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In other words, it would be wise to think of Mizelle’s ruling as a canary in the coal mine.

“I feel like the patients down here are being treated like the canary in the coal mine,” Matt Dickson said.

In addition to the culvert damage at the state beach, 10 canary date palms were blown down this winter and 14 others were removed by a contractor at the direction of a forester, Moreno said.

“They’re a bit of a canary in a coal mine,” Dr. Kammy Johnson, a veterinary epidemiologist for the Agriculture Department, said at a news briefing on Thursday.

The Republican Party is the canary in the coal mine.