V. WestEverything smells like lilacs. It's not bad per se, just ... really strong.
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David OxtabyTook this on Sunday evening. The sun was starting to set and as it reached the horizon it cast some lovely warm light through this blossom tree. It really caught my eye . I know it'd not rule of thirds but I wanted it this way but showing a little of the background landscape for context of the trees location #Haworth #blossom #blossomtree #yorkshire #WestYorkshire #sunset #dusk #olympus #omsystem #nature #flowers #dusk #photography #photograph
Warren Booth et al., Discovery of facultative parthenogenesis in a new world crocodile đ Biology Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0129
The ability of sexually reproducing species to generate offspring without genetic contributions of males has been documented across multiple vertebrate lineages, including avian and non-avian reptiles (snakes and lizards), sharks, rays, and sawfish. This unusual reproductive strategy seems less sporadic than previously suggested.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0129
CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht is out after a brief, tumultuous tenure
"Licht's departure capped a tumultuous year for CNN, marked by layoffs, shrinking profits, historically low ratings, the firing of two anchors, and rock-bottom employee morale," Oliver Darcy wrote. "The chaos that defined the last year also followed several other gut punches to the organization, including the ouster of previous leader, Jeff Zucker, and shuttering of nascent streaming service CNN+."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/media/chris-licht-cnn/index.html
The ugly truth about Republicans and the rise of AR-15 sales
Then came the biggest boost to the fear factor that gun companies had ever seen, something that scored such a visceral hit with the rural audience they had been grooming, that it created a huge increase in demand for things that made people dead. That thing wasnât 9/11. It was an election of Barack Obama.
Economists Love Immigration. Why Do So Many Americans Hate It?
We might exult in the economic advantages we owe to immigration, but migration and nativist backlash have stalked one another for more than a century.
However enthusiastic the American dogma may be about immigrants past, rising migration levels invariably trigger the fear that immigrants present and future may be something differentâa drag on the welfare state, a threat to native laborers, a pox on culture.
"There's something eternal about baseball that seems to tie the living to the dead, that seems to tie the past to the future," Teresa Strasser says in her new memoir "Making It Home: Life Lessons From a Season of Little League." âž "That might be inherent to the sport itself. Theoretically, a game of baseball could go on forever. It has no clock. Up until the final out, anyone could win. That fills the sport with hope, because your team always has a chance to come back."
How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy âď¸ Through the independent state legislature doctrine, a rabid minority rules
Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/12/how-a-fringe-legal-theory-became-a-threat-to-democracy
The locket had hung in a pinewood box. Grantmore disdained it as a bribe his mother had offered after a bitter fight. At last he saw the inscription on the rear. "I have never been disappointed in you," said the faded lines. "Only in myself for words of love you never heard." #vss @kegifford
The debt ceiling fight was never really about debt reduction. Itâs part of a vicious cycle in which political power is abused in order to consolidate a system that is increasingly undemocratic; and then further abused. The debt ceiling is just one part of that cycle, and should not have been negotiated; it needs to be abolished.