the Mittineague Blog

Mittineague Wildflowers

• There are no plants in blossom on January 21st.
  The earliest date currently listed is Mar 15, and the latest date is Nov 11

WordPress

• WordPress Leaders Nominated for CMX Awards January 15, 2020
  Two members of the WordPress leadership team were nominated for excellent work in their field in the first ever Community Industry Awards. Andrea Middleton is nominated for Executive Leader of a Community Team and Josepha Haden Chomphosy is nominated for Community Professional of the Year. CMX is one of the largest professional organizations dedicated to […]
• The Month in WordPress: December 2019 January 3, 2020
  As 2019 draws to a close and we look ahead to another exciting year let’s take a moment to review what the WordPress community achieved in December. WordPress 5.3.1 and 5.3.2 Releases The WordPress 5.3.1 security and maintenance release was announced on December 13. It features 46 fixes and enhancements. This version corrects four security […]
• WordPress 5.3.2 Maintenance Release December 18, 2019
  WordPress 5.3.2 is now available! This maintenance release features 5 fixes and enhancements. WordPress 5.3.2 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major release will be version 5.4. You can download WordPress 5.3.2 by clicking the button at the top of this page, or visit your Dashboard → Updates and click Update Now. If you have sites that support […]

HCFAMA

Code Pink

• Jes is building a Bridge of Hearts
  Dear CodePink Friends,Please check out my website: bridgeofhearts.orgIf you're on Facebook, I'd love to be your friend!I'll be using Facebook to set up house parties for a tour of the U.S. this summer,and I'll be showing a personal documentary on Iran, featuring footage from my last two trips.If you're interested in hosting a house party, […]
• Questionnaire for Tea Party
  Dear Tea Party members, In an effort to better understand the sentiments of your group and see where we, in the peace movement, might find common ground, we would appreciate it if you would answer a few questions. Thank you for your time.o The Cold War has been over for 20 years, yet we maintain […]
• There Are No Goodbyes
  I just wanted to briefly abuse my posting privileges here and say goodbye to the Pink House. I will never forget that great space full of joy, love, action, energy and creativity. A big thanks and hug to Des for being my surrogate mama when I was in DC, and to everybody I met who […]

ACLU

• The Supreme Court Takes Up the Issue of Birth Control Coverage – Again
  The Supreme Court just announced that it will hear yet another case about the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) birth control coverage requirement. If you are experiencing déjà vu, you are not alone. Court battles over the birth control coverage requirement have been raging for almost a decade. How did we get here? 2012: The Birth […]
• 2019 Proved We Can Stop Face Recognition Surveillance
  This piece originally appeared on Fast Company. In 2019, we proved face recognition surveillance isn’t inevitable. Now, it’s time for Congress to rein in the technology once and for all. Last year, communities banded together to prove that they can — and will — defend their privacy rights. As part of ACLU-led campaigns, three California […]
• The White House’s Dangerously Expansive Views on Trump’s Powers That You Can’t See
  A basic legal consensus about our democracy is that the Constitution assigns the “power of the purse” to Congress. Turning this edict on its head, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) lawyers reportedly concocted a legal theory that President Trump can override Congress’s foreign policy spending decisions enshrined in law. If such a […]

Taxpayers for Common Sense

• StatementA Smart New Measure to Limit Leasing of Low Potential Federal LandsA new bill would focus federal resources on areas with more potential for oil and gas production, and revenue for taxpayers.
  On Friday, Senator Cortez Masto (D-NV) introduced the “End Speculative Oil and Gas Leasing Act of 2020.” The bill would prevent the Department of the Interior from offering oil and gas development leases on federal lands in areas with low production potential in order to conserve federal resources and prevent federal land from being tied […]
• In The NewsNew legislation would ban oil leasing on public land with little to no potential for development
  Seeking to address speculative oil leasing, Democratic U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto introduced legislation Thursday to prohibit land managers from auctioning parcels with little potential for development. Despite having less oil drilling than other Western states, Nevada has emerged as a case study for critics of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil leasing program. In […]
• The Tongass National Forest is a Wilderness on the Chopping BlockThe Tongass is a hunting and fishing paradise and supports a massive tourism economy. So why are we planning to log it?
  It doesn’t take much to get Mark Hieronymus worked up. We’re walking down an old logging road next to a creek outside of Juneau, and the guide is going back and forth on the two hottest topics in Alaska: fishing and logging. “We’re going to fish that sexy little beast on the way back,” he […]