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Americans’ IQ scores drop in four of five measurements

The total weight of Earth’s wild land mammals — from elephants to bison and from deer to tigers — is now less than 10% of the combined tonnage of men, women and children living on the planet. A study by scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, published this month, concludes that wild land mammals alive today have a total mass of 22M tons. By comparison, humanity now weighs in at a total of around 390M tons. … The natural world and its wild animals are vanishing as humanity’s population of almost eight billion individuals continues to grow.

Donald Trump would not be the first president arrested. As the Washington Post notes, "In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested at the corner of 13th and M streets NW in Washington. This was not a high crime, but it was — at least theoretically speaking — a misdemeanor. The man who led the North to victory in the Civil War was busted for speeding in his horse-drawn carriage." 

Joe Harding, the now-former Florida Republican lawmaker who authored the extremist “Don’t Say Gay” bill could face up to 35 years in prison after pleadin.g guilty Tuesday afternoon to federal felony fraud charges in a scheme to obtain $150,000 in COVID-19 relief funds. 

 

More than 30000 LA school workers began a three-day strike yesterday, forcing nearly half a million students to stay home in the nation’s second-largest school district. Roughly 60% of the students in the school district are considered economically disadvantaged. During the strike, the district opened 24 grab-and-go food sites and student supervision at many schools. The district was last affected by a six-day strike in 2019.

 

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender people at public schools from using the restroom that matches their gender identity, the first of several states expected to enact such bans this year amid a flood of bills nationwide targeting the trans community.