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=====Voting Restrictions Are Further Politicizing U.S. Electoral System, Journalist Says=====
[https://www.npr.org/2021/05/27/1000869614/voting-restrictions-are-further-politicizing-u-s-electoral-system-journalist-say by Terry Gross 27/5/21 npr]
 
  This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Nick Corasaniti, has been reporting on what he describes as how the Republican Party is attempting to lock in political control for years to come by pushing through new laws to restrict voting access, limit ballot initiatives that could undermine Republican goals and stiffen penalties for poll workers and election officials who make even minor mistakes.
 
=====Commentary: Why the Electoral College System Makes Little Sense Today=====
 
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/commentary-why-the-electoral-college-system-makes-little-sense-today by Politics 1/11/12 PBS NEWS]
 
  Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, center, carries a ballot box containing the 12 Massachusetts electoral votes for Vice President Al Gore during the Electoral College voting at the Statehouse Dec. 18, 2000, in Boston. Is the Electoral College system outdated?
=====Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing=====
=====AN ISRAELI ELECTORAL SYSTEM THAT FRUSTRATED EVEN BEN-GURION=====
[https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding by Matt Krupnick 3/6/25 PROPUBLICA]
[https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/05/opinion/l-an-israeli-electoral-system-that-frustrated-even-ben-gurion-109080.html by The New York Times Archives THE NEW YORK TIMES]
  The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.
  This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
 
Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions.
[[Education-Schools]]
=====Here’s how US presidents get elected (it’s not by winning the most votes)=====
=====Scenic forest trails near Santa Cruz to open to the public for the first time=====
[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/10/here-s-how-a-us-president-gets-elected-it-s-not-by-winning-the-most-votes/ by John Letzing 1/10/20 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM]
[https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/scenic-forest-trails-santa-cruz/3884608/?amp=1 by Joe Rosalito 4/6/25 NBC]
  The Electoral College is a mostly winner-take-all system that delivers a set number of electoral votes per state to the winner of the popular vote there. That set number is based on a state’s headcount in Congress – the minimum is three (as in Alaska and Wyoming, for example), and the maximum is 55 (California). There are 538 in total, and 270 are needed to win.
  The one-time dairy-turned-national monument sits nine miles north of Santa Cruz at the edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking the ocean. Its opening this summer will cap years of fundraising and labor to convert the scenic landscape into a public recreational destination.
=====How to Fix America’s Confusing Voting System=====
[[Environment-Habitat Preservation]]
[https://www.propublica.org/article/improve-voter-turnout-solutions-accessibility by Aliyya Swaby 12/9/22 PROPUBLICA]
 
  Faye Combs used to enter the voting booth with trepidation. Unable to read until she was in her 40s, she would struggle to decipher the words on the ballot, intimidated by how quickly the people around her finished and departed.
=====We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.=====
=====voting system failures:
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opinion/medicaid-work-requirements-arkansas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU8.wJE1._9ddBnCcgVCO&smid=url-share by Kevin De Liban 8/6/25 The New York Times]
a d ata b a s e s o l u t i o n =====
  Many of the Republicans pushing for Medicaid work requirements — permanent program cuts that will strip up to 14 million people of their health care coverage — likely have no idea what it takes to comply with them. We do. As legal aid lawyers, we were on the front lines helping low-income people in Arkansas keep their health care coverage when the state rolled out work requirements in 2018.
[https://motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/norden_report.pdf by Lawrence Norden BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE]
[[Health Care-Insurance]]
  The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan public policy and law
 
institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Our work ranges from voting rights to
=====‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines=====
campaign finance reform, from racial justice in criminal law to presidential power in the fight against terrorism.
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/mrna-vaccine-cancer-research-trump-administration by Melody Schreiber 12/7/25 The Guardian]
A singular institution – part think tank, part public interest law firm, part advocacy group – the Brennan Center
  Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
combines scholarship, legislative and legal advocacy, and communication to win meaningful, measurable change
[[Health Care-Prevention]]
in the public sector.
 
=====Could the Electoral College system ever change?=====
=====The Texas way: why the most disaster-prone US state is so allergic to preparing for disasters=====
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/electoral-college-system-ever-change by PBS News Hour 13/11/16 PBS NEWS]
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/13/texas-disaster-weather-preparations-us by Ed PilKington 13/7/25 The Guardian]
  President-Elect Donald Trump captured the White House by winning the Electoral College, even as Hillary Clinton won about half a million votes more than Trump. In response, some are calling for a national popular vote to decide the election. Josh Tucker, a politics professor at New York University, joins Alison Stewart to discuss.
It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and – as last week showed – deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood
=====In Georgia, primary election chaos highlights a voting system deeply flawed
[[Doing Nothing]]
Jun 22, 2020 6:35 PM EDT
 
=====
=====Colville Tribes confirms first salmon sighting in Kettle River eight years after reintroducing salmon near Coulee Dam=====
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/in-georgia-primary-election-chaos-highlights-a-voting-system-deeply-flawed by Miles O'Brien 22/6/20 PBS NEWS]
[https://www.yoursourceone.com/columbia_basin/colville-tribes-confirms-first-salmon-sighting-in-kettle-river-eight-years-after-reintroducing-salmon-near/article_5a29f663-bcba-4c83-b106-69dc3c9410aa.html by ONE News Staff 11/7/25 SOURCEONE]
  Georgia experienced major problems with its voting processes during a primary election earlier in June. People waited in line up to eight hours to cast ballots, and poll workers struggled with new machines on which they hadn’t been trained due to the pandemic. What do Georgia’s election issues mean for other state primaries -- and for American democracy more broadly?
  NESPELEM — A juvenile Chinook salmon was recently photographed in the Kettle River near Cascade Falls in British Columbia, marking the first confirmed sighting of a Chinook in the river since the Colville Tribes began reintroduction efforts upstream of Grand Coulee Dam in 2017.
=====The real reason we have an Electoral College: to protect slave states=====
[[Environment-Habitat Preservation]]
[https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/12/13598316/donald-trump-electoral-college-slavery-akhil-reed-amar by Sean Illing 12/11/16 Vox]
 
  There’s too much news and too little context. At Vox, we’ll help you understand what really matters. We report urgently on the most important stories shaping our world, but we also spend time on issues the rest of the media neglects.
=====Why the Southwest megadrought is here to stay=====
=====Republican bid to alter Nebraska's electoral system to boost Trump stymied=====
[https://www.earth.com/news/why-the-southwest-megadrought-is-here-to-stay/ by Jordan Joseph 13/7/25 earth.com]
[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-bid-alter-nebraskas-electoral-system-boost-trump-fails-2024-09-23/ by Joseph Ax 23/9/24 Reuters]
  Snowpack once reliably fed water into the Colorado River, yet winter precipitation across the Four Corners has dropped by roughly 23 percent since 1980. Reservoirs and ranchers feel the strain each spring.
  Sept 23 (Reuters) - A last-minute Republican effort to award Nebraska's five Electoral College votes on a winner-take-all basis - a change that would help Donald Trump's odds of winning the White House - appeared doomed on Monday, after a key Republican lawmaker said he opposed the proposal despite lobbying from Trump's allies.
[[Heat and Drought]]
=====Lebanese candidates push for change in a corrupt electoral system=====
 
[https://www.npr.org/2022/05/14/1098942947/lebanese-candidates-push-for-change-in-a-corrupt-electoral-system by Arezou Rezvani 14/5/22 npr]
=====The deepening water shortage row between the US and Mexico=====
  Lebanon is going through one of the worst economic crises in recent history. Food and fuel prices are way up. Certain medicines are hard to find. Power outages sometimes drag on for days. Tomorrow, voters have a chance to hold the ruling establishment to account in parliamentary elections. But NPR's Arezou Rezvani in Beirut explains, it won't be easy for new candidates to break through a system that's built to keep the same usual parties in charge.
[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0epzp21z47o by Will Grant 13/7/25 BBC]
=====US election: how does the electoral college voting system work?=====
  After the thirtieth consecutive month without rain, the townsfolk of San Francisco de Conchos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua gather to plead for divine intervention.
[https://theconversation.com/us-election-how-does-the-electoral-college-voting-system-work-242283 by Richard Hargy 4/11/24 THE CONVERSATION]
[[Heat and Drought]]
  On November 5, millions of Americans will cast their votes for president, with the vast majority deciding between Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump. This historic election, however, is not determined by a singular national poll, but rather a state-by-state contest. Many people outside the US, and some inside, do not understand how this complicated system works.
 
=====How has the Electoral College survived, despite being perennially unpopular?=====
 
[https://www.npr.org/2024/11/04/nx-s1-5173568/electoral-college-explained by Bill Chappell 4/11/24 npr]
=====There is no safe amount of processed meat to eat, according to new research=====
A majority of Americans — more than 60% — support abolishing the Electoral College, according to a September report by the Pew Research Center. But the system has survived an unprecedented number of attempts to change it.
[https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/02/health/processed-meats-sweet-drinks-disease-wellness by Madeline Holcombe 2/7/25 CNN]
=====Making elephants dance - a guide to Germany's electoral system=====
  There is strong evidence that there is “no safe amount” of processed meat to eat, nutrition experts say in response to a new study on the connection between diet and the risk of major diseases, including cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The researchers also found elevated risks from the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and trans fatty acids.
[https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-germany-election-electoral-system-exp/explainer-making-elephants-dance-a-guide-to-germanys-electoral-system-idUKKBN2GJ0KC/ by Thomas Escritt 23/9/21 Reuters]
[[Diet]]
  BERLIN (Reuters) - Sixty million voters, casting twice as many votes for 47 parties, leading to a parliament that could have anywhere from 700 to as much as 1,000 legislators - the German electoral system is baffling even to Germans.  
 
=====Fox News settles blockbuster defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems=====
 
[https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170339114/fox-news-settles-blockbuster-defamation-lawsuit-with-dominion-voting-systems by David Folkenflik 18/4/23 npr]
=====Six-hour ‘undo’ button: GAI-17 rewinds stroke damage and may beat Alzheimer’s=====
Judge Eric Davis of the Delaware Superior Court announced the settlement from the bench on Tuesday afternoon ahead of the trial's scheduled start.
[https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250715043357.htm by Osaka Metropolitan University 15/7/25 Science Daily]
=====All politicians “game” the system. The question is how?=====
  Protein aggregation inhibitor shows lower levels of cell death and paralysis in mice with acute strokes.
[https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2018/5/14/17352208/ranked-choice-voting-san-francisco by Lee Drutman 14/5/18 Vox]
[[Health Care-Illness]]
  There’s too much news and too little context. At Vox, we’ll help you understand what really matters. We report urgently on the most important stories shaping our world, but we also spend time on issues the rest of the media neglects.
 
=====Election system needs an overhaul, but it's not that easy=====
=====Agroecological farming promotes yield and biodiversity but may require subsidy to be profitable=====
[https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-politics/election-system-needs-an-overhaul-but-its-not-that-easy-idUSBRE8A71F9/ by Deborah Charles 8/11/12 Reuters]
[https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70079 by B.A Woodcock 1/7/25 BTITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY]
Election Day problems have become commonplace in the United States in recent general elections. But a comment by President Barack Obama offered a glimmer of hope that problems that have dogged voting for years might finally be addressed.
  The intensification of global agriculture has devolved reliance on natural ecosystem services to agrochemicals and crop breeding, while simultaneously losing semi-natural habitats (Priyadarshana et al., 2024; Pywell et al., 2015; Stoate et al., 2009). In the short term this has increased yields at a level inconceivable in previous centuries but has come with negative externalities like biodiversity loss, nutrient losses and pollution burdens (Defra, 2023; Stoate et al., 2009;
[[Environment-Agriculture]]
=====#290  ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop=====
[https://accidentalgods.life/rewilding-our-water-from-rain-to-river-to-sewer-and-back-with-tim-smedley-author-of-the-last-drop/ by Tim Smedley The Last Drop]
  If you listen to this podcast for any length of time, you’ll know that I believe the way forward is predicated on our finding shared values—I’d go for integrity, compassion, courage and generosity of spirit as the baselines—and then a suite of clear asks in the outer world and needs in the inner world.  
[[Environment-Habitat Preservation]]
 
=====First-of-its-kind wildlife overcrossing in Northern California officially in progress=====
[https://krcrtv.com/news/local/first-of-its-kind-wildlife-overcrossing-in-northern-california-in-progress by Timea Horvath 18/7/25 KRCR]
  Wildfire Crossing Structure Project includes construction of a single-span, approximately 100-foot long by 140-foot wide wildlife overcrossing bridge at Post Mile 19.77. Caltrans crew will also install approximately two miles of 8-foot-high wildlife exclusion fencing on both sides of the highway, jump-outs every half mile to allow wildlife to escape the roadway corridor, cattle guards at private road access points and a reinforced concrete box culvert to enhance wildlife undercrossing opportunities.
[[Environment-Biodiversity]]
 
=====Named after a historic dairy ranch that still stands today, Wilder Ranch covers a staggering 7,000 acres, from the treelined ridges of Ben Lomond Mountain to rugged cliffs overlooking a particularly untamed expanse of the Pacific Ocean. A testament to the area's rich agricultural history, farmers still grow artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and other fog-loving crops on the land between the ocean and Highway 1. 
 
Read More: https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/=====
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/trump-energy-environment-agenda by Peter Stone 20/7/25 The Guardian]
  Ever since Donald Trump began his second presidency, he has used an “invented” national energy emergency to help justify expanding oil, gas and coal while slashing green energy – despite years of scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels has contributed significantly to climate change, say scholars and watchdogs.
=====California's Hidden Coastal State Park Near Downtown Santa Cruz Offers Uncrowded Beach Access And Ethereal Trails
 
Read More: https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/=====
[https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/ by Eva Johnstone 19/6/25 Islands]
  Named after a historic dairy ranch that still stands today, Wilder Ranch covers a staggering 7,000 acres, from the treelined ridges of Ben Lomond Mountain to rugged cliffs overlooking a particularly untamed expanse of the Pacific Ocean. A testament to the area's rich agricultural history, farmers still grow artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and other fog-loving crops on the land between the ocean and Highway 1. 
 
Read More: https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/
=====Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change=====
[https://theconversation.com/only-3-years-left-new-study-warns-the-world-is-running-out-of-time-to-avoid-the-worst-impacts-of-climate-change-261229 by Piers Forster 20/7/25 THE CONVERSATION]
Bad climate news is everywhere. Africa is being hit particularly hard by climate change and extreme weather, impacting lives and livelihoods.
 
We are living in a world that is warming at the fastest rate since records began. Yet, governments have been slow to act.
=====“Remarkable” Results – Scientists Say This Supplement Reversed Heart Damage=====
[https://scitechdaily.com/remarkable-results-scientists-say-this-supplement-reversed-heart-damage/ by THE UNIVERSITY OF OSAKA 19/7/25 SciTechDaily]
Japanese researchers have uncovered that tricaprin, a dietary supplement, triggered a dramatic reversal of heart disease symptoms in two patients with a rare, treatment-resistant condition. After years of chest pain and failed therapies, the patients experienced relief and even regression of artery-clogging fat deposits. The key wasn’t lowering cholesterol, but breaking down triglycerides inside heart cells—a novel and potentially groundbreaking approach to cardiac care.
=====Can cannabis impact aging? Study shows marijuana could alter 'genetic code'=====
[https://komonews.com/news/offbeat/can-cannabis-impact-aging-study-shows-marijuana-could-alter-genetic-code-pot-weed-smoke-smoking-smokers-epigenetic-research-effect-impact-body-health-healthy-lungs-brain-drugs-substance-abuse-addiction-tobacco-disorders-infections-cincinnati by WKRC 20/7/25 KOMONEWS]
The study highlighted the importance of understanding marijuana's effects on the body, as it remains one of the most widely used drugs globally. While some effects are well-known, the research indicated a broader impact than previously anticipated.
=====Stop telling us it’s not about that=====
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/23/2334876/-Stop-telling-us-it-s-not-about-that?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by MurielVieux 23/7/25 DAILY KOS]
Deny the truth to yourselves all you want people, but stop telling us Black folks that what’s going on today, what won the 2024 election is not white supremacy.
=====The 5 Best Drinks for Kidney Stones (Plus 3 to Avoid)=====
[https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/kidney-stones/best-drink-for-kidney-stones?srsltid=AfmBOor1LT8uh3L5QL8wWUjNkhhr98fzsrGgsTkJ98A-9iN8PcID1ern by Tracy Norfleet 13/3/24 GoodRx]
If you’ve ever had a kidney stone, you know that they can be incredibly painful. And about half of people with kidney stones end up having more in the future. But there are things you can do to lower your risk of kidney stones, like drinking the right things.
=====What to do about gallstones=====
[https://www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/what-to-do-about-gallstones by Harvard Health Publishing 20/7/23]
Gallstones begin with bile, a substance that helps with the digestion of fats and the absorption of certain vitamins. Bile is made in the liver and carried to the gallbladder, a small, pear-shaped organ that concentrates and stores it. The fat in food triggers the release of a hormone that causes the gallbladder to contract and release bile into the intestine.
=====Where the next deadly flood wave could strike=====
[https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/24/climate/flash-flood-risk-hot-spots by Andrew Freedman 24/7/25 CNN]
The ingredients that led to the Hill Country disaster — steep terrain, swollen rivers and unsuspecting people in harm’s way — are not unique to Texas. Across the United States, there are pockets of vulnerability where geography, weather and human nature converge in ways that heighten the risk of flash flooding.
=====Why the U.S. is leading the world in extreme weather catastrophes=====
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/why-the-u-s-is-leading-the-world-in-extreme-weather-catastrophes by Seth Borenstein 2/4/23 PBS NEWS]
The United States is Earth’s punching bag for nasty weather.
 
Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, several experts said. Two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, jutting peninsulas like Florida, clashing storm fronts and the jet stream combine to naturally brew the nastiest of weather.
=====It is one of the deadliest chemicals on Earth – but even Mexico’s cartels can’t resist the lure of mercury=====
[https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/24/mexico-toxic-mercury-smugglers-gold-rush-poisoning-amazon by Luke Taylor 24/7/25 The Guardian]
An undercover investigation reveals 200 tonnes of the deadly substance is being smuggled across South America, where it is poisoning rivers, soil and air
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