Eco warriors and politics

• Plummeting balance in federal crime victims fund sparks alarm among states, advocates (TN Lookout)
• Stockard on the Stump: Don’t start rolling doobies yet (TN Lookout)
• General Assembly makes Tennessee’s eviction laws tougher on tenants (TN Lookout)
• Doctors plead with Congress to help improve U.S. maternal mortality rates (TN Lookout)
• Foolishness and faux pas: The 2024 Niceley Awards (TN Lookout)
• Tennessee’s school voucher debate turns to competitive Republican state House and Senate primaries (TN Lookout)
• U.S. House approves definition of antisemitism as campus protests continue (TN Lookout)
• Marjorie Taylor Greene to force vote next week on ousting U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson  (TN Lookout)

Science and stuff

• Want to see butterflies in your backyard? Try doing less yardwork (Science News Daily)
• College students want to help during an opioid overdose but don’t know how (Science News Daily)
• This orangutan used a medicinal plant on his face wound (Science News Daily)
• Belugas may communicate by warping a blob of forehead fat (Science News Daily)
• Scientists developed a sheet of gold that’s just one atom thick (Science News Daily)
• 50 years ago, margarine’s ‘healthy’ reputation began to melt away (Science News Daily)
• Scientists are getting closer to understanding the sun’s ‘campfire’ flares (Science News Daily)
• A new approach to fighting wildfires combines local knowledge and AI (Science News Daily)
• A ruinous hailstorm in Spain may have been supercharged by warming seas (Science News Daily)
• Ximena Velez-Liendo is saving Andean bears with honey (Science News Daily)

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• Our Very Own George Santos, TN GOP Congressman Ogles is Pretty Much Insane (1 reply)
• Destroying Jim Jordan, All Without Mentioning Jordan's Support For Sexual Abusing Athletes (1 reply)
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• It's Gettin' Real, Now...Gloria Johnson Made Wonkette! (1 reply)
• Does Rep Fritts Want School Shooters to Have Access to AR 15s? (2 replies)
• How many Trees Died Trying Save Us From Global Warming? (1 reply)
• Feel Good Friday,,,From our "If Only" Dept. (1 reply)
• Tennessee Education Worsens Under Bill Lee and GOP (1 reply)
• The Most Important Thing You Will Read Today! (1 reply)
• Friday Toons (1 reply)

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

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