“The iconic black and orange monarch butterfly is threatened with extinction because of habitat destruction and climate change,” conservationists warned on Thursday, on July 21, 2022. “The monarch population has declined between 22% and 72% over the past decade, scientists said. T[...]
Archive for July, 2022
July 21st, 2022 - 12:52 pm § in Misc.
UFO explained
The mysterious pink lights in the clouds over a town in southeastern Australia this week were reflections from the hydroponic lights at a marijuana growing facility that left its blackout curtains open. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Billionaires love the GOP, and the GOP loves billionaires
It’s not really surprising that Republicans don’t care about the little guy. For working-class Americans, waging “culture war” comes at a cost of voting for policies that benefit wealthy donors at their expense. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 20th, 2022 - 11:46 pm § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Namcha Barwa
This massive uplift, its highest peak rising above 25,000 feet, anchors the Himalayan mountain range’s eastern end. The massif’s size is hard to imagine; click on image to enlarge. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 20th, 2022 - 10:18 pm § in Politics
America’s crazy gun culture
A customer at a McDonald’s in Midvale, Utah, pulled a gun on an employee at the drive-through window “over an issue regarding his order.” When police came to arrest him, he didn’t comply with their orders to exit his car, so they opened the door and pulled him out. That’[...]
Live “red” and die
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, the link between politics and health became glaringly obvious,” Scientific American says (read article here). But death rates were already higher in red counties before the pandemic. See chart below. You don’t have to guess that Republicans are bad fo[...]
July 20th, 2022 - 9:31 pm § in Environment
Will global warming kill you?
Forget hot, muggy summers. Start thinking survival. Scientists are “alarmed about the increasing frequency of extreme heat paired with high humidity,” says a Scientific American article of July 19, 2022 (read it here). That’s because current heat waves are approaching “the th[...]
July 19th, 2022 - 4:34 pm § in Politics
I don’t care that Republicans don’t trust elections
I trust our elections. I have no fact-based reason not to. I’ve learned first-hand how elections work as a pollworker, observer, and voting rights lawyer, . Numerous studies back up the many election experts who assure us that voting fraud happens too rarely to be of concern. Our election syst[...]
July 19th, 2022 - 1:02 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Indiana AG bullying abortion doctor hit with lawsuit and bar complaint
Todd Rokita (photo, right), the GOP attorney general who’s harassing a doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim, is facing repercussions. Rokita falsely claimed on Fox News that Dr. Caitlin Bernard failed to report the abortion and has “a history” of reporting [...]
July 19th, 2022 - 12:53 am § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Hushe Valley
Isolated from the civilized world, this valley lies at elevations of 8,000 to 10,000 feet, has very harsh winters, and is populated by subsistence farmers. Its head end is blocked by a mountain over 25,000 feet high. Beyond that massive peak lie even higher mountains. (Click to enlarge) Return to Th[...]