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Who had “Writing letters to solve problems of your own creation” on their #MAGA BINGO card?

Following their cult leader’s effort to reach #TradeDeals (to end a #TradeWar he started) by writing goofy letters to foreign leaders, #BananaRepublicans in #Wisconsin and #Minnesota have written a goofy letter to the Canadian Ambassador to the #UnitedStates about summer vacation-ruining smoke from #wildfires fueled by #ClimateChange created largely by #American #BigOil companies. cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wil

CBCCanadian wildfire smoke ruining Americans' summer, says letter from Congress members | CBC NewsCanadian wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, says a letter from six members of Congress to Canada's ambassador in Washington.

Two weekends ago, I visited the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. The foundation (new to me) supports habitat restoration and crane populations around the world. They also have cranes living there year-round. Among the cranes out and about, I was able to see a mated pair of Whooping Cranes, one of the rarest birds in the world. Only 836 are currently known. #crane #birds #animal #conservation #wisconsin #travel #photography

#MyPillow CEO's legal counsel Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster were excortiated by a Federal Judge and fined by court after violating court rules by turning in #ArtificialIntelligence generated legal motions with nearly 30 defective citations, including bogus cites of non existent case law.

The attorneys were retained while taking #MikeLindell for an expensive ride, as he unsucessfully fought another losing legal battle where a jury recently found him liable for false claims about the 2020 #election and defamation against voting machine mfgrs.

Prior to issuing the fines, U.S. District Judge Nina Wang ordered Lindell, and his legal team to demonstrate why they should not face #court sanctions and be referred for disciplinary action. Kachouroff issued a rebuke that the judge said attempted to "shift responsibility" and his filing was "both troubling and not well-taken."

In a 20-page #ruling issued Monday, July 7th the judge made clear that their breeches of #ProfessionalConduct and #Legal standards by the #Virginia based law firm McSweeney Cynkar & #Kachouroff were unacceptable to the court. In partcular the federal court circuit judge called out Kachouroff for trying to shirk responsibilty for the matter, when another filng he was involved in after this case in #Wisconsin was also found to have similar #AI generated errors.

Lindell's other sanctioned #attorney Jennifer Tavares Breedon DeMaster, who received her JD at an #evangelical law school in #VirginiaBeach and is author of the book " #Babylon Unveiled : Redefining Faith. Exposing Deception," told jurors that Lindell's false claims were protected by the #constitution in an animated and rambling closing argument made against a so-called “Ministry of Truth” built for suppressing US #ElectionRgging claims.

coloradosun.com/2025/07/07/mik

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McLeester and her team used drone lidar technology, which involves flying a drone low to the ground and using pulses of light to map the topography of an area in great detail. Historically, lidar imaging has used planes, which can’t get as close to the ground and therefore aren’t able to pick up as much detail.

“This is some of the earliest data with drone lidar,” McLeester said. “I think with this new technology, we’re going to find more and more of these agricultural sites across North America in unlikely places.”
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WPR · Archaeologists make surprising discovery along the Menominee River on Wisconsin borderA new discovery along the Menominee River calls into question what archaeologists thought they knew about the scale of Indigenous agriculture before the arrival of European settlers.