A #Marijuana Boom Led Her to #Oklahoma. Then Anti-Drug Agents Seized Her Money and Raided Her Home.
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A year after authorities arrested Qiu He, the #Chinese immigrant has yet to be charged with a crime.

She and others say anti-Asian bias plays a role in the state’s crackdown on the pot industry: “I don’t feel secure here.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/marijuana-oklahoma-chinese-immigrant-arrests-asset-seizure-2?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

🍁AUTUMN AT KYŌTO'S GREAT WALL🧱

During fall Kitano Tenmangū allows guests to enjoy the maples that grow along the Odoi (御土居). Now mostly leveled, this great berm was created by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to encircle and define the boundaries of the city.

#Kyoto #京都 #北野天満宮 #Odoi #御土居 #autumn

Who among us hasn't boarded an international flight without a boarding pass or passport, eaten two meals, talked to various passengers and flight crew, then arrived to the USA with no recollection of how we got there and no record of us ever having been on the plane?

https://www.404media.co/no-record-of-russian-economist-who-flew-to-lax-without-a-ticket-didnt-remember-how-he-got-here/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

One of my favorite things to see come across my screens each year: the US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that Wisdom has returned to her mating grounds on Midway Atoll.

Wisdom is at least 71 years old, the oldest verified wild bird of any species. She has raised more than 30 chicks. She has flown the circumference of the Earth over 120 times. She is the closest the seabird world gets to a celebrity, and the only royalty I recognize. Long live the Queen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_(albatross)

I've read a lot about the early polar explorers, Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton etc. One that passed me by until recently was Douglas Mawson. "This Accursed Land" tells how Mawson declined to join Scott's ill-fated British expedition & instead lead a team to explore the far eastern coastline of the Antarctic continent. A gripping and well told story of his lone struggle for survival, starving, poisoned, exhausted and indescribably cold. Recommended reading.

#reading #books #polar #antarctica

I updated the data broker opt-out list!

✅new opt-out info for Acxiom outside of the U.S.
✅updated instructions for Intelius.
✅added TruePeopleSearch
✅ Xlex changed to USA-Official, its new name.

I am currently considering redirecting this Google doc to the GitHub account given Google’s erroneous warning that the site contains links that might be used to steal your information, and Google’s very slow review process.

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List/