prices in US supermarkets.

* Lost nets, lines and hooks (including 25 million pots and traps and 14 billion hooks) trap wildlife for years as they float in the ocean, sink to the bottom or are washed ashore.*

Proposed solutions: *local governments introducing buy-backs of older fishing gear which tended to get lost more often than new equipment. Tags or labels could be attached to gear, and free facilities could be introduced at harbors to allow fishers to discard unusable nets safely.*

Musk changed his mind and said SpaceX would continue to pay for Ukraine's use of Starlink satellite communications.

CSIRO (Australia's scientific research organization) had an admired program for forecasting future climate, but in 2021 a government minister forced CSIRO to shut it down.

That government, right-wing, was firmly on the planet roaster side,

so it would naturally prefer to eliminate honest and thoughtful forecasts to leave a gap for its patrons' bullshit.

It is now 16 months later — is it possible to resume what was cancelled?

CSIRO has been accused of abandoning research of importance for whatever research business wants.