Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

Again. Here are raids tearing families apart. Again. Here is a mosque defaced. Again. A man in a turban attacked. Again. An elderly woman run down by storm troopers in the streets. Again. Replacement theory moves from fringe Nazi riots to Tucker Carlson to elected Republican officials. Again. An insurrection. Again. Terrorists with guns threaten queer people here, murder them there.

Again. The leader of the Republican Party meets with Nazis and demands the overthrow of the Constitution.

Unthinkable. Except it isn’t. We’ve been thinking about the unthinkable, like very open-minded and reasonable people, for years.

Remember this, whenever anyone stands in front of a crowd and mourns the disagreement, rather than the cause, our divide, rather than the reason, and fails even to consider the targets and the victims, choosing instead to scold them from a comfortable place while playing a reasonable game with their aggressors.

America and the Sea of Serenity https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221210.html #APOD

NEW: Trump Political Committee Paid $48,000 To Trump Publishing Company

me for Forbes

#News #USPolitics #Trump #Books

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2022/12/10/trump-political-committee-paid-48000-to-trump-publishing-company/?sh=7c11e20448d1

10 December 1914 | A Pole, Karol Florczyk, was born in Krakow. An upholsterer.

In Auschwitz from 22 January 1942.
No. 25917
He perished in the camp on 26 March 1942.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history

@Steve98052
It didn't "become politicized." Libertarians ran a funded campaign to discredit public health as part of their effort to discredit the idea of government in people's minds. This helps them convince people to accept privatization.

See https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/22/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/

If you want to protect our democracy from authoritarianism, I urge you to contact your Senators and ask them to pass key reforms to the Electoral Count Act — before it’s too late.

These reforms could stop Trump’s next coup attempt.

Here’s what you need to know.

@freemo @Pat

House passed it. Republicans blocking it in Senate and Manchin, Sinema stopping Dems from ending filibuster to pass anything.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/15/house-passes-bills-to-protect-abortion-rights-senate-gop-to-block-the-legislation.html

Nationwide SARS2+ & Influenza Update: 12/9/2022

If you haven't gotten vaccinated against influenza or SARS2 yet this year, please do so immediately and wear an N95 or KN95 respirator in all shared indoor spaces.

Kyrsten Sinema single-handedly stopped Democrats from ending a tax break for hedge-fund managers and private equity executives.

Meanwhile, she received ~$1 million in donations from Wall Street.

Don’t be fooled: Sinema isn't “independent.” She's beholden to her donors.

Solidarity with the UC workers who are in their fourth week of the biggest strike in US higher education history. Let me remind you: absent the workers in a university, there's nothing. Workers not only deserve better wages & benefits, the quality of a UC education depends on it.

IBM slide, 1979 ... 😅 https://twitter.com/_w0bb1t_/status/1484198603337908226/photo/1

Issuing an advisory for all New Yorkers to mask up because COVID levels are high is a step in the right direction. However, the best way to increase mask wearing is to issue a mask mandate & distribute free N95 masks. The New York City Mayor and Health Commissioner need to take more action!

#BringBackMasks #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

By #TrackingWorldWater, SWOT will allow scientists and water managers to understand how often streams experience low- and high-flow conditions and develop a reference point to evaluate current conditions - all from the vantage point of space. https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9lRtaXCnPaBFQWjfUBaANbnxMwgRpQnU
#NASAJPL

Alaska holds 40% of U.S. surface water resources but is largely unmonitored due to its size and terrain.

The upcoming SWOT mission will collect data to help fill gaps in these remote places and provide valuable info to local decision-makers. https://go.nasa.gov/3W2FUFN
#NASAJPL

After evaluating the weather, the #Artemis I mission management team decided on a landing site in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalupe Island.

Splashdown is expected at 12:39pm ET (17:39 UTC) on Dec. 11: https://go.nasa.gov/3FgTnTv
#NASAArtemis #Artemis

We need spectroscopy to confirm how far away a galaxy is, as closer galaxies can “masquerade” as distant ones. Spectroscopy refers to breaking light into its components to create spectra, or “barcodes.” On a "barcode," elements and molecules have distinct signatures we can read.
#JamesWebb

Because the universe is expanding, the light from distant galaxies is stretched — or redshifted — into longer, infrared wavelengths. We can figure out galaxies’ distances by measuring how much the signatures of elements in their spectra have shifted due to this effect.
#JamesWebb