Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

I write about water. I'm a quasi-academic, currently Writer in Residence at the Utton Transboundary Resources Center at the University of New Mexico School of Law.

I'm optimistic about our ability to solve western North America's water challenges - but less optimistic than I was five years ago.

#ColoradoRiver is my preferred hashtag.

This has absolutely no business, none whatsoever, being as good as it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzR9HwhhlkA

Lunar Trailblazer Gets Final Payload for Moon Water Hunt

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-lunar-trailblazer-gets-final-payload-for-moon-water-hunt

Search over 2,000 astronomy and space news releases at www.stars-n-stuff.com/news-stories

#astronomy #space #science #news #AmateurAstronomy #stargazing #NASA #Moon #Trailblazer

Image: Lockheed Martin Space

🆕 from me, Bob Herman, @adamfeuerstein, Mohana Ravindranath, and Lizzy Lawrence: we spent the past few months digging through financial filings to analyze how top health care CEOs hauled in $4 billion last year.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/17/health-ceo-salaries-compensation/

Trump knows there are crazy people out there who will take violent action on his behalf if asked. He knew that on January 6, and he knows that today. That’s why he must be stopped from publicly attacking judges and prosecutors. He’s a threat to the system and to lives.

In Florida, hours of delays and dropped calls are keeping many Hispanic families out of Medicaid, report says https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/florida-hours-delays-dropped-calls-are-keeping-many-hispanic-families-rcna99971

5th circuit MAGA judges banned Mifepristone because the “FDA failed to address concerns about whether the drug is safe for women.”😐

Mifepristone reports 5 deaths for every 1M people who use it—a death rate of 0.0005%. Viagra has a 10X greater death rate.😳

So…when do MAGAs ban Viagra??🤔

Outrage as Arkansas tells high schools to drop AP African American course

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/15/arkansas-high-school-african-american-ap-course

Feeling like a newborn here, trying to locate fellow scientists interested in #octopus #killifish #developmentalBiology #evodevo #neuroscience #sciencefunding

This.

There’s more: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278237263.html #journalism #Kansas

Marion County, #Kansas Attorney Joel Ensey says his review of police seizures from the offices of the local newspaper, the Marion County Record, found “insufficient evidence exists to establish a legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized. As a result, I have submitted a proposed order asking the court to release the evidence seized. I have asked local law enforcement to return the material seized to the owners of the property."

Maybe Stephen Miller should get a real job.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/stephen-miller-flips-out-over-gay-pop?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=78125

“We’ve been hungry since arriving last year. I don’t know where our next meal will come from, or which one of my children will die next.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russia-ukraine-war-refugees-no-food-water-1234805627/

Wow! Youth Plaintiffs win in Held v. Montana. They sued the state alleging that Montana's failure to consider climate change in decisionmaking violated their constitutional right to a healthy environment. This is big #climatechange and #environmentaljustice news!! Here is the (long) decision. Hundreds of detailed factual findings leading to the result.
https://westernlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023.08.14-Held-v.-Montana-victory-order.pdf

Settler Colonialism Introduction

A MUST READ for reconnecting Natives and non-Natives by #Mvskoke TEK academic and researcher Lara A. Jacobs, currently working on her Forest Ecosystems and Society PhD. [Update, now Dr. Lara A. Jacobs]

Detailed but easy to digest.

#Decolonization #LandBack #InstanceBack #Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #FourteenNinetyOne #TurtleIsland #TurtleIslandSocial

-->> https://www.patreon.com/posts/144181261

This is a great slideshow (inc. videos) from the Smithsonian Institution of Mvskoke history.

Before the Trail of Tears removal 23 pages.

During the Trail of Tears removal 15 pages.

After the Trail of Tears removal 17 pages.

#TrailOfTears #Mvskoke #MuscogeeNation #Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #LandBack #InstanceBack #FourteenNinetyOne #TurtleIsland #TurtleIslandSocial
-> https://www.patreon.com/posts/mvskoke-trail-of-144193187

The new U.S. majority isn't just young, tolerant and diverse. They vote. The right hates that, and it hates what it sees when it looks at something like U.S. women's soccer

They hate America AND democracy, and it's devolving toward violence.

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/us-conservatives-embrace-authoritarianism-anti-democracy-20230813.html#loaded