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The American dipper (Cinclus mexicanus), aka water ouzel, is North America's only truly aquatic songbird—the "hummingbird of blooming waters" as Muir wrote

Dippers flit about rocky streams, diving and swimming through the currents to feed on aquatic larvae and tiny tadpoles/fish

 American dippers are named for their habit of rhythmically bobbing when perched

But why do they dip?

Theories incl: blending in w/ turbulent water as camouflage; enhanced scoping of underwater prey; visual communication in noisy environment
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Cornell Lab describes the dipper's burbling song as "evocative of the rushing whitewater streams this species calls home in western North and Central America"

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John Muir was enchanted by the American dipper/water ouzel and included a chapter about them in "The Mountains of California"
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1. Florida teachers are being told to remove all books from their classroom libraries OR FACE FELONY PROSECUTION

The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.

2. Officials from the Manatee County School District confirmed the new policy to https://t.co/Gl6evXRDcZ.

The policy was communicated to principals in a meeting last Wednesday.

Teachers are in the process of being informed now.


3. Teachers in Manatee County lamented the news on social media. "My heart is broken for Florida students today as I am forced to pack up my classroom library," one Manatee teacher wrote on Facebook.


4. Another Manatee teacher called the directive "a travesty to education" that interfered with efforts to "connect with books and develop [a] love of lifelong learning."


5. The new policy in Manatee, which is likely to be duplicated across Florida, was issued in response to HB 1467, which was signed into law by DeSantis last March.

That law established that teachers could not be trusted to select books appropriate for their students.
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CM Doug Zylstra explains former Republican Attorney General of Michigan Mike Cox is on record saying the commission doesn't have the authority legally to replace the health administrator without cause. Then Jacob Bonnema says CM Curran's question went unanswered...
#OttawaCounty


Rewind 5 minutes, and you'll see Curran asking about the review process for the position. Moss quickly pipes in, unrecognized by the chair, and proceeds to sandwich grandstanding between two questions.

This is corporate misogyny on full display. Joe Moss is a pig and a coward.


Moss makes a last ditch effort to coach CM Cosby behind the scenes in an illegal closed session deliberation; he doesn't even have the floor. He loses his "MOTION!" to recess.

Cosby drops the bombshell: Ottawa Impact illegally conducted county business using campaign donations.


CM Zylstra asks a few questions that make it very clear CM Cosby and Ottawa Impact were acting as commissioners before they were sworn in.

Cosby thinks this is a game, and smirks as she repeats a cringy talking point built on hope for a likely non-existent legal loophole.


Doug asks important questions and Joe Moss interrupts to grandstand, equating violating OMA to helping citizens take back their government.
Doug expertly redirects the conversation back to actually broken laws. Cosby contradicts herself, backtracking from deciding to considering.
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