Good morning, News Viewers and Happy Monday; this is Free Range Free Chat, our open thread with the free-wide-open ranging themes of animals (including people and bugs), the environment (including the physical and political) and MORE
Kayleigh McEnany took to Fox News on Friday to complain that famed photographer Annie Leibovitz had never photographed her or Melania Trump, a fact that she described as evidence of the entire press corps’ moral MORE
After years of effort, congressional investigators finally got their chance Friday to grill former President Donald Trump’s White House counsel. As the circuitous saga of Don McGahn’s testimony concluded, Republicans and Democrats on the House MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers — this is Free Chat where the chatting is free and the topics are yours; I’m glad to be here with the community because some all-important questions need answering right here, MORE
West Virginia plans to give away firearms as a reward for residents who have received a vaccine — part of a Father’s Day lottery that also includes trucks, scholarships and $1 million in prizes. Gov. Jim MORE
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Tuesday a policy banning transgender athletes from playing girls and women’s sports that opponents have condemned as deeply discriminatory against transgender athletes and students. Dubbed the “Fairness in MORE
Alt-right comedian Owen Benjamin wants to create a “refuge” for his “internet friends” in Idaho. His neighbors, however, worry the rural site will become a scary militia haven. An alt-right comedian’s plans for a remote MORE
Hiya from Free Range Free Chat, our open thread about all things living on this planet, and all things planet related as it supports that life.. Today is Memorial Day of 2021, a day set MORE
Brenda Richardson stood before 31 young men and women in their final weeks of training to become D.C. police officers. They were on a street corner in Richardson’s neighborhood in Southeast Washington, where crews from MORE
Vice President Kamala Harris told the graduating class of the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday they will be counted on to mount a “modern defense” against the threats that challenge America. Harris’ commencement speech marked the first MORE
The new map is the product of years of work by a group of 400 scientists from seven countries, known as the Dark Energy Survey (DE.S). . . .(more) In a series of studies published this week, MORE
happy Friday peeps — that last cartoon about Eric Carle–he wrote “The very hungry caterpillar”, a kids book with the best art — it’s a loved book because of the pictures. Here’s the caterpillar– RIP MORE
Vaccines can be great at preventing you from getting sick, while at the same time not necessarily stopping you from getting infected or spreading the germ. Preliminary evidence seems to suggest the COVID-19 vaccines make MORE
On Tuesday, New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang argued that a New York Daily News cartoon presenting him as a tourist in his own city was racist — portraying him as somehow a foreigner MORE
Race organizers accused of not heeding warnings after rain, hail, and gale-force winds forecast across Gansu province Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into the death of 21 people in an ultramarathon over the weekend, as family MORE
It’s been a year since George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, sparking global protests, and supporters, activists and his family will honor Floyd with a series of celebrations of his life and MORE
Ranging freely lately, the cicada, a creature that is outside of range of fuzzy, fluffy, cute or even slightly attractive. They emerge from the bowels of hell every 17 number of years and carpet the MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers, and what a Friday it is. Why? You may ask. . . .Because as I continued last night to unpack my Dad’s stuff sent from his place in Colorado, I found MORE
Israeli ceasefire statement in full Here is the full statement from the Israeli security cabinet confirming the ceasefire decision: “The Security Cabinet convened tonight. “The Political Security Cabinet unanimously accepted the recommendation of all security MORE
Ilyasah Shabazz reflects on the late civil rights leader’s legacy on his 96th birthday, May 19, 2021. Shabazz explains her father’s famous words: “A quote that’s really great that I use often that he said is: MORE
President Biden’s unusually blunt demand Wednesday that Israel de-escalate its military attack on Gaza is creating a rare rift between the two countries and dismaying some of Israel’s supporters in the United States, while heartening MORE
Ongoing updates from the BBC:https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-57168671 Efforts to broker a truce between Israel and Palestinian militants continue, but little progress appears to have been made “The operation is continuing at full-throttle. There is still no ceasefire MORE
In a world in which massive violations of human rights have, tragically, become the norm, why has the hard left focused on one of the least compelling of those causes — namely, the Palestinians? Where MORE
Israel carries out fresh wave of pre-dawn airstrikes US president stops short of demanding halt to hostilities Joe Biden has issued a statement for the first time expressing support for a ceasefire between Israel and MORE
Last spring, people opened their windows to a symphony. Swallows burbled, doves cooed, and sparrows chirped—and to many listeners, these passerine performers had never seemed so loud. For nature lovers, wearied by the tragedy of coronavirus and lockdown MORE