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Precinct DTLA, well-known gay bar, warns it could close after former employee claims discrimination A haven for the gay community, Precinct DTLA is warning it could close as it faces a legal fight with a former employee.

Precinct DTLA, well-known gay bar, warns it could close after former employee claims discrimination

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

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I guess we aren’t that serious about lowering the cost of housing….

You’re right, though: red tail hawks provide the generic “raptor” sound in a lot of media (probably because the public would not accept what a bald eagle really sounds like)

Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

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I think we need an investigation into whether the justices are acting in good faith

They are renaming army bases after confederates, so….

A crayfish claw with hairy patches on the left and right dorsal surface, with an out of focus lake in the background

Sometimes we know a crayfish is at a site before we even begin sampling. In this case, the hairy claws of the pilose crayfish had washed up on the shore of a reservoir from molts or mortalities.

"Van Lent, a well-regarded hydrologist who began working on Everglades restoration at the South Florida Water Management District in the 1980s, quit the nonprofit in a dispute over a planned Palm Beach County reservoir. He argued the project would likely fall short of providing clean freshwater..."

It’s hard to imagine the Times surviving this

It’s kind of weird that the commission must include equal representation from both parties regardless of what the actual composition of the state is.

Mrs Santa Clause starring Angela Lansbury

I think everyone should watch this:

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“Disasters are a human choice”: Texas counties have little power to stop building in flood-prone areas Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.

The are no natural disasters. There are natural hazards that impact vulnerable human communities.

Wise land use choices and risk conscious mitigation strategies are the 1st line of defense for preventing natural hazards from becoming disasters.

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E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump

“The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday placed 144 employees on administrative leave and opened an investigation into their decision to sign a letter accusing the Trump administration of politicizing the agency.”

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In what universe is it illegal to hand out face shields?

It’s amazing that it takes so many public meetings, environmental impact assessments, scientific studies to implement Everglades restoration, but they can just put up a concentration camp in the Everglades overnight.

This is not a both-sides, all politicians are bad story.

Seriously, you’d think Newsom had an equal role to Trump in putting the media “on edge”.

Even if Pat Soon-Shiong had no role in the framing of this article, he has cost the paper so much credibility that it’s fair to question if any of its coverage of democrats is tainted by his bias.

This is classic “both sides” coverage that really downplays the role Trump has had here.

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

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A federal court granted a preliminary injunction late last night to stop the Trump administration from cutting grants to University of California researchers, giving an early win to a group of faculty trying a novel approach to protect government science investments. A group of six University of California faculty and staff sued a host of government agencies this month over the widespread elimination of research grants since Trump took office on Jan. 20. While there have already been several lawsuits challenging the abrupt grant cancellations, the University of California legal challenge seeks to become the first class action lawsuit to claw back money for all researchers within the 10-campus university system. Judge Rita F. Lin, a Biden appointee, gave provisional class certification to all University of California researchers who had their grants canceled by the Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation or National Endowment for the Humanities since Trump's inauguration without a specific explanation, or because they focused on a diversity or equity-related topic. She granted a preliminary injunction barring the agencies from terminating more grants to University of California researchers, and ordering the government to restore the funding until the court rules otherwise. University of California researchers notch win in novel suit against Trump, continued Lin ruled that the Trump administration's funding cancellations over diversity and equity topics violated the researchers’ First Amendment rights, and the way agencies carried them out were “arbitrary and capricious.” While the administration is entitled to promote its own chosen priorities, the executive branch “may not set out to suppress ideas it deems dangerous by trying to drive them out of the marketplace of ideas,” Lin wrote in her ruling.

NEW: A group of University of California researchers, seeking to become the first class action suit over Trump's science cuts, notch their first win with a preliminary injunction

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He’s always been a hateful man

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“I am inclined to fight for what I believe in, and I believe deeply in this University. But I cannot make a unilateral decision to fight the federal government in order to save my own job.”

A statement from University of Virginia President Jim Ryan, on his decision to resign:

Police arrest man who may have impersonated immigration agent, Huntington Park officials say Police said he had an SUV outfitted with police-type lights, a loaded gun and documents with headings from federal agencies like HSI and CBP.

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Justice Jackson in dissent: "The Court's decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law."