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<big><big>UPDATE:</big></big> A few individual items that were commented:
- <big>South Carolina legislature again fails to pass near-total abortion ban.</big>
a handful of GOP senators joined with Democrats to block the bill.
<big>Sue Bird has retired from professional basketball. </big> (more links)
Suzanne Brigit Bird (born October 16, 1980) is a retired American professional basketball player of the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)[1] Bird was drafted by the Storm first overall in the 2002 WNBA draft and is considered to be one of the greatest players in WNBA history. As of 2021, Bird is the only WNBA player to win titles in three different decades. She held a front office position for the NBA's Denver Nuggets as their Basketball Operations Associate. She has also played for three teams in Russia. She holds both U.S. and Israeli citizenship.[2]
CanaryMedia <big>Chart: Women hold less than a third of jobs in wind and solar power</big>
A staggering 70% of the U.S. workforce for wind and solar electricity generation is male — even worse than the gender gap in coal and gas power generation….
From Al-Monitor email:
….US-backed Kurdish-led forces arrested dozens of Islamic State (IS) members and rescued four women who were being held chained in tunnels at the massive al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria that houses IS-affiliated families, the US military said Wednesday…...
Here’s a link to <big><big>a version of THE BOOK OF FALLOPIANS</big></big> plus a version each of a couple of verses, illustrated: