I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, very close to where Roger Williams landed. Perhaps he is a person we ought to celebrate - a firm believe in individual rights, especially in faith; a firm believer in treating everyone (including the indigenous peoples) honestly and fairly.
"Boast not proud English, of thy birth & blood; Thy brother Indian is by birth as Good. Of one blood God made Him, and Thee and All, As wise, as fair, as strong, as personal."
"...he asserted that civil magistrates must not punish any sort of "breach of the first table" of the Ten Commandments such as idolatry, Sabbath-breaking, false worship, and blasphemy, and that individuals should be free to follow their own convictions in religious matters."
He understood the importance of freedom and equality. Some of today's "Christians" should study his works.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Wi…)
h/t @wdlindsy for his #FourthOfJuly thread
I really wasn't expecting the one where Abraham Lincoln did it.
Quite an amazing twist
Salvini si vanta di aver chiesto il ritiro dell'emendamento presentato dal suo ministero
La Lega ha presentato un emendamento per aumentare i pedaggi autostradali dal 1° agosto.Gayburg
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MIT-Studie: KI-Assistenten wie ChatGPT fördern Denkfaulheit
Wer sich beim Schreiben zu früh auf Künstliche Intelligenz verlässt, vernachlässigt laut einer Studie geistige Eigenleistung. Ein unreflektierter Einsatz von KI behindert eigenständiges Wahrnehmen, Denken und Urteilen.Josef Kraus (Tichys Einblick)
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OPEC+ to expand oil output in August
The world's major oil producing group OPEC Plus says it will further increase crude oil production in August.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
The Art of Swimming (1587)
Selections of the forty beautiful woodcut illustrations from Everard Digby's *De Arte Natandi* (The Art of Swimming) published in 1587, considered the first English treatise on the practise.The Public Domain Review
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Investigation Exposes 252 Deepfake Child Exploitation Cases, Including Elementary Students
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U.S. completes deporting 8 men from various nations to South Sudan after weeks of legal battles
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U.S. completes deporting 8 men from various nations to South Sudan after weeks of legal battles
Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration's intended desti…PBS News
As reported recently by the Oil and Gas Journal,
👉 the plan “involves expanding the Wildcat Loadout Facility, a key transfer point for moving Uinta basin crude oil to rail lines that transport it to refineries along the Gulf Coast.”
🔥The goal of the plan is to transfer an additional 70,000 barrels of oil per day from the Wildcat Loadout Facility, which is located in Utah,
down to the Gulf Coast refineries via a route that runs along the Colorado River.
🆘 Controversially, the Trump administration is also plowing ahead with the project by invoking emergency powers to address energy shortages despite the fact that the United States for the last couple of years has been producing record levels of domestic oil.
ogj.com/general-interest/gover…
Trump tax bill expands leasing, tax credits for oil and gas while cutting environmental regulations
With congressional approval and Trump's subsequent signature July 4, the 2025 tax reconciliation bill offers expanded opportunities for the oil and gas industry.Cathy Landry (Oil & Gas Journal)
Mets’ Juan Soto is unpitchable right now, and the club is loving it
https://www.silive.com/mets/2025/07/mets-juan-soto-is-unpitchable-right-now-and-the-club-is-loving-it.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Mets’ Juan Soto is unpitchable right now, and the club is loving it
He was a triple short of the cycle against the YankeesManny Gómez | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com (silive)
Two new documentaries highlight trans history:
‘I’m Your Venus’ on Netflix, ‘Enigma’ on HBO/Max
washingtonblade.com/2025/07/04…
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Two new documentaries highlight trans history
“I’m Your Venus,” now streaming on Netfllix, bookends an iconic documentary from the past: “Paris is Burning (1990), Jennie Livingston’s ...John Paul King (Washington Blade)
#Weather #Climate #Meteorology picks of the day:
➡️ @TheConversationClimate - News on the climate crisis written by qualified experts
➡️ @openmeteo - Open source weather data free for non-commercial use
➡️ @MPI_Meteo - Climate research institute in Hamburg, Germany (in English & German)
➡️ @DeutscherWetterdienst - Germany’s National Meteorological Office (in German)
➡️ @admin - Fediverse weather accounts, see fedimeteo.com for specific towns & cities
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#Weather #Climate #Meteorology picks of the day (continued):
➡️ @rvaweather - Weather for Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, USA
➡️ @nws_lsx - Unofficial NWS bot for St Louis, Missouri, USA
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➡️ @alerts - Unofficial NWS bot for Charleston, South Carolina, USA
➡️ @nws_lwx - Unofficial NWS bot for Washington DC, USA
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#Weather #Climate #Meteorology picks of the day (continued):
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How to use groups on Mastodon and the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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