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UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy refused to give a student his diploma because he waved a PaIestinian flag while crossing the stage. They spent a full minute publicly berating him on stage until he handed it off.

The WHO forbids contact tracers from masking or gloving up. "Do not conduct home visits wearing personal protective equipment like masks, gloves, or gowns." It gets worse.

Federal judge halts Trump/DeSantis illegal snapper deregulation Florida Wildlife Commission spirals into an absolute fit on social media

The American chestnut was the dominant tree of the eastern US forest for thousands of years. One in every four trees in the Appalachians was a chestnut. Then, between 1904 and 1940, a fungal blight from Asia killed roughly four billion of them. The species nearly went extinct as a forest tree within a single human lifetime. The recovery effort is now in its fourth decade. The American Chestnut Foundation breeds disease-resistant hybrids by crossing American chestnuts with blight-resistant Chinese chestnuts, then backcrossing for generations to recover the American tree's form. Other researchers have used gene editing to insert a wheat gene that detoxifies the blight. The first restoration plantings are alive and growing in the Appalachians. They won't be mature for another 50 years. None of the people who started this work will see it finished, but we should all be glad they're doing it.

Unfriendly reminder that no profession rapes more children (in the US) than the police.

🚨 NEW: The Government will review the sentencing of three teenage boys after they avoided jail for raping two girls, including one at knife point Two of the boys received youth rehabilitation orders while the judge praised their behaviour in court

In case you were having a good day let me ruin it. In Florida it costs significantly more to relocate Gopher Tortoises than to pay the fines for getting caught just entombing them in their burrows, incentivising developers to just entomb them alive and hope they don't get caught

MAGA man caught on camera texting "Call ICE" at high school graduation—because there are too many "Mexican names." "Man Hispanics everywhere! Every other name is Mexican! We are being overrun!" he writes. "ICE needs to raid this graduation!" The Farmersville High School graduation ceremony was held at the Credit Union of Texas Event Center in Allen, Texas.

I have this theory that people work so many jobs not just because everything is unaffordable, but because a lot of places don’t want to hire people full time. They don’t want to provide benefits or overtime, so they keep all their employees just under the line.