Meanwhile...some good news (finally)
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shadowkat[this is courtesy of a social rights activist who posts these lists on FB, I know it's accurate because I see it in AP news wire and other sources as well. I'll add links where I'm able, a lot of stuff is under paywalls.] As always, whether this is good news is in the eye of the beholder, ie. mileage may vary on these points.
1.A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.
2.A court ruled that ACLU’s case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.
3.A FEDERAL JUDGE said “no evidence before the court connects Abrego Garcia to MS-13 or any criminal organization.” No one is vouching for one man. We are standing up for EVERYONE’s right to due process under the Constitution.
4. Judge Blocks DOGE From Laying Off 90 Percent of CFPB: The Republican Administration and DOGE tried to cut more than 1,400 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. An employee union and other groups are fighting to keep the regulator intact.
5.In response to reports that Trump is planning to deport dozens more people with under 24 hours notice, the ACLU filed an emergency request for Judge Boasberg to block the administration from carrying out these deportations. Go HERE.
6.US scientists engineer safer LSD to treat schizophrenia and boost brain function. LSD has long been considered too unpredictable to be a viable treatment, but an altered version that “ditches the trip” could change that. Go HERE
7.Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday night that he had met in San Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador last month has become a flashpoint in the immigration debate and fueled a standoff between the Trump administration and the courts. Sen. Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, shared a photo of the two men speaking on Thursday evening, hours after the senator had been denied entry to the prison where Mr. Abrego Garcia was being held. Senator Chris Van Hollen’s visit to El Salvador and his subsequent press conference was one of the most powerful, courageous defenses of due process we’ve seen in a long time. Senator Van Hollen had just returned from El Salvador, where he met face-to-face with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the American resident unlawfully abducted by our own government and thrown into a torture camp in El Salvador. [Also proof that Mr. Garcia is alive - a lot of us had decided he was dead.]And what he revealed should alarm every single person who believes in the Constitution. Let’s start with the scams he revealed. The authoritarian leader of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, tried to stage a photo-op to make it look like Abrego Garcia was relaxing poolside with Senator Van Hollen, sipping margaritas—when in reality, Garcia had just come from a hellish extermination prison where he was shackled, traumatized, and denied contact with his family. Bukele’s cronies dressed him up in American clothes, put a hat over his shaved head and literally placed untouched cocktails in front of them mid-meeting to create propaganda for the Trump regime. Kilmar was taken without warning from the streets of Maryland, how he was denied phone access to his wife and 5-year-old autistic son, how he was shackled and loaded onto a plane with blacked-out windows, and how he was tossed into a cell with 25 others in one of the most notorious prisons in Central America. No crime. No charges. No trial. No evidence. Just a bureaucratic “error”. (The Trump lawyer answered a direct question from the judge in court, saying it was an administrative error. Trump fired him for speaking the truth to the judge. Because to Trump, admitting error is worse than committing evil.)When Senator Van Hollen asked El Salvador’s vice president why Kilmar was being detained, the answer was chilling in its simplicity: because Trump is paying us to hold him. Let that sink in. The U.S. government is literally outsourcing human rights violations to foreign dictatorships. This is taxpayer-funded authoritarianism. Why the Senator going down and forcing his way in to see the prisoner is important? "Trump is past peak power and his power will decline from now on. His power came from fear, and now the system is beginning to function. We have a govt of laws, which is innately conservative and slow to deal with anomalies such as Trump. A clue was the turnabout of Nayib Bukele of El Salvador allowing a Maryland Senator to see this illegally-deported American resident, after refusing. It’s obvious that Trump was unable to stop the Senator. His narcissism is simultaneously his greatest strength and his greatest vulnerability. He is very vulnerable."
8.Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label. The immigrants are among more than 6,000 who were falsely added to a deaths database by DHS and the U.S. DOGE Service in a bid to pressure them to leave the United States.
9.Audubon is sponsoring Assembly Bill 454 because it maintains crucial and effective protections for California’s migratory birds. This bill would restore essential safeguards and ensure California remains a stronghold for birds on the move. Go HERE
10.Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away: Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed that the planet K2-18b has traces of dimethyl sulfide, a potential biosignature of marine microorganisms.
11. A new bill is designed to curtail book-banning in Delaware libraries - those open to the public, and those in public schools. House Bill 119 is known as the Freedom to Read Act. Public schools and libraries would be required to adopt policies in developing their collections that prohibit removal of materials based on an author's background, or for partisan, ideological or religious objections. The legislation sets up a clear review procedure for challenging or removing materials. Go HERE
12.American Oversight secured a significant legal victory after a Georgia court denied State Election Board member Janice Johnston’s motion to dismiss in its ongoing transparency lawsuit against the Georgia State Election Board. Go HERE
13.A man experiencing homelessness won a $1Million jackpot in San Luis Obispo, CA. On the evening of April 6, the man bought two $5 Triple Red 777 scratchers, along with some smaller tickets, for a total of $25.
After checking one of the scratchers, he found he had won $200, but the real surprise came when he scratched the second one. Initially thinking he’d won $100,000, he was shocked to learn it was actually a $1 million prize.
14. A vocational training center in Maryland offers more than the usual trade classes — it gives underserved individuals a second chance. Veterans, formerly incarcerated people, and those emerging from homelessness or addiction can enroll in free certification sessions, as well as classes about financial literacy, job retention, and communication. “The most important thing that will change is your internal, how you feel about who you are,” said executive director Walter Billips. “From going to a hopeless situation [to] now you have hope.” GO HERE
15. In a world first, a baby was born after being conceived through a robot-controlled version of IVF. Go HERE. ("The startup company that developed the robot, Overture Life, says its device is an initial step toward automating in vitro fertilization, or IVF, and potentially making the procedure less expensive and far more common than it is today.")
16.A pet tortoise was reunited with his family in Mississippi after going missing during a tornado last month. Go HERE
17. Live from London! Saturday Night Live is getting a British edition, set to premiere in 2026. Go Here
18. That water fight in Season 3 of The White Lotus wasn’t just a plot point dreamed up by Mike White: Thailand really does have a holiday that involves copious amounts of water guns. Songkran is a Thai New Year celebration that started Sunday and wraps up today. It marks the end of the annual rice harvest season and revolves around themes of renewal and purification — hence all the water. Go HERE
19.Nature isn’t binary: Read how scientists discovered the world’s first intersex southern right whale. Go HERE
20. Conservationist Paola Bouley gained international recognition for her work protecting lions and other species at Mozambique’s Gorongosa Park. She’s now launched a new effort at the Yellowstone-sized Macossa-Tambara region. Bouley’s new project at Macossa-Tambara in Mozambique is part of an effort to double the African lion population by 2050. Go Here
21.Planet goes out in blaze of glory: Scientists have observed a distant planet plunging into the star it was orbiting, revealing a new way that planets can ‘die’. Physicists first spotted a bright flash from the planet in 2023, which they thought meant it had been engulfed by its host star during end-of-life expansion. When they used the James Webb Space Telescope to take a second look, they found that the star was too early in its life cycle to have started expanding. The team now proposes the planet’s orbit got closer and closer to the star over millions of years, until the two finally collided.
22.Florence Nightingale had a pet owl named Athena.
23.The Democratic establishment typically tries to clamp down on primaries for U.S. Senate races to avoid arduous, unnecessary, and painfully expensive campaigns. But this year, the congressional map is stacked with potential slugfests among ambitious up-and-comers in Michigan, Minnesota, and New Hampshire—and, in an unusual twist, Democratic leadership isn’t making any overt moves to intervene. As Abby reports, it’s the latest indication of a breakdown in the traditionally top-down management of a Democratic Party in the process of reinventing itself.
24.Mysterious Taiwan fossil is Denisovan: A fossilized jawbone discovered more than 20 years ago belonged to an ancient group of humans called Denisovans. Named Penghu 1, the jawbone was dredged up by fishing crews 25 kilometres off the west coast of Taiwan. The confirmation that the bone belonged to a Denisovan — the result of more than two years of work to extract ancient proteins from the fossil — expands the known geographical range of the group, from colder, high-altitude regions to warmer climates.
Go HERE
25.This man wants to fix America’s low voter turnout with mobile phone voting. Political strategist Bradley Tusk’s Mobile Voting Project would “meet people where they are” by allowing them to vote via a smartphone app.
Go HERE
26.AI-boosted glasses help the blind navigate: A system of cameras, earphones and artificial intelligence (AI) could help visually impaired people to navigate their surroundings more effectively than white canes and other alternatives. The set-up uses AI to interpret footage from camera-mounted glasses in real time, and feeds the user information on their location and that of obstacles using audio cues and vibrations. In a trial, 20 people with visual impairments completed a 25-metre-long indoor maze faster using the AI-boosted glasses than they did with a cane. Go HERE
27. Newsweek and Statista recently ranked the top 250 hospitals around the globe, evaluating health care centers in 30 countries based on surveys of medical professionals, patient experience data, hospital quality metrics, and patient-reported outcome measures. Two U.S. based hospitals — Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic and Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic — took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots. The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota came in first on Newsweek’s list, and a few other U.S. hospitals also made the top 10. Go Here
28. Sunsets on Mars are tinted blue.
29. Scientists recently found a simple trick to help you filter out unwanted sounds and focus in noisy spaces: tapping your fingers in a steady rhythm. Study participants, all native French speakers, listened to recordings of someone reading against background noise to make it more difficult to comprehend. But beforehand, they were instructed to “prime” themselves with one of four techniques: tapping their finger rhythmically at their own pace, tapping along to a provided beat, listening to the beat without tapping, or just waiting in silence for the talking to begin. Researchers found that those who tapped their finger at their own pace or along to an audio beat identified the words they heard with greater speed and accuracy. Adding to previous findings on the link between music and the motor system, the study shows “the motor system is not merely an executor of movements, but actively contributes to the integration and reuse of temporal information,” the authors wrote, per Science Alert. All this to say, more focused and attentive conversations may just be a few finger taps away.
30.Three years ago, New Mexico made headlines when it became the first state in the nation to offer free child care to a majority of families. Since then, the policy shift has helped lift 120,000 people above the poverty line and paved the way for more individuals to stay in school, pursue careers, and build financial stability that can pay off in dividends in the long run. One of those individuals is Lisset Sanchez, a mother who almost dropped out of college due to the cost of day care. Fortunately, the state cut the price of child care to $0 for families earning up to 400% of the federal poverty level (about $124,000 for a family of four). This allowed her to finish college and enroll in nursing school while still taking care of day-to-day expenses for her family. “[The free child care] did help tremendously,” Sanchez told The Guardian. The program, which is funded by taxes on revenue from nonrenewable sources like oil and gas reserves, is not a quick fix, as the state is still one of the poorest in the nation. “What New Mexico is trying to do here is play a very long game. And so I am not without worry that people might give it five years, and it’s been almost five years now, and then say, ‘Where are the results? Why is everything not better?’” said Hailey Heinz, deputy director of the University of New Mexico’s Cradle to Career Policy Institute. “This is generational change.” As for Sanchez, whose husband works while she is in school, the impact goes far beyond herself: “Being able to work for free or go to school for free, that can make a big difference in your life and your children’s — everybody’s — life.” Go HERE
31. China pulled Tesla from China's market. "BEIJING, April 11 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab has suspended taking new orders for Model S and Model X vehicles on its Chinese website, Reuters checks showed on Friday, as the world's two largest economies exchange blows in a trade war.
Both models are made in the U.S. and imported to China. New orders for the two models were also no longer available on the automaker's WeChat mini programme account in China." and well - the real reason is the type of battery, China tightened its regulations on safety of EV batteries in hybrid and electric cars, and Telsa doesn't meet the standards.
32.BARBARA LEE WON the race to become Oakland's new Mayor. Former Democrat congresswoman Barbara Lee took an insurmountable lead over her main opponent, Loren Taylor, according to the latest results released Friday. Lee had nearly 53% of the ranked-choice votes compared to 47% for Taylor.
33.The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a Marshall University graduate student whose visa was “unlawfully” revoked as a part of an immigration crackdown by the Republican administration.
34. A Huge 2,500 year old city was discovered hidden in the Amazon Rainforest. Go Here
35. 20 vegetables you can regrow from kitchen scraps (it does help if you have soil and a garden for some of these..
That's it. Have a lovely day.
1.A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.
2.A court ruled that ACLU’s case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.
3.A FEDERAL JUDGE said “no evidence before the court connects Abrego Garcia to MS-13 or any criminal organization.” No one is vouching for one man. We are standing up for EVERYONE’s right to due process under the Constitution.
4. Judge Blocks DOGE From Laying Off 90 Percent of CFPB: The Republican Administration and DOGE tried to cut more than 1,400 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. An employee union and other groups are fighting to keep the regulator intact.
5.In response to reports that Trump is planning to deport dozens more people with under 24 hours notice, the ACLU filed an emergency request for Judge Boasberg to block the administration from carrying out these deportations. Go HERE.
6.US scientists engineer safer LSD to treat schizophrenia and boost brain function. LSD has long been considered too unpredictable to be a viable treatment, but an altered version that “ditches the trip” could change that. Go HERE
7.Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday night that he had met in San Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador last month has become a flashpoint in the immigration debate and fueled a standoff between the Trump administration and the courts. Sen. Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, shared a photo of the two men speaking on Thursday evening, hours after the senator had been denied entry to the prison where Mr. Abrego Garcia was being held. Senator Chris Van Hollen’s visit to El Salvador and his subsequent press conference was one of the most powerful, courageous defenses of due process we’ve seen in a long time. Senator Van Hollen had just returned from El Salvador, where he met face-to-face with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the American resident unlawfully abducted by our own government and thrown into a torture camp in El Salvador. [Also proof that Mr. Garcia is alive - a lot of us had decided he was dead.]And what he revealed should alarm every single person who believes in the Constitution. Let’s start with the scams he revealed. The authoritarian leader of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, tried to stage a photo-op to make it look like Abrego Garcia was relaxing poolside with Senator Van Hollen, sipping margaritas—when in reality, Garcia had just come from a hellish extermination prison where he was shackled, traumatized, and denied contact with his family. Bukele’s cronies dressed him up in American clothes, put a hat over his shaved head and literally placed untouched cocktails in front of them mid-meeting to create propaganda for the Trump regime. Kilmar was taken without warning from the streets of Maryland, how he was denied phone access to his wife and 5-year-old autistic son, how he was shackled and loaded onto a plane with blacked-out windows, and how he was tossed into a cell with 25 others in one of the most notorious prisons in Central America. No crime. No charges. No trial. No evidence. Just a bureaucratic “error”. (The Trump lawyer answered a direct question from the judge in court, saying it was an administrative error. Trump fired him for speaking the truth to the judge. Because to Trump, admitting error is worse than committing evil.)When Senator Van Hollen asked El Salvador’s vice president why Kilmar was being detained, the answer was chilling in its simplicity: because Trump is paying us to hold him. Let that sink in. The U.S. government is literally outsourcing human rights violations to foreign dictatorships. This is taxpayer-funded authoritarianism. Why the Senator going down and forcing his way in to see the prisoner is important? "Trump is past peak power and his power will decline from now on. His power came from fear, and now the system is beginning to function. We have a govt of laws, which is innately conservative and slow to deal with anomalies such as Trump. A clue was the turnabout of Nayib Bukele of El Salvador allowing a Maryland Senator to see this illegally-deported American resident, after refusing. It’s obvious that Trump was unable to stop the Senator. His narcissism is simultaneously his greatest strength and his greatest vulnerability. He is very vulnerable."
8.Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label. The immigrants are among more than 6,000 who were falsely added to a deaths database by DHS and the U.S. DOGE Service in a bid to pressure them to leave the United States.
9.Audubon is sponsoring Assembly Bill 454 because it maintains crucial and effective protections for California’s migratory birds. This bill would restore essential safeguards and ensure California remains a stronghold for birds on the move. Go HERE
10.Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away: Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed that the planet K2-18b has traces of dimethyl sulfide, a potential biosignature of marine microorganisms.
11. A new bill is designed to curtail book-banning in Delaware libraries - those open to the public, and those in public schools. House Bill 119 is known as the Freedom to Read Act. Public schools and libraries would be required to adopt policies in developing their collections that prohibit removal of materials based on an author's background, or for partisan, ideological or religious objections. The legislation sets up a clear review procedure for challenging or removing materials. Go HERE
12.American Oversight secured a significant legal victory after a Georgia court denied State Election Board member Janice Johnston’s motion to dismiss in its ongoing transparency lawsuit against the Georgia State Election Board. Go HERE
13.A man experiencing homelessness won a $1Million jackpot in San Luis Obispo, CA. On the evening of April 6, the man bought two $5 Triple Red 777 scratchers, along with some smaller tickets, for a total of $25.
After checking one of the scratchers, he found he had won $200, but the real surprise came when he scratched the second one. Initially thinking he’d won $100,000, he was shocked to learn it was actually a $1 million prize.
14. A vocational training center in Maryland offers more than the usual trade classes — it gives underserved individuals a second chance. Veterans, formerly incarcerated people, and those emerging from homelessness or addiction can enroll in free certification sessions, as well as classes about financial literacy, job retention, and communication. “The most important thing that will change is your internal, how you feel about who you are,” said executive director Walter Billips. “From going to a hopeless situation [to] now you have hope.” GO HERE
15. In a world first, a baby was born after being conceived through a robot-controlled version of IVF. Go HERE. ("The startup company that developed the robot, Overture Life, says its device is an initial step toward automating in vitro fertilization, or IVF, and potentially making the procedure less expensive and far more common than it is today.")
16.A pet tortoise was reunited with his family in Mississippi after going missing during a tornado last month. Go HERE
17. Live from London! Saturday Night Live is getting a British edition, set to premiere in 2026. Go Here
18. That water fight in Season 3 of The White Lotus wasn’t just a plot point dreamed up by Mike White: Thailand really does have a holiday that involves copious amounts of water guns. Songkran is a Thai New Year celebration that started Sunday and wraps up today. It marks the end of the annual rice harvest season and revolves around themes of renewal and purification — hence all the water. Go HERE
19.Nature isn’t binary: Read how scientists discovered the world’s first intersex southern right whale. Go HERE
20. Conservationist Paola Bouley gained international recognition for her work protecting lions and other species at Mozambique’s Gorongosa Park. She’s now launched a new effort at the Yellowstone-sized Macossa-Tambara region. Bouley’s new project at Macossa-Tambara in Mozambique is part of an effort to double the African lion population by 2050. Go Here
21.Planet goes out in blaze of glory: Scientists have observed a distant planet plunging into the star it was orbiting, revealing a new way that planets can ‘die’. Physicists first spotted a bright flash from the planet in 2023, which they thought meant it had been engulfed by its host star during end-of-life expansion. When they used the James Webb Space Telescope to take a second look, they found that the star was too early in its life cycle to have started expanding. The team now proposes the planet’s orbit got closer and closer to the star over millions of years, until the two finally collided.
22.Florence Nightingale had a pet owl named Athena.
23.The Democratic establishment typically tries to clamp down on primaries for U.S. Senate races to avoid arduous, unnecessary, and painfully expensive campaigns. But this year, the congressional map is stacked with potential slugfests among ambitious up-and-comers in Michigan, Minnesota, and New Hampshire—and, in an unusual twist, Democratic leadership isn’t making any overt moves to intervene. As Abby reports, it’s the latest indication of a breakdown in the traditionally top-down management of a Democratic Party in the process of reinventing itself.
24.Mysterious Taiwan fossil is Denisovan: A fossilized jawbone discovered more than 20 years ago belonged to an ancient group of humans called Denisovans. Named Penghu 1, the jawbone was dredged up by fishing crews 25 kilometres off the west coast of Taiwan. The confirmation that the bone belonged to a Denisovan — the result of more than two years of work to extract ancient proteins from the fossil — expands the known geographical range of the group, from colder, high-altitude regions to warmer climates.
Go HERE
25.This man wants to fix America’s low voter turnout with mobile phone voting. Political strategist Bradley Tusk’s Mobile Voting Project would “meet people where they are” by allowing them to vote via a smartphone app.
Go HERE
26.AI-boosted glasses help the blind navigate: A system of cameras, earphones and artificial intelligence (AI) could help visually impaired people to navigate their surroundings more effectively than white canes and other alternatives. The set-up uses AI to interpret footage from camera-mounted glasses in real time, and feeds the user information on their location and that of obstacles using audio cues and vibrations. In a trial, 20 people with visual impairments completed a 25-metre-long indoor maze faster using the AI-boosted glasses than they did with a cane. Go HERE
27. Newsweek and Statista recently ranked the top 250 hospitals around the globe, evaluating health care centers in 30 countries based on surveys of medical professionals, patient experience data, hospital quality metrics, and patient-reported outcome measures. Two U.S. based hospitals — Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic and Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic — took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots. The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota came in first on Newsweek’s list, and a few other U.S. hospitals also made the top 10. Go Here
28. Sunsets on Mars are tinted blue.
29. Scientists recently found a simple trick to help you filter out unwanted sounds and focus in noisy spaces: tapping your fingers in a steady rhythm. Study participants, all native French speakers, listened to recordings of someone reading against background noise to make it more difficult to comprehend. But beforehand, they were instructed to “prime” themselves with one of four techniques: tapping their finger rhythmically at their own pace, tapping along to a provided beat, listening to the beat without tapping, or just waiting in silence for the talking to begin. Researchers found that those who tapped their finger at their own pace or along to an audio beat identified the words they heard with greater speed and accuracy. Adding to previous findings on the link between music and the motor system, the study shows “the motor system is not merely an executor of movements, but actively contributes to the integration and reuse of temporal information,” the authors wrote, per Science Alert. All this to say, more focused and attentive conversations may just be a few finger taps away.
30.Three years ago, New Mexico made headlines when it became the first state in the nation to offer free child care to a majority of families. Since then, the policy shift has helped lift 120,000 people above the poverty line and paved the way for more individuals to stay in school, pursue careers, and build financial stability that can pay off in dividends in the long run. One of those individuals is Lisset Sanchez, a mother who almost dropped out of college due to the cost of day care. Fortunately, the state cut the price of child care to $0 for families earning up to 400% of the federal poverty level (about $124,000 for a family of four). This allowed her to finish college and enroll in nursing school while still taking care of day-to-day expenses for her family. “[The free child care] did help tremendously,” Sanchez told The Guardian. The program, which is funded by taxes on revenue from nonrenewable sources like oil and gas reserves, is not a quick fix, as the state is still one of the poorest in the nation. “What New Mexico is trying to do here is play a very long game. And so I am not without worry that people might give it five years, and it’s been almost five years now, and then say, ‘Where are the results? Why is everything not better?’” said Hailey Heinz, deputy director of the University of New Mexico’s Cradle to Career Policy Institute. “This is generational change.” As for Sanchez, whose husband works while she is in school, the impact goes far beyond herself: “Being able to work for free or go to school for free, that can make a big difference in your life and your children’s — everybody’s — life.” Go HERE
31. China pulled Tesla from China's market. "BEIJING, April 11 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab has suspended taking new orders for Model S and Model X vehicles on its Chinese website, Reuters checks showed on Friday, as the world's two largest economies exchange blows in a trade war.
Both models are made in the U.S. and imported to China. New orders for the two models were also no longer available on the automaker's WeChat mini programme account in China." and well - the real reason is the type of battery, China tightened its regulations on safety of EV batteries in hybrid and electric cars, and Telsa doesn't meet the standards.
32.BARBARA LEE WON the race to become Oakland's new Mayor. Former Democrat congresswoman Barbara Lee took an insurmountable lead over her main opponent, Loren Taylor, according to the latest results released Friday. Lee had nearly 53% of the ranked-choice votes compared to 47% for Taylor.
33.The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a Marshall University graduate student whose visa was “unlawfully” revoked as a part of an immigration crackdown by the Republican administration.
34. A Huge 2,500 year old city was discovered hidden in the Amazon Rainforest. Go Here
35. 20 vegetables you can regrow from kitchen scraps (it does help if you have soil and a garden for some of these..
That's it. Have a lovely day.
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Date: 2025-04-21 05:01 pm (UTC)Thanks for these links, I was fascinated learning about the robot-controlled version of IVF. It makes me so hopeful for the future <3
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