Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

The BLM wants to make conservation equal to ranching and mining in the West. The GOP won’t have it. https://coloradosun.com/2023/06/22/blm-conservation-republicans-ranching-mining/?utm_content=buffer26f2f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

Sorry, Joe Rogan: Scientists should never 'debate' anti-vaccine quacks. Here's why https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-06-22/column-responsible-scientists-must-refuse-demands-to-debate-antivaccine-quacks-heres-why

...it gives liars and deceivers legitimacy. "You should never equate, morally or practically, true science and pseudoscience or quackery," says John P. Moore, professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. "By just appearing with these people, you give them a stature that implies they're equivalent, and they're not."

How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.
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Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.

#SouthCarolina #Charleston #Slavery #History #Research #HumanRights

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-grad-student-discovered-largest-us-slave-auction?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

In May 2022 a tailings pond at Imperial’s Kearl Lake facility leaked waste into groundwater, affecting First Nations unknowingly.

Andrew Nikiforuk provides a chronology of promises to tighten oversight — only to see efforts stripped away:

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/06/05/Cleaner-Oilsands-Lie/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=060523-m&utm_campaign=editorial

#ChildLabor investigation spreads to meatpacking, produce companies in 11 states

A federal investigation into Guatemalan children working in the U.S. in violation of child labor laws has expanded to include firms across the nation, from Virginia to Colorado.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrant-child-labor-investigation-11-states-meatpacking-produce-rcna88156

If you're experiencing thick, acrid #wildfire #smoke for the first time, imagine what it's like for a #wildland #firefighter to work in those and worse conditions.

Please contact you US representative and tell them to work hard to pass the Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter Classification and Pay Parity Act, H.R. 5631

https://www.grassrootswildlandfirefighters.com/tims-act

#TimsAct

A lot of media outlets are reporting on #ClimateChange this week bc the smoke from wildfires in Canada has settled over highly populated cities in the US.

But climate change is all around us. It’s extreme storms. Severe droughts. Flooding & food insecurity & soaring temps. Insufficient energy infrastructure. The loss of biodiversity & increasing human conflict.

Climate change is everywhere. And we should be talking & reading about it, even when it’s less obvious in the wealthiest nations.

Paragon Solutions Spyware: Graphite

Paragon Solutions is yet another Israeli spyware company. Their product is called “Graphite,” and is a lot like NSO Group’s Pegasus. And Paragon is wor... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/06/paragon-solutions-spyware-graphite.html

#nationalsecuritypolicy #Uncategorized #spyware #Israel

dear east coast people: we of the west coast feel your smoke pain

- go to Lowe’s
- buy a 20” box fan
- buy 4x20”x30” Filterete 1900 filters (the blue ones (20” is the important measurement))
- buy wide painters tape (blue matches nicely)
- make a box out of the filters (arrows pointing in)
- tape the box fan to the top of the filter box, air blowing upward
- tape the corners of the fan grill so you don’t get backflow — stick a piece of paper over the corners and it’ll be obvious

Just a friendly reminder that if you store your government ID on your phone and find yourself in a situation where you have to show them your ID, you'll have to hand them your unlocked phone to do it.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/1/23745168/google-wallet-state-id-drivers-license-custom-cards

Happy Pride Month! 🌈

It's a time to honour the struggles for LGBTQ+ equality and come together in solidarity.

Although progress has been made, LGBTQ+ people still face oppression, discrimination, and even death in some countries.

That is why we're committed to protecting LGBTQ+ rights. With our LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025, we're creating an EU where acceptance and equality for all is the norm.

Celebrate love, reject hate - today and every day!

#EU4LGBTIQ #PrideMonth #UnionOfEquality

The Government of New Zealand has just published a national space policy, which calls for "assessing the impact of space activities on space environments the New Zealand government operates in including, but not limited to; the Earth’s atmosphere, the night sky, orbit around Earth, and cislunar environment".

https://www.mbie.govt.nz/science-and-technology/space/national-space-policy/

This Cop Got Out of 44 Tickets by Saying Over and Over That His Girlfriend Stole His Car
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#Chicago police officer Jeffrey Kriv used the same alibi to contest dozens of traffic tickets over the years. A deeper look at his career sheds light on Chicago’s troubled history of police #accountability.

(Co-published with the Chicago Tribune)

#Police #Courts

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-chicago-cop-got-out-of-44-traffic-tickets?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Good for them:

"Thousands of early-career researchers at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have kickstarted the process to form a union. They are calling on the NIH — the world’s largest biomedical funder — to raise pay and improve benefits, as well as to bolster its policies and procedures against harassment and excessive workloads."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01845-w

Evolution, environmental sustainability and the periodic table of the elements have been cut from science textbooks in India. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/india-cuts-periodic-table-and-evolution-from-school-textbooks/

‘It healed me’: the Indigenous forager reconnecting #NativeAmericans with their roots https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/03/indigenous-foraging-native-americans-mental-health?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #indigenous #foraging

None of this is a surprise to anyone who followed Syngenta's years-long efforts to smear Prof. Tyrone Hayes and his research on the impacts of atrazine on reproductive health.

Revealed: The secret push by Syngenta to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/paraquat-parkinsons-disease-research-syngenta-weedkiller