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Today, much of the Inyo Mountains is Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land.
In 1872, westward expansion-hungry lawmakers passed a pro-mining law that still holds:
if a prospector finds gold or another valuable mineral on federal land,
they can stake a claim, file it with the bureau, and 20 acres around the site are theirs for a small fee.
In 1872, a prospector was a man with a floppy-brim hat and pickaxe.
In 2026, it’s a billion-dollar company and 1,200lb steel …

I made Eric’s GAAD BINGO card into a table on my 2022 GAAD post:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/05/the-performative-a11yship-of-gaad.html#Update03
_This_ time I actually checked it across dark and light modes. I think.

The Performative A11yship of #GAAD
For context on the title, working backward from the end, GAAD is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Its purpose, as explained at accessibility.day, is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities. A11yship is a play on the numeronym for accessibility (a11y) and the…

Policy thriller im #Hanoi: to ban or not to ban fossil-fuel powered vehicles? The party of the people aggressively pushed a low-emission goal. Consumers were blamed for pollution. Suddenly, everything’s postponed. 🪄

Hà Nội delays approval of low-emission zone plan in Ring Road 1
City authorities seek further review of the proposed low-emission zone scheme after concerns over implementation, social impacts and funding support measures.

Ah, yes - today's oligopoly learning from past abuses that were never addressed because of the #NeoliberalIdeology. (Amazon is not the only company to use it's volume to drive up costs or restrict product availability for competitors - it's been happening for years by large retail brands.)
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the …

‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says it works to lower costs for consumers

Ah, yes - today's oligopoly learning from past abuses that were never addressed because of the #NeoliberalIdeology. (Amazon is not the only company to use it's volume to drive up costs or restrict product availability for competitors - it's been happening for years by large retail brands.)
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the …

‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says it works to lower costs for consumers

Silicate Clouds, SiO, and Molecular Trends across the L-T Sequence - A JWST/MIRI LRS Spectral Library of #BrownDwarfs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15521 -> thread https://bsky.app/profile/samilamby.bsky.social/post/3mr3y4xjabc2d

The owner of The Denver Post agreed to pay the city of Denver $13.5M under a settlement to cover overdue rent for the news outlet's former building (The Colorado Sun)
https://coloradosun.com/2026/06/16/denver-post-settlement-city-building-downtown/

Owner of Denver Post agrees to $13.5 million settlement with city over unpaid rent, will remove sign
The newspaper's lease was supposed to go through 2029, but it will now end June 30

It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year:
using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations.
Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during
anti-immigration demonstrations across the US,
including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

ICE ‘Crowd Control’ Led to Blindings and Traumatic Brain Injuries
It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

A profile of Don Lemon, whose independent company Lemon Media Network has surpassed 10M followers across platforms, with more than 50% growth in the past year (Christopher Wiggins/Advocate)
https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/don-lemon-relevant-after-arrest

Inside Don Lemon's fight for journalism — and his future
The Trump administration tried to silence one of America’s most prominent journalists — and in doing so, made The Advocate's July/August cover star impossible to ignore.