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| 8:37a |
Urgent: Preserve Medicaid
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 231-400-0602 to tell per,
"No cuts to Medicaid."
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| 8:37a |
Gaza starvation as policy, ISR
*Israel is starving Gaza. It's a cheap, silent and
brutal
way to kill.*
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| 8:37a |
Urgent: Legalize Marijuana
US citizens:
Call
on Congress to Legalize Marijuana and End the Federal Ban.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 8:37a |
Plastic, chemical recycling by pyrolysis
*Plastic producers have pushed
"advanced
recycling" as a salve to the plastic waste crisis despite knowing
for years that it is not a technically or economically feasible
solution, a new report argues.*
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| 8:37a |
Urgent: Save public journalism
US citizens:
call
on Congress to protect public media from Trump's move to destroy
public journalism.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 8:37a |
Habeas corpus suspense
The bully proposes
to suspend the right of habeas corpus on the grounds that
immigrants
constitute an "invasion".
Courts have already ruled that that is no invasion and can't be treated
as one. ISTR that a court overturned Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus
in Kentucky on the grounds that public safety was doing ok there.
This makes it explicit that the bully and his henchmen want to
throw citizens in prison arbitrarily. They are the ones who belongs
in prison.
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| 8:37p |
Georgia Del Favero against parents' pervasive surveillance
Many American children and teenagers are oppressed constantly by
pervasive surveillance by their own parents. One summer camp has a
policy of refusing to provide parents with
"surveillance as a service".
The kids need to become accustomed to life unmonitored,
and parents need to get used to going for days without
monitoring their kids.
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| 8:37p |
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| 8:37p |
China arresting activist's relatives
China is
arresting relatives
of Hong Kong democracy activist in exile, after making it a crime
to help refugees get access their funds that are caught in Hong Kong.
This amounts to taking their relatives hostage.
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| 8:37p |
Alcatraz
The wrecker hopes to engage magats' imaginations by talk
of reopening
the Alcatraz island prison.
If the island continues to attract tourists, the ruiner's henchmen
could randomly choose some to seize and hold in he prison. They could
have a big laugh over this at the expense of non magats like us.
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| 8:37p |
Fossil fuel use
A method has been developed to attribute fractions of the world-wide
damage from extreme heat
to various
producers of fossil fuel, based on their contributions to the
fossil fuel consumption. This may make them to be liable for some of
the damage.
Although this is a small fraction of the damage their emissions will
do in the future, holding them liable for this part could provide
pressure to decrease fossil fuel investment.
In principle, it should be possible in a similar way to hold
agribusiness liable for the emissions from their deforestation
and fertilizer runoff.
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| 8:37p |
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| 8:37p |
US keeping wars going
Wars are festering in various parts of the world.
The US
keeps many of them going, but not all. No one seems to know what
to do to end them.
Regarding Yemen, it is clear that terror bombing of civilians in the
Houthi territory is unjust and won't achieve anything good. It is
also clear that we ought in any case to make Israel end its
bombardment of siege in Gaza. Doing that would the Houthis' attacks
on shipping, so that one festering battle would end.
I don't post about the other festering wars unless there is news of a
change in the situation -- because I don't know enough about them to
think of ideas for ending them.
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| 8:37p |
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| 8:37p |
Trump's tariff corruption
A tariff exemption is an exception to tariff requirements, granted for
importation of a specific foreign product. The corrupter is issuing
exemptions so as
to benefit
his rich supporters.
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| 8:37p |
Trump's replacement history
The bullshitter wants to replace American History with with
a compendium
of propaganda myths designed for him. We can expect him
subsequently to try to compel schools to teach this propaganda in
place of real history.
There have been plenty of myths in American History as taught in the
past, which met with efforts to replace the myths with facts and
serious thought. The principle of valuing truth supported those
efforts. But that principle never had to contend with the power of
the state.
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| 8:37p |
Antisemitism
An expert testifying for the Congressional
committee investigating
"antisemitism" compared that committee to the House Un-American
Activities Committee which persecuted real or alleged supporters of
Communism.
*Ahead of McCarthyite House Committee hearing on College Campuses,
Jewish Columbia Students Urge Congress to take Action Against the
… Regime’s
False Allegations of Antisemitism.*
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