Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Because corporations are monopolizing their markets, they don’t have to worry about competitors.

A few giant corporations can easily coordinate price hikes and enjoy bigger profits.

Just four firms control 85% of beef, 66% of pork, and 54% of poultry production.

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@drjudystone

There are important publications of Dr. Linsay Marr about goo in virus survival in aerosols. She explain that, and more, in a recent talk to Eric Topol, MD:

To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air

Eric J. Topol, MD; Linsey Marr, PhD

December 22, 2022

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/984232

#Covid
#COVIDisAirborne
#VaccinesPlus

'The N.I.H. said its scientists, some of whom had been collaborating for years with Moderna, had helped to design that sequence. Moderna also received nearly $10 billion in taxpayer funding to develop and test the vaccine, and to provide doses to the federal government. The company has sold roughly $36 billion worth of coronavirus vaccines worldwide.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/science/moderna-covid-vaccine-patent-nih.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Science

The last time the temperature was above freezing at Fairbanks, #Alaska Airport was November 14, which means that today (Feb 25) is the 103rd consecutive day at or below freezing. However, during this time the average temperature has been 3.7F (2.1C) above normal. With the current forecast it's quite possible that this will become the longest streak at or below freezing since the late 1990s (has to get to 112 days). A nice example of extremes ≠ averages.
#akwx #ClimateDiary
@Climatologist49

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” -James Baldwin

#JamesBaldwin #BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #BlackJoy

Ants have scientific names that make myrmecologists sound like 10 year olds with an obsession with kaiju movies... orchids have scientific names that sound like whoever made them up was ... uh ... perverted.

Erin Brockovich’ message to #EastPalestine crowd said, “Please be vigilant, hold your ground. We’re gonna give you as much information as we can, some of it you might not want to hear and could scare you. But the more you know, the better you can prepare as we move forward … There is no quick fix or sweet answer, this is going to be a long game. Don’t let what’s happened here divide you. This is not my first rodeo. You have to band together and protect each other,” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/25/be-vigilant-hold-your-ground-erin-brockovich-rallies-ohio-town-after-train-disaster?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html

To summarize, children coming to the US alone, HHS is trying to process them faster because they can't keep up and don't want to hold them in these detention facilities, sponsors lie about alot, promise good things but immediately start putting these kids in debt forcing them to take on full time+ jobs. Kids as young as 12 working 12+ hrs/day 6+ days/week in very dangerous jobs

A gallery of insect eggs:

#insects #nature #photography

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/A-Sparkling-Ovation-Eggs-Galore/

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Methane is one of the most dangerous climate-altering gases. In the Gulf of Mexico, there's so much leaking methane it's causing helicopters to crash: “What we do know is that there is a hell of a lot more methane being released from offshore drilling than what was publicly known before."
https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/07/gulf-mexico-offshore-oil-methane-pollution-helicopter-crashes/ @DeSmog @sarasneath #environment #climatechange #methane

Tennessee Lobbyists Oppose New Lifesaving Exceptions in Abortion Ban
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With an amendment to Tennessee’s abortion ban on the table, a powerful anti-abortion group pushes Republican lawmakers to take the narrowest interpretation on when a doctor can legally intervene in high-risk cases.

#Tennessee #Abortion

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-lobbyists-oppose-new-life-saving-exceptions-abortion-ban?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

we did it guys, we created a new gilded age

"By 2021, the top 1% income share has reached an all-time high of 27.4% much higher than the previous record of 23.9% in 1928"

https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2021.pdf

94 Women Allege a Utah Doctor Sexually Assaulted Them. Here’s Why a Judge Threw Out Their Case.
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When dozens of women sued their OB-GYN for sexual assault, a judge said the case falls under the state’s medical malpractice law. As the women appeal, lawmakers are asking whether that law should be changed.

#Utah #OBGYN #Rape #SexualAssault #Malpractice #Doctors #Provo

https://www.propublica.org/article/94-utah-women-sue-obgyn-for-sexual-assault-judge-tosses-case?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

With violent American terrorists illegally crossing their northern border, perhaps it’s time for Mexico to build a wall.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/02/21/borderless-vigilantism-the-nativist-us-militias-entering-mexico/

Republicans aren’t afraid of “Critical Race Theory,” they are afraid of critical thinking.

They know the biggest threat facing their party is a new multi-racial generation of young people unafraid to speak truth to power.

That’s why they are waging a war on America’s teachers.

Did the NYT really publish an Opinion speculating that young girls today are more depressed than ever because of _phones_?

In a world where they lost the right to control their own reproductive healthcare? Where states are pondering making them report their periods? In a world debating genital inspections to play school sports? While banning books? Where they practice school shooting drills? With climate change? Where sexual assault isn’t disqualifying for public office?

Sure, it’s the phones.

You know all those studies about teens and social media that get trumpeted in the press?

It turns out that they have a racial bias.

Too many studies assume that the experiences of white teens are universal amongst all teens.

However, what's seldom realized is that People of Colour (POCs) approach social media from a different perspective.

https://theconversation.com/research-on-teen-social-media-use-has-a-racial-bias-studies-of-white-kids-are-widely-taken-to-be-universal-197676

@fediversenews

Surrealism was extremely influenced by Indigenous people and colonialism.

Lots to discuss here when it comes to the notion of discovery, cultural growth and change, the replication of culture, and appropriation. From art, to science, entire schools of thought changed with global colonialism. How much of the "enlightenment" expressed by Europeans and yt Americans (the whole of both continents) can be attributed to Indigenous people? Same with democracy, feminism, equity, scientific method, sociology, a total revolution in the European ideal coincides with the destruction and appropriation of thousands of global Indigenous cultures.

#colonisation #Indigenous #indigenousknowledge #traditionalindigesnousknowledge #tek #appropriation

https://galeriemagazine.com/how-the-native-americans-from-alaska-influenced-surrealist-art/