Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Black landowners are disproportionately vulnerable to laws and discriminatory practices that allow speculators and developers to acquire their property.

Read all our previous coverage here:

https://www.propublica.org/series/dispossessed

"Here’s what you’re not being told: The most pressing threats to our safety as Jewish students do not come from tents on campus. Instead, they come from the Columbia administration inviting police onto campus, certain faculty members, and third-party organizations that dox undergraduates."

https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia

Joe Biden today on the 4th anniversary of TFG telling Americans to inject bleach to cure COVID:
"Don’t inject bleach.
And don’t vote for the guy who told you to inject bleach."

Let's watch Sarah Cooper again, who brought the idiocy of the trump years to life in this funny lip-sync video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxDKW75ueIU&list=PL-8pDWAJLeYjt_QWcEZ_t7eYdax-YkkS5&index=2

I'm a Jew who's been afraid at Palestine protests.

Then, I learned more. I learned that I didn't know what people were chanting. I learned there was a lot to unlearn.

Then I decided I don't want my identity used to shield a genocidal apartheid state.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/being-afraid-does-not-mean-youre

BREAKING: UnitedHealth has confirmed that a ransomware attack on its health tech subsidiary Change Healthcare earlier this year resulted in a huge theft of Americans’ private healthcare data.

In a statement, UHG said the criminal hackers stole files containing personal data and protected health information that it says may “cover a substantial proportion of people in America.”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/22/unitedhealth-change-healthcare-hackers-substantial-proportion-americans/

Israel still has no proof of Unrwa terrorist claims – but damage to aid agency is done

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/israeli-allegations-of-unrwa-staff-links-to-terrorism-cost-aid-agency-dearly

Medical records for out-of-state abortions will now be protected by HIPAA https://19thnews.org/2024/04/hipaa-medical-records-out-of-state-abortions/

You might think that even in today’s highly polarized election environment there would be a bipartisan consensus to protect election workers from intimidation and harassment. If you thought so, you would be wrong.

My latest.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/republicans-are-suing-for-the-right-to-harass-election-workers/

#Toronto Police lied on the stand about the death of one of their own to incriminate a man not guilty of a crime.
“A hero to me is the man who was terrorized by police, beaten by police, charged with murder by police, held for bail, attacked by Mayor Tory and Premier #DougFord for being released, besieged by an unsympathetic press and prosecuted on no theory who still thanks #Canada for his freedom.” — John Struthers, criminal lawyer

#topoli #onpoli #ontario #zameer

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/at-the-umar-zameer-trial-motive-was-the-central-question-but-in-the-end-it/article_0100ea5a-fd99-11ee-a337-df828383c64d.html

#Oil Companies Must Set Aside More Money to Plug Wells, a New Rule Says. But It Won’t Be Enough.
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The new Bureau of Land Management #regulation, which applies to nearly 90,000 wells on federal public land, is hampered by math errors and overly optimistic cost projections.

#Environment #Government #News #Pollution

https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-companies-must-set-aside-more-money-to-plug-wells-a-new-rule-says-but-it-wont-be-enough

The real #Coachella isn't a music festival. It's hard working farm workers like Jorge who today is laboring in a lemon orchard spraying weeds. He shares, "Today isn't very hot - it's just 90° - but it's going to go up to 117° soon." #WeFeedYou

'Israeli police arrested the internationally renowned feminist Palestinian academic Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian at her home in Jerusalem on Thursday on charges of incitement to violence. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who holds both Israeli and U.S. citizenship, was suspended by Hebrew University last month after saying in an interview Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, though the university later reinstated her.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTmW_PSo9cU #Israel #Palestine #naderashalhoubkevorkian

"A Supreme Court decision that stripped protections from America's wetlands will have reverberating impacts on rivers that supply drinking water all over the U.S., according to a new report."

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/streams-supply-drinking-water-danger-2023-supreme-court/story?id=109139758

"The legacy of 3M chemical waste from former dumps, the underground PFAS plume has tainted drinking water supplies for years. Over the next 50 years, it is expected to reach new areas in Oakdale and Woodbury"

Dealing with PFAS, 3Ms legacy... a very expensive one.

#PFAS #Minnesota #Groundwater

https://m.startribune.com/a-plume-of-pfas-chemicals-under-the-east-metro-is-moving-the-state-has-a-new-plan-to-stop-it/600360125/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=talkers&clmob=y&c=n&clmob=y&c=n

Right now seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first impeachment was for withholding military aid from Ukraine until he could extort its president for dirt on Joe Biden to sabotage our election.

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Pregnant Women Denied Emergency Care: Mapping The Toll Of MAGA Abortion Bans
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/19/pregnant-women-denied-emergency-care-mapping-the-toll-of-maga-abortion-bans/
#emtala #emergencycare #abortionbans

A peaceful, productive, and kind year ahead everyone. I'm excited to share our perspective paper on the complex linkages between agriculture and air pollution. Happy reading! 🌻✌️🙌

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad0682

We already have 1,000 would-be Mozarts who instead of learning music and honing their skills are doing shit jobs for shit wages. They're spending their time just surviving instead of blessing the rest of us with music we'd love.

What these would-be Mozarts need is basic income.

Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/tory-mp-from-slave-owning-family-set-to-gain-3m-from-sale-of-former-plantation
Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes

The Biden Administration just announced historic protections for 13 million acres of Alaska’s Western Arctic from drilling and the safeguarding of the Brooks Range and the Gates of the Arctic.

This is important and consequential action and who fills Cabinet positions really matters. Elections matter.

Biden-Harris Administration Takes Critical Action to Protect Alaska Native Subsistence, Lands and Wildlife |
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/biden-harris-administration-takes-critical-action-protect-alaska-native-subsistence