Eco Warriors and Politics

• Company tweet causes tempest in Tennessee Senate race (Tom Humphrey)
• Company tweet causes tempest in Tennessee Senate race (TN Journal)
• Family of senator who led effort to place Forrest bust in Capitol supports its removal (Tom Humphrey)
• Family of senator who led effort to place Forrest bust in Capitol supports its removal (TN Journal)
• Protesters Reflect on Arrests, Occupation After Vote to Move Forrest Bust (Nashville Scene)
• Capitol Commission Votes to Move Forrest Bust (Nashville Scene)
• Metro Council Votes to Allow Clients at Home-Based Businesses (Nashville Scene)
• Metro to Offer Hotel Rooms, Cash Assistance to Immigrant Community During Pandemic (Nashville Scene)
• Dave Ramsey to Host Business Conference in Franklin as COVID-19 Cases Rise (Nashville Scene)
• Metro Council Defers Bill to End CoreCivic Contract Amid Uncertainty (Nashville Scene)

Science and Stuff

• Scientists propose plan to determine if Planet Nine is a primordial black hole (Science News Daily)
• Study links abnormally high blood sugar with higher risk of death in COVID-19 patients not previously diagnosed with diabetes (Science News Daily)
• Couldn't socially distance? Blame your working memory (Science News Daily)
• Physicians give first comprehensive review of COVID-19's effects outside the lung (Science News Daily)
• Like humans, beluga whales form social networks beyond family ties (Science News Daily)
• Extraordinary regeneration of neurons in zebrafish (Science News Daily)
• Study pinpoints brain cells that trigger sugar cravings and consumption (Science News Daily)
• Arctic Ocean changes driven by sub-Arctic seas (Science News Daily)
• Fast-spreading mutation helps common flu subtype escape immune response (Science News Daily)
• Invention: 'Nanocage' tool untangles (molecular) spaghetti (Science News Daily)

• Your Bandana or Cloth Mask Won't Really Protect You Much if Other Folks don't Wear Theirs (1 reply)
• Requirements for Absentee Ballot in TN (1 reply)
• Friday Toons (1 reply)
• Toons! (1 reply)
• Winter Solstice is at 9:21 PM EST Today...Alban Arthan (2 replies)
• Text of the Articles of Impeachment Against President Trump (1 reply)
• what makes coal so dirty (1 reply)
• Duh...Abandoning Processed Foods Helps Depression (1 reply)
• Morgan County One Doctor for 21k People (1 reply)
• "Acting" National Intelligence Director Withholding Whistleblower Claim Trump Sold Out USA (1 reply)
• TVA Types With Forked Keyboard (2 replies)
• Effectively Combating Global Warming Will Ruin Fossil Fuel Industry...Bonus! (1 reply)

To date, the failure to expand Medicaid / TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding.

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