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Open Thread | Leave Senator Feinstein Alone | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Tired of all the articles about Senator Feinstein.

Here is the bottom line:

The most important thing about the Senator is her seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. With her on that Committee, we get the judges through.

If she resigns, the GOP , because of the arcane Senate rules, can BLOCK ANY REPLACEMENT ON THAT COMMITTEE.

WHICH MEANS NO MORE JUDGES.

NOTHING in the Senate is more important than getting those judges through.

PERIOD!!!

Source: Open Thread | Leave Senator Feinstein Alone | 3CHICSPOLITICO

U.S. traders flouting sanctions on buying Myanmar teak, report says

Vast quantities of timber from Myanmar continue to enter the United States despite sanctions on the country’s state-controlled timber monopoly, according to a new report from U.K.-based watchdog group the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

Following the February 2021 military coup and violent crackdowns on citizens, countries including the U.S., Canada, the European Union, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom placed sanctions on Myanmar’s junta leaders and military-run enterprises from the forestry, mining, and oil and gas sectors in an effort to curb the regime’s access to natural resource revenues.

Source: U.S. traders flouting sanctions on buying Myanmar teak, report says

Updated Version of Being an American When it Hurts

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Ministry Mondays will be back soon after my June break from WP.  In the meantime, here is an example of my language learning in a country where I worked, being used against me, sort of.  This post has been updated, and can be read here

Originally posted somewhere else, in March of 2005.

We can definitely Do Better

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A Fable with a Message –  « Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy » – For ages 8 to 12 to 100!  – written and illustrated …

illustration from « Amazon Rainforest Magic – The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy » « Amazon Rainforest Magic presents a world that at first …

A Fable with a Message –  « Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy » – For ages 8 to 12 to 100!  – written and illustrated …

The right for nature to simply exist is clear – the movement to enshrine this into law is growing! — Palm Oil Detectives

The idea that nature — forests , rivers, mountains — could have rights, in the same way that human rights, or corporate rights exist has been …

The right for nature to simply exist is clear – the movement to enshrine this into law is growing! — Palm Oil Detectives