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So, you know the postal carrier the SCOTUS ruled in favor of, the one that wanted religious accommodations for his days off & didn't want to work on Sundays?

His job was as a non-career employee; he worked as an auxiliary mailman who filled in when other workers were not available, specifically...weekends and holidays.

With the US Supreme court overturning the Biden administration's #StudentLoan forgiveness program, 43 million borrowers will have to pay back the full amount starting in October.

There are options for reducing debt for borrowers already in default, and the White House says nobody will be reported to a credit bureau for nonpayment for a year.

But millions will face renewed hardship -- and the $$ loan payments reduce economic growth by about 0.4%

theconversation.com/now-that-p #StudentDebt #News

Today in 1972, 51 years ago: The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.

#OnThisDay

Hoy en 1958, hace 65 años: en el atolón Bikini (islas Marshall, en medio del océano Pacífico), Estados Unidos detona su bomba atómica Hickory, de 14 kilotones. Es la bomba n.º 143 de las 1132 que Estados Unidos detonó entre 1945 y 1992.

#TalDíaComoHoy

What scares me most about 'adapting' to climate change is this: governments abandoning their own citizens.

This is 2 years after Lytton burned down:

"The village's state of emergency and evacuation orders were recently lifted. But two years after the catastrophe, not a single building permit has been issued for the village, as the community has worked through bureaucratic loopholes and faced down existential questions about its future."

cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

Republicans: BUT HUNTERS LAPTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

The Jungle Bookie

A young boy's odds of survival are dependent on chance encounters with wildlife. Alternative title - It's a Jungle Out There.

#RejectedMoviePlots
#HashtagGames

The Concord...Airport '79

Grape jelly goes flying when a supersonic passenger jet hits turbulence.

#RejectedMoviePlots
#HashtagGames

The Towering In Sterno

Warehouse workers stack too many boxes of sterno on top of each other. One of them then lights a cigarette. 🔥

#RejectedMoviePlots
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