| Time |
Event |
| 9:32p |
Liz Truss to appoint cabinet of loyalists as she becomes UK’s next prime minister
The Tory Party has selected a plutocratist
extremist as the new prime
minister.
The nation mostly opposes her already. As most Britons are forced
into poverty, her program is to cut taxes (a benefit for the wealthier
Britons) and
cut spending (more Tory cruelty).
Perhaps recognizing her unpopularity, she intends to delay elections
as late as possible. Two years in power will allow her and the Tories
to do no end of harm.
Identitarians may rejoice that, for the first time, none of the four
principal ministers in the cabinet will be a white man. Perhaps being
forced into poverty, and allowing the government to get away with
mistreating people illegally, will hurt less this way than if white
men had done it. |
| 9:32p |
Doomscrolling linked to poor physical and mental health, study finds
*Doomscrolling linked to poor physical and
mental health, study finds.* |
| 9:32p |
Large parts of Amazon may never recover, major study says
Scientists conclude that parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and
Bolivia have already reached a tipping point, and
will not regrow as
forest if left alone.
We can't be sure just how big a disaster this will be, but it will be
big. |
| 9:32p |
The abortion rights movement can learn from the Aids activism of the 80s and 90s
Recommending that the abortion rights movement take inspiration from
the 80s/90s organization Act Up, which campaigned for
AIDS patients'
rights and medical care. |
| 9:32p |
You might think Starbucks is a ‘progressive’ company. You’d be wrong
Starbucks carefully cultivates a let's-be-kind-to-each-other image
while treating employees like dirt and punishing
them illegally for
organizing.
I too stopped by the strike site at 874 Comm Ave, Boston, and I found out
how the workers have been able to keep the picket going 24/7 for months:
it's not just the workers! Volunteers from the community help out.
I wish I could post a link to more information, but that site won't
show anything unless the visitor runs nonfree JavaScript code, and I
will not direct people to such a site. Is there a web developer who
would be interested in setting up a freedom-respecting site to show
the same information? The strikers might be happy to adopt that site
if some developers set it up. |
| 9:46p |
Coup leader v coup leader: strongman election shows cracks in Fiji’s democracy
Fiji's government has bounced from coup to coup, and the current prime
minister rules in an
authoritarian and vengeful way.
Meanwhile, competition with China for influence blocks Australia
from using its influence to promote human rights in the Pacific.
Governments would respond to that by jumping to China's side; China
does not seek to promote democracy. |
| 9:46p |
It’s not all coffee shops and hipsters: what we get wrong about gentrification
Gentrification is driven by powerful business forces, often supported
by the state. If you oppose the change, focus on those forces,
not on
the visible symptoms. |
| 9:46p |
Losses from ‘heart-wrenching’ puppy scams increase 1,000% over last two years
Some people are prepared to pay thousands of dollars for "just the
right" puppy, without ever actually seeing it. Sometimes they pay
the thousands and
never even get the puppy — it is a scam.
Nothing can excuse swindling, but the victims would never have fallen
prey to this scan if they had not started with a foolish approach. An
adult ought to know better than to believe that one specific puppy,
that perse has never met, is the one and only right one.
There is a certain tendency for people to believe that spending a lot
of money on something unusual and different in your life will make it
better. But it doesn't usually have that effect. |
| 9:46p |
A growing movement aims to disrupt violence by connecting incarcerated youth with mentors
The Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement helps teenagers from
disprivileged groups avoid the temptation of gangs and drugs by
offering them mentors: adults
who grew up in the same community and
succeeded in meeting that challenge.
The mentors are credible in that they personally experienced the situation
that they guide the teenagers in coping with. |
| 9:46p |
Canadian city pulls bison sculpture in row over representation of colonialism
Artist Ken Lum made two sculptures, a bison and a bison hunter, to
display in the city of Edmonton so as to provoke thought about the
extermination of the bison. The city cancelled their display in the
name of
hyper concern for some people's hypersensitivity.
Hunters did not kill 100.000000 percent of the bison — the species still
survives in some protected places. |
| 10:46p |
Shell Ruling in South Africa a 'Victory Against Capitalist Extraction and Destruction of Our Future'
South Africa has banned seismic blasting in the ocean off the
Wild
Coast area.
Shell was going to do the blasting to search for
fossil fuels that
humanity cannot afford to extract anyway.
The blasting itself would
have
harmed whales and other wildlife.
I celebrate the outcome of this case, but I think that the views of
people living near the proposed area of exploitation are a weak foundation
for something as important as limiting fossil fuel extraction. The dangers
of the extraction are global, and the ban should be global too. |
| 10:46p |
How to Green Our Parched Farmlands and Finance Critical Infrastructure
New and old unusual ways to raise funds for critical infrastructure
to help farms and
people cope with drought. |
| 10:46p |
Chile votes overwhelmingly to reject new, progressive constitution
Chileans rejected the draft constitution written by the
constitutional
convention.
Pinochet's constitution was designed for repression; it needs to be
replaced. But with what? I suggest asking the public to vote on
several questions about which of the major changes they like or
dislike. Those answers might help in writing a constitution that
a substantial majority of the public will support. |
| 10:46p |
US flood maps outdated thanks to climate change, FEMA director says
FEMA's director acknowledges that FEMA's maps of flood danger need to
be updated to
reflect changes due to global heating. |
| 10:46p |
Biden's "Safer America Plan" Should Follow the Science of Public Safety
Biden proposes to spend 13 billion dollars to hire 100,000 more cops,
supposedly to reduce the danger of violent crime. But it might not
achieve anything on that dimension, and it would
ramp up repression in
the form of arrests for drug possession.
It would be more effective to put that money into social programs and
low-rent housing. |