Eco warriors and politics

• Tennessee passes legislation to reform hospital certificate of need law (TN Lookout)
• Biden cracks jokes about Trump’s hair, acquires another major union endorsement (TN Lookout)
• Corporate capture, the Covenant shooting, and a crippled system we must change (TN Lookout)
• House kills anti-reparations bill despite lawmaker’s effort to save it (TN Lookout)
• Supreme Court justices appear split over whether to protect abortion care during emergencies (TN Lookout)
• Fumbling the ball on the one-yard line (TN Lookout)
• John Cole’s Tennessee: The union will rise again. (TN Lookout)
• Tenn. passes law giving legal rights to anti-LGBTQ parents to foster, adopt LGBTQ kids (TN Lookout)

Science and stuff

• Pelvic exams at hospitals require written consent, new U.S. guidelines say  (Science News Daily)
• A new method of making diamonds doesn’t require extreme pressure  (Science News Daily)
• A vaccine for bees has an unexpected effect (Science News Daily)
• Glowing octocorals have been around for at least 540 million years (Science News Daily)
• Plant ‘time bombs’ highlight how sneaky invasive species can be (Science News Daily)
• Separating science fact from fiction in Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’  (Science News Daily)
• A rapid shift in ocean currents could imperil the world’s largest ice shelf (Science News Daily)
• A new U.S. tool maps where heat will be dangerous for your health (Science News Daily)
• Pluto’s heart-shaped basin might not hide an ocean after all (Science News Daily)
• Language models may miss signs of depression in Black people’s Facebook posts (Science News Daily)

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

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