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We start this week with Emanuels and Josephs coverage of Tea, a womens dating safety app that was breached multiple times. After the break, Sam and Emanuel talk about how a new UK law about age verification is impacting peoples ability to see footage about current events. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains that LeBron James is not in fact pregnant.Listen to the weekly podcast onApple Podcasts,Spotify, orYouTube. Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode's bonus content and to power our journalism.If you become a paid subscriber, check your inbox for an email from our podcast host Transistor for a link to the subscribers-only version! You can also add that subscribers feed to your podcast app of choice and never miss an episode that way. The email should also contain the subscribers-only unlisted YouTube link for the extended video version too. It will also be in the show notes in your podcast player. Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chanA Second Tea Breach Reveals Users DMs About Abortions and CheatingUK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit's r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootageLeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him

Nature, Published online: 30 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02248-9The joys of space exploration.

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Saint Lucias law banning homosexuality has been declared unconstitutional in a historic ruling by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.This decision is deeply personal. For many years, weve worked to see the rights, lives, and dignity of LGBTQ+ persons in Saint Lucia and the OECS protected, said Kenita Placide, executive director of Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE), an LGBTQ+ organization in the Caribbean. Related Angola becomes the first country to legalize homosexuality in 2019 The country also banned sexual orientation-based discrimination in the move. Todays ruling is not just a win in the courts, it also represents a step towards justice for the many lives lost to violence simply for being themselves. It signals that our Caribbean can and must be a place where all people are free and equal under the law.At issue were the Caribbean island nations gross indecency and buggery laws, sections 132 and 133 of the Criminal Code of Saint Lucia, which criminalize same-sex relations even in private. Under each of those laws, consensual male homosexuality could be punished with up to ten years imprisonment. Even attempting to commit buggery could be met with a sentence of five years. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today According to ECADE, the court ruled that the sections violated the rights to privacy, life, liberty, security of the person, freedom of expression, protection from discrimination on the basis of sex, and protection of the law. While the law wasnt frequently enforced, the Human Dignity Trust said that the mere existence of this provision is itself a violation of human rights and underpins further acts of discrimination. Often, laws criminalizing homosexuality are used to justify discrimination in other areas, since anti-LGBTQ+ advocates can point to the illegality of homosexuality to justify discrimination instead of just their personal animus. Saint Lucia has a population of just under 200,000 people, most of whom are Christian. The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has jurisdiction over Saint Lucia and five other member states: Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda. In 2019, ECADE helped launch multiple legal challenges against homosexuality bans in several Caribbean nations, and in 2022, courts ruled against those laws in Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. In 2024, a court ruled against Dominicas homosexuality ban. Human rights in the Eastern Caribbean continue to advance as the colonial legacies of these unconstitutional provisions continue to fall, wrote Antigua and Barbuda Foreign Affairs Minister JMoul Francis on social media. However, more still needs to be done across the region to ensure that progress is real, practical, and effective for LGBTQ+ individuals.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

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Spotify is requiring users in the UK to verify theyre over 18, following the enactment of the Online Safety Act, which forced platforms to verify the ages of everyone who tries to access certain kinds of content deemed harmful to children.You may be presented with an age check when you try to access certain age restricted content, like music videos tagged 18+, Spotify says on an informational page about the checks. If you fail the checks, or if the age verification system cant accurately determine your agewhich involves getting your face scanned through your devices camera to determine your age, or uploading your license or passport if that doesnt workyour Spotify account will be deleted.You cannot use Spotify if you dont meet the minimum age requirements for the market youre in. If you cannot confirm youre old enough to use Spotify, your account will be deactivated and eventually deleted, Spotify says.there is no fucking way. pic.twitter.com/o2L4tT8XAu bogus (@boogusangoos) July 29, 2025Spotify is using a third-party system for age verification called Yoti. In 2023, when Utah started requiring age verification to access porn sites, porn site xHamster implemented Yoti, which involved a multi-step process including facial analysis or uploading a photo of a government-issued ID.The Online Safety Act went into effect last week. Much like the many laws in U.S. states that keep users from accessing porn unless they upload an ID or pass biometric face scanning, the law requires sites operating in the UK to implement age verification or face millions of dollars in fines and jailor up to 10 percent of global revenues, whichever is higher.So far, its resulted in people having to verify their ages to visit subreddits that post news about war, certain Discord community, certain Bluesky content, and more. The UKs Reform party is already vowing to repeal it, calling it borderline dystopian.Also last week, 404 Media broke the news that in the process of collecting selfies to attempt to check users gender, womens dating safety app Tea exposed the personal information, including private messages and IDs, of thousands of users. Critics of age verification laws say they only create more censorship for adults, while children and everyone else get around the checks by using VPNs or visiting less safe, noncompliant sites.

One of the big unanswered questions at last weeks grand opening of Hollywoods Tesla Diner was how its neighbors were feeling about the new, four-story tall movie screen placed directly outside their apartment building.Turns out, many of them are not liking it, or the general chaos that the diner has brought.First, there was the construction. Last night they have installed a flashing security light up against our fence, Kristin Rose, a former resident of the apartment building next to the Tesla Diner, said in an email to the building management and to Tesla in February 2024, during building works. This light is flashing BRIGHT into our apartments, including bedrooms, all night. Even with the blinds closed it feels like we're at the world's worst rave. Video is attached." 0:00 /0:15 1 Strobing light outside apartment. Video: Kristin Rose Rose moved out in January of this year, which she says is absolutely, 100 percent because of the diner. We were living through active construction six days a week from 7 a.m. to like 8 or 9 p.m. she said. Often that construction was starting at like 4 a.m. illegally. She showed me several email chains where she discussed these issues with Tesla, the city of Los Angeles, her building management, and the construction company. After construction started in 2023, she said, living in the building was absolute hell.The strobing light was there for about a week, Rose told me, and was just one issue. Emails Rose shared with 404 Media show her going back and forth with Tesla and the buildings management about noise, flashing lights, and various other topics. Our whole side of the building smells terrible from the emissions [from a generator], one email she sent reads. We're going not-so-slowly insane from the noise pollution. Requiring us to deal with this for 14 hours a day is actually insane.At least 6 people in our building have called noise enforcement over the last few weeks, she said in a March 2024 email. It's hard to communicate just HOW CLOSE this construction is to our apartment building. Maybe 10 feet?, another reads. If you have more information about this story, please email rosie@404media.co or contact me on signal at romight.36 In one thread, building management told Rose sorry about that generator, we know it's a problem This is not the first time we've talked to them about issues. We explained that they need to move that generator to the other end of the lot obviously they're not doing it.At one point, a Tesla employee apologized to Rose: I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and disruption caused by the construction near you and would like to assure you that the Tier 4, WhisperWatt Super-Silent portable generator currently in use to provide temporary power to the construction site meets all pertinent standards and codes and was the quietest, least impactful unit we could locate. 0:00 /0:07 1 Generator that was installed outside the building for several months. Video: Kristin Rose I reached out for comment to Tesla, the city of Los Angeles, and the management company South Park Group, who did not respond.At a protest against the Tesla Diner last weekend, I spoke to current tenants of the building, including Isabelle, who moved into Roses old apartment about a week ago. It had been empty for six months.Rose had previously not talked publicly about the situation with the building because she was concerned that Tesla fans would know where she lived and she could face backlash for speaking out. 404 Media agreed to only use the first names of some of the current residents of the building for the same reason.Neither of Isabelles apartment windows is blocked by a screen, so she didnt think that noise would be a problem. However, she said, I really dont like it. The diner operates 24/7, and the sound goes on pretty much all night. Now, theres always a line, theres always crowds around. The traffic is horrendous. She said she has begun sleeping with her AirPods in.Isabelles apartment looks out over the supercharging parking lot, where cars are pulling up and people wait on foot to enter the diner in a line that I was told would take two-to-three hours. 0:00 /0:01 1 The view over the back car park lot from Isabelle's apartment Another resident, Ashley, has lived in the building for around 20 years. Her apartment faces away from the diner, but she said that it has impacted the community, and the years of construction were tough. Vibrating, they didnt have regular construction hours it was early in the morning, late at night, like bulldozers and graders in the back. She said that the building message groups were busy; everybody was like, everything's falling off the walls. That said, she thinks things are worse now that its open. I'd rather dust than this, she said, waving at the Tesla lot. Now it just smells like fried food out here.Ashley described herself as pretty independent politically, and doesnt have any particular interest in Tesla. But she has suddenly found herself living next to a very politically contentious business. As were talking, a Tesla Takedown protest is ramping up on the other side of the lot.Its been plenty of issues where people are trying to burn down Tesla and whatnot, she said, and it's like, I don't want to be living next to something that is so controversial. In the week since my first trip to the diner, the gate of the building has been blocked and reinforced with metal.Their street is a thoroughfare for diner guests. You just try to even go to the gym in the morning and you can't get out of the driveway, she said. I don't think Tesla people are great drivers to begin with. Now there's just a bunch of them blocking the street on both sides.Rose is also not the only tenant who left. The couple, two doors down from usdirectly behind the screenwas an older Russian couple that had been there for probably 15, 20 years, Rose said. And they eventually [were] like, we can no longer do this.Ashley says the management company hasnt been helpful, despite the number of long-term tenants moving out. They didn't offer anybody any kind of incentives. I think Tesla should be paying our rent, she said.The gate to the apartment building has been reinforced for safety since our earlier reporting last weekNilo, another new resident, said that she lives in one of the apartments behind the screen. She moved into the building two months ago. I met her when she came out onto the street to ask the protestors for an estimated end time.She told me that construction had been really hectic since shed moved in. Now that it has opened, I understand, like, the protests, and, you know, people have the right to do that, but that's also kind of, like, disturbing our peace.She didnt know if the previous residents of her apartment left because of the diner, but she and her roommate are considering moving out. She says the landlords havent done anything to the apartment to mitigate the almost 24-hour noise. We just get a few hours of break and then it's back on again, she said. It feels like New York City.The movie screens don't have speakers; the audio plays inside the cars and on the diner rooftop. However, the back of the screens have fans, which operate all day and turn off at 11pm. 0:00 /0:11 1 The noise generated by the back of the diner screens, around 2pm on a Tuesday. Video: 404 Media Noise also comes from people getting out of their cars, waiting in line, and sitting in the traffic generated by the diner entrance. Everyone is, like, honking their horn all the time and all that. So, its a bit crazy, she said. I watched cars crawl past from both directions to try to enter the Tesla lot via the Orange Drive entrance next to the building, where a guy in a hi-vis vest stops each car, talks to the driver, and waves people (in Teslas) through. Later, I saw a woman driving past yell out at him from her window. You guys need to control this side better. You're holding up all the traffic.Were giving it some time because it's, like, opening week, said Nilo. But if it continues, we are going to eventually move out because it's not livable anymore.The front and back of the screen next to the Orange Drive building. Photo: 404 Media The Zillow listing for the building describes it as "Next to a Tesla theater and drive-in charging station. Garage parking, gym and more!" Five of the building's 32 units are currently available. On Zillow, the building is offering a discount of a free month's rent on a 12-month lease for the last few months. Using my real name, I scheduled a tour of one of the vacant units. From the empty apartment I toured, I could see the back of the screen and hear the fans; about half of the balcony view was obscured. The crowd noise was quieter since it was a Tuesday afternoon.The diner does have some fans in the building, however. Dean Barlage lives on the top floor of the Orange Drive building. He described the diner as probably one of the best things that happened to Hollywood in the last, let's say 10 years or so. One side of his apartment faces the screen and one faces the street. He thinks that a diner is a pretty good option, given all the possible neighbors one can have in a big city.His wife Irina seems to agree, as she has recently posted similar sentiments on Instagram and X.Irina Barlage, a resident of the building, is a fan of the diner and has been posting about it in the past weekThe ones right below us are still there. They're like, OK, we love our place, he said, but he confirmed that several people had moved out. However, he said, the apartments were snapped up again quickly without problems. It's a very hot building. I mean, they're large places. This is Hollywood.The construction hadnt bothered him either. It was peaceful before until they showed up, he said, indicating to the protesters, I cannot sleep with this. And luckily, this is just for a short time. He hopes the diner will bring more tourism to the neighborhood. I've never seen so many happy kids and so many happy families, he said. I'm actually closer to buying a Tesla than I was before Not because of Elon, but I saw the joy over here.Dean Barlage on his balcony. Photos: 404 MediaWe see these people at 10 p.m. at night, he said, just happy, having their burger, putting some light show on in their Tesla and seeing some old school film. I mean, how can you not like that? This is the pinnacle of happiness and excitement.As I was leaving, I saw Dean up on his balcony, gazing out at the diner and the back of the screen. He waved and gave me a thumbs up.

A Maryland social justice nonprofit is suing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over its refusal to address workplace discrimination complaints that have to do with gender identity. Democracy Forward and the National Womens Law Center (NWLC) filed the lawsuit on behalf of FreeState Justice, alleging the agency has violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, and the Administrative Procedure Act. Related Education Department orders 5 school districts to immediately end trans-inclusive bathroom policies The department called trans inclusion anti-scientific illiberalism and falsely claimed cis womens safety is at stake. After the president signed an executive order mandating the federal government recognize there are only twoimmutablesexes male and female EEOC staff were told to relegate anti-trans discrimination cases as the lowest priority, which the Associated Press reported at the time more or less meant they were put on indefinite pause.The lawsuit names both the EEOC as well as its acting chair, Andrea Lucas, who lists as a priority in her official bio, defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including womens rights to single-sex spaces. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today The suit alleges that the EEOCs decision to ignore cases of anti-trans discrimination is rooted in Defendants animus against transgender people and part and parcel of this Administrations agenda to erase and unlawfully deny protections to transgender people in the provision of government services and across all aspects of civic life.It also cites the Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which said that anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination violates the Civil Rights Acts ban on discrimination on the basis of sex since a persons sexual and gender identity is inextricably related to their sex. Bostock cemented protections for LGBTQ+ workers that the EEOC had already recognized for years, the complaint states. Earlier this month, the agency altered its exclusionary policy to allow some of the gender-identity-related cases to be considered if they fall squarely under the Bostock ruling, according to an email from EEOC field operations director Thomas Colclough. The complaint addresses this change, saying that the EEOC only sees hiring, firing, and promotion cases as falling under this purview. But the EEOC has not resumed processing charges alleging other kinds of gender-identity discrimination, including harassment or retaliation faced by transgender workers, it said, adding that it also believes the agency is also not processing hiring, firing, or promotion charges when they are brought alongside excluded charges, such as harassment or retaliation. The suit also said gender-identity discrimination charges of any kind are still subject to heightened review by Lucas office, which it points out is not required for other cases invoking Title VII.Transgender workers deserve to be protected against harassment, and the EEOC is obligated to do so under law, said Gaylynn Burroughs, Vice President for Education and Workplace Justice at NWLC, in a statement. Burroughs added that this administration seems hellbent on bullying transgender people in every possible way and ensuring that they are pushed out of all forms of public life, including their workplaces, so were taking the administration to court.Policies like the EEOCs undermine the law and endanger people, addedLauren Pruitt, Legal Director at FreeState Justice.They force LGBTQI+ people and other marginalized communities to choose between their job and being true to who they are We are fighting back because no one should have to live in fear of discrimination or retribution just to go to work.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

In just two words, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg summed up Donald Trumps attempts to get people to stop asking about his decades-long friendship with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.Buttigieg was asked about how Trump posted a fake AI-generated video to social media showing former President Barack Obama getting arrested last week during an appearance on the syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club earlier this week. Related Pete Buttigieg explains how the Epstein files might tear apart the MAGA base: Extraordinary Its his supporters saying, Wait a minute, youre insulting me. And thats a whole different thing. They tried to rig the election, and they got caught. And there should be very severe consequences for that, Trump told reporters on July 22, referring to the 2016 presidential election. A representative for Obama called the accusations bizarre and a weak attempt at distraction.Buttigieg noted that its telling that Trump made this accusation as he faces sharp criticism from his base for refusing to release documents from the investigation of Epstein. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today So Trump says, Were gonna release the files, were gonna release the files, were gonna release the files,' Buttigieg said, referring to files from the Epstein investigation. Then he says, Were not gonna release the files.'And people are mad, including MAGA, saying, Wait a minute, you said you were going to release this information and youre not. And what does he do? Hes like, Uuhhhh, were gonna arrest Obama!' The hosts laughed, and then Buttigieg summed up what he believes Trump is trying to do with a quippy phrase. What? That has nothing to do with anything, but its the distraction machine.Whenever things get hard for Trump, he fires up the Distraction Machine, Buttigieg wrote in the caption for the post. Were not falling for it. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pete Buttigieg (@pete.buttigieg)Trump has been under fire all month after his administration announced that it would not release information learned from the investigation of Epstein, including the wealthy clients for whom Epstein is rumored to have provided underage victims to sexually abuse. Trump has spent the month making increasingly hostile statements about people who want the rumored Epstein client list to be made public.Last week, House Speaker Mike Johjnson announced that the House would adjourn early in what was seen as an effort to stall Democrats attempts to make the Justice Department release the Epstein files. The House is scheduled to reconvene in September.Epstein died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking minors. While the medical examiner determined that his death was a suicide, many people, especially on the right, do not believe that it was, instead asserting that he was killed to keep him silent about the clients for whom he found children to sexually abuse. Many officials associated with Trump had spent years repeating the same rumors, andTrump himself said repeatedly in 2024 that the Epstein list of clients needed to be released.In February, Attorney General Bondi said that she was reviewing a lot of names related to the Epstein investigation and said that the Epstein list is sitting on my desk right now to review.But earlier this month, the Department of Justice released a memo that said there was no secret client list and reaffirmed the 2019 finding that Epstein died by suicide. Many Trump supporters were outraged that the rumored client list wouldnt be released, while many on the left speculated that the reason Bondi wasnt releasing it is because Trump himself or at least high-ranking members of his administration is on it.Trump had a decades-long friendship with Epsteinand joked about how his friend was fun and terrific andliked women on the younger side. Trump has also beenfound liable for sexual abuse by a jury, hasadmitted to sexually assaulting womenin the past, and hasadmitted to walking in on underage girlsas they changed clothes. He has been accused of sexual assault or other forms of sexual improprietyby at least 27 women.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

The Cincinnati Bengals released RB Zack Moss on Wednesday, the team announced.

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The Sun powers almost all life on Earth, but chemosynthetic life is the fascinating exception. These organisms find fuel in chemical reactions, allowing them to flourish in places where the Sun doesnt shinelike the deep sea.Now, scientists have discovered chemosynthetic animals, such as foot-long tubeworms and mollusks, nearly six miles beneath the ocean surface, deeper than these ecosystems have ever been observed before, according to a study published on Wednesday in Nature.Researchers witnessed the hotspots of chemosynthetic life in person during crewed dives in the Fendouzhe submersible, which descended nearly 31,000 feet to the oceans deepest regions, known as hadal trenches, in the North Pacific.Hadal trenches, some of the Earths least explored and understood environments, have long been proposed to harbour chemosynthesis-based communities, said researchers co-led by Xiaotong Peng and Mengran Du of the Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the study. The authors did not reply to an interview request.Despite increasing attention, actual documentation of such communities has been exceptionally rare, the team continued. Here we report the discovery of the deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist on Earth during an expedition to the KurilKamchatka Trench and the western Aleutian Trench.The global ocean floor is etched with about 50 of these trenches, which form at the boundaries of tectonic plates and extend down to 35,876 feet at the deepest point, Challenger Deep. Chemicals like methane and hydrogen sulfide leak out of so-called seeps in these active zones, which can be metabolized by chemosynthetic microbes that form the basis of diverse ecosystems that live completely off the bio-solar grid.Researchers with the Global Trench Exploration and Dive Programme, an international collaboration led by China, set out to investigate these sunless regions, which play a major role in global carbon cycling.Over the course of several dives in the summer of 2024, the team documented thriving chemosynthetic ecosystems at otherworldly sites with names like Icy River, Cotton Field, and Wintersweet Valley. One site is simply called the Deepest because, at site 9,533meters (31,276), it is the deepest known seepage location ever discovered.Even at the Deepest, animals are living off the submerged land, including roving sea worms called polychaetes and giant tube worms called siboglinids that measure nearly a foot in length. Whereas some animals in the deep sea consume the remains of dead stuff that has sunk down from the surface, these ecosystems are entirely powered by the outflows from the seeps.These communities are sustained by hydrogen sulfide-rich and methane-rich fluids that are transported along faults traversing deep sediment layers in trenches, according to the study. Given geological similarities with other hadal trenches, such chemosynthesis-based communities might be more widespread than previously anticipated.The discoveries can seem remote, considering the alien environment where these ecosystems flourish. But what happens in the hadal zone doesnt stay in the hadal zonethese trenches are a major sink in the global carbon cycle because their V-shaped topography efficiently funnels biomass to depths where it can be sequestered. As we grapple to predict the future of our warming world, it will be essential to understand dynamics that reach from the upper limits of the sky to the deepest reaches of the oceans.These findings underscore the complex nature of carbon cycling in the deep sea and highlight the critical need to integrate hadal processes into global carbon models to improve the accuracy of predictions about carbon dynamics and climate change responses on geological timescale, the researchers said.They concluded that the new findings challenge current models of life at extreme limits and carbon cycling in the deep ocean.

By accident, journalist Jack Poulson discovered Google had completely de-listed two of his articles from its search results. We only found it by complete coincidence, Poulson told 404 Media. I happened to be Googling for one of the articles, and even when I typed in the exact title in quotes it wouldnt show up in search results anymore.Poulson had stumbled on a vulnerability in Googles search engine that allowed people to maliciously delete links off of Google, which is a reputation management companys dream and which could easily be used to suppress information. The SEO trick had allowed someone to de-list specific web pages from the search engine using Googles Refresh Outdated Content tool, a site that lets users submit pages to URLs to be recrawled and re-listed after an update. The vulnerability had to do with capitalizing different letters in the URL in this tool, which ultimately caused the delisting.In 2023, Poulson published an article about tech CEO Delwin Maurice Blackmans 2021 arrest on a felony domestic violence charge.After Poulson published Blackmans arrest records in 2023, the CEO has attempted to suppress the story in various ways, including lawsuits and DMCA takedown requests. Eventually, the stories disappeared from Google, using this vulnerability. As far as Poulson could tell, the only two articles on his newsletter that had been de-listed by Google using the trick were related to the CEO.Google confirmed the problem in an email to 404 Media. This tool helps ensure our search results are up to date. Were vigilant in monitoring abuse, and we worked quickly to roll out a fix for this specific issue, which was only impacting a tiny fraction of web pages.Poulsons work has appeared at the Center for Investigative Journalism, Drop Site News, and his personal newsletter All-Source Intelligence.The Freedom of the Press Foundationa nonprofit dedicated to protecting the rights of journalistshas chronicled Poulsons fight against censorship and Ahmed Zidan, its Deputy Director of Audience, told 404 Media that an article about that fight had also been de-listed from Google.When Poulson noticed this, he alerted Zidan, who did some digging and figured out the problem. The owner of websites can access a Google Search Console (GSC) to tweak and optimize their site's place in the search engine. Digging around in GSC, Zidan discovered someone had made repeated requests, starting in May and ending in June, to recrawl its article about Poulson and Blackman.In every instance, the capitalization of letters in the URL had been changed. So the first request that comes in, the a of anatomy is a capital A and the rest of the slug is the same. And apparently after this request would expire, the attackers would make another request, this time capitalizing the n in anatomy, Zidan said. When Google tries to index the URLs with tweaked capitalization, it gets a 404. Then, Google, instead of indexing only the 404 page, would de-index all the variations including the live, valid, legitimate article, Zidan said.Image via Ahmed Zidan.Zidan contacted Google who confirmed the bug to him. The company wouldnt tell him or 404 Media how many pages had been affected or give further details about the incident. We would really love Google and other social platforms to be more transparent with advocacy and press freedom organizations, Zidan said.Its hard to know who, exactly, made the re-indexing requests. Anyone can use the Refresh Outdated Content tool and it doesnt tag the person who made a request in GSC. But the only articles on Poulsons newsletter affected by the issue were two related to Blackman and the one on the Freedom of the Press Foundation site was about Blackmans fight with Poulson.It is easy to imagine a celebrity, high-profile politician, or even a government using this bug to suppress negative information about themselves in a targeted way. Reputation management companies exist to help the rich and powerful do just that.Discoverability is vital to a journalist and getting de-listed from Google search can crush a storys impact. Its basically just silent censorship and who knows if theres some other variant of this that existsany child could do this. And its just shocking to me that a company as technical as Google would have such a simple bug, Poulson said. If your article doesnt appear in Google search results, in many ways it just doesnt exist.

Dr. Annie Andrews career in politics can be traced back to tragedy.In 2018, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people, including 14 students. The tragedy moved Andrews, whose oldest daughter was in kindergarten that same year, to act. Related Rep. Becca Balint calls Republicans mean motherf**kers for their campaign against trans kids She called out the GOPs completely orchestrated anti-trans campaign, explained the fight against loneliness, and discussed meeting her wife. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today The South Carolinian joined Moms Demand Action and used her voice as a pediatrician to advocate for gun safety laws in the State Capitol in Columbia.The more committee hearings I went to, the more times I testified, the more conversations I had with South Carolina state lawmakers, the more I realized that I was more than intelligent enough and more than brave enough to be in any room where decisions are being made, and that voices like mine need to be in rooms where those decisions are being made. Her advocacy erased any sort of imposter syndrome she had about entering the political arena, Andrews told LGBTQ Nation. In 2021, she decided to run for Congress.After a tough loss in 2022 to notorious transphobe Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) who accused her of child abuse in the particularly contentious race and a divorce from her husband, the 43-year-old mother of three is back in the arena to challenge Trump loyalist Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for his seat.Andrews spoke on a hot, sunny day from her adopted hometown of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.LGBTQ Nation: Since announcing your campaign for the U.S. Senate from South Carolina, you now have the distinction of running against two of the most high-profile right-wing members of Congress. What do Lindsey Graham and Nancy Mace have in common? And what did you learn from your campaign against Mace that youll use in your campaign against Graham? Dr. Annie Andrews: Thats a great question that no one has asked me before.I do like to say that I spent 12 months of my life running against Nancy Mace, which tells you I am not afraid of a fight. I am not afraid to throw punches when necessary, and I dont back down easily. If I can handle that woman for 12 months, I can handle Lindsey Graham for the next 17 months.I see them both as incredibly problematic members of the U.S. Congress. Lindsey Graham has been in the Senate for 22 years, which is half of my lifetime. When he was first elected, he had a great habit of reaching across the aisle and working to solve problems for South Carolinians in a bipartisan fashion. He was a John McCain Republican. I certainly didnt really agree with him on many policy positions, but I would have considered him a respectable member of the Senate. But we have seen him over those 22 years really abandon any moral standing. He had his integrity and dignity, but now hes just up there to do what he needs to do to get reelected and keep his corporate donors and his billionaire donors happy and to do the bidding of Donald Trump.And on that same note, Nancy Mace has been a chameleon her entire political career. She first got elected saying she was going to be this maverick going against the grain. Its a national embarrassment, honestly, to have her representing our congressional district. To be someone who ran against her and lost I mean, thats something I have to carry with me every day.But she is also someone who is absolutely in it for herself. Shes always just trying to get the next cable TV hit. She changes the words that come out of her mouth based on who shes talking to. Her social media presence is undignified and below the office of a member of Congress, and its really quite sad to watch. Honestly, I think she needs to take a step back from public life and work on herself. In the campaign video announcing your Senate run, you used some humor in making your case against Graham: banging your head on the dining room table after some clips demonstrating his obsequiousness to Trump was funny, and the glass of white wine was a nice touch. Im guessing that was a shout-out to working moms like yourself who occasionally need a drink amid all the chaos. You also call Graham full of s**t with an X-ray illustrating your point. But anger is whats driving a lot of Republicans to vote for their party lately. Are you a happy warrior, and will humor be key to getting Democrats to the polls?I love that framing, and yes, I would consider myself a happy warrior for many reasons.One is, I find humor and satire to be an incredibly effective way to point out the ridiculousness that comes from so many of our Republican lawmakers, including Lindsey Graham. I think its an incredibly effective way to cut through and to make a point, and I will continue to do that, because thats also who I am. Im not going to become some different person because Im now running for the U.S. Senate. Voters are looking for authentic human beings, and Im going to continue to authentically be me, and that includes using humor anywhere I can.And the other reason I do that is because we cant let them steal our joy. If we lose our joy, we will forget what were even fighting for. Whats the worst thing about Lindsey Graham?He doesnt stand for anything. I mean, hes such a sellout. Its really head spinning to walk into a childrens hospital and to work alongside nurses and everyone there with a shared goal of taking care of sick and injured children with worried parents at the bedside and then to observe politicians like Lindsey Graham, who wake up every day only to serve themselves, no matter who they hurt along the way. Its just maddening and infuriating, and its hard for me to wrap my brain around it. Lindsey Graham is willing to harm whoever stands in his way, as long as he achieves his goal of keeping Donald Trump happy and getting reelected. Its just disgusting to watch. Do you think Graham is a hypocrite when it comes to supporting Trump in his effort to strip LGBTQ+ identity from the federal government and society at large? For instance, literally painting over gay icon Harvey Milks name on a Navy ship?I mean, Lindsey Graham is definitely a hypocrite. I dont know that hes particularly Let me rephrase: hes definitely a hypocrite. Hes a hypocrite on this issue, as well. I mean, I dont know that hes ever, ever said anything necessarily super-positive or supportive of the LGBTQ community, but its just a perfect example of him having no internal moral compass that points him to do the right thing. And if Trump says were going to practice LGBTQ-erasure, then he says, Yes, sir, what can I do to help? And its just another example of his willingness to do whatever he needs to do to stay in Trumps good graces, no matter who it harms or no matter if it contradicts with who he is as a person.For all his hypocrisies, South Carolinians seem to like Graham, the way they enjoy a gay uncle at the family reunion, with his down-home demeanor and sassy asides. Hes also a shrewd political survivor. Whats something about Graham that you find admirable about him?He served as a JAG officer, and I appreciate his service to the country in that way. But what could have been an admirable career of public service has been erased by everything hes done over the past decade or so: to abandon any principles he used to align with. He is a shrewd political figure. Hes a much more politically powerful figure than my former opponent, Nancy Mace.But that doesnt mean hes unbeatable he has an approval rating here in South Carolina of 34%. And while we are living in a hyper-partisan time and so many South Carolina voter voters are apt to walk into the voting booth and just pull the lever for Republicans up and down the ballot, or for Democrats up and down the ballot, I think that what were going to see in response to the Trump administration in 2026 is going to transcend our typical partisan behavior in the voting booth. Lindsey Graham is one of the most vulnerable members of Congress in that way because he has tied himself so tightly to Donald Trump.Whats the single issue you think Graham is most vulnerable on? Healthcare. Healthcare is the number one issue for South Carolina families this election cycle, for good reason.Its the coordinated attack were seeing on our nations health care system with this budget bill and gutting our nations Medicaid program, which is the largest insurer for children in South Carolina and in the country. Its cuts to Medicare, slashing the NIH budget. Healthcare touches everyone.Whether youre on Medicaid or someone in your family is on Medicaid or not, gutting that program is going to drive up healthcare costs for every single person, because someones going to have to pay for that care. And those of us on private insurance are going to see our premiums go up really, really soon.Lindsey Graham not only voted yes on this budget bill, but he was its biggest champion in the U.S. Senate and helped to draft the Senate version of the bill. When was the first time you became aware that there are gay people in the world?Oh, thats a great question. I grew up very sheltered. I went to Catholic school, K through 12, so honestly, it probably wasnt until high school. Im sure there were gay people in my elementary and middle school, but it just wasnt something that was talked about.I have a lot of very strong relationships with gay people some of my best friends are gay now, and I find those relationships to be incredibly life-affirming and incredibly helpful as I navigate the world of being a Democrat in South Carolina in a very public-facing capacity. Mace got you removed from your job during your campaign against her when she accused you of providing gender-altering hormone therapy to kids as young as four years old. Your hospital also received death threats. What went through your mind as that attack unfolded? Were you blindsided or prepared for it, and are you ready for Graham to roll it out again in 2026?I think back to that time a lot. You know, we were pretty far into the campaign when she posted the first video calling me a child abuser for supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth. And my initial, honest response was, I laughed. Because I thought, is this all she could come up with? This is ridiculous, like, this is what shes going to attack me on? I was naive then, not understanding the political landscape enough and the Republican Party enough to realize that that would, in fact, be an effective way to attack me.I didnt expect any more from Nancy, but she really doubled down and tripled down on that in a way that I started to fear was going to put trans youth in my community and the children at the childrens hospital where I worked in danger, because we had already seen the bomb threat at Boston Childrens Hospital related to this issue. So, I was worried about somebody in my community taking it upon themselves to come find me at that Childrens Hospital because they were so convinced that I was doing this thing that they thought was so wrong for trans youth. So, I took a full leave of absence from my job at the end of the campaign, and then after the campaign, I was not offered my job back in something that felt very much like political retribution. Mace has a talent for grabbing headlines, as weve discussed. Is that a quality that South Carolinians admire in their representatives? And whats wrong with it if its bringing clout to their state?I think the words I used earlier were, shes a national embarrassment. She confuses her Twitter page for real life, and she doesnt realize that these headlines that shes grabbing are not helping South Carolinians, and certainly not making South Carolinians proud. South Carolinians are embarrassed by Nancy Mace. How did your kids handle your first race for office, and what was the family meeting like when you talked about challenging Graham? Did anyone vote the idea down?Ive always tried to teach my kids the value of public service. Before I launched my campaign, we sat down as a family and talked honestly about what it would mean: the long days, the tough moments, the commitment it takes. Challenging Lindsey Graham was a decision we made together.Also, when I asked my 8-year-old if she had any other thoughts about me doing this, she shrugged her shoulders and said, Good luck. So theres that. Whats the one thing youre looking forward to most if youre elected to represent the people of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate?I want to give people something to feel hopeful and optimistic about, and to prove to people that I say what I mean: Im going to Washington, D.C., to fight for them and to deliver results for them.I spent two decades taking care of patients, and it brings me great joy to think about the possibility of making the lives of so many South Carolina kids and families better.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

Nature, Published online: 30 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02404-1Neutrinos from a nuclear reactor are caught by a technique known as coherent scattering.

Nature, Published online: 30 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02284-5Mars has had periods of potential habitability, seen in its geological record of surface water and shallow groundwater. Models that incorporate feedback between carbon sequestration, atmospheric pressure and temperature backed by discoveries of carbonates by NASAs Curiosity rover suggest that this intermittent habitability could have arisen through self-regulating feedback loops on the planets surface.

Nature, Published online: 30 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09114-8Together with an accompanying paper presenting a transcriptomic atlas of the mouse lemur, interrogation of the atlas provides a rich body of data to support the use of the organism as a model for primate biology and health.

Nature, Published online: 30 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02420-1Inflammation from the respiratory infections seems to be the culprit, study in mice finds.

Nature, Published online: 30 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02396-yHuman cells display diverse surface proteins that vary by cell type and state. A modular system has been developed that triggers the joining of two parts of a full output protein only when specific cell-surface cues are met, enabling precise control of where functional proteins are generated and how they act.

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