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San Diego is a biodiversity hotspot for bees. Researchers need help documenting them.
The post Where the Wild Bees Are appeared first on Nautilus.
“Telling workers they’ll be fired for striking is violating federal labor law, and that’s not something becoming of a senator.”
The post UAW Files Labor Complaint Against Sen. Tim Scott for Saying “You Strike, You’re Fired.” appeared first on The Intercept.
More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead in the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna. Yet mainstream media outlets would have you believe the destruction that has drawn worldwide headlines is due to climate change.
The post The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke appeared first on MintPress News.
Amnesty’s new report accusing Eritrea’s government of gruesome war crimes relies heavily on anonymous testimony, grainy satellite images, and zero field investigation. It is the latest salvo in the West’s campaign to topple the country’s independent government. Eritrea is a small country with a geostrategically significant coast on the Red Sea. Fiercely independent, it is one of only two African nations that refuse to collaborate with AFRICOM, the US Africa Command. Committed to an incremental, self-reliant development strategy, it has […]
The post Amnesty International pushes regime change in Eritrea with dubious, unverifiable report first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post Amnesty International pushes regime change in Eritrea with dubious, unverifiable report appeared first on The Grayzone.
The author of letters to social media companies demanding the financial punishment of Russell Brand is a British lawmaker implicated in London’s war on Covid-19 and Ukraine dissenters. Her husband was a commander in the Army’s psy-ops division. Allegations of sexual impropriety and abuse by comedian and podcaster Russell Brand by the British media prompted YouTube to demonetize the star’s popular channel on September 20. The Grayzone can now reveal that YouTube’s financial censorship of Brand is the result of […]
The post Intel-linked UK official pushing censorship of Russell Brand first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post Intel-linked UK official pushing censorship of Russell Brand appeared first on The Grayzone.
In 1754, eleven men came together in a Covent Garden coffeehouse, agreeing to pool their money to spend on initiatives for the public good. The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) was born. From education to environmentalism, the society has championed many important causes. It fought to outlaw the practice of children sweeping chimneys, and its […]
Jotting down some ideas? That counts as writing, since brainstorming is an essential part of the writing process.
Taking a shower or bath? That’s letting your unconscious brain do some work, so it definitely counts as writing.
A long walk? Yes, same as above, totally counts as writing.
Attempting to locate a pen that actually writes? That’s pre-writing, which is writing.
Wandering around a bookstore and thinking about all the effort each author put into each book, not to mention the agents, editors, designers, proofreaders, and booksellers, and then getting a half-caf iced latte with oat milk and not buying a single book, but adding a bunch of books to your list of books you plan to borrow from the library? That counts as writing, yes.
Some light gardening? If you think about gardening metaphors while doing it, that’s writing, for sure.
Commenting on a Buy Nothing post about a free lawnmower? That’s writing.
Reading a Substack post about writing every day? That is absolutely writing-adjacent—so yes, it counts.