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Cole Wagner helped muscle into the Alabama Constitution an amendment declaring the state recognized “the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children.”

Now Wagner has been arrested for the sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/anti-abortion-leader-child-sex-abuse-1234794177/

Former Anti-Abortion Leader and Aide to Alabama Lt. Gov. Arrested on Child Sex Abuse Charges

Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth once called Cole Wagner “a whiz-kid” and a “bright, young guy”

Rolling Stone

Avoiding the office commute is just one reason why working from home suits many workers with disability better.

Employers need to take a nuanced approach to workplace flexibility, writes @SWilliamsonUNSW, @helentaylo + @VindyWeer (@UNSW). https://t.co/8PYfcENLc9

Working from home has worked for people with disability. The back-to-the-office push could wind back gains

Avoiding the office commute is just one reason why working from home suits many workers with disability better. Employers need to take a nuanced approach to workplace flexibility.

The Conversation
@dmoser We are looking at the "mini forest" idea for our local area

🌡 Time for a reminder that adding shade & vegetation 🌳 to urban environments helps to reduce the urban heat island effect massively.

A super important tool to keep cities cool during the summer.👇

David Tennant wearing a "Leave Trans Kids Alone You Absolute Freaks" t-shirt to the Good Omens 2 premiere. Love this show. Love these guys

*Season 2 coming to Prime July 28th 😇👿🖤🤍

starring David Tennant, Michael Sheen and a diverse, incredibly talented cast. written by Neil Gaiman @neilhimself (with blessings from Terry Pratchett)

I'll do a thread tomorrow on the X dot com/Paypal merger because I think it's really important to understand how that went down to know why Musk is STILL salty about how X died (and about Peter Thiel) now.

But in the meantime, here is a quick, but telling, story called:

That Time Elon Totalled his McLaren F1 While Trying to Show Off in Front of Peter Thiel /1 🧵 #history #technology

These climate change holidays are not going as planned are they?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66286099

Corfu latest Greek island to evacuate over wildfires

The popular tourist island has started evacuations after 19,000 had to leave Rhodes.

BBC News

For those who promote ‘no’ to the Voice, ATSIC is either an example of why we don’t need a Voice, or of government duplicity not to be trusted.

But, as @AlisonHolland33 from @Macquarie_Uni explains, it wasn’t a failure.
#auspol
https://t.co/pRuJGKhRdz

Many claim Australia’s longest-running Indigenous body failed. Here’s why that’s wrong

For those who promote ‘no’ to the Voice, ATSIC is either an example of why we don’t need a Voice, or of government duplicity not to be trusted.

The Conversation

For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years."It's gobsmacking."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-levels-nosedive-five-sigma-event/102635204?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web
#climate

Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet

Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it's different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and experts are worried.

ABC News
A series of Facebook posts claim there is no mention of race in the Australian Constitution and an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice to parliament will change this.
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/constitution-race-claim-is-incontestably-wrong/
Constitution race claim is incontestably wrong - Australian Associated Press

Facebook posts are spreading misinformation about the Australian Constitution to bolster support for a 'no' vote at the voice referendum.

Australian Associated Press