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Steve Thompson PhD
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SpaceX rocket cargo project puts Pacific seabirds in jeopardy

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-rocket-cargo-project-puts-pacific-seabirds-jeopardy-2025-04-02/

A project proposed by Elon Musk's SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll could harm the many seabirds that nest at the wildlife refuge, according to biologists and experts who have spent more than a decade working to protect them.

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Steve Thompson PhD
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Trump's tariffs list is missing one big country: Russia

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/trump-tariffs-russia-ukraine-ceasefire

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Axios Wednesday that Russia was left off because U.S. sanctions already "preclude any meaningful trade." However, the U.S. still trades more with Russia than with countries like Mauritius or Brunei that did make Trump's tariffs list.

#TRUSSIA #LEAVITT #PROPAGANDA #TRUMP #PUTIN #TARIFFS #PRESS

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Steve Thompson PhD
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A Texas School Board Cut State-Approved Textbook Chapters About Diversity. A Board Member Says Material Violated the Law

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-cypress-fairbanks-removed-textbook-chapters

The decision to strip chapters from books that had already won the approval of the state’s Republican-controlled board of education represents an escalation in how local school boards run by ideological conservatives influence what children learn.

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