One can protect both; a false dichotomy leveraged by rightwing zealots and chauvinists to pretend they care about women whereas liberals do not https://quillette.com/2019/06/14/its-time-for-progressives-to-protect-women-instead-of-pronouns/
On my way out of Edinburgh University, where I’d just delivered a speech on how feminists should resist male violence, I was attacked last week by a shrieking “transgender person” (to cite the term used in a Scotsman headline). Had it not been for the three burly security guards surrounding me, I wo...
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Record number of tankers are sole source of water in large parts of state. Behind the crisis, late monsoon following a deficit year, depleting groundwater in 279 talukas, under 10% live storage in 13 key reservoirs.
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"Until June 3, residents of 5,127 villages and 10,867 hamlets were solely dependent on tanker #water supply for their daily needs. Between May 20 and June 3 alone, 512 villages and 728 hamlets were added to the list of areas being catered." https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/simply-put-5000-dry-villages-in-maharashtra-6500-tankers-5777789/
Most of the characters who appear in HBO's "Chernobyl" series existed in real life, and a few have been willing to share their stories.
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"A few of those who survived were willing to recall the moment when they either found out about the explosion or witnessed it with their own eyes. Here are their firsthand accounts, told in the years since." https://www.businessinsider.com/real-chernobyl-hbo-characters-moment-the-nuclear-disaster-2019-6
It has been two years since a giant steel shelter was slid into position over Chernobyl's crumbling radioactive ruins. RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service takes a rare look at operations inside of the containment.
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#Chernobyl "the site is still hot and as long as the sarcophagus is actively maintained and keeps water out, it won't go off again..." -iophk https://www.rferl.org/a/inside-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-conferment-shelter-photo/29583945.html
