In the U.S., recent annual estimates of bird deaths due to:

Cats = 2.4 billion bird deaths

Collisions from building glass = 600 million bird deaths

Land wind turbines = <200,000 bird deaths

Some politicians claim wind turbines “kill all the birds.”

But… they’re not really worried about birds. Rather, they prefer we stick with oil & gas over renewable #energy.

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/15195/wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds/ #climatechange

How often do you get to say it? Progress! NPR will not air Trump live if he speaks about his indictment today, a small win for common sense. (Some might say microscopic.)

But if you click and listen to NPR's executive editor, Terry Samuel, this may be the closest we get to NPR conceding that its Trump coverage 2016 to now didn't work because it tried to use normal tools and assumptions. To me that's significant, and it almost never happens.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/03/1167856064/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-of-nprs-coverage-of-trumps-indictment

#uspol #journalism #npr

A very lovely piece on the great chef Edna Lewis and her hometown, Freetown, which was a community of freed slaves formed in the aftermath of the Civil War near Orange, Virginia.

https://www.afar.com/magazine/in-virginia-honoring-chef-edna-lewis

The January 6 committee has released an introduction to its final report. It's a devastating indictment of Trump, citing him as the "central cause" of the 1/6 riot and depicting him as a conspirator who mounted multiple (possibly illegal) plots to overthrow the 2020 election to grab power. Here's his legacy (so far): He tried to break the American republic, and, fortunately, he failed. Please read/boost/share/like.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/january-6-committee-report-devastating-case-against-donald-trump/

Every lawyer, judge & justice should READ this piece by @dahlialithwick sharing the searing words of Judge Robert Wilkins (D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals) at his portrait unveiling. The truths he reveals about his family’s history are the ultimate answer to a SCOTUS jurisprudence that attempts to fix our rights within the confines of the “founders’” vision or 19th century “custom & traditions.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/12/representation-judiciary-federal-bench-judge-wilkins.html