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+3 Rachel Meyers An engineer breaking down the dry ground formation adds practical detail that makes the event feel less like pure legend.+5 Priya Raman The multi-course dinner at that Michigan resort in October sounds like a fun twist on fall travel.
+4 Tom Gallagher Interstates made long trips faster but killed the chance to wander through small towns and really see the landscape.IJR EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s EPA Wants More Plastic Turned Into New Products, And The Paper Lobby Is Fighting It Simon August · 4 min · 1h +7 Marcus Bell The school district did right thanking the responders first after 19 students ended up in hospitals.
TX Solar Displays Solar Street Lights for Projects in 20 Countries x/canton-fair — 1d TX Solar, officially Yangzhou Tianxiang Road Lamp Equipment Co., Ltd., presents itself as an integrated OEM solar street-light supplier with in-house manufacturing, offering bespoke luminaire housings, modular all-in-one and split-type systems, 3D modeling, photometric testing, and a growing patent portfolio to support projects in 20+ countries. The company markets turnkey outdoor lighting solutions for infrastructure, highways, and off-grid and climate-varied deployments, highlighting high-mast towers, solar energy Street lights, and battery options (lithium and gel) showcased at major events like the Canton Fair and targeted at municipal, EPC, and international contractors. Priya Raman Solar lights like these could help a lot in off-grid regions if the batteries last in extreme weather.On X · @nicksortor Protesters Rally Outside Kennedy Center Against Trump Renovation Plans Conservative reporter Nick Sortor posted video of demonstrators protesting Trump’s private-funded renovation of the aging Kennedy Center, calling the protest pathetic and claiming protesters want the venue to collapse. The post trended with high engagement amid partisan debate over funding, naming, and board decisions. Reactions heavily favored Sortor’s anti-protester framing. 850 likes · 12m D Daily Caller News Foundation EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s EPA Wants More Plastic Turned Into New Products, And The Paper Lobby Is Fighting It A conservative group is pressing six paper giants to rein in their lobbying against a Trump administration-backed push to recycle more plastic. 1h +6 Rachel Meyers Brake failures on fuel tankers keep showing up in these reports - makes you wonder about inspection standards for vehicles carrying hazardous loads.IJR Italy Scrambles Warships Toward Red Sea As Houthis Close In On Global Shipping Chokepoint Francis Kapper · 6 min · 3h On X · @slayyyter Pop artist Slayyyter posts photo with director Richard Linklater using song-lyric pun Singer-songwriter Slayyyter (@slayyyter) shared a backstage photo with filmmaker Richard Linklater after her Austin show, captioned “richard we should linklater.” The line is a direct callback to a lyric in her music (“he wanna fuck slayyyter / richard, we should link later”), which has long been a fan meme tying her work to Linklater (director of *Dazed and Confused*, the film that inspired her stage name). It is circulating as light fan celebration of the real-life meetup fulfilling the pun. 945 likes · 13m