A lone tree on the side of a highway suddenly was covered in Christmas ornaments, but few people knew why.

I. Can't. Even.

According to her lawyers, there was no "legal duty" for Dr. Wells to alert Flint residents of the epidemic of Legionnaire's disease allegedly caused by the contaminated water supply.

Even if there was no "legal duty", isn't there a moral duty?

This is why I. Can't. Even. anymore.

Neanderthal DNA.  That still doesn't explain Trump.

CHAPTER 15: TRIBES AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Full disclosure:  I did not read this in its' entirety. Actually, it's kinda boring.  But, what government assessment isn't?

But, it might be worth it for this reason:

"An agency cannot simply disregard contrary or inconvenient factual determinations that it made in the past, any more than it can ignore inconvenient facts when it writes on a blank slate," Morris wrote.

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And one of them is LGBTQ.

Reeking of desperation here in Michigan, my Michigan and in Arizona. I'm glad the Republicans here are scared. They should be after all the crap they pulled over the past 8 years, especially the mangling of the Flint water crisis.

“Voter suppression is a very real thing,” said Standing Rock activist Chase Iron Eyes. But it’s a testament to the power of the vote that “they’re trying so hard to suppress it. When you suppress a people, they rise.”

Well, why not?

When common people feel the impotency of their own voices, why not turn to ritual, new or ancient, to trim the ragged edges of their existence?

“The decision by the Trump administration to move forward with denying the Mashpee Wampanoag a right to their ancestral homeland and to keep their reservation is an injustice," Sen. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) and Sen.

Based on newly released emails, the American Civil Liberties Union suspects the government plans to treat Keystone XL protesters with counterterrorism tactics.

DETROIT — Former presidents and preachers joined a parade of pop stars Friday in a singing, hip-swaying, piano-pounding farewell to Aretha Franklin, remembering the Queen of Soul as a powerful force for musical and political change and a steadfast friend.

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Revolutions in what people ate, how they communicated, what they thought, and their relationship with the land that nourished them emerged. Somehow, those living on the western edge of the continent of Europe changed the trajectory of the development of human society, and changed the trajectory of the development of the Earth system, creating the modern world we live in today. Nothing would be the same again.

Satirical cartoonist, Mr. Fish, has fans from both ends of the political spectrum.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has resigned after months of ethics controversies, citing "the unrelenting attacks" on himself and his family, which "have taken a sizable toll on all of us."

Adriane Fugh-Berman, a professor of pharmacology at Georgetown University Medical Center, said the pharmaceutical industry medicalizes normal life by positing that a vague, highly relatable, everyday condition is symptomatic of a newly invented disease. In other cases, pharma exaggerates the prevalence or severity of an existing condition to entice more customers.

Four years after the Michigan city’s water supply was unintentionally poisoned, the events covered up and the physical and psychological health of its residents shaken to the core, Jada and her younger sister, Jallyah, are among dozens of ordinary people still fighting to provide that most very basic of needs – safe drinking water.

The group’s goal was to win enough Senate seats to deprive either major party of a majority, forcing them to compromise with each other and to cooperate with Unite America. They ask candidates to endorse their five principles and to pledge that if elected to the Senate they will not caucus with either party.

This is gonna be great.

If it works.

https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/500-years-of-black-resi...

In 1526, the very first Africans arrived in North America as slaves of the San Miguel de Guadalupe colony. They promptly revolted and took refuge with the local indigenous people, becoming the first permanent non-native inhabitants of what would become the United States.

Lindsey Lemke stepped to the podium for the second time this week during Larry Nassar’s sentencing hearing. There was more she wanted to say. 

“Larry, I hope you, Lou Anna Simon, Kathie Klages, John Geddert and all of USAG are scared,” she said. “Because you have pissed off the wrong army of women.”

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