The US Government Is Trying To Make Coal Cute. Trump complained that coal needed better PR. The original Coalie was just a lump of coal with eyes and nothing more. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Can a lump of coal ever be cute?

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The damage the Trump administration has done to science in a few short months is both well documented and incalculable, but in recent days that assault has taken an alarming twist. Their latest project is not firing researchers or pulling funds--although there's still plenty of that going on. Three "dire wolves" are born in an undisclosed location in the continental United States, and the media goes wild. This is big news for Game of Thrones fans and anyone interested in "de-extinction," the promise of bringing back long-vanished species. There's a lot to unpack here: Are these dire wolves really dire wolves?