Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Our top story: Two years after the constitutional right to #abortion was eliminated, what’s left of Texans’ reproductive rights is ambiguous. https://www.texasobserver.org/their-laws-our-bodies/

#photography #news #women #politics #USpol #Texas #RoeVWade

Elon Musk's Grok is telling voters that presidential ballots are locked in eight states, but Democratic delegates haven't started voting and states haven't yet printed ballots for the general election. https://www.pcmag.com/news/xs-grok-ai-is-once-again-pushing-election-misinformation

We heard from thousands of young people who don’t support KOSA: it will censor the internet but won't help them. Here's how KOSA is likely to harm young people, in their own words.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thousands-young-people-told-us-why-kids-online-safety-act-will-be-harmful-minors

MVP #KamalaHarris, the likely Democratic presidential nom, on Tues condemned the killing of #SonyaMassey, an unarmed Black woman who was shot in her house by an #Illinois #police officer this month after she called 911 to report a prowler.

In a statement, #Harris said Massey “deserved to be safe.”

#BLM #SystemicRacism #PoliceViolence #Justice #VoteBlue #Harris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/22/body-cam-deputy-charged-sonya-massey/

Hmmm, why would Trump and the RNC be trying to stop Vets from voting?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna161964

The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee sued Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and others Monday for allowing federal Veterans Affairs and Small Business Administration sites to be used for voter registration efforts.

From the archives: Stunning photo portraits of women who risked it all to access reproductive healthcare in the days before Roe v. Wade, as they share their fears for the future. https://www.texasobserver.org/abortion-before-roe-photo-essay/

#history #photography #Texas #abortion #women

Something big happened this weekend. Everyone is talking about it, wondering what the implications will be.

That's right: I finished writing my new book "What is Entropy?" It's just 120 pages long. It has lots of short sections, mostly one page each, each based on a tweet. This is just a draft, and I'm still fixing lots of typos and other mistakes. So grab a copy - and if you catch errors, please let me know, either here or on my blog!

It is not a pop book: it's an introduction that assumes you know calculus. But it's about a lot of big, bold concepts, and I try to really get to the bottom of them:

• information
• Shannon entropy and Gibbs entropy
• the principle of maximum entropy
• the Boltzmann distribution
• temperature and coolness
• the relation between entropy, expected energy and temperature
• the equipartition theorem
• the partition function
• the relation between entropy, free energy and expected energy
• the entropy of a classical harmonic oscillator
• the entropy of a classical particle in a box
• the entropy of a classical ideal gas

I learned a lot by trying to explain in words what people often say only in equations.

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/what-is-entropy/

Every single time you mention Joe Manchin, it is obligatory to include that his daughter drove the cost of epinephrine autoinjectors (Epi Pens) up by 600% for no reason other than profit, which left children to die from completely treatable anaphylaxis.

“ Before he entered politics, President Trump donated $6,000 to Kamala D. Harris’s reelection campaign while she was California attorney general, campaign finance records show.
Trump gave $5,000 to Harris’s campaign in September 2011 and $1,000 in February 2013. His daughter Ivanka Trump gave Harris’s campaign $2,000 in 2014, records show.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-harris-campaign-donations/2020/08/12/06eb1f0e-dcdb-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html

#potus #election #politics #USpol #democracy #Harris2024

Wow maybe there's something in this!

Jim Wright wrote: "Those #Republicans, they can't wait to live under the bootheel of #authoritarianism no matter how miserable it might be for them -- because they're pretty sure it'll oppress the people they hate even more.
Don't ever let Republicans tell you how they hate communism.
No, Republicans LOVE communism.
They love communist countries, they love the order & homogeny & the grim gray sameness of it all.
They love communist leaders so much they write love letters to them.
They love communist authoritarianism. They revel in their oppression just soo long as the boot is on everyone else's throat too, THAT's the kind of equality they'll support. They don't have to get ahead, so long as no else does either."

How long has plate tectonics been going, and how can we tell? Monster new paper: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-091 🤓 #Geology #OpenAccess

@greg_doucette
Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

"Due to timing and election processes, red state Republicans are already poised to refuse to put anyone other than Biden on their state ballots.
We are only 90 days out from early voting in many states which is far too close to the election for us to “change our candidate”. We had a primary & Biden won by the largest margins ever.

There are no “do-overs” on who our candidate is. It’s Biden or nobody — and Republicans & Russians want nobody." https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/13/2253824/-The-destructive-demand-for-Biden-to-quit-is-as-absurdly-stupid-as-it-is-physically-impossible?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

UPDATE: Here's the language of the proposed mask ban bill in Nassau County, NY. It's bad!

While health is mentioned, the ban would apply to public places and some private properties, and gives police power to ask anyone to remove their mask.

“US intelligence discovered earlier this year that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arms manufacturer that has been producing artillery shells and military vehicles for #Ukraine, according to five US and western officials familiar with the episode.

The plot was one of a series of Russian plans to assassinate defense industry executives across Europe who were supporting Ukraine’s war effort..” #Russia

https://cnn.it/46hhKxP

I wrote this summary of Project 2025 on its key features and strategies to enable and advance fascism in America: https://open.substack.com/pub/qasimrashid/p/project-2025-invites-fascism-to-america?r=fyvxf&utm_medium=ios

Trump has gone off the rails at recent campaign events. If Biden’s difficulties are fair game, why isn’t Trump’s apparent mental decline front and center?

2/ OMFG, this rumor began because, per a post on Twitter, the WH was working on a bill to help those with Parkinson's disease that was signed this week.

NYT disinformation headline did it again, folks.