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Orange glow of sunset casts a greyish-blue color upon breaking storm clouds. July 25, 2025

-Post Storm Mosaic Pt.II-
#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #Canon #photography #WxSky #CloudscapeClub

Coreshell Technologies' prize-winning EV battery tech is a proof point for California's dominance in the low carbon, green growth economy.

California's extraordinary entrepreneurial drive simply has no peers.

Mayors pledge coordinated climate action ahead of UN conference in Brazil Three hundred mayors have gathered in Rio de Janeiro to pledge coordinated climate action in their cities.

Since many heads of states are true nutcases, local leaders have to take the lead!

A group of 300 mayors gathered Monday in Rio de Janeiro to pledge coordinated climate action and address rising heat that is hurting many of their residents.

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Is A.I. replacing the STEM fields for young people?
Maybe we should be pushing high School graduates into fields that robots can't touch for the near future like plumbing, electrician, nursing and the like.

It's quite depressing. Support your local unions, folks. Your kids are going to need it.

one of the more striking quotes in our election coverage this fall!

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Bird of the day, Coot standing on a submerged rock (just look at those feet!)... #BirdOfTheDay #Coot #Rock #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography

A close-up view of this handsome Northern Flicker, showing off that distinctive red malar (mustache) mark! I love the pattern on its chest.

#NorthernFlicker #Woodpecker #BirdsofInstagram #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #NatureLovers #BackyardBirds

Family finds 'rare' Stone Age hand axe on Isle of Wight A chance find on a fossil-hunting trip on the Isle of Wight turned out to be a rare artefact.

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Pennsylvania is a state that has really diverse & high stakes, up and down the ballot tomorrow.

—control of state supreme court
—lower state court races
—Philly DA: Krasner's reelect
—important, heated school boards
—partisan battles for county execs in swing counties
—Bucks County at a crossroads

Chuy Garcia, a Chicago Democrat, pulls off a maneuver to ensure his aide succeeds him in the U.S. House.

The IL filing deadline was today. Garcia's chief of staff filed to run for the seat *this afternoon,* and Garcia is now expected to withdraw, so boom, no one else is running for the open seat.

Daily Briefing: Kalmaegi ‘slams’ Philippines | EU’s COP30 scramble | Brazil’s emissions ‘boost’

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Rainy day walk in Portland’s NW Hills #Photography #Portland 📷

Attorney General Bonta Secures Appellate Decision Striking Down Huntington Beach’s Voter ID Law OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued the following statement in response to the California Fourth District Court of Appeal’s decision holding that Huntington Beach’s voter iden...

BREAKING: An appellate court just struck down Huntington Beach’s voter ID law.

No matter where threats to voting rights come from — whether from Washington D.C. or from within California — we will continue holding the line. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

It's the eve of Election Day, & turnout in Georgia is a small fraction of what it was 12 months ago... Still, there are 2 statewide races to be decided by whomever has voted by tomorrow.

Where we're at:

—640,048 Georgians have already voted.
(Roughly 4 million at this stage 12 months ago.)

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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

Houston’s Bush Airport TSA Wait Times Top 3 Hours—As Unpaid Screeners Tell Of Agency’s ‘Scare Tactics’ TSA workers were told sick calls will bring “appropriate accountability measures to the fullest extent possible” after the shutdown ends—but airport screeners told Forbes such threats would likely backfire.

TSA workers were told sick calls will bring “appropriate accountability measures to the fullest extent possible” after the shutdown ends—but airport screeners told Forbes such threats would likely backfire.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto lifting the World Series trophy

Yoshinobu Yamamoto was worth the $325M even if his arm falls off tomorrow. Two titles they definitely wouldn’t have won without him. Four hard earned World Series wins in four appearances.

HOW

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Himalayan birch trees in the arboretum. They have striking white bark on their trunks.

A colourful orange acer tree and elegant rock piles in the Japanese garden.

The Sakura garden with a semi-circle of cherry trees given by the Japanese government, and benches beneath.

Metalwork fungi sculptures framing the woodland area with brightly coloured beech trees.

A few days off work, so went with Mr M to the Durham University Botanic Garden today. Very grey day and raining on and off. But the tree foliage colours are spectacular this year, even in dull weather. 😊

New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.

Dear Canada, can someone explain why we are not doing this??

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Los Angeles Dodgers win back-to-back titles, cement modern dynasty It only took the greatest baseball game I've ever seen in my life.

When I figure out a way to describe what Yoshinobu Yamamoto did this weekend I’ll let you know. If Pages and Kiké dropped that ball with two out in the ninth the entire legacy of these Dodgers is different. Now, they are a dynasty forever. What an unhinged sport: open.substack.com/pub/mollykni...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

The rayed #crater Tycho dominates the view of tonight’s waxing gibbous #Moon. #astronomy

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 2025 World Series MVP 🏆

He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.

Canada and Philippines sign a defense pact to boost drills and deter China's aggression Canada and the Philippines, both staunch critics of China’s increasingly coercive actions in the disputed South China Sea, have signed a key defense agreement that will allow their forces to hold join...

A new alliance between Canada and the Philippines:

Canada and the Philippines, both staunch critics of China’s increasingly coercive actions in the disputed South China Sea, signed a key defense pact to boost combat drills and expand security alliances to deter aggression
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The Robin is centre of picture perched on my garden fence. Facing towards the left and showing its red breast, and side view of brown back and wings, and other grey/white feathers

Perched on my garden fence
#BirdOfTheDay #FestiveDailyRobin #birds #ukwildlife #photography #robin

Sunset sky...

Nature's artwork

3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar comet spotted in 2025, shows vaporised nickel far from the Sun metal usually won’t evaporate there. It hints at the comet formed in a distant, cold star system, possibly older than our Sun. Image: NASA/ESA/AP

3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar comet spotted in 2025, shows vaporised nickel far from the Sun metal usually won’t evaporate there. It hints at the comet formed in a distant, cold star system, possibly older than our Sun.

Image: NASA/ESA/AP