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From the Heatmap newsletter: John Murdock … resigned … over … the Trump administration’s “deeply troubling assault on the rule of law.” … the “all of the above” energy strategy “has seemingly morphed into ‘one of the above,’ solely focused on fossil fuels.”

publicdomain.mediaVeteran Interior Department lawyer resigns in protest, warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Also banned from the White House: The quote from Ronald Reagan from April 18, 1985: "One of the first institutions to be attacked by tyrants, whether they're dictators, the left, or the right, is the press"

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260904: The UN adopt a world map that shows sizes better. Votes: 164 for, the US against, 6 abstained, 22 didn't vote. Trump is difficult to get attention, but his people tried to invent rational-sounding reasons: thelivingdraft.com/internationa... Compare the maps here: newworldmap.org

thelivingdraft.comUN World Map Resolution: Why 164 Countries Voted Yes and the US Said NoThe UN has backed a resolution promoting more accurate world maps. Here is what the 164–1 vote means, why Africa looks smaller on Mercator maps, what Equal Earth changes and why the US opposed it.

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