Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

"The R 9400 excavator is made by Liebherr and is operating at the Yandi mine in the #Pilbara region of Western #Australia, and will be key to helping the iron ore miners reduce emissions from the billions of litres of diesel that are burned each year in the mining province.

Fortescue started trialling an #ElectricExcavator in December last year, and [found] that it lowered costs and boosted productivity, and cut emissions."

https://thedriven.io/2024/08/21/just-like-a-normal-digger-but-quicker-bhp-switches-on-its-first-giant-electric-excavator/

Initiative 138 sets out to bolster parents’ right to school choice beyond current protections under state law. Some policy experts say it could set the stage for a voucher program.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/23/colorado-school-choice-voucher-program-initiative-138-2/

The six largest corporate landlords made $300M in increased profits in Q1 thanks to higher rents.

All six have been sued for their use of RealPage, a software that allegedly allows them to fix rent prices.

The Biden-Harris DOJ has now sued RealPage over the scheme. This is big.

Additionally, re their “#Biden #MigrantCrime Wave” narrative (actually a phrase #Trump coined)

Acc/to the National Bureau of #Economic Research & the Stanford Institute for #EconomicPolicy #Research; #Politics & #Media Research:

“Today, #immigrants are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than all US-born men, and 30% less likely to be incarcerated relative to white US-born men.”

#RightWing #Disinformation #immigration
source: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31440/w31440.pdf

Bellingcat helped The Texas Observer investigate open source material of a violent attack on a party group who were tubing on the San Marcos River in June 2022. Only one suspect has been arrested. Five additional alleged attackers have now been identified. https://www.texasobserver.org/neo-nazi-martindale-arrest-gang/

U.S. Senate racing to vote for the horrific Kid's Online Safety Act today. It will likely pass by an overwhelmingly large bipartisan margin, thanks to politicians who don't have a damned clue about how dangerous it will be to both children and adults (or just don't care). It will subject the most vulnerable children to more abuse, block access to crucial information, and require everyone including adults to use government IDs to verify their ages and link them to their social media accounts -- perfect for privacy breaches and government tracking.

Its future in the House is less certain, but there's no telling in an election year. Its ability to withstand inevitable court challenges is even more questionable.

But it's a horrible law that would set the U.S. on the path to an abusive Chinese-style censored and tracked Internet here.

Oh my God.

I thought this had to be misreported but multiple outlets confirm Israelis have stormed a military base to protest the arrest of soldiers accused of gang-raping a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman Prison.😳

USA: STOP FUNDING THESE WAR CRIMES
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israelis-protest-arrest-of-soldiers-accused-of-gang-raping-gazan-detainee/3288825

Big Journalism all but ignored a staggeringly terrible Trump vow -- to stop funding for schools that require kids to have been vaccinated against common, deadly childhood diseases. This is a promise to kill countless people. It's goddam depraved.

Glad to see that @radleybalko is on the case.

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/trumps-reckless-vaccine-ultimatum

What the hell is wrong with journalists that they slough off HUGE stories like this?

When #Musk reposts manipulated videos of Harris, is that fraud? Election interference?
Last week on the @MattBinder show he showed a Harris Deep Fake video that was banned on TikTok but shared on X. Here's the clip https://www.youtube.com/live/oVml4wQS6I4?si=SWVlPNtqs1CP2K-X&t=5445
But want I wanted to know is, "Can we DO anything about this?" It's Musk's platform. He makes & breaks the rules as he see fit.
Can the Election Threats Task Force look into this as a case of fraud?
#AI #DeepFake #ElonMusk #Harris

Texas earthquakes labeled "disaster" and likely human-created.

Induced #earthquakes in #Texas are made more likely by wastewater disposal from oil and gas drilling and a process called secondary recovery.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2024/07/27/scurry-county-earthquakes/

Oil industry is causing enough earthquake damage in west Texas that Scurry County declared a disaster.

#Texas https://apnews.com/article/texas-earthquakes-oil-gas-36225fd71470261d59238e9e74faeab0

This is beyond disgusting. A pack of #Nazis engaged in a campaign of #racist attacks on some black kids who were performing a drum routine in downtown #Nashville. The #cops made the kids leave rather than address the grown white men who were screaming racist insults at them. Make no mistake. These are #TrumpSupporters who feel emboldened by #Trump's overtly #bigoted agenda. If Trump wins in November, #JimCrow will be right behind him. Shame on you, Nashville.

#VoteBlue

https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/07/29/angry-white-men-harass-black-boys-on-nashville-street-in-front-of-cops/

Trump’s plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire US Department of Education K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted that is.

A new study finds significant indoor air pollution from gas stove use in public housing apartments and, very importantly, is one of the first (the first?) to show that replacing gas stoves with induction stoves substantially reduces that impact.

#GasStoves #Induction #NaturalGas #AirPollution

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629624002536

Tell Congress: The government should not have the power to decide what topics are "safe" online for young people, and to force services to remove and block access to anything that might be considered unsafe for children. This isn’t safety—it’s censorship. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids

Most people, when they think of Nazism, imagine a rigid dictatorship, in which Hitler gave strict orders to carry out a carefully engineered program of genocide.

They don't realize the degree to which Nazi functionaries improvised in an effort to curry favor with the Fuhrer by anticipating what they thought he might like to see.

IOW, they ramped up the violence b/c they believed they would be rewarded for it.

This is how "MASS DEPORTATION NOW" spirals out of control.

https://tinyurl.com/3xftuna5