Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

A survey conducted by University of Pennsylvania researchers found 28% of respondents incorrectly believe that COVID-19 vaccines have been responsible for thousands of deaths.

The truth is the opposite: COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives.

So many more lives could have been saved if not for the deadly spread of disinformation.

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/29/more-americans-embrace-vaccine-misinformation

Went by train to Copenhagen this weekend, and that gave me a chance to try the awesome restrooms at the Copenhagen railway station.

There is no gender debate here, because when you go through to payment system you arrive at 20 unisex toilets — each one in their own room.

No one is questioning your gender identity, because here, everyone is just a human being.

I hope every city on the planet follow this great example.

It just works.

Renowned Surgeon and Lead Author of New Lancet Study Tortured by Israeli Military https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-doctor-tortured-lancet?r=1x9kto&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #Gaza

A *staggering* view of Mars that you VERY much want to see. And it even has a case of phobobombing.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/jawdropping-view-mars

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

@Wileymiller

“Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.” - Grover Cleveland, 1888

History, rhyming.

Flamingo Land plans for Loch Lomond should be rejected, report says
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24557768.flamingo-land-plans-loch-lomond-rejected-report-says/

Quite right too...

Your Labor Day reminder that Project 2025 would essentially ban unions for public service workers (pg. 82), let bosses avoid overtime pay (pg. 592), make it easier for private companies to decertify unions (pg. 603) and allow states to opt out of federal labor laws (pg. 605).

Your Labor Day Reminders:
•Unions increase wages ~11%
•Min Wage Should be $27/hour
•Reaganomics stole $50T from working people
•Corporations commit $50B in annual wage theft
•“Right to work” laws were made to uphold white supremacy
•Billionaire philanthropy is PR to distract from their tax avoidance
•Americans suffer worse inequality today than before The Great Depression

Here's how we stop this class warfare against working people
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/9-facts-on-labor-day-legacy-media

Nearly three-quarters of all agricultural workers in the United States are foreign-born, meaning that if we were to eliminate the critical labor of immigrant workers, our food supply would face catastrophic collapse.

At least half of these workers lack legal immigration status. In California, undocumented immigrants could make up as much as 75% of all farmworkers in the state. #LaborDay

For those who don't follow news from #Germany , yesterday there were state elections in #Thuringia and #Saxony - and in Thuringia the fascist #AfD won a plurality of the votes, while in Saxony they are only slightly behind the Christian Conservatives.

Due to the German election system, this doesn't mean they will automatically form the government - but it will be very difficult to form a government without them in Thuringia.

These results are devastating for all patriotic Germans, but it is not clear what we are supposed to do now to fight the fascists. I will continue to speak out against them - but it is clear that a significant portion of the German population _want_ fascists to return to power.

#fascism #Nazis
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-thuringia-and-saxony-elections-propel-far-right-afd/a-70106147

Home Depot spent $37.2B on stock buybacks between 2019 to 2023, enough to give each of its 463,100 employees annual bonuses of $16,071.

Last year, Home Depot's CEO pocketed $14.4 million — 410x the company's median employee pay of just $35,131.

Textbook corporate greed.

@knittingknots2

i feel the need to remind people that vance's wife is an attorney who works

she doesn't stay home to raise her kids, she works

republicans have levels of hypocrisy like Dante's levels of hell

In response to tragic killing of 6 Israeli hostages, the The Hostage Families Forum HQ says: "Netanyahu abandoned the hostages. This is now a fact. Starting tomorrow the country will tremble. We call on the public to prepare. We will bring the country to a halt. The abandonment is over."

The binding UN hostage resolution has been on the table for 2 months. It was Israel's resolution. Hamas accepted. Now Netanyahu won't comply
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/01/israel-hostages-gaza-hamas-recovered

Observations at Mt. Stromlo, Australia, find a measurable decrease in night sky brightness attributed to dimming of streetlights in Canberra. "[F]or every 10 per cent the lights are dimmed, it's about a 5 per cent change in the glow of the sky."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-22/canberra-adaptive-lighting-project-reduces-pollution/104252082

#LightPollution #DarkSkies #Skyglow

All nine Republican senators running for reelection this year voted against the Right to IVF Act:

John Barrasso
Marsha Blackburn
Kevin Cramer
Ted Cruz
Deb Fischer
Josh Hawley
Pete Ricketts
Rick Scott
Roger Wicker

(JD Vance did too.)

So much for the party of "freedom."

Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought

New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities.

I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW CORVID OVERLORDS

https://nautil.us/crows-are-even-smarter-than-we-thought-820066/