Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

An affront to actual history. https://www.comicsands.com/prager-university-cartoon-justifies-slavery-2663089717.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Hilarious:
Trump Seeks to Review Classified Evidence at His Own Secure Facility https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/us/politics/trump-classified-evidence.html?smid=tw-share

Disgusting. Infuriating.

“During his three decades on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has enjoyed steady access to a lifestyle most Americans can only imagine. A cadre of industry titans and ultrawealthy executives have treated him to far-flung vacations aboard their yachts, ushered him into the premium suites at sporting events and sent their private jets to fetch him — including, on more than one occasion, an entire 737.“

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court

The Case for Keeping Masks Mandatory in Health Care

#covid @whn

https://whn.global/scientific/the-case-for-keeping-masks-mandatory-in-health-care/

I'm quoted here by TechCrunch on Zoom's EU law problems in justifying their claim that they can use personal data gathered from users of their service to train AI models.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/zoom-data-mining-for-ai-terms-gdpr-eprivacy/

“Even after ProPublica has published multiple stories on repatriation over the past eight months, it is still unsettling to ponder the sheer scale at which museums stored away the bodies of so many Indigenous ancestors. Six thousand at Harvard University. Nine thousand at the University of California, Berkeley. “
Mary Hudetz on her experience reporting on @ProPublica’s Repatriation Project.
https://www.propublica.org/article/what-its-like-to-report-on-repatriation

‘My Blood Ran Cold’: Ex-Trump Official Horrified By ‘Criminal Plot’ to Have Military ‘Turn Their Guns on Civilians to Facilitate a Losing Candidate’ https://www.mediaite.com/news/my-blood-ran-cold-ex-trump-official-horrified-by-criminal-plot-to-have-military-turn-their-guns-on-civilians-to-facilitate-a-losing-candidate/?utm_source=mediaite_smartnews_redirect #uspol #coup#tfg #fascism

If you know anyone in Ohio, make sure they know that today is the special election for Issue 1, and urge them to vote No. If it passes, it will raise the threshold for passing ballot issues from 50% to 60%, allowing a 40% minority to veto ballot issues.

The GOP spent a ton of donor and taxpayer money to set up a special election, just for this one issue, hoping it will pass with low turnout, because it would remove one of the few remaining checks on a heavily gerrymandered statehouse.

Polls will be open from 6:30am until 7:30pm.

https://votenoinaugust.org/facts/

#Ohio #OhioIssue1 #OhioIssueOne #Issue1 #OhioPolitics #USPolitics #StatePolitics #Politics #GOP

I made a page so I can explain to clients why I'm not using #Zoom.

https://the.webm.ink/not-using-zoom

416 active #BCwildfires in British Columbia burning today, as of 'B.C. Day' (Aug 7, 2023). That's a decrease by 62 from two weeks ago.

BUT, many fires have shifted to southeast from central area of province.

Red dots: Out of control = 226 (54%)
New wildfires in last 24 hours: 47

Icon w/ flame in red & white: "highly visible or poses a potential threat to public safety"

Many evacuations in #KamloopsBC area

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #fossilfuels #wildfiresinBC

Ohio! If you haven’t voted yet, tomorrow is the big day. The GOP is trying to rig the system with Issue 1. Vote it down.

This Thur 8/10 at 7pm
"Knowledge is Power: Drinking in the Knowledge prevents Flushing and Forgetting" by Ted Brodeur, Supervising Engineer with LA County Sanitation Districts
We had such a rollicking & educational meeting with him in June that he never got to present the second half of his talk. So we scheduled him to come back this Thursday to teach us how the LA County Sanitation Districts turns wastewater into clean water.
Register for zoom link:https://lwvbeachcities.org/natural-resources.html

Greenbrier legislator's wife targets Little Free Libraries' content
Censors are coming for Faulkner County's Little Free Libraries.

https://arktimes.com/news/2023/08/07/greenbrier-legislators-wife-targets-little-free-libraries-content

Despite many claims to the contrary, monarchy really is extinct. Sightings still get reported and investigated, but as a general rule if it looks like royalty, it's probably just a trust fund baby with variant plumage.

According to a draft contract seen by Mongabay, Liberia may sign away the rights to nearly 10% of its total land mass to a United Arab Emirates-based firm for carbon offset development.

The firm is owned by Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum, the youngest member of Dubai’s royal family and an investor in energy projects across Africa and the Middle East.

By Ashoka Mukpo
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/massive-carbon-offset-deal-with-dubai-based-firm-draws-fire-in-liberia/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Carbon #ClimateChange #Forests

Exactly this, this all day, *THIS THIS THIS*.

"That Trump will be tried for his coup attempt is not a violation of his rights. It is a fulfillment of his rights. It is the grace of the American republic. In other systems, when your coup attempt fails, what follows is not a trial." - Yale historian Timothy Snyder via https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-3-2023?utm_campaign=post

"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."

A Le Guin classic https://t.co/GXxtXreLt2

Record flooding as glacier-dammed lake in a basin above Juneau, #Alaska releases water. https://www.juneauempire.com/news/record-flooding-from-suicide-basin-swamps-homes-cuts-off-access/

If I’ve understood 45’s argument, it’s that he found some lawyers who told him it was legal to overturn the entire election, which he really wanted to do. Then he spread lies about the election being stolen so others would be duped into helping him. So that means he’s…not guilty?

Sorry, that’s not going to fly, Donald.