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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:44:39 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest>

"On the morning of 2 May, teenager Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was driving to his
landscaping job in North Palm Beach with his mother and two male friends when
they were pulled over by the Florida highway patrol.

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17 Key Variables That Determine UBI’s Inflationary Impact

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:43:44 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.scottsantens.com/17-key-variables-that-determine-ubis-inflationary-impact/>

"Will universal basic income cause inflation? Will the prices of everything
rise? I get asked that all the time. Here's the deal about UBI and inflation:
it all depends.

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‘We’re watching it get worse all the time’: as fish vanish in SA’s algal bloom, livelihoods are also at stake

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:42:10 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/26/were-watching-it-get-worse-all-the-time-as-fish-vanish-in-sas-algal-bloom-livelihoods-are-also-at-stake>

"Nathan Eatts can remember the last day he caught a squid. It was 18 April, a
few weeks after a brown foam and dead marine life began appearing on beaches on
South Australia’s Fleurieu peninsula.

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International law is now on our side: Australia must follow Pacific’s lead on climate action

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:40:57 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://reneweconomy.com.au/international-law-is-now-on-our-side-australia-must-follow-pacifics-lead-on-climate-action/>

"This week the International Court of Justice delivered a strong advisory
opinion that States have a clear legal obligation to cut emissions, prevent
harm to the climate system and in some cases, pay for historical damages caused

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Thailand reports 14 people killed in clashes at border with Cambodia

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:33:46 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/thailand-cambodia-ambassador-recalled>

"Thailand and Cambodia fought in their most deadly border clashes in more than
a decade on Thursday, with Thai officials reporting 13 civilians and a Thai
soldier were killed in rocket and artillery attacks.

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:32:22 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
https://archive.md/JQ8OV

"People have been telling stories about renewable energy since the
nineteen-seventies, when the first all-solar-powered house opened on the campus
of the University of Delaware, drawing a hundred thousand visitors in 1973, its

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The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:32:40 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jul/24/jesus-army-fellowship-cult-noel-stanton>

"Until she was six, Philippa Barnes was surrounded by things that were hers.
She had a favourite pair of red-and-white-striped dungarees and a long garden
with a strawberry patch. She had a close-knit family: a mum, dad, two brothers

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LOHA creates affordable housing on challenging site in Los Angeles

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:31:05 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.dezeen.com/2025/07/09/loha-affordable-housing-challenging-site-los-angeles/>

"Architecture studio LOHA has completed Isla Intersections, a low-cost housing
complex for formerly homeless residents that comprises stacked shipping
containers and sits on a triangular site near a busy highway interchange.

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‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:29:14 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/23/total-infiltration-how-plastics-industry-swamped-vital-global-treaty-talks>

"Being surrounded and yelled at about “misrepresenting reality” is not how
serious United Nations-hosted negotiations are meant to proceed. But that is
what happened to Prof Bethanie Carney Almroth during talks about a global

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How Wimbledon tennis balls are helping vulnerable UK harvest mice

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:27:08 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/countryside/a65274518/wimbledon-tennis-balls-help-mice/>

"On Monday, 30th June, tens of thousands of tennis enthusiasts flocked to SW19
again as Wimbledon kicked off for the 138th time. According to its own
estimates, the tournament uses roughly 55,000 tennis balls each year – but what

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