Barring any last-minute cancellations, tomorrow I’m headed for the Montréal Biodome [denizens pictured], my first outing at anything resembling a zoo in … ever, possibly. Expect light-to-nonexistent posting for the next couple days. In the meantime, have some links.
On a more technical note, starting with this post I’m trying out shorter permalinks (the post’s URL). Just so you know.
The Trump administration just shuttered a federal climate change committee, because who needs guidance on dealing with
the greatest threat to humanitya hoax by Big Science, right?
(via Joe.My.God.)Trump also reportedly plans to end Obamacare’s contraception mandate, which requires that all insurance plans cover birth control, giving a boost to the religious-Right’s war against abortion, reproductive autonomy and basic logic.
Meanwhile, TV news shows are having a hard time finding any Republicans willing to defend Trump’s Charlottesville comments on the air. I guess it took actual Nazis to constitute a step too far.
There must be just so much crime being committed by Muslims wearing face-covering clothes in Québec, folks, since a new amendment would ban them.
And finally, you know your country has a pollution problem when the dogs start turning blue:
(via @fark)
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