| Time |
Event |
| 12:18a |
Phraseology of prejudice
We shouldn't assume different
kinds of prejudice
are equivalent,
or to try to set up a fixed order of how bad they are.
How harmful any given kind of prejudice is can vary from place to
place, and over time.
For example, antisemitism in the US was much worse before World War II
than it has been since the 1950s. My mother told me a story about her
childhood in Brooklyn, about childen from of Catholic schools
screaming "Chris killer" while running after Jewish children — every
year after Easter. The rest of the year they might be friendly.
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| 12:18a |
Social Security in 2034
The reason Social Security won't have enough income after 2034 is that
rich people have taken a
much bigger fraction of all the income in the
US.
And rich people pay the social security tax on only a limited
amount of their income.
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| 12:18a |
Income taxes: up on poor
Manchin is responsible
for increasing the income taxes on poor Americans
with children by around 10%.
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| 12:18a |
Officials' grave injustice, Canada
Canadian thugs used to grab indigenous men in the city at random, take
them by car to the woods, then leave them to freeze to death. One
victim,
Darrell Night, was able to survive and blew the whistle
on
this practice of murder for fun.
It's not too late to prosecute some of the murderers, if the government
has the spine for it.
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| 12:18a |
The billionaire moniker as a slur
The first step in fighting the billionaires who have seized power
over our democracy is to use deprecatory terms to refer to them.
For instance,
"billionaire".
A billionaire may have acquired a substantial part of per billions,
but billionaires don't usually "earn" the wealth they acquire. The reason they acquire so much
of it is that they collectively rig the rules
so that they acquire, then keep, a much bigger share.
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| 12:48p |
Urgent: Wolves protection
US citizens: call on Congress
to defeat Boebert's bill
to eliminate
endangered species protection for wolves.
To sign without
running nonfree JavaScript
code from the web site, use the Salsalabs workaround.
To see the confirmation statement in your browser, erase the CSS from
it. IceCat has a command to do that in the right-click menu.
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| 12:48p |
The cheater as ineligible for office
Robert Reich: the corrupter should be barred from running for office
because of
his involvement in attempted insurrection.
The article uses the word "treason" to describe this. In everyday
informal terms, that word fits; but it is better to be precise in this
context, because the Constitution gives a definition of "treason" which
is much narrower: fighting against the US on behalf of an enemy country.
For clarity, we should say "insurrection".
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| 12:48p |
Sea urchin die-off mystery solved
A protist species known as "philaster" was responsible for nearly eliminating
a species of sea
urchins on the US east coast
and in the Caribbean.
Is there any chance this organism could be used safely to save
California's kelp forests from the sea urchins that are wiping it out?
That does not automatically follow — the sea urchins there might be
immune to them, or they might destroy other species too. Research
would be needed.
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| 12:48p |
Language as resistance: Ukranianisation of Kharkiv
Russian-speaking Ukrainians are
switching in large numbers
to using speaking mainly Ukrainian, as a gesture of resistance.
|
| 12:48p |
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| 12:48p |
UN civil and human rights evaluation of US
*A team of United Nations experts has arrived in the US on
a tour
that will focus
on racial justice, law enforcement and policing.*
|
| 1:03p |
Sea urchin die-off mystery solved
A protist species known as "philaster" was responsible for nearly eliminating
a species of sea
urchins on the US east coast
and in the Caribbean.
Is there any chance this organism could be used safely to save
California's kelp forests from the sea urchins that are wiping it out?
That does not automatically follow — the sea urchins there might be
immune to them, or they might destroy other species too. Research
would be needed.
|
| 1:03p |
The cheater as ineligible for office
Robert Reich: the corrupter should be barred from running for office
because of
his involvement in attempted insurrection.
The article uses the word "treason" to describe this. In everyday
informal terms, that word fits; but it is better to be precise in this
context, because the Constitution gives a definition of "treason" which
is much narrower: fighting against the US on behalf of an enemy country.
For clarity, we should say "insurrection".
|
| 1:03p |
|
| 1:03p |
UN civil and human rights evaluation of US
*A team of United Nations experts has arrived in the US on
a tour
that will focus
on racial justice, law enforcement and policing.*
|
| 1:03p |
Language as resistance: Ukranianisation of Kharkiv
Russian-speaking Ukrainians are
switching in large numbers
to using speaking mainly Ukrainian, as a gesture of resistance.
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