Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

A thought provoking piece about Sophie Yeo's new book in Nature about what pristine actually means. I wrote about how much it irritates me that people describe the Arctic as pristine once.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02761-3?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb

#pristine #climatediary #climatechange

This article by @rbreich
is one of the best overviews of how a few ultra wealthy men work to replace democracy with authoritarianism, because it is good for business.

Every Musk fanboy should ask themselves this simple question: "When the ultra rich harvest their Trump tax cuts, do I get a piece of that pie?"

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/elon-musk-and-peter-thiels-war-on-democracy/

Via @Npars01

"“As long as a tribal member is an enrolled member of their tribe, they can use that tribal ID number to register on the state form, and that will prove citizenship for purposes of voter registration,” she said, adding that it’s because all Indigenous peoples were declared citizens of the United States in 1924. "

https://www.rawstory.com/scotus-ruling-on-citizenship-proof-for-new-voters-has-an-outsized-impact-for-native-voters/

Project 2025’s income tax plan would raise taxes by $3,000 for the median family of four making about $110,000 a year. It would cut taxes for the 45,000 U.S. households making more than $10 million. It's another trickle-down scam.

Via Emptywheel:

This incitement of an attack already in process seems probation violative.

Same pattern as #Jan6 too.

Michael McDonald:

#Trump can be heard in the background saying "He's on our side"

Taurean Small:

Video of the incident. Security in the press pen grabbed him first before he was taken down by law enforcement.

"As I wrote recently for CJR, newsrooms have been losing reporters with military experience. Some editors believe that without American troops involved in major wars, there’s less need for journalists on staff who are veterans. But episodes like what took place this week at Arlington show how important it is to have reporters and editors who can cut through political noise and jargon to explain the true importance of an event involving the military."

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/trumps-arlington-national-cemetery-campaign-afghanistan-press.php

No. Trump will not fund IVF treatment.

It’s against his party’s platform, which supports “fetal personhood.”

In June, all but 2 GOP senators voted to block the Right to IVF Act — including JD Vance.

Trump is scared of losing & making promises he has no intent to keep.

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

More than half of Caltech's incoming UG class are now women (133 women; 109 men). Now we just have to fix the tech industries they will go into, so that they aren't pushed out, told that they don't belong.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-27/caltech-long-male-bastion-to-enroll-majority-women-for-first-time

The Texas federal judge who's helping Musk destroy a media organization that's critical of exTwitter is visibly corrupt.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/texas-judge-decides-texas-is-a-perfectly-good-venue-for-x-to-sue-media-matters/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

With seven months completed, the Earth is very likely (96% chance) to set a new annual average temperature record in 2024.

This would make 2024 the warmest year since instrumental measurements began in 1850, beating the record just set in 2023.

More information in Berkeley Earth's monthly temperature update:
https://berkeleyearth.org/july-2024-temperature-update/

#globalwarming #climatechange #climate #temperature

“The photo of a grinning Trump giving a jaunty thumbs-up over these patriots’ graves is an indelible image of narcissism risen to the point of sociopathy.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/30/trump-campaign-behavior-military-arlington-virginia

Of course

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-arlington-cemetery-blame-gold-star-families-1235092314/

envo is having a 20% sale off masks until Sept 2nd. Code summerbreeze20

https://envomask.com/product/envomask-n95-respirator-kit/

Following passage of a $20 minimum wage in #California, the number of fast food workers in the four county region the Pasadena Star-News covers has reached a record high of over 360,000 workers. It turns out that when workers are well-paid, they have disposable income and are willing to spend it. #Bidenomics works. #FightFor15 https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2024/08/30/southern-californias-fast-food-jobs-at-record-high-for-3rd-straight-month/

Elon Musk’s voting record shows he voted by mail despite calling it ‘insane’

Elon Musk has been critical of vote-by-mail as he's been more vocal about his politics. His California voting record reveals he voted by mail in the state. — Read on www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musks-voting-record-shows-voted-mail-california-rcna168854

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2024/08/30/elon-musks-voting-record-shows-he-voted-by-mail-despite-calling-it-insane/

BREAKING: New polling on stopping arms to Israel supported by
-56% of white college grads
-61% of Americans
-63% of Moderates
-64% of Hispanics
-66% of Women
-75% of Black voters
-77% of Dems
-77% of Under 30

Bottom Line—rejecting Biden's policy of total allegiance to Netanyahu will *increase* voter turnout for Harris/Walz & solidify a win on Nov 5. Receipts: https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/polling-confirms-americans-want-usa