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| 2:53a |
Urgent: Prenatal and maternity support
US citizens:
call on Congress
to pass the bill to improve prenatal and maternity support for women who are poor or disprivileged.
The bill's name is misleading, but its substance is good.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 2:53a |
Urgent: Clean energy transmission
US citizens:
call on Congress
to pass clean energy transmission legislation — to speed the connection of new renewable energy generators to the power grid.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 2:53a |
Urgent: FB's CrowdTangle analysis tool
US citizens:
call on
Facebook to preserve the CrowdTangle analysis tool.
I refuse to let Facebook use me, and I hope you do likewise; but since Facebook exists, we
should preserve methods to analyze how it uses people.
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| 2:53a |
Air pollution vs global heating
Ships switched to
cleaner
fuel in 2020. The resulting decrease in air pollution resulted in a jump in global heating.
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| 2:53a |
Urgent: Devastation in Rafah
US citizens:
call on Biden
to do all he can to avoid devastation in Rafah.
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: +1-202-456-1111 and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213
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| 2:53a |
Farmland PFAS
The US is considering
a
law to bail out farmers whose land was contaminated by PFAS in sewage sludge.
I sympathize with those farmers, and bailing them out is fair, since they were not themselves to
blame for the problem. But what happens to those farmers is a secondary issue. If it turns
out that those PFAS make food unhealthful, the main problem will be how and where to grow safe food.
Meanwhile, the most urgent measure to take, in this domain, is to prevent ruining any more farmland this way.
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| 2:53a |
Asylum-seeker round-ups speculative, UK
The UK has jailed asylum seekers from some very dangerous countries as
preparation
for sending them to Rwanda. These include
Sudan,
Eritrea
and
Afghanistan.
A refugee from one of those countries has a good chance of qualifying for asylum.
The UK has become incompetent at all sorts of ordinary government transactions. I don't know
why, but I suspect (1) budget cuts have left insufficient staff to do the job and (2) a desire
to punish asylum seekers and drive them away. Perhaps also bureaucratic rigidity and
unwillingness to give those staff any responsibility.
The result of this is that judging an asylum case takes years, so the number of asylum seekers grows and grows.
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| 2:53a |
Gaza border-control complete, ISR
Israel's
army now controls the whole border of Gaza, including the whole border with Egypt.
If the flow of humanitarian aid is insufficient for the people of Gaza, Israel will be
completely and directly responsible. (Aside from the meager quantities delivered by air and
sea, but they are not enough to change who survives.) Other governments must hold Israel
responsible for any shortfall.
Let's not lose sight of
where we want to end up.
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| 2:53a |
Subverting ICC investigations, ISR
Kenneth Roth, former head of Human Rights Watch: *The ICC spying
revelations show the
Israeli
government to be a lawless regime.*
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| 2:53a |
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| 11:09a |
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| 11:09a |
Urgent: State-Based Universal Health Care Act
US citizens:
call
on Congress to pass the State-Based Universal Health Care Act.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 11:09a |
Urgent: Stock-trading members of congress
US citizens:
call
on Congress to ban members of Congress from buying and selling individual stocks.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 11:09a |
Columbia U. shift restricts due process
Columbia University has abruptly changed its hearing rules to make it harder for students
accused of protesting to
defend
themselves.
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| 11:09a |
Urgent: Republican plans for Social Security
US citizens:
call
on the major media to make sure voters know the stakes for Social Security in this year's election.
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| 11:09a |
All new fossil-fuel licences unneeded
The world has enough fossil fuel resources in existence and
in
development
to last until 2050, without licensing any more.
After 2050, if civilization is to survive, it will have reduced consumption to the point where
no more will be needed.
The report provides *“a rigorous scientific basis” for global governments to ban new fossil
fuel projects and begin a managed decline of the fossil fuel industry, while encouraging
investment in clean energy alternatives.*
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| 11:09a |
Spotify Car Thing device as e-waste
Spotify sold a product to make cars listen to Spotify's dis-service. Now Spotify plans to
make them all stop working.
The customers who ask Spotify to release free software to power those devices are on the right
track, but as long as they call it "open source" instead of "free software", they will
undermine their own efforts.
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| 11:09a |
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| 11:09a |
First climate accountability law, VT
*Vermont becomes first state to require
big
oil to pay for climate damages.*
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| 11:09a |
Urgent: Netanyahu congressional speech
US citizens:
call on Maj Leader Schumer
not to give Netanyahu a platform in front of Congress.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 11:09a |
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