Callie is finally relaxing around Moonpie

[conuly]

Truly, today is a red letter day.

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Our musical tastes peak as teens, says study

What Color Is a Tennis Ball?

Nostradamus Wrote Prophecies; He Also Made Jelly

The Promise of Indoor, Hurricane-Proof Vertical Farms

The more kinds of bees, the better for humans, study finds

This 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb Upended What We Thought We Knew About the Roots of Western Civilization

Your Wall Paint, Perfumes and Cleaning Agents Are Polluting Our Air

Oregon lawmakers move to ease scrubbing of racist provisions

Barnes & Noble reaches its zero-moment point

New York City Officials Reach Deal On Shuttering Rikers Island

Abortion-rights supporters push back against gains by foes

In Russia, a grass-roots bid to expose Stalin's ‘Great Terror"

The Axeman of New Orleans Preyed on Italian Immigrants

New Texas group opposes bipartisan efforts to end cash bail

Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse

He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.

Trump's 87 picks to be federal judges are 92% white with just one black and one Hispanic nominee (I do not believe for one second that 92% of the most qualified judges happened to be white.)

As Gaza deteriorates, Israel turns to world for help

Even after bedbugs are eradicated, their waste lingers

Court received 1.17 million war crimes claims from Afghans

In Modi’s India, journalists face bullying, criminal cases and worse

Comments

Stalin

[dewline]

Putinists don't want Stalin's full record exposed. They're still trying to rehabilitate the creep's reputation.

[orcofnewyork]

So many great links, thanks as always for the fabulous roundup!

The Mycenaean tomb is a once in a generation find, so glad discoveries are still being made despite the many cuts to so many grants and programs that fund them.

I read about the Barnes & Noble news earlier this week and it's upsetting on so many levels. I used to work for them during university and I'm devastated to think those whose lives are now upended when they'd been so loyal.

Rikers closing is a long time coming and hopefully things will improve with the transition to local facilities. There's a lot of upheaval and change going on in NY correctional facilities at the municipal state, and federal levels these days - some for the good and some for the drastically worse. I'm hoping the Rikers closure will lean on the good end.

[greghousesgf]

that business about taste in music is pure bullshit in my case, a lot of my favorite songs were recorded much earlier and some much later.

[conuly]

There's always outliers. I mean, some of us really just like Mozart.

Re: Stalin

[conuly]

They might yet succeed :(

[conuly]

I feel kinda bad in some ways I haven't been doing much shopping at B&N lately... but I have been doing a lot of it at The Strand and small booksellers, so.

I'm hoping the Rikers closure will lean on the good end.

I'm trying to hope, but you know how it is.

[orcofnewyork]

Supporting Strand and small booksellers is still awesome!

Re: Rikers
It will definitely be a hot mess at first during the transition as the local facilities scramble to meet demand and secure funding. Still between this and the universal free school breakfast & lunch program, not to mention the dismissal of decades old arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses, I'm hopeful NYC will continue to trend progressively. Watch as I say this and then we'll suddenly have a super conservative mayor undo everything and figuratively burn the place down. >_<;

[conuly]

Watch as I say this and then we'll suddenly have a super conservative mayor undo everything and figuratively burn the place down.

And fiddle as it burns? You bite your tongue! Egads, Giuliani was bad enough. *shudder*

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Yay, Callie! That must surely be a relief. And Moonpie's learned not to lunge at her?

Good links as always; thanks!

[conuly]

Moonpie stopped lunging months and months ago, almost a whole year. Finn still sometimes forgets. Callie took a while to trust either of them, and wouldn't even come into my room. But over the past few days she's decided she's over it, and we've been catching up on ALL the snuggles!