It is imperative that the US resume funding to UNRWA: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/31/gaza-suspending-unrwa-aid-risks-hastening-famine

Appreciating Monica Westin's essay on the invention of privacy in the American library system: https://syllabusproject.org/undercover-at-the-library/

Credit: https://www.monicawestin.com/

Well, this sucks.

The NJ legislature just passed a bill requiring low-speed electric bicycles to be registered with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission and to be insured.
[EDIT: apparently it passed committee; next will be put before the legislature for a vote.]

Somewhere, either a fossil fuel lobbyist or an insurance industry lobbyist got his wings.