Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Israel still has no proof of Unrwa terrorist claims – but damage to aid agency is done

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/israeli-allegations-of-unrwa-staff-links-to-terrorism-cost-aid-agency-dearly

Medical records for out-of-state abortions will now be protected by HIPAA https://19thnews.org/2024/04/hipaa-medical-records-out-of-state-abortions/

You might think that even in today’s highly polarized election environment there would be a bipartisan consensus to protect election workers from intimidation and harassment. If you thought so, you would be wrong.

My latest.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/republicans-are-suing-for-the-right-to-harass-election-workers/

#Toronto Police lied on the stand about the death of one of their own to incriminate a man not guilty of a crime.
“A hero to me is the man who was terrorized by police, beaten by police, charged with murder by police, held for bail, attacked by Mayor Tory and Premier #DougFord for being released, besieged by an unsympathetic press and prosecuted on no theory who still thanks #Canada for his freedom.” — John Struthers, criminal lawyer

#topoli #onpoli #ontario #zameer

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/at-the-umar-zameer-trial-motive-was-the-central-question-but-in-the-end-it/article_0100ea5a-fd99-11ee-a337-df828383c64d.html

#Oil Companies Must Set Aside More Money to Plug Wells, a New Rule Says. But It Won’t Be Enough.
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The new Bureau of Land Management #regulation, which applies to nearly 90,000 wells on federal public land, is hampered by math errors and overly optimistic cost projections.

#Environment #Government #News #Pollution

https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-companies-must-set-aside-more-money-to-plug-wells-a-new-rule-says-but-it-wont-be-enough

The real #Coachella isn't a music festival. It's hard working farm workers like Jorge who today is laboring in a lemon orchard spraying weeds. He shares, "Today isn't very hot - it's just 90° - but it's going to go up to 117° soon." #WeFeedYou

'Israeli police arrested the internationally renowned feminist Palestinian academic Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian at her home in Jerusalem on Thursday on charges of incitement to violence. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who holds both Israeli and U.S. citizenship, was suspended by Hebrew University last month after saying in an interview Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, though the university later reinstated her.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTmW_PSo9cU #Israel #Palestine #naderashalhoubkevorkian

"A Supreme Court decision that stripped protections from America's wetlands will have reverberating impacts on rivers that supply drinking water all over the U.S., according to a new report."

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/streams-supply-drinking-water-danger-2023-supreme-court/story?id=109139758

"The legacy of 3M chemical waste from former dumps, the underground PFAS plume has tainted drinking water supplies for years. Over the next 50 years, it is expected to reach new areas in Oakdale and Woodbury"

Dealing with PFAS, 3Ms legacy... a very expensive one.

#PFAS #Minnesota #Groundwater

https://m.startribune.com/a-plume-of-pfas-chemicals-under-the-east-metro-is-moving-the-state-has-a-new-plan-to-stop-it/600360125/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=talkers&clmob=y&c=n&clmob=y&c=n

Right now seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first impeachment was for withholding military aid from Ukraine until he could extort its president for dirt on Joe Biden to sabotage our election.

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Pregnant Women Denied Emergency Care: Mapping The Toll Of MAGA Abortion Bans
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/19/pregnant-women-denied-emergency-care-mapping-the-toll-of-maga-abortion-bans/
#emtala #emergencycare #abortionbans

A peaceful, productive, and kind year ahead everyone. I'm excited to share our perspective paper on the complex linkages between agriculture and air pollution. Happy reading! 🌻✌️🙌

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad0682

We already have 1,000 would-be Mozarts who instead of learning music and honing their skills are doing shit jobs for shit wages. They're spending their time just surviving instead of blessing the rest of us with music we'd love.

What these would-be Mozarts need is basic income.

Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/tory-mp-from-slave-owning-family-set-to-gain-3m-from-sale-of-former-plantation
Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes

The Biden Administration just announced historic protections for 13 million acres of Alaska’s Western Arctic from drilling and the safeguarding of the Brooks Range and the Gates of the Arctic.

This is important and consequential action and who fills Cabinet positions really matters. Elections matter.

Biden-Harris Administration Takes Critical Action to Protect Alaska Native Subsistence, Lands and Wildlife |
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/biden-harris-administration-takes-critical-action-protect-alaska-native-subsistence

#prisons #IncarceratedPeople #PrisonsServices #PriceGouging

"Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. This project also examines the availability, prices, and markups of products across several categories, including food, hygiene, and religious items."

https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-how-much-prison-commissary-prices/

If your enemy is literally hiding behind children, you don't say, "My enemy made me kill children." You say, "I couldn't kill my enemy, because there were children in the way."

Unless, of course, you don't think the children are really human in the way that your children are human.

WIRED sent a reporter to a "constitutional sheriffs" convention.

One speaker said he'd formed a "posse" of about 150 "deputized citizens" to protect voting polls from "immigrants" and then passed out literature for other sheriffs to teach them how to form their own.
https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-election-deniers-immigrants-voting/

LA lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers | https://www.nola.com/news/politics/legislature/la-lawmakers-vote-to-remove-lunch-breaks-for-child-workers/article_ef234692-fd9e-11ee-99f5-771c7366107a.html#webview=1

Not even 24 hrs after making history as the first company to mass fire workers for pro-Palestine protests, by summarily firing 28 people, Google announced that the “(ir)responsible AI org,” the one they created in response to firing me, is now reporting up the Israeli office, through an SVP there.

Seems like they want us to know how forcefully and clearly they are backing this genocide.