"Cryptocurrency companies and investors have spent at least $149 million over the past four years to thwart tough regulation, elect new allies to Congress and defeat lawmakers seen as potential threats, a campaign that culminated this week with a House vote to soften federal oversight of the embattled industry."
New York Times: ‘New Territory’ for Americans: Deadly Heat in the Workplace
"In the coming months, this team of roughly 30 people at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is expected to propose a new rule that would require employers to protect an estimated 50 million people exposed to high temperatures while they work. They include farm laborers and construction workers, but also people who sort packages in warehouses, clean airplane cabins and cook in commercial kitchens. "
The Washington Post knew - in 2001 - that the home of a Supreme Court Justice flew a flag that supported the violent overthrow of the government, and decided it was not newsworthy based on the uncorroborared and plainly ridiculous assertion that the flying of the flag was not political. Our mainstream media is broken- how could they have been so credulous and naive? How can it not be a story that the home of a member of the highest court in the land is flying a flag associated with a violent storming of the U.S. Capitol in an effort to execute the Vice President and members of Congress?! What else are they not telling us? Seriously our elites need to get their heads out of their own arses. #giftarticlehttps://wapo.st/4dS1BCf
'The rediscovery of a long-forgotten slave narrative would be notable enough. But this one, scholars who have seen it say, is unique for its global perspective and its uncensored fury, from a man living far outside the trans-Atlantic network of white abolitionists who often limited what the formerly enslaved could write about their experiences.'
What a coinkydink, just as Russians were undertaking a crucial offensive to break through defense lines, Musk’s Starlink stopped working entirely, for the first time in the war, leaving Ukrainian defenders blind. #giftarticlehttps://wapo.st/3WNKk6V
#Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Thurs he was pardoning #DanielPerry, the fmr Army sergeant convicted in the fatal shooting of a protester during a #BLM march, after a review board recommended he be released from prison.
"A mixed-breed dog has won the Westminster Kennel Club dog show’s agility prize for the first time…
Just about a foot (30.5 cm) tall, Nimble powered through an obstacle course of jumps, tunnels, ramps and other features like a furry, black-and-white, well-targeted torpedo to cheers from the crowd in the agility finals."
"The northern lights, or aurora borealis, put on a colorful show across the Pacific Northwest late Friday night into early Saturday morning. And there could be a repeat performance Saturday night."
"The singer and songwriter with a silky-smooth voice has written a memoir with Paul Reiser that recounts his story of pain and redemption with dashes of humor."
"Bishop’s story, from birth to presumed death, shows the extreme danger facing right #whales, which could be #extinct in three decades if they continue to disappear at the present rate.
"“As we watch this #species go #extinct one by one, the solution sits idle in the hands of the administration”...
this year, a dead female turned up off #Virginia with a dislocated spine, a calf was discovered in #Georgia with head lacerations, & a young female was found — again in Georgia — with a fractured skull. All the injuries are consistent with vessel strikes.