Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Americans: The next time your #HealthInsurance company denies one of your claims, use the #ProPublica (@ProPublica) tool to demand a written explanation, including "internal correspondence, recordings of phone calls, case notes, medical records and other relevant information."
https://projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Israeli football fans clash with protesters in Amsterdam | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/8/israeli-football-fans-clash-with-protesters-in-amsterdam The Israeli fans instigated the violence ...in the city and attacking Palestinian supporters before the match, an Amsterdam city council member said.

“They began attacking houses of people in Amsterdam with Palestinian flags, so that’s actually where the violence started,” Councilman Jazie Veldhuyzen told Al Jazeera on Friday. (Me: Violence uncalled for by all parties)

💥If you’re planning on getting pregnant, make sure you’re vax’d and try your best to avoid catching Covid while pregnant💥

A new study in Nature found that maternal COVID-19 infection increased the incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring.

“#COVID infection during pregnancy disrupted the balance of maternal/ fetal immune environments, driving alterations in astrocytes, endothelial cells, and excitatory neurons.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-024-02822-z #press

The Guardian: This year ‘virtually certain’ to be hottest on record, finds EU space programme

"Copernicus Climate Change Service says 2024 marks ‘a new milestone’ and should raise ambitions at Cop29 summit"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/07/this-year-virtually-certain-to-be-hottest-on-record-finds-eu-space-programme

#climate #climatedisaster #heatwaves

A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again. How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the Klan’s rule in Indiana. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatches/a-dark-reminder-of-what-american-society-has-been-and-could-be-again

“Federal judges denied 2 states’ requests to bar the DOJ from dispatching lawyers to monitor adherence to federal voting rights laws on Election Day.

Both #Missouri & #Texas asked federal courts to keep DOJ lawyers away from their polls.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4972091-judge-wont-block-doj-election-poll-monitors/

To keep my American brain from exploding today, here are some remarkable new deep-space images from JWST.

First, a celestial smash-up. JWST's infrared eyes reveal cold dust that forms the "skeleton" of these colliding galaxies, known as IC 2163 and NGC 2207.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-136 #space #science #nature #astronomy

Via Kyle Griffin:

#Wisconsin added more than 102,000 registered voters to its rolls just in the month of October, according to the state's election commission.

Dane County had almost 12,000 new voters register. Milwaukee County had more than 14,000.

At some point, we all have to grapple earnestly with the fact that the radicalization of the American Right has recently outpaced what even critical observers thought was likely.

“They are not going to go *that* far” has been proven wrong over and over again.
https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/113413283493956405

Floods in Spain. In some places "a year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours"

#climatechange

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5175804/spain-floods-climate-change

Joe Biden called the racist rhetoric garbage, not people. Stop lying about Joe. Get the true story here:

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/no-corporate-media-this-isnt-the

Waking up this morning to find out that an obese 78 year old adjudicated rapist and convicted felon simulated a sexual act on stage in the course of trying to be President. Zero respect for every one of my colleagues who continues to endorse him.

Trump, drunk on madness, threatens Cheney.

"Cheney is "a very dumb individual, very dumb."

"Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face," Trump said.

Gabby Gifford, shot in the face by a man driven crazy by Trump, says this is not by accident.

"Declaring that a person should be shot and killed simply for supporting a different candidate is un-American."

#harris

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2024-election-live-updates_n_671eda18e4b03aa5c1cd83ad/liveblog_6724de77e4b01f6919d9d053

A third of Trump’s campaign funding has come from billionaires, including several he’s pledged to appoint to his cabinet.

Fascism backed by Big Money is one of the most dangerous of all political alliances.

We saw it in 1930s Germany, and we’re seeing it again today.

The people who own and ultimately control newsrooms have become a lightning-rod issue.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom. We don’t have any owners, let alone billionaire ones.

More than 55,000 donors power our investigative newsroom. Join them. Donate today: https://propub.li/4f3sByH

It Could Definitely Happen Here
 
Many Americans struggle to accept that democracy is young, fragile, and could actually collapse – a lack of imagination that dangerously blunts the response to the Trumpist Right.
 
New piece:
 
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/it-could-definitely-happen-here

"#ElonMusk’s conversations with #Putin would clearly violate Musk’s security clearance if he failed to properly report them to the U.S. government. If classified information was leaked, Musk could be required to give up control of #SpaceX, which holds the majority of his companies’ government contracts."

#USpol

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-musk-thinks-hell-be-fcked-if