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2025-05-31

En el paraje se mezclan con tanta armonía y equilibrio la textura y policromía de las aguas fluviales y marinas, la playa, el acantilado, las isletas, la vegetación y el cielo que lo hacen paradisiaco en el paraíso. Es la desembocadura del #río #Porcía, límite entre los concejos
asturianos de #ElFranco у #Таріа.

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-30

Seriously, if anyone wants to make a #MirrorsEdge - like #game that is a true #OpenWorld, they should consider #Mahé as a location if #KowloonWalledCity or #Favelas in #Rio don't work for them!

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2025-05-28
2025-05-27

Gorsuch’s Snail Darter Argument

The Supreme Court this morning denied certiorari in Apache Stronghold v. US. This looks like the end of the road, at least the legal road, for this case. It also signals the start of something else: in short order, the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Resolution’s mine will be published, and that will trigger the transfer of Oak Flat to two foreign mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP, joint owners of Resolution Copper.

(For more background, see this post, this, this, and this.)

Only Gorsuch and Thomas dissented; Alito did not participate. Gorsuch’s dissent is worth reading in its entirety. Here, I want to call out just one of his arguments. He’s pushing hard against the Ninth Circuit’s reasoning that the “disposition” of federal land does not substantially burden the free exercise of religion (even if the land in question happens to be essential to the exercise of that religion, as Oak Flat is to the Western Apache).

The truth is, Congress has adopted all sorts of laws restricting the government’s power to dispose of its real property. Take just one example, the Endangered Species Act. That law, this Court once held, required the government to halt “operation of a virtually completed federal dam” to protect the endangered “snail darter,” a “previously unknown species of perch.” TVA v. Hill, 437 U. S. 153, 156, 158 (1978). The Court read the Act to require that result even though Congress had spent more than $100 million on the dam—nearly half a billion in today’s dollars—and our holding effectively “‘divest[ed] the Government of its right to use what is, after all, its land.’” 101 F. 4th, at 1051 (quoting Lyng, 485 U. S., at 453). If Congress went to such lengths to accommodate the snail darter, why should we suppose it offered less protection to people practicing an ancient faith?

I get it, but the argument makes me uneasy. It comes close to holding the Endangered Species Act up to ridicule, and at a moment when the Act itself is under serious threat. Just last month, the Trump administration proposed a new rule that would change the definition of “harm” under the Act, such that habitat destruction would not constitute harm.

The federal government’s disposition of its real property often threatens the habitats of endangered species, as it did in Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, the case to which Gorsuch refers here. Were the Trump administration’s new rule in effect, the case would have gone the other way, or never have been brought at all. I imagine Gorsuch will revisit this argument, and say more about whether he considers the accommodations of the Endangered Species Act reasonable or ridiculous, should this new interpretation of the Act come before the Court.

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2025-05-24
蒼井そら「元カレは有名芸人」…意外な関係を告白 #shorts #蒼井そら #じっくり聞いタロウ #Rio #元カレ芸人
2025-05-24

蒼井そら「元カレは有名芸人」…意外な関係を告白 #shorts #蒼井そら #じっくり聞いタロウ #Rio #元カレ芸人 yayafa.com/2349281/ #Rio #蒼井そら

2025-05-22

Rio Tinto Has Already Botched CEO Stausholm’s Exit

The papers this morning all seem to be telling the same story about the announcement that Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm will be stepping down from his position by fall of this year. The move is “unexpected,” according to the Financial Times, a “surprise exit.” The editors at mining.com opted for “shock exit;” the Wall Street Journal calls it a “surprise departure.” Shares tumbled in London on the news.

Berenberg analyst Richard Hatch appears to be one of the people driving this narrative. Nearly all the headline writers are working from what he had to say:

This news comes as a big surprise, and in our view was not expected.

We had expected Mr Stausholm to remain with the company and drive the integration of the lithium business, so his exit comes as a surprise.

No clear reason for his departure has been given by the company other than to state that now is ‘a natural moment’ to appoint a successor – but it does not feel that natural to us.

Hatch has not backed off his Buy rating, indicating, I suppose, that he doesn’t think the big surprise of Stausholm’s unexpected exit or Stausholm’s unnatural exit itself will affect long term prospects. Fair enough.

But clearly something is amiss.

Two possibilities present themselves. One, the company seriously bungled the rollout of Stausholm’s departure, surprising and shocking analysts and investors. The failure to set and manage expectations would indicate internal coordination problems. Or, two, Stausholm’s surprise departure signals board intervention over some as yet undisclosed misstep, conflict, or business failure. But what that might be is not yet clear. Perhaps another shoe is going to drop.

The first possibility is charitable, the second a little more cynical. The two are not mutually exclusive. Stausholm could be stepping down for as yet undisclosed reasons and the company could be doing a bad job of handling that. No matter: this is hardly a model of orderly succession planning. It’s a botch, and shareholders would be right to ask whether it indicates other organizational and governance problems.

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Constance Birdsong PhotoC_BirdsongPhoto
2025-05-22

L!VE ~ SF Carnival

SF San Francisco Carnival. It is such a huge party with so many cultures and people of all over. Please consider following my blog, subscribing and liking the content. This is an easy way to help support photography, photographers, venues and events and artists! All photos are mine unless otherwise stated. carnaval, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,…

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2025-05-22

Rio Tinto ( #RIO ) has released " Rio Tinto - Chief Executive succession plan " on Thu 22 May at 16:35 AEST #today #Mining #Australia #media #Strategy
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2025-05-21
Arroyo de La Vega, por el bosque de rivera del monte de Valdelatas.
#paisaje #landscape #río #river #bosque #forest #FuencarralElPardo #Madrid
Révolution Permanente Brestrevpermanente29@mastodon.tedomum.net
2025-05-20

🔴24 mai : rencontre Inés Heider, une révolutionnaire allemande en lutte contre le #militarisme et l’extrême droite

Inés #Heider, porte-parole de #RIO, l’organisation sœur de RP en #Allemagne, est une militante révolutionnaire et internationaliste de tous les fronts. Tout juste victorieuse d’une lutte contre la répression syndicale, elle sera présente le 24 mai à Paris à la tribune de notre #meeting internationaliste.

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