Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Now, the CSP refuses to discuss the audit — or even reveal if the most-prolific ticket faker still has a badge. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/connecticut-police-trooper-1000-fake-tickets-1234789116/

The finding is key to a damning new audit of the Connecticut State Police, which reveals pervasive trooper malfeasance, including at least 26,000 false tickets logged over seven years, that masked racial bias in the force’s policing. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/connecticut-police-trooper-1000-fake-tickets-1234789116/

"I never thought wearing an N95 mask would qualify as a form of civil disobedience, but that’s where we’re heading, isn’t it?

A properly fitting N95 mask represents a truth that fascists hate being reminded of: Nobody ever achieves anything by themselves. Sometimes, the best way to protect yourself also means protecting others. A mask reminds them that their rugged individualism isn’t real."

~ @jessicawildfire

[https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/in-a-world-full-of-rugged-individualists]

Missouri has decided to turn down millions in federal food aid for low-income children

https://missouriindependent.com/2023/07/14/missouri-has-decided-to-turn-down-millions-in-federal-food-aid-for-low-income-children/

If you are attending large events and you aren't emailing to ask them to include cleaning the air in their plans (eg setting up some filter fans/air purifiers in the space or otherwise ensuring high quality ventilation), you are forcing your disabled colleagues to be the only people speaking up for this and spoiler alert, it's awful. I don't want words about caring, I want the basic actions that make us all safer.

DeSantis revived a state guard, and recruits are quitting over what they’re seeing inside. And:

“A disabled retired Marine Corps captain, called the local sheriff’s office to report he was battered by Florida National Guard instructors when they forcibly shoved him into a van after he questioned the program and its leadership.” https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/07/14/florida-state-guard-desantis-national-guard-training/

🟠 #Fires🔥 at the Arctic Circle in the Srednekolymsky District, Sakha Republic, #Russia🇷🇺 (Lat: 66.42, Lng: 157.47) - 16 July 2023 #Copernicus🇪🇺 #Sentinel-2🛰️ Full-size ▶️ https://flic.kr/p/2oPNfHV + https://flic.kr/p/2oPKhuN #OpenData #SciComm Images are about 105 kilometers wide @CopernicusEU @CopernicusECMWF @wildfirescience @m_parrington

Numerous #wildfires across Canada and easter Russia and generating huge amounts of thick smoke which is being transported thousands of kilometres, including to the high #Arctic in the #CopernicusAtmosphere 5-day aerosol optical depth forecast initialized 16 July 00 UTC https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cams-global-atmospheric-composition-forecasts?tab=overview

#ArcticFires #wildfire #smoke #aerosol

@CopernicusECMWF @CopernicusEU @atmochem @wildfirescience

Gift article from Washington post: “How a Saudi firm tapped a gusher of water in drought-stricken Arizona”

#Arizona #Drought #Politics #ClimateChange

https://wapo.st/3DkTQ6w

DeSantis and Florida republicans have wiped hundreds of thousands of vote by mail registrations from the system—mostly democrats

That means people will not be getting the ballots they requested for the upcoming election if they don’t find if it’s them and re-register

When there are no consequences for fascists?

They keep taking rights until they win.

https://nbc-2.com/news/politics/2023/07/12/hundreds-of-thousands-of-vote-by-mail-requests-erased-from-floridas-system/amp/

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was born #OTD in 1861. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality—especially that of women. via @wikipedia

Books by Ida Bell Wells-Barnett at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5765

#books #literature

"You see, right wingers don’t merely want their own platforms. If they did, they would all congregate on Truth Social or Parler. What they want is to dominate all platforms, which is why the Plaintiffs in Biden v. Missouri want to remove any possibility of legitimate criticism from official sources."
@Teri_Kanefield

The Struggle for Control of American Media: Missouri v. Biden
https://terikanefield.com/missouri-v-biden-control-for-the-dominance-of-american-media/

'Amid record-shattering warmth this February, BP scaled back an earlier goal of lowering its emissions by 35% by 2030, saying it will aim for a 20 to 30% cut instead. ExxonMobil quietly withdrew funding for a heavily publicized effort to use algae to create low-carbon fuel. And Shell announced that it would not increase its investments in renewable energy this year, despite earlier promises to dramatically slash its emissions.'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel

I'm starting an expedition thread on our MUDBENCS project, an oceanographic expedition to collect marine and fluvial mud, suspended sediment, and water from the Amazon River and coastal areas of Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, and Guyana. I will add to this thread from time to time, so please #boost it freely if you think others would be interested in participating virtually in an oceanographic expedition.

Tonight, the ship R/V F. G. Walton Smith pushed off the dock in Miami heading to St. Thomas, to Trinidad, and the to Cayenne. The scientific party was not on board. Most will join it in about 13 days in Cayenne. I will lead a small party of us to transport frozen Amazon samples over land from Macapá, Brazil, through the savannas and rain forest of the Amazon basin to Cayenne, French Guiana. We will board the ship to begin our work on June 3.

#MUDBENCS
#CarbonCycle
#oceanography
#SouthAmerica
#Amazon
#ResearchVessel
#expedition
#ClimateChange
#RiverOceanTransport
#SourceToSink

Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel disgusting; time to sure them into the (sic) ground.... #stopoil

This one's heartfelt. My new op-ed out today. Imagining a recovery in Vermont that would design for the future that’s coming, not the past we once knew and expand the idea of recovery to include nature and community, as well as bridges and roads https://themessenger.com/opinion/disaster-recovery-efforts-can-serve-more-than-one-goal #multisolving #VTflood23 #ClimateCrisis

From 1940s-1980, the wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax rates. Zero of them went broke from taxation. Zero of them left the USA. All remained exceedingly wealthy, manufacturing boomed, AND we had the strongest middle class growth in US History.

Let's do that again. #TaxTheRich

Take note: When people downplay or ignore the role of structural racism in health disparties, it leaves space for bad actors like RFK to spread harmful and bigoted conspiracy theories.

Here's one weird trick that billionaires don't want you to know:
Join your union.

#GeneralStrike #WGAStrong #WGASTRIKE #UnionStrong

I've been doing a good bit of insect photography this year, including shoots in Australia, Puerto Rico, and around Texas. Here's a feed of my newest photos:

#insects #Nature #Photography

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Photography/Recent/n-js6qN/