Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

The biggest threat to free speech in the United States is the Republican Party. That Republicans are persecuting researchers and journalists who track disinformation online should be more widely reported.

#Fascism #GOP

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02195-3

We should embrace the unease, the dissonance – they are fully justified! - and work towards reclaiming an idea of “patriotism” that doesn’t entail an affirmation of American jingoism and visions of white Christian male dominance. America can do better. Democracy depends on it.

Crap!

Three of Mount Rainier's glaciers have melted away

"The National Park Service officially removed the Stevens Glacier from its inventory because it had grown too small and there was a lack of evidence that ice was flowing, such as crevassing.

...both the Pyramid and Van Trump glaciers were too fragmented and small to be considered glaciers.

There’s just a few ice patches the size of a Little League field."

#Seattle #ClimateChange #GlacialMelt #TheMountain
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/three-mount-rainiers-glaciers-melted-away-rcna89123

The Court that takes gifts from billionaires wants you to pay back your student loans or society will collapse.

My husband is cleaning the guinea pig cage and one Miss Ester is bopping around causing trouble and chewing on things. He keeps saying “Ester! No!”

But what if… Ester YES?

No doubt Democrats in Washington, DC, including President Biden need to be talking relentlessly about corporate greed and excess profits, and so do we.

What people end up hearing is what's repeated over and over again.

The Bidenomics push needs a second focus: Corporate greed
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/2/2178627/-The-Bidenomics-push-needs-a-second-focus-Corporate-greed

"Record Temperatures in Warming Oceans Causes Chaotic Weather Patterns" | I spoke with Deborah Block of @VOANews: https://www.voanews.com/a/record-temperatures-in-warming-oceans-causes-chaotic-weather-patterns-/7162523.html

“The bison have always been there…and now they’re coming back.” Blackfeet release wild buffalo on tribal land (with a video that evokes some feelings, at least for me)

https://missoulian.com/news/state-regional/blackfeet-release-buffalo-tribal-land/article_db9fb54e-1503-11ee-9446-af1007e7d4d4.html

We've all had a day or two to process what the Supreme Court just did.

The battle for our country and for the rule of law, not of oligarchs, lies ahead of us. Let us recommit to it now, and with grave determination resolve to turn this tide back in 2024.

I am ready. Are you?

Justice Kagan sounds the alarm: The Supreme Court is seizing for itself authority that it does not have under the Constitution.

It’s time for Biden and the Democrats to treat this as the constitution crisis it so clearly is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/opinion/elena-kagan-dissent-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=SEGldDkB2iNQNMTXvDt2dJFxeFCayl1_BwkQJBiEvm2m6PtU8SlGzDFCpuWNtBHcLx7l6IvTm7-uMHobtqWVlAE2Jv1auvKWoC_0DSZ9BOCP7FSRV6XcY9QD4y1AUB3oFcqynTDmr20_wKIyGbrcuu244d8UeMMxNFGkHuNLQbDV19ZqBGsgu7uujLm_0ThOWqCrCEi0j413t7XdEaXJ7xZCTB19ZBLV51Y0acpqV5QYjUXyDV6mYGci_wdJ3bLaEvNU6qFmHs6XteSRcScw4ApH8x8FKJGgFILHn7V_-8B0_3AT-FOmyyDCtTUv9yTjOa6J6DDYf5Lw4ip5F3VSAOKlra8lrP0&smid=url-share

#Scotus

No gay couple ever asked her to do a website for them. She never got the chance to say no. The Supreme Court of the United States has now weighed in to say: We’re sorry you’ve never been able to discriminate against gay people, and if the opportunity ever arises, go for it. https://mstdn.plus/@EllenJS/110636263089483306

Never forget that the thing that made it possible for #SCOTUS to kill affirmative action was racist Republican voters electing the most dangerous traitor in US history who appointed paid-off justices that perjured themselves in confirmation hearings.

NBC: Scorching heat and Canada wildfires could be tied to ‘wavy, blocky’ jet stream: Some researchers think climate change is disrupting the jet stream's flow and causing it to bake regions in heat longer. #jetstream #climate #weather #heatwaves https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/scorching-heat-canada-wildfires-tied-wavy-blocky-jet-stream-rcna91409

The BLM wants to make conservation equal to ranching and mining in the West. The GOP won’t have it. https://coloradosun.com/2023/06/22/blm-conservation-republicans-ranching-mining/?utm_content=buffer26f2f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

Sorry, Joe Rogan: Scientists should never 'debate' anti-vaccine quacks. Here's why https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-06-22/column-responsible-scientists-must-refuse-demands-to-debate-antivaccine-quacks-heres-why

...it gives liars and deceivers legitimacy. "You should never equate, morally or practically, true science and pseudoscience or quackery," says John P. Moore, professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. "By just appearing with these people, you give them a stature that implies they're equivalent, and they're not."

How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.
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Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.

#SouthCarolina #Charleston #Slavery #History #Research #HumanRights

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-grad-student-discovered-largest-us-slave-auction?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

In May 2022 a tailings pond at Imperial’s Kearl Lake facility leaked waste into groundwater, affecting First Nations unknowingly.

Andrew Nikiforuk provides a chronology of promises to tighten oversight — only to see efforts stripped away:

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/06/05/Cleaner-Oilsands-Lie/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=060523-m&utm_campaign=editorial