Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Teaching kids about frogs isn't grooming them to become amphibians.

The 18 GOP attorneys general who joined MS Attorney General letter calling for access to private health info on abortions/gender aff care their residents received in other states:
AL, AK, AR, GA, ID, IN, KY, LA, MO, MT, NE, ND, OH, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT

This is a crusade for these bigots, its not abt states rights/pro-life, they want to reach into other states & punish ppl who got legal procedures. They'll find a reason to fuck w/ you if you let this go on, whoever you are https://mississippifreepress.org/34705/mississippi-attorney-general-wants-info-on-out-of-state-abortions-gender-affirming-care

This is not normal.

The "influencers" Musk is rewarding with cash at Saudi-government-funded Twitter are -- unsurprisingly -- right-wing extremists, according to this report by @taylorlorenz.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

It goes almost without saying, meanwhile, that Big Journalism continues to support Musk's increasingly evil enterprise. Disappointing, and sad, but willful blindness to ethical considerations is no longer a surprise.

Why this isn't a bigger story is stunning, Why is the Democratic party not screaming this all over the media.

DeSantis refuses to call special election for seat Democrats might flip https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/14/2181249/-DeSantis-refuses-to-call-special-election-for-seat-Democrats-might-flip

Remember that abysmal attempt at creating a fake paper detector that #Science magazine trumpeted? The one that just looked to see if you used your institutional email address, had international collaborators, and were (not) affiliated with a hospital?

The one that instantiated the authors biases and then they turned around and used as evidence for those biases?

Science has just published the letter that Brandon Ogbunugafor and I wrote.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7104

This seems bad. Like, private army bad. USMC vet charging them with battery bad.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/07/14/florida-state-guard-desantis-national-guard-training/

'“The program got hijacked and turned into something that we were trying to stay away from: a militia,” said Brian Newhouse, a retired 20-year Navy veteran who was chosen to lead one of the State Guard’s three divisions.'

#Florida #DeSantis #Military

"Only 10% of national TV news segments about the catastrophic flooding in the Northeast mentioned climate change" by Evlondo Cooper for @mmfa https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/only-10-national-tv-news-segments-about-catastrophic-flooding-northeast

Here's an insidious form of bothsideism that makes it seem as if there is a legitimate fight here, not far-right manipulation of media, this headline being a demonstration that it works.
Pentagon tries to stay out of Congress’ culture wars feud https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/14/house-ndaa-military-culture-wars/

Data from 58 countries and 12,000 US school districts show that the rate of learning decreases with a rise in the number of hot school days.

https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33020588

#Heatwave #ClimateChange #ChildHealth #Education #ClimateCrisis @edutooters

(Photo by Hans Reniers, via UnSplash, shows a child who is sweating.)

Holy shit.

"…they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation."

WTAF 😳 https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights

The president’s comments come as hundreds of top #military positions are now w/o a #Senate-confirmed permanent officeholder, among them the chair of the #JointChiefs of Staff & the #commandant of the #MarineCorps. The vacancies, accumulating as top officials reach retirement age, have typically been nominated & confirmed by the Senate in slates.

#TubervilleIsAntiAmerican #Obstruction #AbuseOfPower #NationalSecurity #Senate #Tuberville

The joke is that it's a "non-soon" - our summer rains are failing us in the southwestern US https://cals.arizona.edu/climate/misc/monsoon/nm_monsoon.html

"The Democrats’ report urges federal agencies to investigate and potentially go to court over the wealth of information that H&R Block, TaxAct and TaxSlayer shared with the social media giant."

https://apnews.com/article/irs-taxpayer-tax-preparation-meta-congress-9315cfca7a0942ab89f765d183fbf822

Dr. Gladys West grew up in 1930s VA. She had limited opportunities as a black girl in the south, but went on to become a mathematician.

In the 1950s, West helped program the Naval Ordinance Research Calculator. Later, she worked on modeling the shape of the Earth & helped develop satellite geodesy models, a foundation of GPS.

West was not formally credited for her work until 2018 when the VA General Assembly honored her contributions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West #HistoryRemix #history #science

A new Gulag is being created in Russia and on the territory of occupied Ukraine
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-prisons-civilians-torture-detainees-88b4abf2efbf383272eed9378be13c72

@Gaythia @vickyveritas
This had to happen, the JR is too old. I don't think they should keep it going.
This is really a quastion of what comes next, and when. The Europeans do not have their own ship, the MSP is based on case to case operation. The Japanese won't go global. Some of us have been trying to start a disscusion like this a while now. The lost of capasity and capabilities until the new thing will come along will be massive.

Ampifing here this map by https://twitter.com/Ross_PT. #EarthScience is going to lose one of its greatest assets in 2024 - the scientific drilling vessels #JOIDES_Resolution and with it the effective end of the #IODP program. So much of the #ocean's deeper time is going to be locked away from us for at least a generation.

WP:
The Anacostia is finally safe to swim. Thank this 91-year-old boat captain.

Gasaway is one of the grand captains of one of the country’s oldest African American yacht club, the Seafarers ...

They began — as so many successful Black institutions did — because of bigotry.

#BlackMastodon #Environment
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3O03kKP

MAGA Trumpers are now doxxing prosecutors and staff involved in the Trump classified documents case, leading to harassment and threats.
They must be stopped. Our democracy cannot be held hostage by stochastic terrorism.