Source: Amazon Rainforest: Highest deforestation rate in six years – BBC News

Similarly, the majority’s declaration that only a voter may return their ballot to the clerk has no basis in law. The statute does not limit who can deliver the ballot, only how. So there is no textual reason why a voter cannot have a friend or family member do it for them.

The Teigen majority’s brazen rejection of the law’s plain language is bad enough. But Grassl Bradley went further, stuffing her opinion with paranoid and irresponsible language about the legitimacy of the 2020 language. She zeroed in on the Wisconsin Election Commission, a chief target of Donald Trump supporters who falsely claim that the WEC rigged the race for Biden. In reality, this commission is a bipartisan agency, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, with modest authority to interpret the state’s (often confusing) election laws.

Source: Wisconsin Supreme Court bans drop boxes and calls Biden’s victory illegitimate.

New Zealand is at heightened risk from foot-and-mouth disease because of infected and unvaccinated cows wandering close to tourist areas in Bali, according to an Australian vet based in the tourist hotspot.

The disease has been on the island for at least two weeks just as tourists start to return after the pandemic, according to Dr Ainsworth who has lived in Indonesia for the past decade.

He has worked in the Australian beef industry for 40 years and is concerned Bali’s lack of vaccine doses and the way cattle wander in tourist areas there will heighten the risk of foot-and-mouth making its way to Australia and possibly New Zealand.

“This is such an amazingly infectious disease. It just goes like wildfire.”

Source: Vet warns of foot and mouth risk from tourist hotspot | RNZ

Source: No antibiotics worked, so this California woman turned to a natural enemy of bacteria to save her husband’s life

“The operation allegedly generated over $100 million in revenue, and Aksoy received millions of dollars for his personal gain,” the Justice Department said. The Cisco equipment Aksoy allegedly sold was usually older, lower-end models that were previously bought or discarded. Counterfeiters in China then modified the equipment, making the devices appear as if they were newer or more expensive Cisco product models. “As alleged, the Chinese counterfeiters often added pirated Cisco software and unauthorized, low-quality, or unreliable components — including components to circumvent technological measures added by Cisco to the software to check for software license compliance and to authenticate the hardware,” the Justice Department said. In addition, the counterfeit products were packaged with authentic-looking labels, boxes, and documentation.

Source: CEO Arrested for Selling $1 Billion in Fake Cisco Hardware on Amazon, eBay – Slashdot

Whether it’s artists saying trans women aren’t really women or a New York Times op-ed declaring that “women didn’t fight this long and this hard only to be told we couldn’t call ourselves women anymore,” it reinforces violence against an already incredibly vulnerable population.

Violence that comes in the form of legislation attacking the rights of trans people which encompasses everything from playing sports to which bathroom they can use.

Violence that comes in the form of “Don’t Say Gay” laws which prohibit “instruction” about sexual orientation or gender identity. Violence that comes in the form of Black and Latinx trans women being more likely to be fatally shot or killed. Violence that comes in the form of armed white supremacist groups showing up at LGBTQ+ events.

 …if you’re a non trans person who thinks they should comment on the experiences and lives of trans people, remember: silence is golden.

Source: Why Do Non Trans Folks Keep Inserting Themselves Into Trans Issues?

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