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Pythons are back, and they’re heading our way!
From Florida. Leading me to ask how long it’d take a Florida python to make it to New York without riding in a vehicle. On its own two…on its own twenty feet of belly. I love stuff like this and … Continue reading
Posted in Animal news, climate change, Immigration, The Facts of Life
Tagged Florida pythons, invasive species management, Martha's Vineyard, pythons, US Geological Survey
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Strongman!
Today, Paul Krugman published a Times column analyzing why the “strongman,” as typified by Putin, is so admired and desired by the current GOP. I learned something about this “strongman” thing years ago, while in a taxi heading to JFK … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Government, Immigration, The Facts of Life
Tagged Basque, Brooklyn Bridge, Guernica, JFK Airport, MoMA, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Picasso, Ronald Reagan, Russian Jews, Stalin, strongmen, USSR
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Do you love thrillers? If so…
…you must read this. A few days ago, the Times published a story of Maksim and Sergei, two Russians who escaped from involuntary conscription into Putin’s war by chugging in a small exposed boat across the Bering Sea to a … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, Immigration, The Facts of Life, War, War on Ukraine
Tagged Bering Sea, Putin's war, Russian military conscription, Russians escape Russia
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