Here is some good news for pregnant people living in Kansas, and who come to Kansas for necessary medical care.

(Also I don’t feel that both candidates need to step aside, but the criminal should. I still really like this piece.)

I want to be Mrs. Oldman when I grow up.

FUR BABIES, by Nancy Beiman

https://www.gocomics.com/furbabies/2024/07/11

I was talking about whether there was a curriculum or even any directive to teachers as to what “teach the Bible” means, and said there is time. So, the guy goes to work on it, and look at with who/m!

https://kfor.com/news/walters-taps-project-2025-co-author-other-conservative-activists-to-draft-social-studies-curriculum-for-oklahoma-public-schools/

And a snippet to entice you to click for full info:

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced he has chosen an assortment of right-wing political activists, including the main co-author of the controversial ‘Project 2025’ plan, to “overhaul” Oklahoma’s current social studies curriculum standards, which Walters himself helped create.

The announced “overhaul” has garnered Walters criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike. (snip)

Inflation eased further in June, helping cement path to rate cuts
Fed watchers increasingly think a first rate cut could come in September, so long as the data continues to cooperate.

Read in The Washington Post: https://apple.news/AMkNxirbNRCeAs8n9_q4Ayw

Shared from Apple News

Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say
Surgeons who worked in European and al-Aqsa hospitals describe extensive wounds caused by ‘fragmentation’ shrapnel experts say are designed to maximize casualties

Read in The Guardian: https://apple.news/A6al9P2wJTomZdV_iSlftPw

Shared from Apple News

Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

Scottie likes to post science, and I ran across this today from the Cosmos science newsletter. It’s unfortunate news about an extinction. https://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/plants/cactus-extinction-sea-level-rise/

Here’s a preview bit:

The Key Largo tree cactus population in the Florida Keys has been lost to sea level rise.

While the cactus still grows on a few scattered islands in the Caribbean, researchers warn that the loss of the local US population is a harbinger of what is to come if global warming  due to human activity is not reversed.

“Unfortunately, the Key Largo tree cactus may be a bellwether for how other low-lying coastal plants will respond to climate change,” says Jennifer Possley, director of regional conservation at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Florida. (snip)

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Finally, here’s one about an island run by women of color. Only women. https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/little-corn-island-women-run-sustainable-tourism

Here’s a bit. I’ll get the coloring down later, too.

With a population of just 800, Little Corn Island is a hidden gem in the Caribbean, and it holds an inspiring secret: Women keep it going. Hailing from diverse backgrounds and spanning different generations, these women are pioneering entrepreneurs who, through community initiatives and sheer determination, have transformed Little Corn Island into a model of sustainable, women-and-family-led tourism and way of life. 

Little Corn Island has a long history that begins with the Kutra, native people who were wiped out by Indigenous Miskitos of the Nicaraguan mainland. Around 1700, British and Scottish colonizers established plantations with the labor of enslaved Afro-Indigenous people from Jamaica. After nearly 200 years of British rule, the islands formally became part of Nicaragua in With a population of just 800, Little Corn Island is a hidden gem in the Caribbean, and it holds an inspiring secret: Women keep it going. Hailing from diverse backgrounds and spanning different generations, these women are pioneering entrepreneurs who, through community initiatives and sheer determination, have transformed Little Corn Island into a model of sustainable, women-and-family-led tourism and way of life. 

Little Corn Island has a long history that begins with the Kutra, native people who were wiped out by Indigenous Miskitos of the Nicaraguan mainland. Around 1700, British and Scottish colonizers established plantations with the labor of enslaved Afro-Indigenous people from Jamaica. After nearly 200 years of British rule, the islands formally became part of Nicaragua in 1894. (snip)

That’s all. I’m gonna concentrate on looking around here a little bit, so I’ll be better acquainted with things tomorrow.

I’ve got a few Substack tabs open, thinking I want to share them. This first one is about real life surrounding a fiction serial called “The Road To Splitsville.” You can find that from this page, too. Authors have found a trend among rightwingers: https://open.substack.com/pub/thesplit/p/the-road-to-splitsville-for-christs?r=1pk2l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I’m putting the link to the Hopium Substack. Well, for today’s. I just think it’d be good for everyone to read it as often as they can. Full of info and how things are not as bad as it may feel that they are: https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/president-bidens-nato-speech-making?r=1pk2l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

This, I just find to be gripping reading. Apropos of everything yet nothing. https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewbeaton/p/hard-and-soft-landings?r=1pk2l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I don’t know how this is going to turn out; I thought I had inputting hyperlinks, but I think I didn’t, after all. I’ll get it, but read this stuff anyway.