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Saturday, April 29, 2023
The corporate attack on democracy | Salon.com
The corporate attack on democracy | Salon.com: Fox News will only use the Dominion case as a test for how far they can go in their assault on democracy
Friday, April 28, 2023
New climate models predict ice-free Arctic summers by 2050 - ArcticToday
New climate models predict ice-free Arctic summers by 2050 - ArcticToday: New research using updated global climate models surprised scientists by finding that an overwhelming majority of these models predict ice-free summers in the Arctic Ocean before 2050. And that’s true even in scenarios where actions are taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In a research letter to the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a team
Thursday, April 27, 2023
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Saturday, April 22, 2023
The Cost of Merrick Garland's Silence Around the Trump Investigation
The Cost of Merrick Garland's Silence Around the Trump Investigation:
The Dancing Itos were a lesser pop culture legacy of the O.J. Simpson case. Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” featured a <a target="_blank&quo...
Friday, April 21, 2023
The debate over whether Maine lobster rolls are killing whales - The Washington Post
The debate over whether Maine lobster rolls are killing whales - The Washington Post: Too many endangered right whales are drowning in fishing rope in the North Atlantic. But Maine lobstermen say there's little evidence their gear is to blame.
Greenland's Melting Ice Could Be Changing Our Oceans. Just Ask the Whales
Greenland's Melting Ice Could Be Changing Our Oceans. Just Ask the Whales: <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1170547217/1170581292" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"...
A War Crimes Team Investigated the Portland Police. The Results Are Damning
A War Crimes Team Investigated the Portland Police. The Results Are Damning:
A forensic investigation found the police used dangerous amounts of tear gas in an attempt to put down Black Lives Matter protests</...
Thursday, April 20, 2023
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Monday, April 17, 2023
Look up, listen, and be very concerned. Birds are vanishing – and their crisis is our crisis | Mark Cocker | The Guardian
Look up, listen, and be very concerned. Birds are vanishing – and their crisis is our crisis | Mark Cocker | The Guardian: More than 40m birds have disappeared from UK’s skies since 1970: a trend that imperils the network that gives us life, says naturalist Mark Cocker
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Don’t frack our state parks to fund tax cuts for the rich - Ohio Capital Journal
Don’t frack our state parks to fund tax cuts for the rich - Ohio Capital Journal: Some of my fondest memories have been in Ohio’s state parks, forests, and wildlife areas. Deer Creek, Hocking Hills, Shawnee, Maumee Bay, Kelleys Island, Mohican, and more I have yet to visit – all are treasures showing Ohio is home not just to cities, industry and cornfields, but true natural beauty and biodiversity. But all […]
A Wave of Evictions Is Devastating California’s Farmworkers | The Nation
A Wave of Evictions Is Devastating California’s Farmworkers | The Nation: As growers bring in more H-2A workers, affordable housing for local farmworkers has become sparse in the region's labor camps.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Thousands of Fascist Israeli Militiamen, led by Cabinet members, march in Palestinian West Bank for Illegal Squatter-Settlement, as 27 Palestinians are Wounded and 100 are Tear-gassed
Thousands of Fascist Israeli Militiamen, led by Cabinet members, march in Palestinian West Bank for Illegal Squatter-Settlement, as 27 Palestinians are Wounded and 100 are Tear-gassed: Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Monday about 17,000 Israeli squatters marched through the Palestinian West Bank to the shuttered illegal squatter-settlement of Evyatar on Mount Sabih near the hamlet of Beita in the vicinity of Nablus, demanding its revival. Some 27 Palestinian counter-protesters suffered injuries from rubber-tipped metal bullets, and another hundred suffered ill effects from inhalation of military-grade tear gas. They were shot by Israeli troops that provided security to the far-right march. It was the first time in two years that the Israeli military had permitted anyone to approach the
Monday, April 10, 2023
Pentagon’s Proposed 2024 Budget Reflects Arms Industry’s Capture of Congress - Truthout
Pentagon’s Proposed 2024 Budget Reflects Arms Industry’s Capture of Congress - Truthout: Pentagon wants $842 billion for next fiscal year. Reining in this spending is essential to the safety of the world.
Sunday, April 9, 2023
UN climate change report: Catastrophic warming will claim lives without action - The Washington Post
UN climate change report: Catastrophic warming will claim lives without action - The Washington Post: In a new IPCC climate change report, scientists said the world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years.
Saturday, April 8, 2023
Friday, April 7, 2023
Thursday, April 6, 2023
As You Like It (2019) - IMDb
As You Like It (2019) - IMDb: As You Like It: Directed by Carlyle Stewart. On the run from her villainous uncle, a young girl escapes to the desert disguised as a boy. There she meets the boy she loves, who is also in exile, but her disguise complicates their relationship.
Campy romp through the classic, with gay cowboys, crossdressing, and saucy intentions set against the end-world of a desert golf course.
Read all of the charges against Trump in the New York hush-money case | PBS NewsHour
Read all of the charges against Trump in the New York hush-money case | PBS NewsHour: The indictment, the first ever for a former U.S. president, stems from a grand jury investigation into hush money paid before Trump was elected president.
Monday, April 3, 2023
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Global freedom has declined for the 17th consecutive year - Attention to the Unseen
Global freedom has declined for the 17th consecutive year - Attention to the Unseen: The 2023 edition of Freedom in the World from Freedom House reports: The global struggle for democracy approached a possible turning point in 2022. The gap between the number of countries that registered overall improvements in political rights and civil liberties and those that registered overall declines was the narrowest it has ever been through… Read More »
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