Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@social.cleverlibre.org

At the protests in Los Angeles tonight, there were multiple stringers with professional camera rigs acting aggressively, shoving people, getting in people's personal space, and trying to provoke fights. After the protests disbanded, at least three of these stringers were seen huddling with LAPD.

The Haitian historian and educator Pierre Buteau was kidnapped three days ago in his home. This is terrible news and I do not know what can be done from afar, except to raise the alarm. #histodons

https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/aha-advocacy/aha-letter-to-us-secretary-of-state-urging-assistance-with-safe-return-of-pierre-buteau-(january-2023)

The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them.
Wendi C. Thomas is a black journalist who has covered police in Memphis. One officer admitted to spying on her. She’s on a long list of prominent black journalists and activists who have been subjected to police surveillance over decades.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-police-have-been-spying-on-black-reporters-and-activists-for-years-i-know-because-im-one-of-them

Myth America review: superb group history of the lies that built a nation https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/28/myth-america-review-history-zelizer-kruse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

In Georgia, the First Amendment is pretty much banned these days when it comes to freedom of assembly: https://www.wrbl.com/news/local-news/columbus/mayor-skip-henderson-comments-on-fridays-scheduled-community-rally-in-columbus/

Column — I was Florida’s professor of the year, but my classes would now be illegal

#DeSantis #Florida #censorship

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2023/01/26/i-was-floridas-professor-year-my-classes-would-now-be-illegal-column/?outputType=amp

Sarah Weddington was 27 when she argued Roe v. Wade — the youngest person ever to win in the Supreme Court. Today is the 45th anniversary of the landmark case that legalized abortion in the U.S.

Old men took it away.

When DeSantis began pushing new rules on how race is taught, Dunn decided to take his tour statewide and to focus on students. If teachers were going to shy away from lessons about the Newberry Six lynchings or the murders of Black civil rights activists, he would take it upon himself to make sure that history was taught.

“We’re going to keep on teaching it,” Dunn said. “This is the antidote to the DeSantis-izing of history.”
https://wapo.st/3j009WU
#BlackHistory
#History
#TeachTheTruth

There is an ongoing debate right now about "immunedeficiency" effects of #Covid19 🙄.

I went back to its definition again so..

#immunedeficiency

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK500027/

ICYMI - 2022 was the hottest year on record for our oceans...

+ Study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-023-2385-2
+ Summary: https://carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-how-the-world-warmed-in-2022/

Federal minimum wage in:

2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25

The result: It's now worth 41% less today than it was in *1968*.

The problem with charts such as this (from Edelman's Trust Barometer) is that they portray authoritarian regimes as not polarized--because there is little or no freedom to express dissent. And they lead to the assumption that the most polarized nations are the most troubled when, in fact, they are the ones fighting off authoritarianism because they are threatened by it. Another way to look at this is to see the danger of *not* being polarized.

Americans will really do anything to avoid using the metric system.

You know what I notice about the pics at the World Evonomic Forum in Davos? The HEPA filters in every room. And that they’re all sitting around in their coats. Because the windows are probably open (for ventilation).

Not to mention that we know a negative PCR test was required for their badges to work.

We now know how to gather safely. We’re just treating those things as luxuries afforded only to the rich, while our kids’ schools are full of every respiratory virus.

#Covid #WEF23 #Davos

A reminder of *why* people are leaving their countries in the first place: "UNHCR considers that the situation prevailing in Nicaragua may be characterized as a massive violation of human rights."

https://refworld.org/docid/63bc17264.html

#books #reading #libraries

'How you could build a search that the fediverse would welcome' by @anildash is such a good and thoughtful read. Really impressed to see so much good writing lately about the #fediverse and how to move this weird project of ours forward! :undefined::undefined: :undefined:
https://anildash.com/2023/01/16/a-fediverse-search/