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[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/31/gordon-brown-tom-watson-news-international-william-lewis-rupert-murdoch by Gordon Brown 31/7/24 The Guardian]

  Blazoned across the top of every edition of the Washington Post is the statement “Democracy dies in darkness”. But what if the publisher himself is a master of the dark arts? I experienced, at first-hand, the journalistic techniques that the Washington Post’s publisher and chief executive, Sir William Lewis, and his colleagues used when working for the Murdoch media group and the Daily Telegraph in the UK

=====Buoyancy-driven hybrid energy platform moves to full-scale pilot=====

[https://newatlas.com/energy/noviocean-wave-solar-wind-offshore-energy/ by Loz Blain 8/10/24 NEW ATLAS]

  Swedish company NoviOcean has tested a third-gen prototype of its combination wind/solar/wave energy platform, a floating platform rated for up to 1 megawatt of consistent clean energy around the clock thanks to a fascinating buoyancy-driven mechanism. Next step: a full-scale pilot.

=====Eleven children worked on Iowa pork plant’s ‘kill floor’, US labor officials say=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/03/child-labor-iowa-pork-plant by Jessica Glenza 3/12/24 The Guardian]

  Nearly a dozen children were working shifts cleaning meat processing equipment used at an Iowa pork plant’s so-called kill floor over a four-year period, the US Department of Labor announced.

=====New study reveals what urban coyotes are really eating in San Francisco=====

[https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/urban-coyote-diets-san-francisco-18703009.php by Amanda Bartlett 10/3/24 SFGATE]

  On a foggy morning just after 7 a.m., Tali Caspi sat behind the wheel of a golf cart and drove across the manicured hills of the San Francisco Golf Club, searching for evidence.

=====Adolescent boys’ aggressive responses to perceived threats to their gender typicality=====

[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.13544 by Adam Stanaland 15/7/24 WILEY]

  When adult men are made to feel gender-atypical, they often lash out with aggression, particularly when they are pressured (vs. autonomously motivated) to be gender-typical.

=====I was a long-haired teenage boy in the 1960s. Why did everyone hate us so much?=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/14/i-was-a-long-haired-teenage-boy-in-the-1960s-why-did-everyone-hate-us-so-much by Alan Clayson 14/12/24 The Guardian]

  Throughout the mid-to-late 60s, I had to fight every literal inch of the way over the matter of long hair. As I practised being Mick Jagger before the bedroom mirror, it was always on the understanding that, within hours, I might be in front of that same mirror after a parentally-dictated trip to the barber.

=====An Example of Why Gov't Can't Be Run Like a Business: The Postal Service=====

[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/14/2291899/-An-Example-of-Why-Gov-t-Can-t-Be-Run-Like-a-Business-The-Postal-Service?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by Dan K 14/12/24 DAILY KOS]

  Every now and then, the country gets the insane idea of putting a businessman in the White House on the theory that “America should be run like a business.” This is totally wrong. Businesses exist to make a profit for their shareholders.

=====Renewable Tuesday: The Sinking Towers of South Florida=====

[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/17/2292325/-Renewable-Tuesday-The-Sinking-Towers-of-South-Florida?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by Mokurai 17/12/24 DAILY KOS]

  Global Warming is coming home to the rich along the Florida coast, where the luxury condos are sinking measurably as the limestone under them breaks up, and ocean water infiltrates it and increasingly comes up flooding in the streets at every high tide.

=====The Powerful Potential Of Tiny Conservation Plots=====

[https://www.noemamag.com/the-powerful-potential-of-tiny-conservation-plots/?utm_source=noemalinkedin&utm_medium=noemasocial by JOANNA THOMPSON 27/8/24 NOEMA]

  For a few seconds, it’s like a scene from a movie: A gentle breeze rustles rows of garlic and carrot plants, tickling my shins. Early summer sun streams through the canopy overhead, leaves throw shade across the nearby squash.

=====DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review=====

[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/tulsa-race-massacre-report-doj by Adria R Walker 10/1/25 The Guardian]