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Time for another dump.

Israel's massive desalination project.

Messing with prices works: 5 cent charge cuts UK plastic bag use by 85%.

Smoking gun found in North Carolina: voter ID laws are explicitly racist in their intent, aimed at disenfranchising black voters.

Long piece on Hillary's climate policy.  The DNC pro-gay rights platform.

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So, as you may have heard, Indiana passed its version of a "religion freedom" aka freedom to discriminate against gays bill, and there's lots of backlash, from Salesforce pulling out, to the NCAA and GenCon making noises about doing so, to a Twitter/Facebook campaign led among others by George "Sulu" Takei to boycott the state. There's also ( Read more... )