Broad Public Support for Legal Abortion Persists 2 Years After Dobbs (www.pewresearch.org)
Florida Students Given Lifelike Dolls To Simulate Responsibility Of Owning Slave (www.theonion.com)
How an Obscure US Agency Became a Linchpin for Climate Policy | The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted 2-to-1 in a partisan split on Monday on a new rule that could help speed up wind & solar (www.nytimes.com)
Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Climate change is affecting mental health literally everywhere (yaleclimateconnections.org)
It’s Not Your Imagination. Your Allergies Are Getting Worse. (www.nytimes.com)
Seasonal allergies are nothing new, but they’ve been worsening as the climate grows warmer. The growing season starts earlier now — in North America an average of 20 days earlier — and lasts longer, too, extending the length of time when plants are pumping pollen into the air. And the resulting misery arises not just...
Cloud Brightening Study in California Is Halted by Local Officials (www.nytimes.com)
U.S. banks hold trillions of dollars off-balance sheet, in a replay of accounting hubris that led to the 2008 Wall Street collapse (wallstreetonparade.com)
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Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals (www.theguardian.com)
UK Tory row to ignite over subsidies to wood-burning power stations | No more funding should be handed to biomass electricity until it can prove it does not worsen climate change, MPs say (www.thetimes.co.uk)
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Persistent Brazil floods raise specter of climate migration (www.reuters.com)
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Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar (www.theguardian.com)
If you care about US democracy, tell your congressperson to support the Fair Representation Act! (p2a.co)
The Fair Representation Act has been re-introduced in Congress. This bold solution can stop gerrymandering and make Congress work for every American....
Lawn in bloom (i.imgur.com)
[Image description: clusters of violets bloom in a section of our front yard]
The Old Quarryman - Alfred Roll (1900) (upload.wikimedia.org)
The Disinformation Machine: How Susceptible Are We to AI Propaganda? (hai.stanford.edu)
The Toboggan Descent - Alfred Boisseau (1881) (collections-mnbaq-production.s3.amazonaws.com)
Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency (www.theguardian.com)
Trump: ‘Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man’ (thehill.com)
More migrant demonization from the fascist
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Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process (theintercept.com)
Media Scorn Gaza Protesters for Recognizing Corporate Reporters Aren’t Their Friends (fair.org)
As Peace Protests Are Violently Suppressed, CNN Paints Them as Hate Rallies (fair.org)
We Can Get the Electricity We Need Without Frying the Planet (or Our Pocketbooks) (www.nytimes.com)
Who is most to blame for climate change? Regardless of the answer, global cooperation is critical (www.salon.com)
