David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

#KamalaHarris tells teachers: “We want to ban assault weapons; they want to ban books.”

https://www.gregpalast.com/trumps-plan-to-enforce-amnesia-by-law/

55 years ago, Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon.

Almost exactly 55 years before *that*, the first world war broke out.

The first Apollo landing is history: closer to the first world war than to the present day.
https://mastodon.scot/@LordWoolamaloo/112819680081071862

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies.

Her bosses halted her work.

As the #EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking #water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

#News #Science #Chemistry #Safety #Environment #Minnesota #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

For Mother’s Day, sent my mom a trade offer of Jurickson Profar for Skenes and she rejected it outright — no counter — with the note, “My neighbor’s son just finished med school.”

Happy Mother’s Day!

Bravo @ProPublica for this well deserved Pulitzer Prize, exposing the bribery and corruption that continues to destroy the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

Congress? Your turn. https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/112395995734056656

READ: Here is, as released by the NY Courts website, the transcript of the Friday, May 3 court proceedings of Orange Thug—this includes the testimony of Hope Hicks. https://bit.ly/3JNQvQG

How to make difficult decisions – Benjamin Franklin's pioneering framework of measuring the pros and cons https://t.co/Of7wF0VEpH

So far this week...

The FTC banned the use of noncompete clauses.

The DOL strengthened overtime rules.

The FCC restored #NetNeutrality.

The DOT expanded protections for airline passengers.

This is what it looks like when the government works on behalf of the people.

#Texas Appeals Court Throws Out Defamation Lawsuit Against ProPublica, Houston Chronicle
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The news outlets’ 2018 investigation into famed #Houston heart surgeon Bud Frazier provided a “fair, true, and impartial account,” the court said in its ruling, potentially bringing a close to the nearly six-year legal battle.

#News #Law #Journalism

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-appeals-court-dismisses-defamation-suit-propublica-houston-chronicle-frazier

The future is fascinating.

Politicians and wannabe big thinkers want to fight a battle against EVs and prop up Detroit and jobs.

That's not the big issue - and besides, it won't work.

And they are forgetting this simple fact - it's pretty obvious that China is about to own the 21st-century automotive industry, and car companies need to pick up the pace to have a fighting chance.

Meanwhile, the one guy who was doing all the right things to reinvent the automotive industry has gone off into grievance-mind-for-butter-conspiracy land and has lost the plot.

"This is not subjective. We all saw it. Plenty of leaders today try to convince the masses we did not see what we saw, but our eyes don’t deceive. (If leaders began a yearslong campaign today to convince us that the Baltimore bridge did not collapse Tuesday morning, would you ever believe them?) Trust your eyes. Trump on Jan. 6 launched the most serious threat to our system of government since the Civil War. You know that. You saw it." #Trump #Biden https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html

I deeply appreciate the American Robin outside my window, singing for love...

2nd Basemen to Target for 2024 Fantasy Baseball - https://razzball.com/2nd-basemen-to…

A study on Tokyo teenagers has found that their stress levels had decreased during Japan's first COVID-19 state of emergency, contrary to popular belief that restrictions on academic and social activities caused extra stress. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/02/09/japan/science-health/teens-covid-emergency-stress/ #japan #sciencehealth #covid19injapan #covid19 #children #depression #surveys

46 years ago
Poly Styrene on the front cover of Los Angeles punk fanzine 'Slash', February 1978

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #polystyrene #xrayspex #history #punkrockhistory

Wayne Kramer, Leader of MC5, Dead at 75 https://consequence.net/2024/02/wayne-kramer-mc5-dead/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Happy Birthday to Christene Lee Cervenka aka Exene Cervenka, songwriter and singer for the California punkrock band X, born on this day in 1956, Chicago, Illinois

Photo by Dean Musgrove

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #exenecervenka #history #punkrockhistory #otd