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Joe Biden Says He Can Work With the Senate. The Last Time He Tried, Mitch McConnell Picked His Pockets Badly.

In 2012, the GOP was in trouble. Mitch McConnell turned to his friend Joe Biden for a lifeline.

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Meditation Ruined My Life

Getting centered wasn’t a substitute for therapy and medication, and just brought my closer to self-harm.

The Exception Proves the Rule

That awful “straight pride parade” picked their grand marshal - Milo Yiannopoulos.

Why The Social Media Giants Could Be In Big Trouble
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/social-media-policy_ca_5d0e522ce4b07ae90d9df87e #privacy

Angry and Frustrated South Bend Residents Just Confronted Mayor Pete Over Fatal Police Shooting

In South Bend, Indiana, a nearly two-hour town hall turned tense when mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg took questions in the aftermath of recent police-involved shooting that killed a black man.  Sergeant Ryan O’Neill shot Eric Logan, 53, last Sunday while responding to reports that Logan was breaking into cars. Authorities say that Logan […]

Today's piece in the Mercury News:

Headline: New generation of tech firms urges stronger privacy laws

Reject Big Tech efforts to weaken California law and regulate us. Seriously.

By Purism CEO, @todd and Brave CEO, @BrendanEich

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/23/6139396/

The solution to antibiotic resistance could be in your kitchen sponge

Researchers have discovered bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, living in their kitchen sponges. As the threat of antibiotic resistance increases, bacteriophages, or phages for short, may prove useful in fighting bacteria that cannot be killed by antibiotics alone.

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/22/cbp-border-searches-journalists/

CBP agents: cops not bounded by the constitution, with near-unlimited power and visions of grandeur that make them the perfect fascist group to terrorize all that come through the border

A vision of a possible future in the whole US (not just the border) if neo-neo-conservatives continue to hold power in the US

Album Review: The Aggrolites “REGGAE NOW!”

The Aggrolites have returned with their sixth studio album REGGAE NOW! a continuation of their unique brand of funky soulful skinhead reggae. This organ driven “dirty reggae” has almost never felt so tight and cohesive as what they put on display here. “Pound for Pound” opens the album with a self-promotional dance number. “Boss of […]

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André Staltz - Software below the poverty line
https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html @kyle good article @todd

“First-generation fact-checking” is no longer good enough. Here’s what comes next » Nieman Journalism Lab https://prismo.xyz/posts/3fdd826c-0a7a-48d7-9201-0212af75b79b

Protestors Want Mayor Pete to Address Racial Violence in His Hometown. On the Campaign Trail, He’s Dodging the Issue.

In one of his first appearances back on the campaign trail since a white police officer shot and killed a black man in his city, South Bend mayor and 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg addressed the violence before a crowd of Democrats in South Carolina, an early primary state with a large black population. Buttigieg […]

Scientists map huge undersea fresh-water aquifer off U.S. Northeast

In a new survey of the sub-seafloor off the U.S. Northeast coast, scientists have made a surprising discovery: a gigantic aquifer of relatively fresh water trapped in porous sediments lying below the salty ocean. It appears to be the largest such formation yet found in the world.

New study maps how ocean currents connect the world's fisheries

It's a small world after all -- especially when it comes to marine fisheries, with a new study revealing they form a single network, with over $10 billion worth of fish each year being caught in a country other than the one in which it spawned.

Upcycling process brings new life to old jeans

A growing population, rising standards of living and quickly changing fashions send mountains of clothing waste to the world's landfills each year. Although processes for textile recycling exist, they tend to be inefficient and expensive. Now, researchers have reported an efficient, low-cost method that can convert waste denim into viscose-type fibers that are either white or the original color of the garment.

U.S. military consumes more hydrocarbons than most countries -- massive hidden impact on climate

Research shows the US military is one of the largest climate polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more CO2e (carbon-dioxide equivalent) than most countries.

Gut bacteria associated with chronic pain for first time

A research team has shown, for the first time, that there are alterations in the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tracts of people with fibromyalgia. Approximately 20 different species of bacteria were found in either greater or are lesser quantities in the microbiomes of participants suffering from the disease than in the healthy control group.

I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights and Privacy

I complacently assumed that CBP’s horrendous treatment of migrants wouldn’t affect me directly, least of all in Austin, the city where I was born.

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The Subtle But Important Significance of Today’s Supreme Court Decision on Racial Bias

The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the conviction of Curtis Flowers, a black man on death row in Mississippi, and found that the prosecutor who tried the case violated the Constitution by striking so many black jurors during one of Flowers’ trials.  The case was unusual: It involved six trials and multiple instances of prosecutorial […]