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My new book, The Three Ages of Water, has a chapter about the discovery by George Smith in 1872 of the Babylonian cuneiform tablet wit the Flood Story from the Epic of Gilgamesh from the 7th century BC.
Today I got to see the actual tablet in the British Museum.
Very exciting!
#silent Sunday
The patriarchy is the reason you know the names Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, but you've never even once heard the name Evelyn Berezin.
A well regulated militia doesn't kill schoolchildren once a week.

Gov #GretchenWhitmer signed bills to combat #GunViolence Thurs, 2 mos after a #MassShooting on the campus of #MSU left 3 students dead & 5 injured.

The proposals, which take effect next year, will expand #BackgroundCheck requirements for firearm purchases & institute new #StorageStandards for #guns kept in homes where #children are present.

#GunControl #GunSense
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/04/13/michigan-gretchen-whitmer-signs-gun-control-bills-passed-in-response-to-deadly-msu-shooting/70109545007/

Whitmer signs gun control bills passed in response to deadly MSU shooting

The bills will expand background checks for firearm purchases and institute new storage standards for guns kept in homes where children are present.

The Detroit News
I wish the nation’s most savvy and experienced political editors would stop what they’re doing, read @JFallows, and reflect. https://fallows.substack.com/p/media-lessons-from-a-tumultuous-week?utm_medium=email
Media Lessons from a Tumultuous Week

There are big problems. And a few big solutions. (Once again: think globally, act locally.)

Breaking the News

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) has introduced a bill that would end corporate personhood with the goal of reversing #citizensunited

Thank you,
thank you, thank you @RepJayapal
We should keep pushing this until it is impossible to ignore.

https://truthout.org/articles/corporations-are-not-people-jayapal-files-bill-to-reverse-citizens-united/

“Money Is Not Speech”: Jayapal Files Constitutional Amendment to Reverse “Citizens United”

The proposal specifies that corporations do not have the same constitutional rights as individuals.

Truthout