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The Colorado Sun ☀️

Suncor keeps reporting accidental toxic air releases in Commerce City, and a watchdog group focused on air pollution cites the most recent incidents in a new lawsuit against the EPA for greenlighting Suncor operations.

coloradosun.com/2023/11/30/sun

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Thiago Carvalho

"Why were there so few female scientists? Why was science considered a masculine enterprise? Reflecting on these issues, Keller embarked on two projects: her studies on gender and science, and her biography of US geneticist Barbara McClintock."

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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Julia Rose Kraut

"Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary" by National Security Archive @histodons nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo

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Bleak Future

I am able to support Jews and condemn Israel.

I am able to wish for a free and self determined Palestine and condemn Hamas.

The world is not binary. You can be outraged at dead babies before you see which flag metaphorically drapes their corpse.

This is bad for everyone. And pointless.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Uh oh, Donnie. The court-appointed auditor of your companies just caught you moving $40 million from the Trump Org to yourself so you could pay your taxes and legal fees. That’s not allowed under the judge’s order. It’s not going to go over well, especially as the judge decides penalties.

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Indivisible ❌👑

Thank you to the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee for taking this important step to hold the corrupt Supreme Court accountable. nbcnews.com/politics/congress/

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Steve Benen

Trump attacking MSNBC might seem trivial, but the details are not:

He also raised the prospect of using the government to come down "hard" against the network, adding that he considers MSNBC's journalism to be "illegal." Authoritarian visions matter. msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m

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Litzz11

Cornel West draws max donation from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow

Of course Republican billionaires are supporting 3rd party bids. But Cornel West ACCEPTED this donation. And that tells you everything you need to know about him.

He's a fraud.

nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/mee

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Gaythia Weis

Cop28 "climate" summit as big business lobbying opportunity: "Trade groups also give some indication in the documents of how they hope to shape conversations in Dubai. One said it will “push” the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization to host “positive livestock content” at Cop28. The Guardian recently revealed that pressure from the industry led to censorship of FAO reports on the role of cattle in increasing greenhouse gas emissions." theguardian.com/environment/20

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Wausau Pilot & Review

#AfternoonUpdate #AMUpdate Many deaths on small dairy farms are not investigated. ProPublica investigated OSHA’s practices. wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/

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Dubious lung float test: The test, which has been around for centuries and remains essentially unchanged in spite of medical advances, is typically used in cases when births occurred outside of a hospital. Critics have likened the test to witch trials, when women were deemed to be witches based on whether they floated or sank. Many medical experts say that air can enter the lungs of a stillborn child even without breathing. Air can enter when the baby’s chest compresses as it squeezes through the birth canal, through CPR or during the ordinary handling of the body. If the body is decomposed, gases may cause the lungs to float. propublica.org/article/lung-fl

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Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️

"Secretary Clinton, Dr. Biden, we also welcome your lovely husbands." Jason Carter, Jimmy and Rosalynn's grandson, welcomes the former Presidents in attendance.

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Thomas Zimmer

“Culture wars” and economic anxiety
 
When Republicans say they are focused on preserving “American culture and the American way of life,” they envision a societal order that protects entrenched hierarchies of race, gender, and religion.
 
Some thoughts, based on my new piece:

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thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/ho

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Keith D Johnson

Bill McKibben wrote:
"A Corrupted COP28
New revelations show just how bad the oil countries really are.
The UAE’s close ally, Saudi Arabia, is hard at work on an Oil Development Sustainability Programme which involved hooking African & Asian nations on fossil fuels. It is almost cartoonishly villainous:

The investigation obtained detailed information on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses & planes in Africa & elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy.

The ODSP plans to accelerate the development of supersonic air travel, which it notes uses three times more jet fuel than conventional planes, & partner with a carmaker to mass produce a cheap combustion engine vehicle. Further plans promote power ships, which use polluting heavy fuel oil or gas to provide electricity to coastal communities." open.substack.com/pub/billmcki
Also:
climate-reporting.org/undercov

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Richard Stallman

[1/2] theintercept.com/2023/11/21/ha

Harvard Law Review solicited and then killed an article arguing that Israel's bombing of Gaza fits the official definition of "genocide". Insiders report that the editors, who are 104 in number, voted to kill the article because they were afraid of likely retaliation against them in their careers otherwise. Academic freedom includes the freedom to argue for either side of that question. Threats to intimidate scholars …

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Ars Technica

Data from NASA’s Webb Telescope backs up ideas on planet formation

New data confirms the existence of a "snow line" in planet-forming disks.

arstechnica.com/science/2023/1

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This is reported as it should be, Chemours is a spinoff of DuPont. I think that too often large corporations have shed themselves of the financial burdens of a toxic legacy by spinoffs that are then allowed to fall into bankruptcy.

"A new investigation by human rights experts appointed by the United Nations has expressed alarm at evidence of pollution from a North Carolina PFAS manufacturing plant, describing it as “alleged human rights violations and abuses against residents”.
The ongoing PFAS crisis in North Carolina has been linked to a Fayetteville Works plant operated by Chemours, a chemical giant that was spun off from DuPont in 2015." theguardian.com/environment/20

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"Efforts to refill the US emergency oil reserve are being slowed, in part, by companies delaying their return of borrowed barrels." bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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Dr. Dan Killam

From the classic 1978 paper "Freshwater Mollusks Survive Fish Gut Passage," a pile of loose shell fragments collected from whitefish feces. Here and there are live pea clams (active and reaching out with their agile feet to burrow to safety) that survived their harrowing journey through the fish's gut alive! It is proposed by some researchers to be a significant mechanism allowing populations of these clams to migrate upstream! Sometimes we can't be picky about our mode of transport #clamFacts

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Robert Reich

Donations to MAGA Super Pac:

Phil Ruffin (net worth $3.4B): multiple $1 million donations

Robert “Woody” Johnson (net worth $3.7 billion): $1 million in April

Charles Kushner (family net worth $1.8B): $1 million in June

Trump is going full fascist, and billionaires love it.

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