Dirty South

sesamestreet:

Wishing you a good and sweet year! #ShanaTova

npr:

A $7 million, comprehensive census of African elephants has found that the population decreased by nearly a third between 2007 and 2014.

The Great Elephant Census was conducted over three years, and set out to effectively count every savanna elephant in 18 countries in Africa, accounting for 93 percent of the savanna elephants in those countries. The conclusion — that the population declined by 144,000 animals in just seven years — is sobering.

The results were published in the journal PeerJ.

“If we can’t protect the world’s largest land mammal, the prognosis for wildlife conservation is bleak,” says Mike Chase, the lead scientist on the project and the founder of an elephant conservation group based in Botswana called Elephants Without Borders.

African Elephant Population Declines By 30 Percent

Photo: Elephants Without Borders

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This is so me

our-political-revolution:

WHAT THIS MEANS:

• 34 Senate seats are up for election this year.
  
• All 435 House of Representative seats are up for election this year.
  
• A total of 469 seats in the US Congress is up for election in November 8, 2016.
  
• In order to TAKE BACK the chamber, Democrats need to gain 5 seats.
• In order to FLIP the chamber, the Democrats need to gain 30 seats. 
• Democrats only have 10 seats to defend while Republicans have 24.
• Confirmation of a new Supreme Court justice requires 60 votes in the Senate. 
• Should Democrats fail to retake the Senate in 2016, it is unlikely that they will get another opportunity until at least 2020.

It’s incredibly important that we place attention not only to the presidential candidates, but to the Senators and Representatives that are up for election this year. 

For more info about who’s running, please check this website: https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2016

(via bossypants)

flavorwire:

It’s amazing how rare it still is to find complex female friendships in literature for adults. Here are 25 great books that investigate that relationship in one form or another.

25 Fascinating Female Friendships in Literature – Flavorwire

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