Lauralee Dukeshire (she/her) @LauraleeDukeshire@social.cleverlibre.org

"In its effort to impose a strict racial, gender, and political hierarchy in the name of Christianity, the modern white Christian nationalist movement is an ideological descendant of the Ku Klux Klan.

No matter how some adherents try to sanitize it, white Christian nationalism is neither mere Christianity nor simple patriotism."

~ Jemar Tisby

#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #KKK

https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/now-we-call-it-white-christian-nationalism

It’s Schadenfriday, so let’s head down to Nashville and drink our fill as we head into the weekend! The GOP sought the spotlight by acting really, really badly, and now that sunlight has exposed some pretty damning things. Enjoy my write-up! https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/gnashville?sd=pf

This is the single best piece on pandemic preparedness that I’ve read in three years. From the White House to the Gates Foundation, from the CDC to the various think tanks pondering these issues, you’ve got to take what Anne Sosin and Martha Lincoln say here and act on it. Biomedical approaches, alone, are desperately insufficient to meet the coming plague. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pandemic-preparation-social-conditions/

They warn the attendees
of the music festival
that they may come down
with a case of “festival flu”
the cold and flu symptoms of which
are due supposedly
to the site’s hot and dusty conditions
and I think to myself:
“festival flu”
so I guess that’s what
we’re calling it now.

Our preparations for the next pandemic should begin in the places and communities that Covid hit hardest and first. Upgrades to the infrastructure of our nursing homes, factory floors, and crowded public spaces must be a first order of business. …Meaningful plans for protecting the highest-risk members of our society in public and private spaces should be our top priority.”

“As journalist Amy Maxmen has written, “If pandemic preparedness plans leave out discrimination, labor protection, fairer wages & access to healthcare and education, we fail again.” The usual rule is: Once burned, twice shy. Yet the United States remains a tinderbox for new infectious pathogens to be set alight.”

@auscandoc

I used to believe the quote below but now, ala "A Canticle for Leibowitz" I fear we are trapped in a never ending cycle of failure in which we learn nothing and keep repeating the same mistakes.

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

Winston Churchill

Some people only come into your life for a brief moment in time and thank fuck for that.

Not going well for the TN GOP😃. A fed judge has temp. halted: drag ban; ACLU/Lambda Legal have filed a fed lawsuit against the ban on gender affirming care; gun safety activists & clergy have held sustained protests at the Capitol after the mass shooting & the 2 “Justins”-expelled were reinstated. The press & the Justins of the world have made this much clear: The GOP isn't safe from accountability, not anywhere, not even in the reddest, most unfairly stacked state leg--: https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/gnashville?sd=pf

The forgotten tub of garlic cloves in the back of our refrigerator would like everyone to know that life does, in fact, find a way. Sometimes more than one.

B.C. governments portray the province a climate leader.

Yet six other provinces have surpassed B.C. in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions since 2005. 🌎🇨🇦

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/04/21/BC-Lags-Most-Provinces-Cutting-Emissions/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=042123-m&utm_campaign=editorial

Imagination conjured up organ transplants, the surveillance state and talking to our computers.

“I question how good we are at imagining climate action.“

Jude Isabella on how to get unstuck on a fossil fuel future. 🌎
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/04/21/Nuclear-Weapons-Fossil-Fuels/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=042123-m&utm_campaign=editorial

You know about binary, at least a little. Its a numbering system. The one you know best is the base ten system. You count up to ten, and that becomes a group called ten, two are called twenty, etc. Binary counts to two. One, ten, eleven, "a hundred" (its not called a hundred) 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000

Some inuit kids invented a written system for the ancient inuit base 20 numbering system.

The inuit count in base 20. And the numbers are fascinating.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals

And just like that, Twitter’s blue checkmark is the new MAGA hat.

Danielle Smith has been fixated on privatizing health care for her entire career.

Putting her in control of public health care is having the fox guard the hen house.

#ableg #abpoli #abhealth
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-smiths-health-care-guarantee-goes-against-her-own-basic-plans-and-convictions

Weird how a hospital that had dropped masking requirements had an outbreak and needed to re-implement them.

Can’t protect people until you’ve harmed a bunch of them first I guess. 🙃🤬

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/kaiser-mask-rules-covid-outbreak-17909316.php

I want to tell parents of trans kids under attack in the red states something:

This is simply horrifying. Like you, we can't understand how any politicians could stoop so low as to attack the most vulnerable among us.

You are strong, and we will fight for and beside you. And though we may lose these initial battles, your love and strength will help win this in the end. I know that to be true.

Totally captures how I feel these days.