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The Yakama Nation holds treaty rights to gather food in Pushpum, a ridgeline overlooking the Columbia River in Washington. When a new green energy project was proposed for the land, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) talked to leaders of the tribal nation, but asked them to disclose exactly why the land was considered sacred — knowledge that could make it vulnerable to desecration. Eventually, the project was moved forward without consultation. For @ProPublica and High Country News, @Toastie reports on the question of whether and how the U.S. government should protect tribal privacy and cultural resources.

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ProPublicaFeds Advance Plan to Develop a Yakama Nation Sacred Site Without Tribe’s InputThe Yakama Nation wanted to consult on the development of a project on sacred land. But when the tribal nation refused to disclose confidential information, the agency moved forward without tribal input.
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“Scientists built an artificial shark uterus,” says the headline of @hakaimagazine’s latest story. How could we resist sharing it? Learn more about how the technology was developed, and the potential it has to bolster populations of sharks threatened with extinction.

hakaimagazine.com/news/scienti

Hakai Magazine Scientists Built an Artificial Shark Uterus | Hakai MagazinePreemie sharks that would otherwise die get by with a little help from a human-made womb.

The recent campus protests led to renewed debates around academic freedom and freedom of speech. @themarkup’s Mohamed Al Elew spoke to author and professor Julia Schleck about academic labor, university policies, politics, and her new vision for higher education.

themarkup.org/hello-world/2024

themarkup.orgA New, Dirty Vision for Higher Education – The MarkupAn interview with Julia Schleck, who argues that rather than serving the public good, universities should be a forum to define and debate the public good

Massachusetts is the only U.S. state with a right-to-shelter law, which mandates that families and pregnant people are housed. Currently, over 8,000 families are in state-run shelters or on an overflow list. That doesn’t include the dozens of people — mostly Haitian migrants — who are sleeping at Logan Airport and spending their days at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mattapan. Sarah Betancourt of @gbhnews spoke to some of the families about their experiences.

wgbh.org/news/local/2024-06-26

A pregnant woman, her husband, and their young son in a Spiderman shirt stand outside in the sun.
GBH · At night, dozens sleep at Logan Airport. During the day, migrant families find solace at a Mattapan church. By Sarah Betancourt

“Cruise ship essays read like an obituary for civilization,” writes @maria in an essay for @flaminghydra. She details her own experiences touring the Summer Isles in the Highlands of Scotland, and discusses the essays of writers including David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Caity Weaver and more.

"The joke of all these essays is supposed to be that the reader is in on how horrible the essayist’s cruise ship experience is going to be. Ha-ha! Sending a fun-loving intellectual to go suffer among the MAGAs is not all that funny, I am now thinking; Decades later, this sneering, superior, high-ticket slumming seems just sad.”

flaminghydra.com/my-boat-essay

Flaming Hydra · My Boat Essayby Maria Bustillos I. There’s a tiny archipelago in Loch Broom in the Scottish Highlands called the Summer Isles, which you can tour via Shearwater Cruises, out of the pretty town of Ullapool. I went with my husband and three of the kids the other day. The guide for

And to close out Pride Month, NBC created this Storyboard, which we shared on @CultureDesk. It features uplifting, joyful stories about queer history, LGBTQ summer camps for kids, lesbian ballet dancers, and the organization offering hundreds of free digital books, in defiance of book bans.

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Flipboard · LGBTQ Pride Month 2024By NBC News

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I NEVER want to go on a cruise. It’s my idea of Hell: stuck somewhere with 3500 noisy strangers and no way off!

@Flipboard the goal being to keep us in debt our whole life.??, I hired a lot of college grads with no work in their field at Fedex