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Ocean acidification worse than believed
Remeasuring ocean acidification has found it is worse than scientists
had believed.
This will soon start wiping out corals, crustaceans, and mollusks with
shells, by dissolving their shells. This will also wipe out thousands
of species that depend on corals.
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Grass taking over vast areas of Britain
Vast areas of Britain have been taken over by a grass that forms a
mono culture. No birds or insects can live in those areas.
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How Chicago protects residents from deportation
What Chicago does to protect its residents from deportation.
I must rebuke the article's author for saying that the bullshitter has
*worked to fulfill campaign pledges to carry out mass deportations
after promising to remove "millions".* Yes, he said that, but he has
no sense of obligation to carry out promises, whether campaign
promises or any other kind.
He sticks to this line of attack because he thinks it is an effective
strategy for reducing the US to submission. Part of the reason for
that is that magats are mad for it. That has a superficial partial
resemblance to "carrying out a promise," but they are fundamentally
different.
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| 2:39a |
Wrecker to label power plant emissions "not significant"
The wrecker is planning to label US greenhouse emissions from power
plants as "not significant", showing his usual disregard for facts,
as an excuse to permit increasing them.
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Big Bad Bill built on falsehoods
*[The Big Bad Bill] is built on falsehoods about low-income families.*
Poor people don't make bad decisions out of laziness. They do it
out of high levels of stress in their lives.
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| 2:39a |
Order on grant applications that talk about DEI
A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement
of the executive order to reject grant applications that talk
about DEI or mention the existence of trans people.
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Algae in waterways rapidly increasing
* As the Earth heats up, the amount of algae in our waterways is rapidly
increasing, transforming the colour of lakes and killing entire
ecosystems.*
Several massive human outputs combine to cause algae blooms,
and human economic growth increases all of them.
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| 2:39a |
Israel's attack on the Madleen humanitarian aid ship
On June 8-9, Israel attacked the Madleen, a ship bringing humanitarian
aid to Gaza, operated by the Hind Rajab Foundation. The foundation
has formally filed a war crimes complaint about this attack,
*Eyewitnesses report that passengers were physically assaulted,
exposed to choking white substances sprayed from drones, and denied
communication with the outside world.*
The ship and its personnel did not try to commit any violence or any
damage against Israel, so there is no possible excuse for the violence
that Israel committed against the ship and the personnel.
Israel attacked vessels carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza several
years ago.
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Robbery by man claiming to be deportation thug
A man who said he was a deportation thug tied up a sales clerk and
took $1000 in cash.
The article asserts that he was an impostor and not a real deportation
thug. Perhaps so — but can anyone verify that? Can we be sure he
wasn't an authentic deportation thug?
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| 2:39a |
Commercial "period tracker" apps
Commercial "period tracker" apps, which connect to servers, collect
users personal data and then store them in the servers for others to
obtain.
A bizarre alternative has been proposed: governments would run these apps
and store the data in their own servers.
One might wish we could trust those governments not to use that data
against the users who entered them — but if the government is taken
over by right-wing fanatics, it will use those data in all the
nastiest ways — including punishing abortion.
The real solution to this problem is to keep the data encrypted on your own
computer. But in order for users to rationally trust it, it needs to be free
software, so that no one is in a position to corrupt the program.
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| 2:39a |
(satire) Children born under Biden to be renamed after confederate generals
(satire) *Trump Orders All Children Born Under Biden To Be Renamed
After Confederate Generals.*
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| 2:39a |
Urgent: Stop wrecker's authoritarian troop deployment
US citizens: call on Congress to Stop [the wrecker]'s Authoritarian Troop Deployment.
The line between military and civilian government is among the
critical protections for democracy.
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| 2:39p |
Australian sent back to Australia when he arrived in US
Australian Alistair Kitchen was sent back to Australia when he arrived
in the US. Agents told him the reason for interrogating him was
due to his writings about protests against Israel's war crimes in Gaza, which
he had witnessed shortly before his 2024 graduation from Columbia university.
Most of what the agents did would have been reasonable and not cruel,
if they had done it for a real reason. What was wrong was that they
did it to someone based on per nonviolent exercise of constitutional
rights. That is totally offensive to the United States and its
Constitution.
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Steven Donziger: How Greenpeace lost
*Greenpeace lost — not because it did something wrong but because it was
denied
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Texas trying to enforce law which treats fetus or embryo as person
Texas is trying to enforce its law that treats a fetus or embryo as a
person, by murder charges against someone who gave a pregnant woman an
abortion drug.
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Brazil to auction oil exploration rights
*Brazil to auction oil exploration rights months before hosting Cop30.*
When Lula was president before, he was a strong champion of curbing
global heating. Sad to say, this seems to have changed. Even worse,
the change seems to be a world-wide pattern, that governments are
dropping most of the efforts they did make to save civilization and
nature from global heating.
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| 2:39p |
President toying with invoking Insurrection Act
* Four years after the January 6 attack, the president is toying with
invoking the Insurrection Act to respond to a conflict he provoked.*
*Some Republicans Opposed Using Troops Against Protests in 2020. Now They’re Marching in Lockstep.*
Some Republicans Opposed Using Troops Against Protests in 2020. Now They’re Marching in Lockstep.
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| 2:39p |
Nine protesters in LA being prosecuted
Nine protesters in LA are being prosecuted for supposed fights with
official thugs, which appears not to have occurred at all.
It is not unusual for official thugs to bear false witness so as to
get someone unjustly punished. Solidarity in lying is part of their
culture, so when one does it, the rest know they are expected to lie
to support it.
I don't have a basis to be certain that all nine of those protesters
are victims of lies and that all the accusations are false. What I
will say is that we should not trust the word of official thugs about
such accusations.
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| 2:39p |
RFK Jr fired CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization
RFK jr has fired everyone on the CDC's Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices and appointed Antivaxxers to
Many medical and scientific organizations in the US make a practice of
relying on the recommendations of such advisory panels. Now that this
one has been rendered incompetent, those organizations may find that
institutional inertia stands in the way of recognizing that they are no
longer fit for such trust. Those that are prepared to recognize this
encounter another problem: who else can they trust instead?
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| 2:39p |
Historical survey on nonviolent activism
A historical survey concludes that 3.5% of the population, engaged steadily
in nonviolent activism to change the government, achieve that goal.
The survey also found that in general nonviolent activism is
considerably more effective than armed resistance.
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| 2:39p |
Deportation thugs lurked next to an elementary school
Deportation thugs lurked next to an elementary school, apparently using
the school children as bait to arrest their parents.
One of their cars collided with another vehicle whose driver was then
taken away in an ambulance.
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Mainstream media have enabled war on universities
*The mainstream media [have] enabled [the bully's] war on universities.
For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over
leftists on campus while failing to report on the right [wing]'s
assault.*
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| 2:39p |
Foreign flags at LA protests
*[The wrecker] claims [foreign flags at LA protests] signify a
"foreign invasion" but experts say they're flown by US citizens
proud of their heritage.*
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Parents allowed children to walk to a store
North Carolina parents allowed their children to walk to a store.
One was killed in an unlikely accident; now they are threatened with many years in jail.
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New rules on betting ads must be considered
*John Maynard tells Guardian the US must consider new rules on betting
ads as operators lobby against federal crackdown.*
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UK scheme to turn children away from crime
* A [UK] scheme aiming to turn children arrested for violence away
from crime has claimed staggering success, with up to nine out of
10 diverted from further offending, according to a report.*
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Urgent: Support Higher Wages for American Workers Act
US citizens: phone your senators to support the Higher Wages for
American Workers Act, which would increase the federal minimum wage
to $15 per hour.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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