Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

How long as a society are we going to endure living like this?

"The National Institutes of Health hasn’t signed up a single patient to test any potential treatments — despite a clear mandate from Congress to study them. And the few trials it is planning have already drawn a firestorm of criticism, especially one intervention that experts and advocates say may actually make some patients’ long Covid symptoms worse."

https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/20/long-covid-nih-billion/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

Republicans passed a bill in Texas to end countywide-voting, which allows voters to choose polling locations that are convenient or have short lines, and a bill allowing the state to take over county election administration on flimsy pretexts.

If signed into law, the fix is in. Republicans will close locations in opposition areas to engineer impossibly long lines for democrats, but keep voting fast and easy for Republicans.

#RepublicanExtremism #TxLege #Texas

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-senate-passes-bill-end-countywide-voting-election-day-rcna80829

In Secret Recording, a Top City Library Official Calls Alaska Natives “Woke” and “Racists”
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Meet Judy Eledge.

Anchorage’s mayor picked her to help run public libraries.

Alaska’s governor says she exemplifies “the heart of Alaska.”

She also has a well-documented history of inflammatory speech.

Listen for yourself 🧵 👇 👇

https://www.propublica.org/article/judy-eledge-alaska-libraries-recordings-dunleavy?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

"A judge in North Carolina found two ##journalists with the Asheville Blade guilty of “trespassing” on Christmas in 2021 when they stayed in a public park to cover Asheville police as officers evicted a #homeless encampment." https://thedissenter.org/judge-convicts-jorunalists-trespassing-reporting-homeless-encampment/?ref=the-dissenter-newsletter&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=92262b2a-0d74-4863-be47-8aaa89358005

Glacial Lake Missoula wasn’t the only source of cataclysmic floods in the Pacific Northwest at the end of the last ice age. I just wrote this to discuss two other sources of these floods which inundated the Columbia Basin and #Portland area.

#geology #oregon #washington #idaho

https://ingalls.weathertogether.net/2023/04/19/the-pacific-northwests-other-ice-age-floods/

Tech companies have gotten increasingly secretive about the data, scraped from the internet without compensation or consent, used to train their AI models. So we looked closer. Here's our analysis of the 15 million websites in just one highly-filtered CommonCrawl web scrape-used to train models like Google's T5 & Facebook's LLaMA.
We found
-the copyright symbol appears >200M times
-pirated sites, 1 for e-books
-half of the top 10 were news sites https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning

When GOP Attorneys General Embraced Jan. 6, Corporate Funders Fled.
Now They’re Back.
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Even as the Republican Attorneys General Association has leaned further into promoting Trumpism and sowing doubt about U.S. elections, major sponsors including #Amazon, #Walmart and #HomeDepot have resumed their contributions to the group.

#GOP #Elections #RAGA #AttorneysGeneral #Visa #CapitalOne #MasterCard #Intuit #Walgreens #GM #Altria #Comcast

https://www.propublica.org/article/raga-gop-jan6-amazon-walmart-comcast-contributions?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

I have had 4 miscarriages between having three beautiful children. The "miscarriage of justice" in the US around the fact that if I'd not had d&c's (clinical abortions) to clean out my womb AND NOT KILL ME after the miscarriages is pure insanity.

I try steer clear of political discourse, but this is a fundamental human right.

Every woman has a story. Every woman has the right to primary medical care. Every woman has the right to choose.

12 year old girls that are raped are expected to have and raise a child? What moron decided that? Men who voted for this, you DO NOT have the right to decide.

And the part that we don't talk about: consider two lower income Asian families in SF. One is 4th generation Chinese. The other is 1st generation Vietnamese. Both families believe:
* Black lives matter
* Schools shouldn't be named after slave owners
* Alt-Right wants to stop immigration and their rhetoric drives Asian hate
* Affirmative Action is good and necessary
* Legacy admission isn't good
♥️👍🏿

But the families have to vote and choose between 2 school boards:
1) No algebra?!
2) Alt-Right!

Black 12 year old public school kids in San Francisco aren't given the opportunity to learn Algebra...

But Black 12 year old public school kids in Nigeria not only get to learn Algebra, but also how to do binary arithmetic. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Here's a full lesson of how Nigeria introduces algebra to 12 year olds:

https://youtu.be/qHfRxaTtoSE

Here's how Nigeria introduces a 12 year old to Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XTkqbQXw1rM

And you'll notice that both lessons are taught by Black men teachers.

Banning books, burning them, defunding them. You either support it or you don’t.

The freedom to choose what you read and believe belongs to you. Not a parent’s group. Not a politician. Not me. You.

Yet there are some who’d take that freedom away from all of us.

As I’ve said many times: they’ll come for your books before they ever come for your guns.

#UniteAgainstBookBans

https://www.salon.com/2023/04/12/missouri-state-vote-to-defund-public-libraries_partner/

⚠️ Via Brandon Friedman:

This is some extremely fascist stuff. Texas is continuing its effort to strip its Democratic cities of any power whatsoever.

Democracy Docket:

NEW: #Texas Senate passes #SB1933 on a party line vote, a bill that would empower the governor-appointed secretary of state to take over election oversight from local county officials. The bill now goes to the Texas House. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/texas-senate-passes-bill-to-seize-control-of-elections-from-local-authorities/

Darwin deleted from textbooks in India https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/14/mughals-rss-evolution-outrage-as-india-edits-school-textbooks

After witnessing a white doctor refuse to treat a sick, elderly Native American woman who later died, Susan LaFlesche Picotte decided to become a physician to help her people. Born in 1865, she grew up on Nebraska’s Omaha reservation.

In 1889, Picotte became the first female Native American to earn a medical degree in the U.S. She raised funding & opened Wathill Hospital in 1913 - the first private hospital on a reservation. https://drsusancenter.org/dr-susan #HistoryRemix #history #science