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4 Piping Plovers Hatch At Montrose Beach https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/16/4-piping-plovers-hatch-at-montrose-beach/

4 Piping Plovers Hatch At Montrose Beach

The chicks are the offspring of Sea Rocket and Imani and descendants of the famed Monty and Rose. People should keep their distance to protect the birds, experts say.

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Joan 4d ago

Max Leibman 5d ago

People need to stop saying Elon Musk is worth a trillion dollars. He HAS a trillion dollars. On paper. He isn’t WORTH a trillion dollars. If something happened to him, we wouldn’t pay a trillion dollars to get another one.

Joan 6d ago

Ulrike Hahn Jun 11

when the “gold standard” is anything but ….

https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026-555297

Trump's gold standard science is harming US science and health

“Restoring”standards is, in reality, a means of political control On 29 May 2026, the US White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed a rule that directs political appointees to require adherence with “gold standard science” in the awarding of federal grants, including research grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation.1 This process, if finalised, would permit political appointees - officials placed in senior leadership or policy roles through a political appointment process, such as the senate confirmed NIH director - to override or second guess longstanding merit based review processes that historically determined most grant awards.2 At first glance, requiring agencies to rely on gold standard science sounds as if it would constrain political discretion and tether government decisions more closely to scientific evidence. But over the past year, the Trump administration has generally invoked that phrase not as a neutral standard for scientific rigour but as a rationale for political control over scientific judgment. The phrase refers to President Trump's executive order 14303, “Restoring gold standard science,” signed in May 2025, …

The BMJ

Joan Jun 11

Andrew Jennings Jun 11

I was doing my library volunteer thing and a woman came in to the desk holding a book. “I left the book out in the rain and ruined it, so I bought this new copy”. You won’t see a story about it anywhere, but people are good

Joan Jun 3

John_Morgan Jun 2

I work in a library in Dublin, Ireland.

Literally just this morning I had a woman walk in the door on a speakerphone call.
She walked right up to the desk and continued on her call.
Eventually a queue started to form, and I called the man behind her forward.
Without ending her call she screamed that she was next.

Everyone ignored her outburst, except for one man who pointed her to a door and said "toddlers' library is that way love".

#Bookstodon #Library #Customerservice

Joan May 19

Damon May 19

Finding a box turtle in your yard can feel like meeting an old neighbor who has quietly lived nearby for decades. These turtles often spend their entire lives in the same small home range, learning every hiding place, patch of shade, and safe corner along the way. 🐢

Moving them far from familiar territory may seem helpful, but it often leaves them confused and vulnerable as they try to return home.

Creating wildlife-friendly spaces with natural cover, shallow water, and fewer chemicals can help protect the creatures already sharing the landscape with us.

Sometimes helping wildlife means resisting the urge to interfere and simply letting nature stay rooted where it belongs.