Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

To save #news from #BigTech, we need to:
- Unrig the ad markets
- Abolish the #AppTax
- Kill #SurveillanceAds
- Make social media #EndToEnd
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

Gun extremists at the school bus stop. The ugly face of American exceptionalism.

This epitomizes the urgent threat to democratic society: Self-stylized paramilitaries who view themselves as noble patriots - when they are actually assaulting the foundations of the democratic system by spreading fear of fascistic violence.

Some thoughts in the thread below: https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/110395646923565597

If we priced externalities into the cost of fossil fuels, it’s not a profitable business.

The cleanup costs in California will be triple the industry’s projected profits, and that doesn’t even include cleaning up CO₂ and CH₄ from the atmosphere.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cost-of-california-oil-cleanup-exceeds-industry-profits

“These laws in these states make them less desirable locations for OB-GYNs to work,” she said. “Women’s health care will ultimately suffer, and the people who will pay the price are the patients in these states.”

https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2023/05/15/south-dakota-womens-health-care-shortage-abortion-ban-worsen-physicians-residents/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=8cc2d211-af2e-4242-948b-34338e18204d

He Became Convinced the School Board Was Pushing “Transgender Bullshit.” He Ended Up Arrested — and Emboldened.
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Eric Jensen, a parent in #NorthCarolina, had
grievances to air about #library
books “trying to convert kids to gay,” and about mask and vaccine mandates. So he joined an activist group and headed to a #SchoolBoard meeting.

#Schools #Arrests #Parents #Students
https://www.propublica.org/article/winston-salem-nc-school-board-arrests?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

I can't stop staring at this map.
There's a 20 year gap in life expectancy between deep red areas of the US, like the southeast, and blue areas like New England. Your lifespan in the US relates directly to where you live and how it's governed. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-04-05/americas-decline-in-life-expectancy-speaks-volumes-about-our-problems

When is an environmental review not an environmental review?

"#Montana Republican lawmakers have passed legislation that bars state agencies from considering climate change when permitting large projects that require environmental reviews, including coal mines and power plants. Gov. Greg Gianforte signed the bill last week, marking what could be considered the nation’s most aggressive anti-climate law."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/montana-republicans-pass-anti-climate-science-law/

#Climate #ClimateChange

Remarkable satellite imagery from this evening starkly depicts worsening boreal forest #fire situation in #Canada: numerous large #pyrocumulus (including some pyrocumulonimbi injecting smoke high into atmosphere) and a huge cyclonic "#smokestorm" swirl over central Alberta. #ABwx https://t.co/fZQBP3Rg4L

"There is the freedom to control...
There is the freedom to exploit...
There is the freedom to censor...
And there is the freedom to menace...."

"These Republican freedoms are also building blocks, not of a humane society but of a rigid and hierarchical one, in which you can either dominate or be dominated."

The building blocks of a fascist state.

NYTimes: The Four Freedoms, According to Republicans
https://nyti.ms/3Out9n3?smid=nytcore-android-share

Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why

The publisher of the NY Times (the guy who really runs the place) has pious and mostly fair thoughts about the state of journalism and its role in a democracy.

What a shame that he is completely blind to the damage his organization is doing to both journalism and democracy, courtesy of its staggeringly bad political coverage.

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/ag-sulzberger-new-york-times-journalisms-essential-value-objectivity-independence.php

FOX made up a story of “Veterans kicked out of hotel to make room for migrants” while simultaneously supporting MAGA debt budget which cuts Veterans benefits by 22%.😳

They’re more outraged over a fake story about evil brown migrants than the real story of evil greedy billionaires.😑

Modern day white supremacy in all its ugliness.

@Gaythia I saw that. Looks like it's piling up a bit against the front range.
https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/RAPsmoke/jsloopLocalDiskDateDomainZipTZA.cgi?dsKeys=rap_ncep_smoke_jet:&runTime=2023051913&plotName=trc1_t1sfc&fcstInc=60&numFcsts=52&model=rr&ptitle=RAP-Smoke%20Model%20Fields&maxFcstLen=51&fcstStrLen=-1&resizePlot=1&domain=t1

We obviously need an aggressive policy response to the gun violence emergency. But a society in which this kind of behavior is widespread, and one major party’s political elites as well as millions of their followers regard it as somehow acceptable, also needs to look much deeper. 1/

https://twitter.com/tollytaylor/status/1659271827879804928?s=46&t=1xecvNVImNo8TKt3oEvqnA

Hospitals in Two States Denied an #Abortion to a Miscarrying Patient.

Investigators Say They Broke Federal Law.
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#Doctors told Mylissa she might die but she couldn’t have an abortion under state law until she got sicker.

The Biden administration says failing to act violates a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care.

#Pregnancy #Missouri #Kansas #Health #HealthCare #Hospitals #Patients #Emergency #EmergencyRoom

https://www.propublica.org/article/two-hospitals-denied-abortion-miscarrying-patient-breaking-federal-law?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Recently I posted that some libraries in southern Oregon were under attack. Racist, bigoted fascists were trying to infiltrate their Board so they could ban books.

Well, the voters have spoken. Our candidates—kind people with integrity—won the election. They won!

Small elections are huge. They mean so very much. Just wanted to share, because these victories have been few and far between.

https://votelibrary.com/we-won/

#Fascism #Elections #Libraries #Library #Oregon #Voting #LGBTQ #SystemicRacism

"#DeSantis doesn't have much of an economic platform for nation. He doesn't have much of a foreign policy. He doesn't have much to take America forward.

All he can do is take America back, whether it's attacking women's rights, attacking minorities, or attacking young people.