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Anonymous ID: 8e79af Sept. 16, 2024, 7:19 p.m. No.21606164   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Hannity's cleansing of all things pro-Assange and WikiLeaks "appears to have taken place as part of a mass deletion — not in response to Assange's arrest today."

Anonymous ID: 8e79af Sept. 16, 2024, 7:40 p.m. No.21606285   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-recall-fbi-raid

It's been roughly two months since the FBI raided Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's home and there are roughly two months to go to the November recall election where voters will be asked if they want to remove her from office.

Anonymous ID: 8e79af Sept. 16, 2024, 7:57 p.m. No.21606388   🗄️.is 🔗kun

A 2023 study found that the plastic is home to coastal species surviving in the open ocean and reproducing. These coastal species, including jellyfish and sponges, are commonly found in the western Pacific coast and are surviving alongside open-ocean species on the plastic.

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surprising-creatures-lurk-in-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/

“I just remember the first time [study co-author] Jim [Carlton of Williams College and Mystic Seaport Museum] and I pulled out a piece of plastic and saw the level of coastal species present, we were just blown away,” says Linsey Haram, lead author of the study. Haram, who was a research associate with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center during the study, specializes in marine ecology.

Nearly all the debris hosted pelagic, or open-ocean, species—which makes sense considering that weathering on much of the plastic suggested it had spent several years at sea. But all told, about 70 percent of the debris the researchers analyzed carried at least one species usually found in coastal waters—a much higher tally than Haram and her colleagues expected going into the work, she says.

And as they looked closer, the scientists found that some two thirds of the debris pieces were home to coastal and open-ocean species living side by side. Plastic isn’t just carrying coastal species out to sea; it’s also creating unnatural neighborhoods that the researchers call “neopelagic communities.”

“What’s new, the ‘neo’ part of that, is that we now—likely because of plastics—are seeing coastal species and these native pelagic species together, interacting quite frequently on debris,” Haram says. “We’re essentially creating new communities in the open ocean.”