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=====How tariffs supercharge home construction costs.=====
=====How tariffs supercharge home construction costs.=====
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/26/2293813/-How-tariffs-supercharge-home-construction-costs?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by Greg from Vermont 12/25/24 DailyKos]
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/26/2293813/-How-tariffs-supercharge-home-construction-costs?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by Greg from Vermont 12/25/24 DailyKos]
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  Back in 2020, three middle school students from Eastern New York solved the issue of gerrymandering, and their team leader won a $10,000 STEM prize for it. Kai Vernooy, James Lian, and Arin Khare devised a method for determining the level of gerrymandering in a state, and then applied a mathematical algorithm to draw fair and balanced districts. Coincidentally, in this 2020 article from Forbes about their project, Alabama was used as an example.1
  Back in 2020, three middle school students from Eastern New York solved the issue of gerrymandering, and their team leader won a $10,000 STEM prize for it. Kai Vernooy, James Lian, and Arin Khare devised a method for determining the level of gerrymandering in a state, and then applied a mathematical algorithm to draw fair and balanced districts. Coincidentally, in this 2020 article from Forbes about their project, Alabama was used as an example.1


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====DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared=====
====DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared=====
[https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-cave-dirt-tells-tale-how-some-neanderthals-disappeared?utm_campaign=news_daily_2021-04-15&et_rid=35100799&et_cid=3736250&fbclid=IwAR3y5_DrNAhZIIqlrKAC4L8EQYQ52ltBloCpOE66ZBOSUeAwlyGwW4PSKYE by Ann Gibbons 4/15/21 Science Advisor]
[https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-cave-dirt-tells-tale-how-some-neanderthals-disappeared?utm_campaign=news_daily_2021-04-15&et_rid=35100799&et_cid=3736250&fbclid=IwAR3y5_DrNAhZIIqlrKAC4L8EQYQ52ltBloCpOE66ZBOSUeAwlyGwW4PSKYE by Ann Gibbons 4/15/21 Science Advisor]
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=====Billionaire-funded group driving effort to erode democracy in key US states=====
=====Billionaire-funded group driving effort to erode democracy in key US states=====
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/foundation-government-accountability-democracy Brendan Fischer 6/23/2023 The Guardian ]
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/foundation-government-accountability-democracy Brendan Fischer 6/23/2023 The Guardian ]
  The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Florida-based group affiliated with the alliance of conservative thinktanks called the State Policy Network, has played a key role in recent efforts to raise the threshold for passing citizen ballot initiatives from a simple majority to a supermajority, and to make it harder to place measures on the ballot in the first place.1
  The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Florida-based group affiliated with the alliance of conservative thinktanks called the State Policy Network, has played a key role in recent efforts to raise the threshold for passing citizen ballot initiatives from a simple majority to a supermajority, and to make it harder to place measures on the ballot in the first place.
 
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