DecaturNature @DecaturNature@social.cleverlibre.org

McCarthy represents the Republican establishment. That doesn’t mean he’s a “moderate.” It means the GOP establishment is fully embracing the extremism as the party has moved so far to the right that yesterday’s radical fringe is now firmly in the center of conservative politics.

First Mastodon🧵(making use of the 500 character limit)

With #SARSCoV2 becoming #endemic, the question remains how much #mortality we will have to expect in the coming years.

While naturally acquired and vaccine-elicited immunity has greatly reduced the risk of severe disease and death, many European countries still experience substantial #excessmortality. This is not unexpected given the observed short- and long-term mortality following #SARSCoV2 infection. (1/4) #xp

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100394

Vaccination of staff, including boosters, appears to reduce transmission to nursing home residents.

#COVID #vaccines
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2799964

Quite a nice lead sentence here.

"Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed conservative activist Christopher Rufo and five others to the New College of Florida Board of Trustees in his continuing move to eliminate “political ideology” from public higher education."

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/579522-gov-desantis-taps-christopher-rufo-5-others-to-transform-new-college-of-florida-into-classical-college/

https://locusmag.com/2022/12/isiah-lavender-iii-reviews-africa-risen-a-new-era-of-speculative-fiction-edited-by-sheree-renee-thomas-oghenechovwe-donald-ekpeki-zelda-knight/

#afrofuturism
#blackscifi
#BlackSciFiWriter
#BlackScFiAuthor
#BlackMastodon
#scifi
#scifibooks

Since Jan. 6, 2021, Fortune 500 companies — some of whom pledged to withdraw support from candidates who denied the results of the 2020 election — have given nearly $15.8 million to election deniers.

Look up how much they've given and to whom:

https://projects.propublica.org/fortune-500-company-election-deniers-jan-6/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Here’s some great news to start 2023! France will protect their children from COVID-19 and other airborne diseases by mandating a CO2 target of <800 ppm in schools and daycare centres.

Well done, France! 🇫🇷

See the posts by @nousaerons for more details on the legislation.

🐘: https://piaille.fr/@nousaerons/109624337437709782

🐦: https://twitter.com/nousaerons/status/1610191726924136454?s=46

#COVID19 #COVID

Nina Simone and James Baldwin. Early 1960s. (Photo: New York Public Library/New Yorker) #blackfriday #BlackMastodon #photos #photography #photo #Mastodon #NinaSimone #jamesbaldwin

Instead of saying "come to mastodon" link the person to a thread here where they would totally want to jump in and join the conversation.

"we were just talking about this here: ***link*** -- could really. use a perspective like yours."

It gives people a starting point and some people who are active and who they'd want to follow.

Masking is not fun or convenient. That is clear.

The #HierarchyOfControls from #IndustrialHygiene will also tell you that masks are our worst defense, but that doesn't mean they don't help.

We must invest in affordable solutions to increase #IndoorAirExchange, and with plans to retrofit existing buildings.

The challenge: #ClimateChange makes the need for temperature management indoors even more important, with more extremes and limiting combustible sources.

How can we do it? 🤔

This Map Of The Observable Universe is mesmerizing ... https://mapoftheuniverse.net/ thanks to @Wiobyrne for its mention in his newsletter. I am lost in the stars across time now ...

#BlackMastodon #BlackFriday #BlackJoy

"Feeling Good" sung by Nina Simone, written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse. Described as a "booming song of emancipation"
Official music video was released in 2021. It follows 4 generations of Black women "living their truths, loving each other, celebrating their hair, and feeling good". Directed by Sara Lacombe to raise awareness for the CROWN Act, a U.S. law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHRNrgDIJfo

Yesterday, at another park, I saw lush moss thanks to our recent wet weather.

#Mosstodon #NaurePhotography

Behind the Greenbelt Nature Center is this small statue of a frog with haiku on a stone in the wall on which it sits.

#Frog #Haiku

JOB at @internetarchive
Program Officer, Archiving and Data Services
Remote $65,000-80,000
work with @thomas

https://app.trinethire.com/companies/32967-internet-archive/jobs/71515-program-officer-archiving-and-data-services

#archives

Nineteen suspected gang members and 10 military personnel were killed in a wave of violence surrounding the arrest of #Mexico drug cartel boss Ovidio Guzman in Sinaloa, according to Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval. https://www.adn40.mx/seguridad/ovidio-guzman-detencion-militares-ldb

this was a good (if long) read about the exhaustion involved in constantly having to rebuild online communities after The Bad People take over

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

New from me: What does it mean for a state supreme court justice to say he is "intensely pro-law enforcement?"

It means he shouldn't be serving on a state supreme court.

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/michigan-supreme-court-justice-richard