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‘Follow the Assembly line’

June 30  This is a very good review of the political and legal landscape we in California face. The bill to make “conversion therapy” illegal will likely become law, so the last recourse will be the courts. Such laws are undemocratic and possibly unconstitutional, but never underestimate the ability of judges to see what they want to see. —Chris Rosik on wng.org

‘We had lost control of the narrative.’

Photographer Cristina Mittermeier on photographs for National Geographic of a starving polar bear that went viral last year as an example of the effects of climate change. She says she and photographer Paul Nicklen meant the photographs to show what future effects of climate change might look like, not that the polar bear itself was a victim of climate change—but “people took it literally.”
 

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The number of children doctors in Belgium have euthanized since 2014, citing terminal illness. The victims’ ages: 17, 11, and 9.

$120 billion

The one-day drop in Facebook’s stock market value by the end of trading on July 26. The 19 percent decline in stock value came after a disappointing earnings report from the social media giant.

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The number of Republican incumbents in the U.S. House of Representatives who were outraised by their Democratic opponents during second-quarter campaign fundraising this year.

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