Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@social.cleverlibre.org

#Banksy #ClimateChange #BigOil

"The Earth isn’t dying, it’s being killed and those who are killing it have names and addresses."

🆕 from me, Bob Herman, @adamfeuerstein, Mohana Ravindranath, and Lizzy Lawrence: we spent the past few months digging through financial filings to analyze how top health care CEOs hauled in $4 billion last year.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/17/health-ceo-salaries-compensation/

Trump knows there are crazy people out there who will take violent action on his behalf if asked. He knew that on January 6, and he knows that today. That’s why he must be stopped from publicly attacking judges and prosecutors. He’s a threat to the system and to lives.

In Florida, hours of delays and dropped calls are keeping many Hispanic families out of Medicaid, report says https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/florida-hours-delays-dropped-calls-are-keeping-many-hispanic-families-rcna99971

5th circuit MAGA judges banned Mifepristone because the “FDA failed to address concerns about whether the drug is safe for women.”😐

Mifepristone reports 5 deaths for every 1M people who use it—a death rate of 0.0005%. Viagra has a 10X greater death rate.😳

So…when do MAGAs ban Viagra??🤔

Outrage as Arkansas tells high schools to drop AP African American course

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/15/arkansas-high-school-african-american-ap-course

Feeling like a newborn here, trying to locate fellow scientists interested in #octopus #killifish #developmentalBiology #evodevo #neuroscience #sciencefunding

I just can't believe they are evacuating the entire city of #Yellowknife in the North West Territories #NWT - that's a city of 22 thousand! "Yellowknife begins evacuation as wildfires approach"- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-wildfire-emergency-update-august-16-1.6938756 CBC by Sara Minogue - It breaks the heart #Wildfire #Canada #North

This.

There’s more: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278237263.html #journalism #Kansas

Marion County, #Kansas Attorney Joel Ensey says his review of police seizures from the offices of the local newspaper, the Marion County Record, found “insufficient evidence exists to establish a legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized. As a result, I have submitted a proposed order asking the court to release the evidence seized. I have asked local law enforcement to return the material seized to the owners of the property."

Maybe Stephen Miller should get a real job.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/stephen-miller-flips-out-over-gay-pop?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=78125

“We’ve been hungry since arriving last year. I don’t know where our next meal will come from, or which one of my children will die next.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russia-ukraine-war-refugees-no-food-water-1234805627/

Wow! Youth Plaintiffs win in Held v. Montana. They sued the state alleging that Montana's failure to consider climate change in decisionmaking violated their constitutional right to a healthy environment. This is big #climatechange and #environmentaljustice news!! Here is the (long) decision. Hundreds of detailed factual findings leading to the result.
https://westernlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023.08.14-Held-v.-Montana-victory-order.pdf

Introduction to Settler Colonialism

A MUST READ for reconnecting Natives and non-Natives by #Mvskoke TEK academic and researcher Lara A. Jacobs, currently working on her Forest Ecosystems and Society PhD.

Detailed but easy to digest.

#Decolonization #LandBack #Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #FourteenNinetyOne

-->> https://yehudarothschild.com/introduction-to-settler-colonialism

This is a great slideshow (inc. videos) from the Smithsonian Institution of Mvskoke history.

Before the Trail of Tears removal 23 pages.
https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/removal-muscogee/before.html

During the Trail of Tears removal 15 pages.
https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/removal-muscogee/during.html

After the Trail of Tears removal 17 pages.
https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/removal-muscogee/after.html

#TrailOfTears #Mvskoke #MuscogeeNation #Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #LandBack #InstanceBack #FourteenNinetyOne

The new U.S. majority isn't just young, tolerant and diverse. They vote. The right hates that, and it hates what it sees when it looks at something like U.S. women's soccer

They hate America AND democracy, and it's devolving toward violence.

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/us-conservatives-embrace-authoritarianism-anti-democracy-20230813.html#loaded

Pathetic timidity from the most powerful journalism organization in the nation: The NY Times says the illegal, outrageous police raid and seizure of everything electronic at a Kansas newspaper merely "raises questions" about freedom of the press.

I will NEVER understand how people will twist themselves inside out to find the worst and most ludicrous conspiracy theories instead of simply admitting the most obvious things such as the terrible Maui fires: Abandoned pineapple farms which had previously destroyed native habitat and abandoned cattle farms both which had invasive non-native grasses take over, grow to huge heights and create micro-climates, then completely dry out. Temperatures on the island up to 6 degrees hotter in recent years due to greenhouse effect. Prolonged storm seasons with fiercer winds, stronger sundowner and downhill winds, unrelenting drought even on the "dry side". All of this is "climate change", some on a planetary scale, some on a localized scale. Add in a tiny fire department, no aerial fighting equipment and none that could do anything in 60 to 80 mph winds anyway. Power lines and poles. Wooden structures. Ember storm. All created a perfect storm for fire. This unimaginable horror is made worse by the fools making shit up, and ultimately making worse the denial and ignorance that will prolong the refusal to change human ways to zero fossil fuel use and less energy use.

#ClimateDisaster #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeatherEvents #GetPrepared