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Salt Mountain, #iran
By #AmazingNature

#Nature #NatureLovers #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Photography #Photographer #Video #Science

Since this is not a matter of "if" but rather "when"...

Which of these things will happen first?

🧑‍💻 #ux

"Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas changed his position on one of America’s most significant regulatory doctrines after his wife reportedly accepted secret payments from a shadowy conservative network pushing for the change."

Yup. Thomas's rulings are nowhere near as consistent as his defenders claim. E.g., his arbitration rulings bear no resemblance to his stated jurisprudence.

https://www.levernews.com/clarence-thomas-reversed-position-after-gifts-and-family-payments/

In the UK they are stopping people who are wearing a mask from voting. It’s unacceptable to exclude high risk people from democracy.

Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years

He promised to reduce the national debt but instead increased it. It is now at its highest level relative to the U.S. economy since the end of World War II

This is one of his lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies, the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch.

#usa #politics #debtceiling #gop

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

Now ~$36 billion.
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RT @steventdennis
In Desk 88, Sherrod Brown's book about progressives who sat at his desk before him, he warned Trump-era deregulation of midsized banks "will result in a much higher chance of economic disaster, meaning more exposure for taxpayers."
The banking crisis has cost FDIC ~$23B so far.
https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1652057130231291904

#Eggwhites can be transformed into a material capable of #filtering #microplastics from #seawater Sehmus Ozden et al, Egg protein derived ultralightweight hybrid monolithic aerogel for #waterpurification, Materials Today (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.mattod.2022.08.001 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369702122002103?dgcid=coauthor

As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School
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When crossings are blocked for hours, kids risk their lives to get to school by crawling through trains that could start at any moment.

Ambulances and fire trucks can’t get through. The problem has existed for decades. But it’s getting worse.

#Railroad #Safety #Kids #Rail #School

https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

"'It is a live, on-the-wall anthology that is not duplicated anywhere in the country, as far as we know, where writing is treated as being just as important as any other art form.'" If it goes, thank the Republican 2024 convention? https://www.thebulwark.com/tearing-down-art-to-spare-republican-snowflakes-feelings/

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Darrell Night, who exposed Canada police freezing deaths scandal, dies at 56 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/25/darrell-night-who-exposed-canada-police-freezing-deaths-scandal-dies-at-56
Cree man helped reveal practice of ‘starlight tours’ in which Saskatoon police drove Indigenous people out of city and abandoned them in sub-zero temperatures. #cdnpoli

Years of legal work & advocacy later, Lyft & Uber drivers are *still* refusing rides to blind customers with service animals and the companies are *still* maintaining it's not really their responsibility—this time the blind rider just happened to be a senior judge in DC, so the Washington Post picked up the story: "A federal judge was refused a Lyft ride with his guide dog. He’s not alone."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/04/20/blind-ride-share-guide-dogs/

#disability #law

And this was what Republican FEC commissioners did with every credible complaint filed against Trump. Even in the two dozen instances where the FEC's nonpartisan lawyers found reason to believe a violation occurred