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![At an internal meeting in Indianapolis on Nov. 30 attended virtually by The Post, employees expressed frustration that state officials are not already testing the water for contaminants related to abortion pills.
“You mentioned Erin Brockovich,” said Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins, speaking to another member of her advocacy team and referencing the famous legal clerk who exposed groundwater contamination around a major gas and electric facility. “Let’s just get the damn water samples ourselves since we already know they’re not doing it.”
By the end of the meeting, the group had developed several action items, including finding a lab willing to help with testing, and recruiting a team of “student investigators.” Hawkins said she will be meeting with Republican attorneys general in the new year to discuss issuing statewide injunctions against abortion pills, based on the group’s claims about toxic wastewater.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FFkCo4hZXEBA9O0B.jpg)
Another scary tidbit from that article: A Republican president could order the FDA to make abortion pills unavailable at a much earlier stage in the pregnancy than the current 10 week cutoff.
There is no chicken-and-the-egg problem with transit. One great reply "Like, if you build dense mixed-use spaces you don't need to build transit immediately because of feet"
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He follows up, "One of my most controversial political opinions is that Donald Trump was President of the United States in 2020." (This is a joke about how Trump campaigned in 2020 on an argument that there was too much crime, which doesn't normally look good for an incumbent)
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Once the you realize that the Executive branch is politely waiting for someone involved to die, the situation gets sorta boring.
Threads
• Randall Munroe got an answer to one of his open questions from What If: is there any orbital reentry path that could cook a steak medium rare?.
• Wonky thread about summarizing a paper about how to improve US energy commodity production. TL;DR: we need systems similar to the Strategic Petroleum reserve, but for renewable energy production precursors. (In Factorio, you’re gonna need copper, steel and green chips for solar panels)
• Great thread by Alfred Twu discussing the significant variation in building form to fit 60 apartments on the same piece of land. I'm a fan of the 6 5-story buildings. And of course, there's a section on single-staircase advantages. Yglesias comments that they're all beautiful