Happy SUNday! from the shores of Lake Superior.
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I realized today that there's been a dark and moody theme running through my photography since the start of the pandemic. It isn't all my work, but it has been a constant addition and is different than what I did before.
#Photography #seascape #LandscapePhotography #LakeSuperior #Minnesota
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies.
Her bosses halted her work.
As the #EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking #water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
#News #Science #Chemistry #Safety #Environment #Minnesota #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
Via Democracy Docket:
NEW: #Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) signs a package of pro-voter bills into law — including the Minnesota Voting Rights Act — to protect ballot access after the 8th Circuit gutted private enforcement of the federal Voting Rights Act in the state.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/minnesota-governor-signs-pro-voting-package/
"Those who have never seen Superior get an inadequate, even inaccurate idea, by hearing it spoken of as a 'lake,' and to those who have sailed over its vast extent the word sounds positively ludicrous. Though its waters are fresh and crystal, Superior is a sea. It breeds storms, and rain and fogs, like the sea. It is cold in mid-summer as the Atlantic. It is wild, masterful, and dreaded as the Black Sea." - Rev. George Grant, Ocean to Ocean, 1872
The Milky Way was looking great the other night. Northern Minnesota.
NYT:
The newspaper in #Minneapolis is expanding its statewide coverage and changing its name to The #Minnesota Star Tribune. The expansion is a rare big bet in the newspaper industry. #NewsMedia
Via Democracy Docket;
BREAKING: #Minnesota Supreme Court rejects a right-wing lawsuit and unanimously upholds a law signed by Gov. Tim #Walz in 2023 that restores voting rights to over 55,000 Minnesotans with a previous felony conviction.
NEW: In a win for voters, a federal judge rejects a right-wing lawsuit seeking to block a #Minnesota law that establishes criminal penalties for knowingly spreading election disinformation or engaging in voter intimidation. The law will remain in place. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/minnesota-law-prohibiting-election-disinformation-and-voter-intimidation-upheld-by-federal-judge/