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I love it when pro #cycling gets mass media coverage for the right reasons. I’m also sure that yesterday’s result made Wout’s decision easier! #TDF2023 #TourDeFrance
Belgian cyclist Wout van Aert leaves Tour De France to be with pregnant wife - https://www.npr.org/2023/07/20/1188905775/wout-van-aert-tour-de-france-pregnant-wife
I dunno, folks, maybe we should get together and figure out how we can drive less #BikeTooter
Why tires — not tailpipes — are spewing more pollution from your cars https://wapo.st/3rgZtQB
Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).
In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.
The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.
...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.
Our latest story on the Supreme Court:
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.
Lebanese officials say auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Nissan and about a dozen individuals in Beirut over his imprisonment in Japan and what he says is misinformation spread against him
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