Hairless cats don’t have whiskers which cats use normally to sense how close they are to things they can’t see around their face. So using his teeth as a means to determine where the food is rather than risk it going up his nose since he can’t see things directly in line with his nose.
What will you see with this two-minute video: Description from the Center for Biological Diversity:
Laiken Jordahl, the Center’s borderlands campaigner, recently visited the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in South Texas. Environmental laws that normally protect this land have been waived to rush construction of Trump’s border wall. Watch this video from Laiken’s visit to learn what the wall will do to the refuge — some of the region’s last habitat left.
The villagers who DIYed some of the fastest internet in the UK
Frustrated with snail-like internet speeds, the residents of Michaelston-y-Fedw banded together and dug 15 miles of trenches to lay their own superfast broadband cables. It used to take two days to download a film, now it takes minutes, and the villagers are offering their help to others interested in the project
“Figure out what a community needs to be prosperous, peaceful and sustainable in as long a term as you can wrap your head around, and start building whatever piece is most in reach before the absent state notices. Doing so just might create pockets of more effective, horizontal politics“ – On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk – Andrew Dana Hudson
I used to think my daddy was a black man With script enough to buy the company store But now he goes to town with empty pockets And his face is white as a February snow
I was born and raised at the mouth of hazard holler The coal cars rolled and rumbled past my door But now they stand in a rusty row all empty Because the L&N don’t stop here anymore
The line here where Jean says she “used to think my daddy was a black man” because he was covered in coal dust might sound like some sort of racist blackface-type reference today, but the implications to the line in the context in which she originally sang it make it really incredibly progressive. Jean Ritchie is a white woman in Eastern Kentucky comparing her father to a black man- comparing the plight of exploited Appalachians with the even greater plight of Black Americans- in the year 1965. This line would have been extremely controversial at the time and place, not as a racist line, but as an explicitly anti-racist line signaling solidarity between poor whites and black people.
Many younger Appalachians in the 1960′s were swept up in the rising left-wing protests and student movements of the time (it still shows today, with a significant number of retired hippies residing in various pockets around Appalachia today). There was a rekindled spark of class consciousness among young Appalachians at the time that led many towards explicitly anti-racist progressive politics. Some most notably founded the Young Patriots Organization that allied with the Black Panthers and joined Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition; around the same time, other young Appalachians played a significant role in MLK’s Poor People’s Movement. Jean Ritchie, in her 40′s at the time, was one of these Appalachians: she wrote songs about poverty and environmentalism while performing alongside leftist folk icons like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Ritchie had to release this and other political songs under a pseudonym (Than Hall, after her maternal grandfather, Johnathan Hall) to avoid upsetting her apolitical mother, and because she “felt that they would be better received in those days if they came from a man.”Â
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