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| 2:57a |
Miami teachers union vs. Trojan horse
Miami public school teachers have been compelled to vote to choose between their existing union and
a Trojan horse union set up by right-wing plutocrats.
I call it a "Trojan horse" because it is the work of a campaign to
abolish unions for teachers and public workers, Whatever it may
offer them, it is a trap.
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| 2:59a |
Andrei Gnyot warning
*Dozens of European directors, actors and other artists have called on
Serbian authorities not to extradite a
Belarusian activist back to
Belarus,*
where he could be executed for political opposition activities.
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| 2:59a |
Greater debt relief study
More Debt relief for poor countries would lead to major improvements
in
education and sanitation.
I hope it would also lead to major increases in use of birth control.
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| 2:59a |
Trump’s lucky streak
A new, improved indictment of the wrecker argues that his criminal
actions to steal the 2020 election, were outside of his "official
duties", so even under the extreme court's broad idea of
immunity he
has none for these.
I argue that stealing an election is never a legitimate part of the
president's duties, so perse would never have immunity under this
doctrine.
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| 2:59a |
Crocodile culling study
Studies show that the most efficient way to reduce crocodile attacks
in Australia is to teach men to follow the
publicized safety precautions.
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| 2:59a |
Urgent: Grocers' bullet-vending machines
US citizens:
call
on Congress to ban vending machines for ammunition.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 2:59a |
Frankcom’s brother
*The brother of the Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, who was killed
in an Israeli airstrike, has called for those responsible for his
sister's
death to be prosecuted and punished.*
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| 2:59a |
Urgent: Public safety for mental crises
US citizens: support the People's Response Act, to invest in public health alternatives to policing
for emergencies that are not about crime.
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| 2:59a |
Huge oil tanker afire, Red Sea, YEM
The Houthis have for
a second time set an oil tanker on fire,
causing a risk of polluting the Red Sea.
If the fire can be put out, and the ship and its cargo saved, that would be the ideal outcome. But
if that is not feasible, there is another possibility: to rig the ship with remote controls and sail
it into the port of Hodeida as a fireship. That could cause a lot of damage to the Houthis' port
facilities, while not harming a lot of civilians.
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| 2:59a |
Brain plastics
If a deceased person's brain contains (average)
0.5%
plastic today, what will it contain in 2050? Perhaps 2%?
Will it be necessary to treat that brain as toxic waste? Could cremation or burial lead to air or
water pollution?
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Climate crisis campaigner
George Monbiot: *There are several services and assets I would like to
see nationalized. But at the top of my list is neither water, nor
trains, nor development land, much as I’d like to see them brought
under national or local public ownership. Above all, I want to see
the nationalisation of my
own business: environmental persuasion.*
Leaving it to private citizens to recruit and organize to avoid global
heating disaster, then criminalizing all effective methods they can use,
guarantees the job won't be done.
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| 8:59a |
Regulatory agenda
60% of Americans think big
business is too powerful.
But the politicians who protect business's power will continue
call themselves, misleadingly, "centrist".
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