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by annetteboardman
on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 09:01 PM PST
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. �You can push ...
by birches
on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM PST
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After watching Amy Carter read an old love letter from her dad Jimmy Carter to his sweetheart Rosalynn from when he was serving in the Navy, I thought, these people really know how to LOVE! While theirs is a beautiful love story, their love of all...
by ecowyoming
on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 11:06 AM PST
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There is no question we are facing real challenges, as individuals, as a democracy, as a country, as a species. There is no shortage of institutional failures, of horrors, of existential threats. “Deaths of Despair” has become a bit of a meme —...
by xaxnar
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 08:42 PM PDT
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Updated COVID-19 vaccines �are coming soon, just in time to pair them with flu shots. And this fall, the first vaccines for another scary virus called RSV are rolling out to older adults ...
by Associated Press
on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Desantis doesn’t get the presidency, does he get to just rule Florida like a nominal king with a rubber stamp state legislature? What is the goal here? Like in the long term. What will his goal be when the writing is on the wall and he isn’t a...
by Angry Pidgeon
on Thu Aug 03, 2023 at 06:32 PM PDT
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“The National Guard has been called out to help control panic-stricken inhabitants,” said Governor DeSantis who also called President Biden for federal emergency aid and Texas Governor Abbot for armadillo guidance. DeSantis may also have been exposed...
by kenerator
on Thu Aug 03, 2023 at 06:56 PM PDT
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I just don’t know what to think. We have some serious problems in this state and people actually back DeSantis? He is running all over the country saying he wants America to be Florida. His ratings have slipped but this man does not know how to even...
by Vetwife
on Wed Aug 02, 2023 at 08:30 AM PDT
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2023 has set a record in the Pacific Northwest islands for tent caterpillars. In the nearly 40 years I’ve lived here I’ve never seen so many, not even close. Islanders were variously amazed, horrified and disgusted this spring as armies of tent cats...
by OceanDiver
on Thu Jul 27, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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If you received any COVID vaccines, sorry to say, you are no longer alive. The pro-vacination�Herman Cain Award subreddit, still going strong, shares this blast from the past :
by kos
on Sun Jun 04, 2023 at 05:30 PM PDT
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We must continue having Christian principles guiding the medical experts setting our laws to further conservative views that this country is a Christian based one. In that regard, the state of Texas is rightly ignoring stated positions by the American...
by iarnstein
on Sat May 13, 2023 at 11:10 PM PDT
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Taylor Brorby has a guest editorial in The NY Times: The Real Reason North Dakota Is Going After Books and Librarians ...two pieces of legislation that may soon be signed into law in North Dakota would make it possible to restrict libraries and, in...
by xaxnar
on Fri Feb 24, 2023 at 02:46 PM PST
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XBB 1.5 has far exceeded worst expectations, doubling its share of new U.S. covid cases, soaring from 18% to 40% last week. The extremely immunity-proof mutation has pushed aside a dozen other covid variants by out-infecting them in a blitzkrieg wave...
by Mark Hennon
on Mon Jan 02, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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The flu virus can infect practically every species of mammal. It’s also capable of infecting birds. For a disease to readily infect two groups whose last common ancestor lived somewhere between 320 and 340 million years ago is pretty unusual, but far...
by Mark Sumner
on Fri Dec 09, 2022 at 11:52 AM PST
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Media attention toward the devasting impact climate change has had on Pakistan has become scarce. Because the issue doesn’t impact Western countries or media right now, it is being given little to no importance. But even though Pakistan is bearing the...
by Aysha Qamar
on Fri Sep 30, 2022 at 01:37 PM PDT
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“We have met the enemy, and he is us.” — Pogo (main character from a long-forgotten late-twentieth-century comic strip) Today our species faces two existential crises. The first is climate change that we ourselves are causing, and that seems to be...
by dratler
on Thu Sep 22, 2022 at 11:18 AM PDT
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“Of the 33 million people affected due to monsoon rains and floods across Pakistan, it is estimated that around five million people, including children, would get sick due to the outbreak of water-borne and vector-borne diseases in the next four to 12...
by Pakalolo
on Fri Sep 02, 2022 at 04:56 PM PDT
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Some states have no regard for the trauma associated with loss. In addition to having horrific anti-abortion laws, some states are allegedly forcing pregnant individuals to carry nonviable pregnancies. A Louisiana mother said she was denied an abortion...
by Aysha Qamar
on Thu Aug 18, 2022 at 02:30 PM PDT
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As of Wednesday, there have been over 2,300 cases of monkeypox reported in the United States. The spread of the virus—which can cause painful, disfiguring lesions and possible blindness—has triggered a great deal of fear in the wake of the nation’s...
by Mark Sumner
on Thu Jul 21, 2022 at 08:57 AM PDT
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One of the many tragic turns the politicization of COVID-19 and our country’s response to it has been the deleterious effect it has had on public health consensus. With the rise in privatization, greed, and a withering government response over the...
by Walter Einenkel
on Sat Jul 02, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT
with 245 Recommends
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