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Boing Boing 

Watch a baby flying squirrel take its first leap

Watching this baby squirrel take its first flying lesson has greatly improved my morning. This adorable Siberian squirrel glides around the forest by jumping from tree to tree and spreading the furry membrane that stretches from its wrists to ankles to keep afloat.  — Read the rest

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The New Yorker 

War in Gaza, Shibboleths on Campus

In the campus protests over the war in Gaza, language and rhetoric are—as they have always been when it comes to Israel and Palestine—weapons of mass destruction.

The New Yorker 

Should We Be Worried About Bird Flu?

According to the C.D.C., the risk to public health remains low. But the country’s initial approach has had an unsettling resonance with the first months of COVID.

The Atlantic  

No Subject

A poem for Sunday

BangkokPost.com 

Drought puts pressure on durian farmers

Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Thamanat Prompow has ordered officials to provide assistance to durian farmers in the East, as the prolonged drought and scorching heat threaten to spoil their valuable crops right before the harvest season.

InvestorPlace 

Stock Market Crash Warning: Don’t Get Caught Holding These 3 EV Charging Stocks

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The EV market continues to face a number of demand headwinds that have yet to abate, and these 3 charging stocks should be avoided.

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TheHill.com 

Sunday marks 6 months until Election Day

Sunday marks six months until Election Day 2024, when voters will go to the polls to decide the next president. The decision will likely be a 2020 rematch, with incumbent President Biden and former President Trump on the ticket on Tuesday, November 5. The two have been polling roughly neck and neck, indicating a very...

TheHill.com 

Conservative courts poised to block new transgender student protections

More than a dozen Republican-led states have sued the Biden administration over new Title IX regulations that add protections for transgender students, setting up a legal battle with the White House over enforcement of the decades-old civil rights law and increasing the likelihood that the measures will be blocked in court before taking effect this summer. ...

TheHill.com 

Nuclear waste at center of testy Nevada Senate race

Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown is under fire from Democrats for 2022 remarks in which he expressed support for plans to store federal nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. Nevada lawmakers from both parties have strongly resisted a federal plan to turn the isolated southwest Nevada mountain — about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas...

TheHill.com 

Pritzker, Johnson face test with Chicago convention

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will face a test this summer with the Democratic National Convention, which protesters of the Biden administration’s handling of Israel’s war with Hamas are already targeting. The success of the convention could provide a boost to Pritzker, a two-term governor seen as a future candidate for...

TheHill.com 

GOP: Noem up in smoke; Scott, Burgum rise in Trump VP race

Republican senators say South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's (R) viability as a vice presidential candidate has gone up in smoke after she admitted to shooting a 14-month-old puppy, and they are looking to other contenders to round out former President Trump’s ticket. Republican lawmakers who have spoken to Trump say he will be “strategic” in...

Forbes.com 

Your Psychedelic Gummy Is Here. (Have A Nice Trip.)

Magic mushroom edibles made with Amanita muscaria are on the rise thanks to a legal gray area. Meet the entrepreneurs bringing hallucinogenic treats to a smoke shop—or mailbox—near you.