I want to send the state of Texas a bill for all the chlamydia, trich, and UTIs I write prescriptions to their residents for. So many people who come to #NewMexico and Colorado for #abortion care end up getting very basic health screenings while here their home handmaid’s tale-esque state is neglecting. Want to “save lives”? Decrease chlamydia in your state - it leads to increased rates of ectopic pregnancies.
National red flag law anyone?
If the Army determined he could not be trusted with a firearm, a judge should have been able to do the same.
Maine mass shooter's family reached out to sheriff 5 months before rampage, sheriff's office says
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/31/2202747/-Maine-mass-shooter-s-family-reached-out-to-sheriff-5-months-before-rampage-sheriff-s-office-says
EPA has tested Corsi-Rosenthal boxes for aerosolized virus removal and (as expected) they worked very well, built by adults or by 5th graders, run on high speed or low speed.
https://today.uconn.edu/2023/10/epa-testing-shows-the-power-of-d-i-y-air-filters-to-trap-viruses/
#Vote #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy
“I really believe it’s down to one issue on the ballot. Not taxes, not even abortion, nothing. The one issue is: Do you believe in democracy, or do you believe in authoritarianism?”
— Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), on CNN, explaining why he’s voted for Democrats in the last two elections.
Doctors Without Borders spokeswoman tells Chris Hayes that the situation in #Gaza is
"One of the worst humanitarian catastrophes that we have ever seen." This from an organization that has worked in war zones and disaster areas worldwide for decades.
Republicans are not “delusional,” they haven’t temporarily “lost their mind.” Such pathologizing language obscures rather than illuminates the fact that Republicans are engaged in a deliberate, systematic, and highly successful project to entrench minority rule. 13/
This story ought to be getting a whole lot more attention than it is.
Minneapolis Police have been running something approaching a mafia-style protection racket targeting local businesses, especially minority-owned businesses.
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Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/trawling-for-fish-releases-as-much-carbon-as-air-travel-report-finds-climate-crisis
Dragging heavy nets across seabed disturbs marine sediments, world’s largest carbon sink, scientists report
Not new, but new to me
Mike Johnson's Wild Anti-LGBTQ Past Revealed By CNN's K-File
"The inspectors concluded they couldn’t investigate because OSHA is banned from enforcing safety laws on farms with fewer than 11 workers unless they have employer-provided housing known as a “temporary labor camp.”
Since 2009, at least 17 workers, most of them immigrants, have died on Wisconsin dairy farms. Twelve of the deaths happened on farms with fewer than 11 workers. OSHA did not inspect eight of those 12, each time citing the small farms exemption."
The end of the Sarennes glacier near Alpe d'Huez. Final measurements done on 16 October.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange
https://www.ledauphine.com/environnement/2023/10/19/a-l-alpe-d-huez-le-glacier-a-fondu-d-un-metre-en-moins-d-un-mois
@dalias @belehaa @writerethink @CassandraZeroCovid There is a shortage of nurses, based on generally poor working conditions. And also lack of access to training. That gap is partially filled by religious institutions where education in basic science is limited by doctrine. For example: https://www.ccu.edu/academics/nursing/ as opposed to the University of Colorado.
An immunocompromised person in my family got COVID for the first time, AT THE HOSPITAL because they stopped requiring ANY PRECAUTIONS. No masks, no nothing.
They can't avoid the hospital so that means they'll just have to roll the dice each time they go?
What a cruel world.
Immunocompromised means the vaccine doesn't work as well. So what the current US policy says is equivalent to "you're on your own" good luck! 😡😡😡
Below you see a reconstruction of the β-galactosidase enzyme after soft-landing mass spectrometry.
Nature's latest article discusses the technique, and highlights our very own director, Klaus Kern, who has made seminal contributions to the method.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03236-7
The disappearance of thicker #Arctic sea ice by decade in October... 🧊📉
More info on data: https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/pan-arctic-ice-ocean-modeling-and-assimilation-system-piomas
💯@soniasodha 'The pandemic will cast a long shadow over the Covid generation because of terrible political choices'.
These continue with a failure to reconfigure learning spaces, and improve ventilation. #CovidIsAirborne #LongCOVID @guardian @yahooNewsUK
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/empty-classroom-seats-reveal-long-063308176.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr
Retired Analytical Chemist
League of Women Voters -voting methods, election security
Board Member Colorado Citizens for Science