50 years ago, the harbor of New York City was a sewer, filled with human trash and pollutants

But congress passed the Clean Water Act and it helped enormously, so …

… today wildlife has staged a remarkable comeback, and the water quality is high. They’ve seen humpback whales in the Hudson River one mile from Times Square, and there’s a thousand breeding pairs of heron

Smart ecological legislation works

“Friend” link to NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/opinion/new-york-harbor-clean-water-act.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSlUYAybSRdkhrxqAwv7C3_ktgWX9aSicUzxF1aEeB4WJ_QLSbLZufZ461CjdRMNENPVnYs1O-dJlHh4nTRi08NzDkY4ZIi4xpMW5VD1s1JuUA_Vk-2awKzTlduo6zbfg7lfYaDG9WaKJ03N1cAl1sNAyIwHRrH8Mx6zBFOdz3cAvnqtyQ8AnGkpTIXWCrPLqCB5hON6ZbBi66gY-WOhRWzq7jsfLovtbM10UUQSaOSs5tWUs69pcOscVPLL8LXMjf8n-gLYQCA94PcyvKmMBXv9Vu1OojbRc8kM&referringSource=articleShare

My god. My Twitter account is permanently suspended because I dared support a democrat in Florida (Nikki Fried). All I wanna do is deactivate/delete my account & they won’t allow it because it’s suspended. I didn’t appeal the suspension this time, just asked if they could deactivate my account. This is what they just sent me 👇🤦‍♀️

Despite what they say, I NEVER violated that rule. All I said was I wished Fried would’ve beaten Crist & DeSantis in the gubernatorial election (those words exactly)

French open suicide investigation after Iranian found dead in river - Mohammad Moradi posted video online saying he would kill himself to highlight Iran’s crackdown on protestsFrench authorities are investigating as suicide the drowning of an Iranian man in the south-eastern city of Lyon who had said on social media he was going to kill himself to draw attention... #theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/27/french-open-suicide-investigation-after-iranian-found-dead-in-river

Republican fraud George Santos was broke and unable to make rent, but suddenly came into a windfall of cash and was able to lend over $700,000 to his own campaign.

He did not report a single client on his financial disclosure.

Who is funding George Santos? And why?

There’s an absolutely astonishing story brewing in the medieval manuscripts world of a Potemkin Village scholarly institute built out of plagiarism and stock photos. I can scarcely do it justice except to link to Peter Kidd’s thorough deconstruction of #receptio #receptiogate

Part 1: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.html

Part 2: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-ii.html

Part 3: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-iii-my.html

Part 4: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-iv-my.html

Part 5: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-v.html