David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

Under the American Rescue Plan, the expanded child tax credit slashed poverty in half.

Manchin and the GOP let it expire and child poverty spiked by 41%.

President Biden’s budget would make the credit permanent.

Folks, child poverty is a policy choice.

Media just will not stop using the term "culture wars." Culture wars may be disputes about spaghetti or burgers for dinner. What the media misnames and often conscously trivializes as supposed "culture wars" are, in fact, the attack on human rights, authoritarianism, and the renewed enforcement of outright discrimination. There is nothing "both sides" about this, and it is not a question of cultural heritage or personal taste.

Whenever I click a news article and it’s a video I’m like, “ok! guess I won’t be learning about that current event!!”

READ: The 179-page $6.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2024 released by President Biden and the OMB (Office of Management And Budget) on Thurs March 9, 2022. Congress will vote on the Biden budget (at some point...) https://bit.ly/3l8MUnN

#BlackMastodon #BlackFriday

Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys, HR of Bad Brains and Olga De Volga backstage at Peoples Temple Pavillon in San Francisco, circa 1980.

Photo by Vincent Anton

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #jellobiafra #HR #olgadevolga #history #punkrockhistory

Guv. Sarah Hucksterbee Sanders signed a law in Arkansas that makes child labor easier for employers to get away with. And now we have the following, from the WaPo:
"A bill advancing in Iowa would allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work certain jobs in meatpacking plants and would shield businesses from civil liability if a youth worker is sickened, injured or killed on the job."
Look at that last sentence again.

Good news on Covid, for a change https://erictopol.substack.com/p/a-break-from-covid-waves-and-a-breakthrough

Women have changed the (punk rock) world to this day, no World Women's Day needs to remind us of that.

Nonetheless
Happy #InternationalWomensDay2023

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #womenofrock #history #punkrockhistory

Kevin Seconds of hardcore punk rock band 7 Seconds sings in front of the crowd. Reno, Nevada, mid 1980's.

Photo by Tara Norton Eckert

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #7seconds #history #punkrockhistory

Three networks of tens of thousands of fake bot accounts found on Twitter posting pro-Trump messages.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-desantis-twitter-haley-presidential-election-4d61487294f9218855b8e6e89f0c8ccc

#USPol #politics #twitter #trump #fake #bots

Saw all Best Pic nominees. A good year; I didn’t truly hate a single one (even Maverick!). Faves: Banshees (great death meditation) & Everything (brilliantly centers women in a way Tar - this year’s Million Dollar Baby - only dreams of). The “popcorn” nominees - Avatar, Elvis, Maverick - all well-constructed. Avatar better than expected; mid storyline but truly amazing sea stuff. Elvis otoh torpedoed by a lame script but Luhrmann makes a movie pop. Maverick: wan romance but ripping chase. 1/X

TIP: Remember to remove people from your circle who bring lies, falsehoods, a pattern of dishonesty or who try to stagnate your growth.

Move on and keep flying without them!

#BlackMastodon #Mastodon

@Lorrrraaaaine Doesn't worry me too much that remote work ages you by ten years, as stepping into an office ages you by 30. 🤷‍♀️

If you're on TikTok, ProPublica just launched an official feed that you can follow:

https://www.tiktok.com/@propublica?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

We're still new on TikTok but we'll be posting more frequently in the weeks to come.

In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service provides one of the most accurate forecasts available. Even though that's the case, they are forbidden by law from creating a smartphone app.

You can thank weather forecasting cable channels and websites for that. Even though they use NOAA's data, they didn't want competition from the best weather forecasting service. So, they bought themselves a law and that means worse service for all of us.

JWST Sees the Same Supernova Three Times in an Epic Gravitational Lens

Thanks to a powerful gravitational lens, astronomers were fortunate enough to see the same supernova three times in a distant galaxy. The lens is the galaxy cluster RX J2129, located about 3.2 billion light-years from Earth. When examining the region, researchers noticed that one of the lensed galaxies is duplicated three times - and they all contain the same supernova. Because the light took different paths, the same supernova is seen hundreds of days apart, showing its evolution in a single image.

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/02/Seeing_triple