What? You already know how to use it? I learned tonight gathering the news that “horse lubricant” exists and it is what the name implies. 😧 (that’s Apple’s “anguished face”) But mixed with glitter, apparently horse lubricant is a protest tool. Who thinks this stuff up? I mean, are you hanging out with gallons and gallons of horse lubricant and feeling nasty about the Patriot Prayer RWNJs and think — yeah let’s add some glitter to this and go counter-protest. Those who did may be the genesis of the west coast version of Florida Man. (See story at the end.)
Forget the horse lube — here’s my FIRST EVER spectator sports swoon. But I’d also be glad that Canada won, merely because it’s not the US. For me, no wrong answers in this contest tonight.
A spectacular celestial event is set to arrive just in time to beat stargazers’ Monday blues. As NASA notes in a blog post detailing its June skywatching tips, Jupiter will align with Earth and the sun tonight, standing alongside our planet and the fiery star in a perfect straight line. [...]
To locate Jupiter, simply look to the southeast and find the brightest object in the sky, excluding Venus and the moon, as Inverse’s Scott Snowden points out. Although the precise moment of opposition will take place at 6 p.m. Eastern time, Sky & Telescope’s Bob King writes that the planet will reach ideal viewing height around 11:30 p.m. and will remain visible through sunrise, or roughly 7 a.m.
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Last summer, a Russian man was strolling along the shore of the local Tirekhtyakh River in Yakutia when he came upon a grisly sight: the severed head of an ancient wolf. The head had been well preserved by the permafrost and still sported a full head of hair and sharp fangs.
The man, Pavel Efimov, handed the ancient head over to scientists, who dated it to over 40,000 years ago, or the end of the Pleistocene epoch, according to The Siberian Times. Their analysis also revealed that the wolf was fully grown and was between 2 and 4 years old when it died.
Iran’s foreign minister warned Washington on Monday that “whoever starts a war with us will not be the one who finishes it” — the latest salvo coming as the war of words between Team Trump and Tehran continues to escalate.
Mohammad Javad Zarif said the US “cannot expect to stay safe” after starting what he called an American “economic war” against Iran.
“Mr. Trump himself has announced that the US has launched an economic war against Iran. The only solution for reducing tensions in this region is stopping that economic war,” he said.
“Whoever starts a war with us will not be the one who finishes it.”
The final candidates for the Tory leadership race have been confirmed, with 10 running to become the next PM.
Jeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab, Matt Hancock and Michael Gove - who launched their campaigns ahead of the nomination deadline - are all on the final list.
Conservative MPs will now take part in a series of votes to whittle the candidates down to the final two.
The two MPs will then face the wider Tory membership to decide on the next leader of their party, and the country.
In May, 2016, a wildfire near Fort McMurray forced more than 80,000 people to flee the northern Alberta city, destroyed 2,400 buildings and burned nearly 6,000 square kilometres of forest.
A year later, the fire season in British Columbia broke records as 2,117 blazes consumed more than 12,000 square kilometres of bush.
Both have been connected to climate change in two separate research papers published earlier this year by scientists with Environment and Climate Change Canada. [...]
“Colleagues and I attribute this to human-caused climate change. I can’t be any more clear than that.”
Canada will ban "harmful" single-use plastics as early as 2021 in a bid to reduce ocean waste, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced.
This initiative is modelled on similar legislation passed last year by the European Union and other nations.
Canada will also establish "targets" for companies that manufacture or sell plastics to be responsible for their plastic waste.
Currently less than 10% of plastic used in Canada gets recycled. [...]
In May, the United Nations said 180 countries reached a deal to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in the world's oceans, where it can harm fish, sea turtles,
whales and other wildlife.
US oil production is on track to spike to a record 13.4 million barrels per day by the end of 2019, according to a recent report by energy research firm Rystad Energy. Texas alone is expected to soon top 5 million barrels per day in oil production — more than any OPEC member other than Saudi Arabia.
The surge in American barrels — led by the Permian Basin in West Texas — has offset oil blocked by US sanctions on Venezuela and Iran. But all of that US oil is also contributing to a supply glut that last week sent crude into another bear market.
California is set to become the first US state to extend healthcare benefits to some low-income, undocumented immigrants.
Democrats in the state legislature on Sunday agreed to make adults between the ages of 19 and 25 eligible for the state's Medicaid programme, which provides health insurance to low-income individuals, as well as those living with disabilities. Not everyone will get those benefits, however. Only people whose incomes are low enough to qualify for the programme. State officials estimate the programme will cover an additional 90,000 people at a cost of $98m.
"California believes that health is a fundamental right," said state Senator Holly Mitchell, a Los Angeles Democrat who led the budget negotiations.
- John Dean, the former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, testified Monday that the former special counsel Robert Mueller's report in the Russia investigation is to President Donald Trump as the Watergate road map was to Nixon.[...]
- The parallels he drew involved: attempts to shut down the investigations; the firing of FBI Director James Comey and "the Saturday Night Massacre"; Dean's and former White House counsel Don McGahn's refusals to carry out the president's orders; efforts to exert control over the investigations; attempts to limit the disclosure of evidence; and dangling pardons to influence witness testimony.
A preliminary magnitude-4.0 earthquake was reported Monday about 20 miles northeast of Cleveland, in or around Lake Erie, the US Geological Survey said.
The earthquake, measuring 3.1 miles in depth, was reported just before 11 a.m. local time north-northwest of the city of Eastlake.
The world’s seed-bearing plants have been disappearing at a rate of nearly 3 species a year since 1900 ― which is up to 500 times higher than would be expected as a result of natural forces alone, according to the largest survey yet of plant extinctions.
The project looked at more than 330,000 species and found that plants on islands and in the tropics were the most likely to be declared extinct. Trees, shrubs and other woody perennials had the highest probability of disappearing regardless of where they were located. [...]
A map of plant extinctions produced by the team shows that flora in areas of high biodiversity and burgeoning human populations, such as Madagascar, the Brazilian rainforests, India and South Africa, are most at risk (see 'Extinction pattern'). Humphreys says that the rates of extinction in the tropics is beyond what researchers expect, even when they account for the increased diversity of species in those habitats.
2019 and the first wheelie wins a Tony Award. But, Ali Stroker couldn’t get from backstage in the wings where potential winners wait because there is no ramp from back stage to the stage. Let’s get this framed properly: if your legs don’t function, wheelchairs provide mobility but Broadway theaters are disabling.
On Sunday night, Ali Stroker became the first person who uses a wheelchair to win a Tony Award.
“This award is for every kid who is watching tonight who has a disability, who has a limitation or a challenge, who has been waiting to see themselves represented in this arena — you are,” Ms. Stroker said while accepting her statuette for her role as Ado Annie in the Broadway revival of the musical “Oklahoma!.” [...]
Ms. Stroker, a 31-year-old New Jersey native who lost the use of her legs in a car accident when she was 2 years old, also thanked her parents “for teaching me to use my gifts to help people.” [...]
After her win, Ms. Stroker told reporters that Broadway theaters are generally accessible to audience members with disabilities, but backstage areas are not.
“I would ask theater owners and producers to really look into how they can begin to make the backstage accessible so that performers with disabilities can get around,”
Two Oregon protesters have been sentenced to five days in jail for throwing horse lubricant mixed with gold glitter on two police officers at a protest.
The Multnomah County District Attorney's Office says the defendants were protesting against a rally organized by a right-wing group called Patriot Prayer when the officers asked to see what was in two 4-gallon (15-liter) buckets they were carrying.
Prosecutors say Robert Majure and Tristan Romine-Mann instead sprayed the slimy liquid on the officers and ran.
Still begs the question “how does one spray lubricant?”