| Time |
Event |
| 8:57p |
All classrooms' Ten Commandments, LA
Louisiana
Republicans
passed a law to require every public school classroom to display a copy of the Ten
Commandments.
This sectarian requirement obviously contradicts the First Amendment (combined with the
subsequent amendment which says states can't do those things either). It prohibits
establishment of religion. But we can't count on those Republican wreckers on the Supreme Court
to honor that.
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| 8:57p |
Pesticide research lacking, insects down
*‘I have seen the decline’:
pesticides
linked to falling UK insect numbers.*
Decreases in overall insect populations will cause repercussions through each ecosystem. Many
animals (including humans) eat insects. Many plants depend on insects to pollinate them and
disperse their seeds.
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| 8:57p |
Urgent: Renewables- vs fossil-fuel funding
US citizens:
call on Biden to fund the transition to renewables and
stop funding fossil fuels.
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: +1-202-456-1111 and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213
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| 8:57p |
Urgent: Wood-pellet mills environmental rampages, CAN
Everyone:
Call on Canada to enforce its
environmental laws against logging to export wood chips for burning.
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| 8:57p |
A new, NRC, ind. financial role
Congress is about to dilute the safety mission of the
Nuclear
Regulatory Commission with toxic fallout — a second mission to keep nuclear industry profitable.
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| 8:57p |
Mount Fuji crowd control
Measures
to limit overcrowding and avoid dangers in climbing Mount Fuji have the unjust side effect
of requiring each climbers to (1) identify perself and (2) carry a snoop-phone.
If I ever go to Japan again, that is one thing I certainly won't do.
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| 8:57p |
The kamikaze AI-drone advantage, US
The Pentagon is thinking about using large numbers of
more-or-less
autonomous drones for fighting China.
This raises concerns that the drones will chose targets autonomously,
and kill lots of civilians — something I expect Ukraine's drone
controllers avoid, although Israel's drone controllers may not care.
Putting that issue aside, it seems like a good plan, but I don't see
how the US can expect to be better at this than China.
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| 8:57p |
Cannabis-related pardons abound, MD
*Maryland governor issues
pardons
for 175,000 cannabis-related convictions.*
Marijuana should be legal, and people who were punished or might be punished for having it,
transporting it or selling it should be pardoned.
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| 8:57p |
Manifestos tepid on climate crisis, UK
There seems to be far
too
little attention to coming climate disaster in the UK general election.
However, the lunatic right-wing party proposes to
replace
climate defense with climate surrender.
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| 8:57p |
Congresscritter edge in stocks last 4yr
*Stock
traders are trying to beat the market — by copying lawmakers [stock trades].*
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| 8:57p |
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| 8:57p |
Unless adversarial arsenals change…
The head of NATO argued for
making more nuclear weapons.
More nuclear weapons than the US has cannot improve deterrence. With a sane enemy, the use of
100 nuclear weapons, producing a nuclear winter that would cause starvation around the world, is
enough deterrent. With an insane enemy, 10,000 nuclear weapons would not be enough.
This provoked a lot of opposition, but I am sure that the businesses that would profit from
making and deploying them will come up with lots of flimsy reasons in favor.
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