Eco Warriors and Politics

• Tennessee Dems send Medicaid block grant objections to Biden (TN Journal)
• Tennessee Dems send Medicaid block grant objections to Biden (Tom Humphrey)
• New TNDP Leader: Emphasize Economic Issues (Nashville Scene)
• Lawmaker searched by FBI misses campaign finance deadline (TN Journal)
• Lawmaker searched by FBI misses campaign finance deadline (Tom Humphrey)
• Casada PAC attacks from 2018 appear to be templates for hit pieces on Tillis (TN Journal)
• Casada PAC attacks from 2018 appear to be templates for hit pieces on Tillis (Tom Humphrey)
• Phoenix calling: Mystery vendor received more than $200K in 2020 (UPDATED) (TN Journal)
• Phoenix calling: Mystery vendor received more than $200K in 2020 (UPDATED) (Tom Humphrey)
• Tennessee Moves Corrections Officers Up on Vaccine Priority List, Leaving Prisoners Behind (Nashville Scene)

Science and Stuff

• Newly discovered fossil, likely subaqueous insect (Science News Daily)
• Genome-editing tool TALEN outperforms CRISPR-Cas9 in tightly packed DNA (Science News Daily)
• Harpy eagles could be under greater threat than previously thought (Science News Daily)
• Pace of prehistoric human innovation could be revealed by 'linguistic thermometer' (Science News Daily)
• Ancient indigenous New Mexican community knew how to sustainably coexist with wildfire (Science News Daily)
• New light shed on behavior of giant carnivorous dinosaur Spinosaurus (Science News Daily)
• Ocean toxin a heartbreaking threat for sea otters (Science News Daily)
• Genetically-modified mosquitoes key to stopping Zika virus spread (Science News Daily)
• Building a corn cob; cell by cell, gene by gene (Science News Daily)
• Scientists identify flank instability at a volcano with history of collapse (Science News Daily)

• Sometime Today Roane County Will Record Its 80th Covid Death (1 reply)
• We are Dying Here! (2 replies)
• TN Legislature Passes Bill Making a Snooze at the Capital a Felony (1 reply)
• Governor "Death" (1 reply)
• Feel Good Friday Whop Frazier (Bobby Thompson) Edition (1 reply)
• Parents may choose either of two options for school (1 reply)
• 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)

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

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