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|'''America faces supply-chain disruption and shortages. Here’s why'''
[[File:Supply chain.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/01/america-supply-chain-shortages by Matt Stoller Oct 1 2021 The Guardian]]]
The specific policies that led to our supply constrained world are lax antitrust, deregulation of basic infrastructure industries like shipping, railroads and trucking, disinvestment in domestic production, and trade policy emphasizing finance over manufacturing......Take biopharmaceutical equipment necessary to make vaccines. There’s a shortage of fancy plastic bags that you mix chemicals in to make medicine, which isn’t surprising in a pandemic. But the reason for the shortage isn’t just Covid but a merger wave; over the last 15 years, four firms bought up the biopharmaceutical equipment industry, without any antitrust agency taking meaningful action. These firms now have market power, and dominate their competitors, by ensuring their bags can only interoperate with their specific mixing machines. It’s like not having enough Keurig coffee machine pods; the shortage isn’t the coffee, it’s the artificial bottleneck used to lock in customers.


|'''Ranked-choice voting is the best fix for our democratic crisis'''
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'''“A complicated, complex field simplified with a simple trip to the ballot box, at a fraction of the cost of a full-fledged runoff"'''
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[[File:Vote Here Ranked Choice.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/23/2053422/-Ranked-choice-voting-is-the-best-fix-for-our-democratic-crisis by Darrell Lucus Daily Kos 9/23/21]]] Granted, there are a lot of reasons why the Electoral College’s time has long since passed. For instance, it was written into the Constitution in an effort to placate Southern states who wanted their large numbers of slaves to count in their populations. As most of us know, the Northern states were unwilling to count slaves at all. They needed the Southern states for the new government to be viable, so they agreed to let slaves count as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of apportioning seats in the House of Representatives......Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight estimated that Joe Biden would not have been favored to win the Electoral College unless he won the popular vote by at least 3-4%. Silver also concluded that Biden would have needed to win the popular vote by at least 4-5% in order to close off any realistic path for Trump to win........
“Stories from below” are accounts of history, society, or current events told from the perspective of ordinary people—especially those whose experiences are often excluded from official narratives.


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[[File:European Skin Pigmentation Evolution.png|65px]][[Why Humans Have Different Skin Colors]] 9/14


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[[File:Geography of Environmental Injustice.png|65px]][[Communities Affected by Pollution]] 9/12
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|'''Bitcoin miners align with fossil fuel firms, alarming environmentalists'''
[[File:30x30 Biodiversity Conservation Goals.png|65px]][[30x30 Conservation Initiative]] 9/08
[[File:210924-bitcoin-fossil-fuel-companies-2x1-cs.jpg|center|thumb|[https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/bitcoin-miners-align-fossil-fuel-firms-alarming-environmentalists-n1280060 By Olivia Solon NBC News Sept. 25, 2021]]] Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies use blockchain technology, essentially a shared database of transactions, where entries must be confirmed and encrypted. The network is secured by “miners” who use powerful computers to compete in an enormous guessing game that ultimately verifies the transactions. If a computer “wins” the game, it’s rewarded with a newly created bitcoin, currently worth about $40,000. The process consumes a lot of electricity, and the computers generate a lot of heat, which means they require industrial cooling systems that need even more energy.


[[File:Preserving Japanese American Incarceration Legacy.png|65px]][[Japanese American Incarceration]] 9/07


|'''Flying Microchips The Size Of A Sand Grain Could Be Used For Population Surveillance''''
[[File:Power,_Memory,_and_the_Archive.png|65px]][[Who Writes the World's History?]] 9/05
[[ File:Microflyer.jpg|center|thumb|[https://www.npr.org/2021/09/23/1040035430/flying-microchip-sand-grain-northwestern-winged by SCOTT NEUMAN NPR September 23, 2021]]] The devices don't have a motor, but engineers were instead inspired by the maple tree's free-falling propeller seeds — technically known as samara fruit. They optimized the aerodynamics of the microfliers so that "as these structures fall through the air, the interaction between the air and those wings cause a rotational motion that creates a very stable, slow, falling velocity," said John A. Rogers, who led the development of the devices.


|'''How Trump with Pence's Help Planned to Overthrow the Election'''
[[File:Zone 2 Cardio for Longevity.png|65px]][[Zone 2 cardio and longevity]] 9/04
[[File:Trump Pence Overthrow Plan.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/21/2053504/-The-plan-wasn-t-just-for-Mike-Pence-to-stall-on-January-6-it-was-to-hand-the-election-to-Trump Mark Sumner Sept 21 2021 DailyKos]]] If Eastman seems like he must be some radical character from outside the ranks of the Republican mainstream, he’s not. Eastman is a former clerk for Clarence Thomas, the former dean of Chapman University School of Law (a private law school for those whose primary qualification is having enough cash to pay the tuition—i.e. Hugh Hewitt’s alma mater), and is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence at the conservative Claremont Institute. Claremont, as The Daily Beast reported in July of 2020, “has arguably done more than any other group to build a philosophical case for Trump’s brand of conservatism.” And what is that case? As Slate explained one month later, Claremont “masquerades as an intellectual salon of the right, but it is really just a racist fever swamp.”


[[File:Fire as Stewardship Infographic.png|65px]][[Indigenous Fire Management]] 9/01


|'''‘Havana syndrome ’ and the mystery of the microwaves'''
[[File:Rebuilding Local News Civic Infrastructure.png|65px]][[Rebuilding Local Government Reporting]] 8/30
[[File:BBC Havana Syn.png|center|thumb| [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58396698 By Gordon Corera 9/07/21 BBC]]] Then Ambassador Stoessel, himself, fell ill - with bleeding of the eyes as one of his symptoms. In a now declassified 1975 phone call to the Soviet ambassador to Washington, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger linked Stoessel's illness to microwaves, admitting "we are trying to keep the thing quiet". Stoessel died of leukaemia at the age of 66. "He decided to play the good soldier", and not make a fuss, his daughter told the BBC.  
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[[File:Transform Lawns Into Living Habitats.png|65px]][[Backyard Habitat Restoration]] 8/30
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[[File:CTE Risk in Contact Sports.png|65px]][[CTE Risk in Sports]] 8/28


|'''Adding Rock Dust to Soil Can Capture Carbon'''
[[File:The Sixth Mass Extinction Crisis.png|65px]][[The Sixth Mass Extinction]] 8/25
[[File:LC3M-basalt-spreading-Energy-Farm-Illinois.jpg|center|thumb| [https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-adding-rock-dust-to-soil-can-help-get-carbon-into-the-ground?fbclid=IwAR0a3-HCFxXL1GobAqnprWxO7tOcNfLc-dKs5vJwTzpe-POBl-6Oa8WtVeU BY SUSAN COSIER • SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 Yale Environment360]]] The hemp field experiments go beyond testing which amendments increase yields and sequester carbon and examine how much rock dust should be applied for best results. Some sections got 20 tons of rock dust per acre, while others got 40, allowing the researchers to get a more fine-tuned picture of the relationship between the dust, the soil, and the crops. The research adds to a growing body of scientific work showing the potential for these soil amendments to become one of the many measures needed to help solve our climate crisis.


|'''Economists' erroneous estimates of damages from climate change'''
[[File:Inventoried Roadless Areas.jpg|65px]][[Repeal of the Roadless Rule]] 8/24
[[File:Cornell Logo.jpg|center|thumb| [https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07847 Stephen Keen, Timothy M. Lenton, Antoine Godin, Devrim Yilmaz, Matheus Grasselli, Timothy J. Garrett 8/17/2021]]] Here we review the empirical work done by economists and show that it severely underestimates damages from climate change by committing several methodological errors, including neglecting tipping points, and assuming that economic sectors not exposed to the weather are insulated from climate change. Most fundamentally, the influential Integrated Assessment Model DICE is shown to be incapable of generating an economic collapse, regardless of the level of damages. Given these flaws, economists' empirical estimates of economic damages from global warming should be rejected as unscientific, and models that have been calibrated to them, such as DICE, should not be used to evaluate economic risks from climate change, or in the development of policy to attenuate damages.


|'''U.S. boarding schools for Indians had a hidden agenda: Stealing land’'''
[[File:Stoic Framework for Human Flourishing.png|65px]][[Stoicism, Resilience, and the Pursuit of a Good Life]] 8/24
[[File:Pnn Boarding School.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/27/indian-boarding-schools-united-states/ By Brenda J. Child 8/27/21]]] This is because the U.S. schools had a very specific purpose: They helped the government acquire Indian lands. Beginning with Carlisle in Pennsylvania in 1879 and ending with the Sherman Institute in California in 1903, the U.S. government operated 25 off-reservation boarding schools. (Some religious denominations also opened their own mission schools.) At the same time, a massive dispossession took place in the form of the General Allotment Act, which authorized the president to survey and divide Indian lands. Boarding schools, designed to reeducate Indian youth who would no longer have a tribal homeland, went hand in hand with this genocidal policy.


|'''Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth’'''
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[[File:Forget the Alamo.jpg|center|thumb| [https://bookshop.org/books/forget-the-alamo-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-american-myth/9781984880093 Book Review Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford]]] Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over.
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[[File:OIP (1).jpg|65px]][[Rain Gardens in SF; Capturing Urban Runoff]] 8/24
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|'''Too hot to work: the dire impact of extreme heat on outdoor US jobs’'''
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[[File:Too Hot.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/17/outdoor-jobs-us-heat-impacts Aliya Uteuova and Andrew Witherspoon August 17 2021]]] Southern states will face the largest number of days when working outside is all but impossible. In Louisiana, for example, workers already lose about $1,000 in wages because of days when it’s too hot to work. That figure could increase to nearly $5,000 due to 34 days worth of lost work time annually.
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      <div>[[Fighting Dark Money in Elections]] <span style="font-size: 80%; background: #f5f3ff; color: #5b21b6; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; margin-left: 5px; font-weight: bold;">6/08</span></div>
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|'''IPCC climate report: Earth is warmer than it’s been in 125,000 years’'''
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[[File:Low reservior.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02179-1 Jeff Tollefson 8/09/21 Nature]]] Modern society’s continued dependence on fossil fuels is warming the world at a pace that is unprecedented in the past 2,000 years — and its effects are already apparent as record droughts, wildfires and floods devastate communities worldwide — according to a landmark report from the United Nations on the state of climate science. The assessment from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says things are poised to get worse if greenhouse-gas emissions continue, but also makes it clear that the future of the planet depends in large part on the choices that humanity takes today.
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|'''Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles’'''
      <div>[[Decolonizing Food]] <span style="font-size: 80%; background: #f5f3ff; color: #5b21b6; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; margin-left: 5px; font-weight: bold;">7/19</span></div>
[[File:Toyota image search.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22594235/toyota-lobbying-dc-ev-congress-biden-donation By Andrew J. Hawkins@andyjayhawk  Jul 26, 2021 The Verge]]] The company came under fire recently after it was revealed that it was the largest corporate donor to Republican lawmakers who objected to the certification of the 2020 presidential election. A majority of those politicians also dispute the scientific consensus on climate change. Toyota initially defended the contributions, but then later said it would halt them. You know things are bad for the company when a Toyota spokesperson has to confirm to the Times that the automaker does indeed believe that climate change is real.
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|'''The Seas Are Rising. Could Oysters Help?’'''
[[File:Foundations of the Living Garden.png|65px]] [[Organic Gardening]]  
[[File:Oysters.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-seas-are-rising-could-oysters-protect-us By Eric Klinenberg August 2, 2021 The New Yorker]]] “A lot of coastal infrastructure lacks surface complexity,” Pippa Brashear, one of Orff’s colleagues at scape, told me. “It’s mostly hard walls.” The scape project will be the opposite. “If you put on a scuba suit and swim around Living Breakwaters, you’ll see something that looks like an oyster reef, with lots of nooks and crannies,” she said. “It’s designed to be messy, with lots of little critters, invertebrates like tunicates, really colorful sponges, young sea bass and striped bass and silversides darting around and finding places to hide. Then we’ll have the oysters, hopefully tons of them. It’ll be teeming with life.”


[[File:Breakthroughs in Islamic Mathematics.png|50 px]]
[[Islamic_Civilization_and_Contributions_to_Science,_Law,_and_Education| Islamic Civilization and Contributions to Science, Law, and Education]] 8/04
   


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|'''It could feed the world’: amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization’'''
[[File:Corruption.png|45px]] [[National_Park_Budget_2026_Resdistribution| National Parks Money Going to White House 8/10]]
[[File:Amaranth2.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/06/ancient-grain-amaranth-food-trend-indigenous Cecilia Nowell in Albuquerque, New Mexico Aug 7th The Guardian]]] Indigenous women in North and Central America are coming together to share ancestral knowledge of amaranth, a plant booming in popularity as a health food.
   
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      <div>[[Register to Vote US]] <span style="font-size: 80%; background: #eff6ff; color: #1e40af; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; margin-left: 5px; font-weight: bold;">5/30</span></div>
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|'''Americas Bolivia's lake Poopo dries up and scientists fear refill unlikely’'''
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[[File:Lake Popoo.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivias-lake-poopo-dries-up-scientists-fear-refill-unlikely-2021-08-03/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2yI48t4RZw0CTKi5CEPMVY8U-GNJ0SIBHcftgDYgvitwzONyzO5-aI3I4 by Monica Machicao Santiago Limachi 8/03 2021 Reutuers]]] Scientists say the one-time lake, which sprawls across Bolivia's sun-drenched, high-altitude altiplano, has fallen victim to decades of water diversion for regional irrigation needs. And a warmer, drier climate has made its recovery increasingly unlikely.
      <div style="width: 45px; height: 45px; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;">[[File:Ballots US.png|45px|link=The Ballots State by State|alt=]]</div>
      <div>[[The Ballots State by State]] <span style="font-size: 80%; background: #eff6ff; color: #1e40af; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; margin-left: 5px; font-weight: bold;">5/31</span></div>
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|'''Environmental impact of bottled water ‘up to 3,500 times greater than tap water’'''
[[File:Navigating_Modern_Media_Misinformation.png|65px]][[Misinformation and Media Trust]] 7/18
[[File:Bottled Water.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/environmental-impact-of-bottled-water-up-to-3500-times-greater-than-tap-water Joey Grostern August 5 2021]]] Research led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) found that if the city’s population were all to drink bottled water, this would result in a 3,500 times higher cost of resource extraction than if they all drank tap water, at $83.9m (£60.3m)a year.
|'''For Billion-Dollar COVID Vaccines, Basic Government-Funded Science Laid the Groundwork'''
[[File:Messener RNA.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-billion-dollar-covid-vaccines-basic-government-funded-science-laid-the-groundwork/ By Arthur Allen, Kaiser Health News on November 18, 2020 Scientific American]]] The idea of creating a vaccine with messenger RNA, or mRNA—the substance that converts DNA into proteins—goes back decades. Early efforts to create mRNA vaccines failed, however, because the raw RNA was destroyed before it could generate the desired response. Our innate immune systems evolved to kill RNA strands because that’s what many viruses are.
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      <div>[[How would the SAVE Act effect voter turnout]] <span style="font-size: 80%; background: #eff6ff; color: #1e40af; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; margin-left: 5px; font-weight: bold;">7/22</span></div>
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|'''Why are so many babies dying of Covid-19 in Brazil?'''
      <div>[[Corruption in the US]] <span style="font-size: 80%; background: #eff6ff; color: #1e40af; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; margin-left: 5px; font-weight: bold;">7/28</span></div>
[[File:Covid Brazil.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56696907 By Nathalia Passarinho and Luis Barrucho BBC Brazil April 15 2021]]] More than a year into the pandemic, deaths in Brazil are now at their peak. But despite the overwhelming evidence that Covid-19 rarely kills young children, in Brazil 1,300 babies have died from the virus. One doctor refused to test Jessika Ricarte's one-year-old son for Covid, saying his symptoms did not fit the profile of the virus. Two months later he died of complications from the disease.
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|'''How the Supreme Court laid the path for Georgia's new election law'''
   
[[File:SOTCUS Roverts.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/27/politics/supreme-court-georgia-voting-law-john-roberts-shelby-county/index.html Joan Biskupic March 27 2021]]] And at another time, before the Roberts Court enhanced state latitude in a series of rulings, legislators might have hedged before enacting policies from new voter identification requirements, to a prohibition on third-party collection of ballots to a rule against non-poll workers providing food or water to voters waiting in lines.
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|'''From Crisis to Reform: A Call to Strengthen America’s Battered Democracy'''
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[[File:US Democracy Report 2021 Graphic US Peers Final.png|center|thumb| [https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2021/crisis-reform-call-strengthen-americas-battered-democracy#footnote2_mf63alg Written by Sarah Repucci Freedom House March 2021]]]After experiencing a gradual decline in respect for political rights and civil liberties over the past decade, the United States is now facing an acute crisis for democracy.
      <div style="width: 45px; height: 45px; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;">[[File:Science Bluesky.png|45px|link=BlueSky Science Feed|alt=]]</div>
|'''New stars on the American flag? Fresh hope as Puerto Rico and DC push for statehood'''
      <div>[[BlueSky Science Feed]] <span style="font-size: 80%; background: #ecfdf5; color: #065f46; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; margin-left: 5px; font-weight: bold;">8/01</span></div>
[[File:DC puertoRico.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/20/puerto-rico-washington-dc-statehood-politics The Guardian David Smith 2/20/2021]]]But with the impetus of last summer’s protests against racial injustice, and the election of a Democratic president, one of those territories – Puerto Rico – is aiming to become the 51st state of the union. A parallel effort by Washington, District of Columbia (DC), is also closer than ever to its similar goal.
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|'''Two of India’s richest men face farmers’ ire over new laws'''[[File:India-farmer-protest.jpg|center|thumb| [https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/18/bbtwo-of-indias-richest-men-face-ire-over-its-new-farm-laws Bloomberg 18 Jan 2021]]]
Two of India’s richest men have landed in an unlikely controversy over farming laws, becoming targets of protesters who allege the tycoons have benefited from their close links to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The new farm legislation, passed in September, will allow private companies to buy produce directly from farmers, moving from the decades-old system of state-run wholesale buyers and markets that guaranteed a minimum support price. India’s top court last week barred the implementation of the law until the court decides on the matter.


|'''Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future'''[[File:Damaged ecosystem.jpg|center|thumb|[https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full?fbclid=IwAR3JoVRbS5y2Ogcgahy2D8s6O7I4GUCoQ1ZAaugpa-A-39P9AbFZFGO4kIQ Frontiers in Conservation Science]]]
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Major changes in the biosphere are directly linked to the growth of human systems (summarized in Figure 1). While the rapid loss of species and populations differs regionally in intensity (Ceballos et al., 2015, 2017, 2020; Díaz et al., 2019), and most species have not been adequately assessed for extinction risk (Webb and Mindel, 2015), certain global trends are obvious. Since the start of agriculture around 11,000 years ago, the biomass of terrestrial vegetation has been halved (Erb et al., 2018), with a corresponding loss of >20% of its original biodiversity (Díaz et al., 2019), together denoting that >70% of the Earth's land surface has been altered by Homo sapiens (IPBES, 2019). There have been >700 documented vertebrate (Díaz et al., 2019) and ~600 plant (Humphreys et al., 2019) species extinctions over the past 500 years, with many more species clearly having gone extinct unrecorded (Tedesco et al., 2014). Population sizes of vertebrate species that have been monitored across years have declined by an average of 68% over the last five decades (WWF, 2020), with certain population clusters in extreme decline (Leung et al., 2020), thus presaging the imminent extinction of their species
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|'''Bellingcat breaks stories that newsrooms envy — using methods newsrooms avoid'''
      <div>[[Climate, Environment, Conservation & Agriculture]] <span style="font-size: 80%; background: #ecfdf5; color: #065f46; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; margin-left: 5px; font-weight: bold;">8/01</span></div>
[[File:Bellingcat.jpg|center|thumb|[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/bellingcat-navalny-russian-data-capitol-investigation/2021/01/08/e96ab9e8-449b-11eb-a277-49a6d1f9dff1_story.html by Elahe Izadi and Paul Farhi Jan. 9, 2021]]]
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The investigative collaborative — which relies on both paid and volunteer researchers combing through “open-source” digital data available to anyone with the right searching skills — has been responsible for several eye-popping scoops: pinning the crash of a Malaysian airliner in Ukraine to a Russian missile, unmasking spies supposedly behind the poisoning of a Russian double agent in England and dissecting the racist motives of the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque mass shooter.
 
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But that’s not the end of the story. There are still legions of activists working to get the bill across the finish line. They’ll keep at it when the next Congress is seated in January, with an eye toward protecting 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.
|'''America's Vaccine Rollout Disaster'''[[File:Vaccine Roll out.jpg|center|thumb|[https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/americas-vaccine-rollout-disaster.html?fbclid=IwAR0NWb_tmKS7Y8O_GbdXTjFaEF-77VIUbJTvkYq38GmAz8U-XsS1o-U8PlU  New York Mag Dec 30 2020  David Wallace-Wells]]]


It’s happening all over again. For months, Americans who despaired about the country’s coronavirus-suppression efforts looked desperately to the arrival of a vaccine for a kind of pandemic deliverance. Now that it has arrived, miraculously fast, we are failing utterly to administer it with anything like the urgency the pace of dying requires — and, perhaps most maddeningly, failing in precisely the same way as we did earlier in the year. That is, out of apparent, near-total indifference.
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"Our analysis finds strong evidence that cutting taxes on the rich increases income inequality but has no effect on growth or unemployment" in the short and long term, the researchers wrote.After major tax cuts for the rich were introduced, the top 1% share of pretax national income increased by almost 1 percentage point, they found.
   
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File:The Reagans.jpg|[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/nov/12/the-reagans-showtime-docuseries The Reagans] by Charles Bramesco Nov 2020 The Guadian''''They created a false image': how the Reagans fooled America'''


Southern Propaganda.jpg|[https://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article136803208.html?fbclid=IwAR0j3vPWScDNfbL90yZCQ2_PVl0ZeWFVHlsyLf90Xfn2RmM432CNKJ2ymAA The Confederacy was a con job on whites. And still is. McClatchy DC Bureau By Frank Hyman Updated 3/11/2021]


Democracy-480 x2.jpg|[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. New York Magazine Aug 2019]
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Bamboo farming.jpg| [https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11012021/the-radical-case-for-growing-huge-swaths-bamboo-in-north-america/?fbclid=IwAR25pUqt5-deiEnuIHJaMNXMwBwhm2qf0OqU1nQY2pHHQynsd8BYQYuhqBI The Radical Case for Growing Huge Swaths of Bamboo in North America Inside Climate News Jan 11 2021]
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Lizard Optim.jpg|[https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/qanon-s-capitol-rioters-nashville-bomber-s-lizard-people-theory-ncna1253819 Like QAnon's Capitol rioters, the Nashville bomber's lizard people theory is deadly serious NBC Think Jan 12 2021]
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Rafe Pomerance (center) and Daniel Becker (far right) at the Noordwijk meeting in 1989. From Daniel Becker (1).jpg|[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html?smid=pl-share The Decade we Almost Stopped  Climate Change NY Times]
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Sep2016_k01_lonniebunch.jpg|[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/definitive-story-national-museum-african-american-history-culture-came-be-180960125/ The Definitive Story of How the National Museum of African American History and Culture Came to Be By Lonnie G. Bunch III SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016]
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Top 10 conspiracy theories.jpg|[https://www.facebook.com/groups/2234636923310584/ COVID: Top 10 current conspiracy theories]
 


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