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Indonesia Has to Find a New Capital

“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” – Utah Phillips

It’s the second state in a week, after Michigan, in which judges said a GOP-drawn map violated voters’ constitutional rights.

Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too. A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians.

Company Manufactures Climate of Fear

Extinction Rebellion has made mistakes, but passing judgment on their flaws isn't activism. After the XR protests, the U.K.’s Parliament declared a climate emergency and 54% of British adults polled said climate change threatens our extinction.

Until recently, [some] specimens have been un-sequenceable due to DNA contamination from the modern people who have handled them. Today’s techniques make it possible to differentiate modern from ancient DNA sequences, which opens up the prospect of returning to the many museum specimens in collections worldwide to see what further answers they might hold.

The Second City is still grappling with a long history of police brutality.

Instead of progressives sounding the bugle of retreat, exactly the opposite is necessary. The elements of the progressive movement that already exist in the South must be supported.

It was George H.W. Bush’s invasion of that small, poor country 25 years ago that inaugurated the age of preemptive unilateralism, using “democracy” and “freedom” as both justifications for war and a branding opportunity.