If you are a registered voter in Georgia please go vote for Rev. Warnock! #VoteBlue #Vote

Elon Musk's Twitter just suspended the account of antifascist researcher @chadloder likely to suppress reporting on right-wing extremists. As I reported, Loder's painstaking research identifying a Proud Boy who attacked police on Jan 6 was cited by the DOJ https://theintercept.com/2021/11/10/proud-boys-antifascist-tweet-chad-loder-court/

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First Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center

On Christmas Eve, 1931, at the height of the Great Depression, workers at the Rockefeller Center construction site decided to pool their money together to buy a Christmas tree to lift their spirits. It was a 20-foot balsam fir that they decorated with handmade garland and strings of cranberries from their families. The men lined up at the tree to receive their paychecks

I help a friend with an animal rescue, this is my annual friendly reminder not to give pets as Christmas presents. All too often, they wind up in a shelter, recuse or simply discarded. The recipient should be part of the process, and hopefully vetted to see if they can appropriately take care of the pet. #PetsforChristmas

Photos: El Salvador’s biggest freshwater lake swamped by rubbish

#News #CoSoNews #InternationalNews #Pollution #ElSalvador

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/11/25/photos-el-salvadors-biggest-lake-swamped-by-trash

At its core, democracy is a system aimed at forging compromise through informed consent of the governed. In other words, the chief mission of democratic institutions is to create a forum for engaged citizens to debate and discuss problems, find common ground, enact solutions, and do so with the informed approval of the citizenry writ large. But if you don’t have accurate information about what’s going on in the world, you can’t properly consent to what the government is doing.

- Brian Klaas

#Botany

Massimo writes:
“The bizarre floral appearance of Hydnora africana seems almost extraterrestrial, but in fact it is finely adapted for pollination in its arid habitat. This plant, resident of southern Africa only emerges from the soil to flower.”

If you absolutely must get rid of bones and cartalige of the turkey, boil it down into bone broth and strain the remaining bits off to break down in the trash, or (if the bones are soft enough.) mash it down into a bone "brick" to crumble and throw outside safely where it won't hurt any animals that finds it.