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jrefior

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Supporter of progressive economic policy. Aspring small business owner. Volunteer lawyer. Amateur economist. Software developer.
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Biden is preparing an executive order that would close the southern border to migrants seeking asylum
https://apnews.com/article/biden-immigration-executive-order-asylum-border-7cd0b0f28e298036ad1fc6b0c78961e1
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In a case of the media getting it really wrong, there are now record numbers of honeybees in the US. Ten years ago we were flooded with stories about how they were disappearing.
https://www.marketplace.org/2024/05/16/honeybee-populations-are-hitting-record-numbers-werent-they-dying-off-before/
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jrefior OP ,
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Turns out bee are like livestock: humans breed them at a rate proportional to how much money they can make from it. We move billions of bees to California to pollinate almonds every year, and about half die from it.

Wealthy Wall St. investors own a lot of CA almond farms: they took their money out of stock during the 2008 financial crisis, bought land in California, and paid people to plant almond trees.

With that much money on the line, there's a strong financial incentive to breed more

ai6yr ,
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@jrefior So, the problem is, a vast number of these are due to Texas making keeping honeybees tax deductible https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/29/bees-boom-colony-collapse/

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"A political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice to voters ahead of New Hampshire’s presidential primary faces a $6 million fine and more than two dozen criminal charges"
https://apnews.com/article/biden-robocalls-ai-new-hampshire-charges-fines-9e9cc63a71eb9c78b9bb0d1ec2aa6e9c
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jrefior , to random
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When you look at the list, there's a lot we can do besides just electric cars. And some would have a much bigger impact.

"Project Drawdown uses different scenarios to assess what determined, global efforts to address climate change might look like. The results shown here are based on projected emissions impact globally."
https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions
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