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Miami-Dade Commissioner calls for County-wide Trump Ban

In the epic battle between Univision and Donald Trump, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava wants the county to officially take sides. She has introduced a resolution that would forbid the county from holding any officially sanctioned event at any Trump property in Miami-Dade.

The fiasco began when Trump claimed in his presidential announcement speech that most Mexican immigrants were criminals and "rapists," with only some, he assumes, being "good people." Univision took offense to the comments and refused to air the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants (which are both are co-owned by Trump). Trump responded with a lawsuit, a ban of Univision employees from the Trump National Doral Miami resort, claims that the network was bowing to the Mexican government, and publicly tweeting Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos' cell phone number.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-dade-commissioner-calls-for-county-wide-donald-trump-ban-7716681

George Takei to Clarence Thomas: Denying our rights denies our dignity

By George Takei

The recent case granting marriage equality across the United States – Obergefell v. Hodges – contains four separate dissents from the conservatives on the court. I was struck in particular by the dissent of Justice Clarence Thomas, who focused his argument on the notion that the Constitution does not grant liberty or dignity, but rather operates to restrain government from abridging it. To him, the role of the government is solely to let its citizens be, for in his view it cannot supply them any more liberty or dignity than that with which they are born.

This position led him to the rather startling conclusion that “human dignity cannot be taken away.” He first made an analogy to slavery, arguing that the government’s allowance of slavery did not strip anyone of their dignity. He then added to that this analogy:

“Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them.”

As one of the survivors of the Japanese American internment, I feel compelled to respond.

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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/george-takei-clarence-thomas-denying-our-rights-denies-our-dignity?cid=sm_tw_msnbc

Yep

5000 days at war this century

5,000 days of war: Any time, anywhere, all the time
By Airman Kai White and Airman First Class Ryan Conroy, 1st Special Operations Wing Public Affairs, 24th Special Operations Wing / Published June 26, 2015

Hurlburt Field, Fla --
It’s been 5,000 days of struggle, rugged landscapes, blood and sweat.

It’s been 5,000 days of exhaustion, injuries, and long separations from family, friends and home.

On June 27, the 17th Special Tactics Squadron will mark 5,000 days of unremitting war.

Their 5,000-day epoch began in October 2001, one month after the terror attacks on 9/11, when the 17th STS deployed to Southwest Asia with the U.S. Army Rangers. Since then, the squadron has been continuously deployed for almost 14 years in support of operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom

“I’ve seen an extreme dedication to the mission,” said Chief Master Sgt. Troy Lundquist, 17th STS Senior Enlisted Manager. “Our focus has constantly been downrange and working to accomplish the mission to the best of our ability.”


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This forever war has to end. For everyone's sake.

N.C. Church Takes a Defiant Stand—With Solar Panels

In a rare state that does not allow third-party electricity generation, a Greensboro church bucks Duke Energy and state law to embrace clean energy.

By Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News

A jovial ribbon-cutting ceremony at a small red brick church in Greensboro, the third-largest city in North Carolina, was something of a masquerade. It was really a bold stance for environmental justice.

The solar panels gleaming on the roof of Faith Community Church are meant to generate power—and controversy—because they defy a state law prohibiting anyone besides major utility companies from selling electricity. It's not an outright ban on consumer solar panels, but it's close. And it's backed by the energy giant Duke Energy.

The church in partnership with a local environmental social justice group, the North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, NC WARN, wants to change that.

"This giant monopoly...should not be entitled to the energy from the sun, which God has given to all of us," said Rev. Nelson Johnson, senior pastor at the Greensboro church. Johnson, a North Carolina native, is known across the state for decades of work on social and economic justice issues.

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http://insideclimatenews.com/news/30062015/north-carolina-church-takes-defiant-stand-solar-panels-distributed-solar-leasing-duke-energy

Brilliant cartoons perfectly illustrate exactly what sexual consent means in everyday terms

New Horizons Update: Methane Detected; New Images of Pluto and Charon

Yes, there is methane on Pluto, and, no, it doesn’t come from cows. The infrared spectrometer on NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has detected frozen methane on Pluto’s surface; Earth-based astronomers first observed the chemical compound on Pluto in 1976.

“We already knew there was methane on Pluto, but these are our first detections,” said Will Grundy, the New Horizons Surface Composition team leader with the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. “Soon we will know if there are differences in the presence of methane ice from one part of Pluto to another.”

Methane (chemical formula CH4) is an odorless, colorless gas that is present underground and in the atmosphere on Earth. On Pluto, methane may be primordial, inherited from the solar nebula from which the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. Methane was originally detected on Pluto’s surface by a team of ground-based astronomers led by New Horizons team member Dale Cruikshank, of NASA’s Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California.

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This time-lapse approach movie was made from images from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) camera aboard New Horizons spacecraft taken between May 28 and June 25, 2015. During that time the spacecraft distance to Pluto decreased almost threefold, from about 35 million miles to 14 million miles (56 million kilometers to 22 million kilometers). The images show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, growing in apparent size as New Horizons closes in. As it rotates, Pluto displays a strongly contrasting surface dominated by a bright northern hemisphere, with a discontinuous band of darker material running along the equator. Charon has a dark polar region, and there are indications of brightness variations at lower latitudes.

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http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-update-methane-detected-new-images-of-pluto-and-charon-sunrisesunset