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Texas Governor Knew of Natural Gas Shortages Days Before Blackout, Blamed Wind Anyway – Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes Ars Technica: Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s office knew of looming natural gas shortages on February 10, days before a deep freeze plunged much of the state into blackouts, according to documents obtained by E&E News and reviewed by Ars. Abbott’s office…

Source: Texas Governor Knew of Natural Gas Shortages Days Before Blackout, Blamed Wind Anyway – Slashdot

Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment — Educating for Future Democracy Collaborative

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

This year (2021), I am going through all the 30 basic rights and add my personal view. I would like to encourage you to look up our Human Rights, not to take these for granted or to misuse, but as a reminder we are all Human beings, Beautiful Souls and therefore we all matter… [READ MORE] Freedom […]

Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment — Educating for Future Democracy Collaborative

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Snarky Sunday Snippets

Filosofa's Word

I look at the news these days, and there are no headlines screaming at me, no nefarious tweets by the former guy that send me straight into fight mode, but still … it takes only about 5 minutes of trolling the news to set my teeth on edge.  Too many things just aren’t right in this country.  And so … sigh … it’s time for me to share a few snarky snippets from the aged, ancient mind.


WHY NOT???

At least five members of the United States military have been charged for participating in the attack on the Capitol on January 6th, and yet not a single one has been relieved of their duty in the military.  In other words … to put it quite bluntly … the very people who attempted to overthrow our government are still the ones we are relying on to defend us against…

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Os apuros de Ricardo Salles nas mãos das autoridades ambientais dos EUA não param de crescer —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Vivêssemos tempos normais, o ainda ministro (ou seria anti-ministro?) do Meio Ambiente, Ricardo Salles, não teria apenas sido removido do cargo, mas provavelmente encaminhado para um período de férias no presídio da Papuda. É que as recentes revelações de que um escritório de advocacia do que ele é sócio arrecadou milhões de reais de origem[…]

Os apuros de Ricardo Salles nas mãos das autoridades ambientais dos EUA não param de crescer —

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Devastação desenfreada: Amazônia sofre maior nível de desmatamento em abril dentro de uma década, e degradação florestal também avança —

Barbara Crane Navarro

O desmatamento da Amazônia no último mês de abril foi de 778 km², o maior valor para o mês registrado nos últimos dez anos, segundo dados do Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (Imazon). O índice é 45% maior que o desmatamento registrado em abril de 2020. Em março, também foi registrado um[…]

Devastação desenfreada: Amazônia sofre maior nível de desmatamento em abril dentro de uma década, e degradação florestal também avança —

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Day 21 of High School in Five Months, Growing your Brain, and Adulting Education

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

Learning new things, at any age, is crucial to our growth as human beings and as citizens of any democracy:

Let’s redefine Adulting to include learning for life, for citizenship, and for democracy!

Day 21 Lesson Plan
today, the Reading is via Closed Captions: “Just a Bill”
Math Warm-up: Area and estimation on Khan Academy
Practice Multiplying Powers: the Product Rule
Practice Dividing Powers: the Quotient Rule

Day 21 ExitSlips

(Day 20Day 22)

Action Items:

1.) Find three different sources describing the ways our brain can grow (four, if you use the source cited in today’s lesson plan…),

2.) Share your  findings with us, and

3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those findings, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your…

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A Mask-less Country

In Saner Thought

A new Sunday and a new victory lap for Biden the pandemic front.

It is official…Pres. Biden has said that if a person is fully vaccinated then they need not wear a mask…that they can go out and about and can integrate themselves into to society once again.

We are all on the honor system and can visit relatives and go dining, hang out in bars….all the things we use to do……a return to normal….maybe a new normal…..

But I question if this is necessary?

Seriously!  Do you trust Americans to be honest in this situation?

In the clash between sound science and political pressure from anti-science crackpots in the United States, the Biden administration and the Center for Disease Control have blinked, announcing prematurely that people who are vaccinated can basically give up masking except when traveling on public transit or visiting health facilities.

The idiocy and mendacity of…

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Hurry up peeps for the contest!!

Soni's thoughts

Heyaaa my fabulous peeps, how are you all doing guys? Hope all are good and safe at your places… Todays post is to remind you all about my writing contest and also to share few good news with you all!

First of all you might know i have kept one writing contest and winners will get so many exciting things too… If you have not gone through the post then please do, below is the link to it… And if you wanna participate then hurry up pals as only 7days left for it… Last day to submit is 31st May 11.59PM IST… I have already received many amazing entries for it and already confused which one to choose for top 5😆😆💖💖💖 lets see and hope my inner judge wakes up and selects top 5!!!

Writing contest link👇🏻https://sonibindaas571181659.wordpress.com/2021/05/17/writing-contest-by-soni%e2%9c%8d%f0%9f%8f%bb%f0%9f%92%96/

Secondly today i received hard copy of my second published book where…

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The Aesthetics Of Sorrow

yaskhan

Maybe I can broker a deal with the angels..
Elegiac offering versed

rien n'est éternel

I promise to behave~
If the heavens ever
Decide to take me.

In the purple stillness,
I douse my fevered mind with bloodroot
And come back to myself
To breathe the haze of emerald hues.
I cry with my eyes
But without tears
That’s how broken heartstrings feel
Like the song inside the soul of a bird in winter ..
When a butterfly dreams of flowers
In an autumn wind
Filled with violins
Kind of blue—
The sound of jazz
vie est brève

For that brief moment
When the light went out
Of your eyes—
Even the day felt lonely.



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