Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Republicans are not “delusional,” they haven’t temporarily “lost their mind.” Such pathologizing language obscures rather than illuminates the fact that Republicans are engaged in a deliberate, systematic, and highly successful project to entrench minority rule. 13/

This story ought to be getting a whole lot more attention than it is.

Minneapolis Police have been running something approaching a mafia-style protection racket targeting local businesses, especially minority-owned businesses.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/10/17/small-business-owners-they-are-pressured-to-hire-off-duty-mpd-cops-for-security/

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Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/trawling-for-fish-releases-as-much-carbon-as-air-travel-report-finds-climate-crisis
Dragging heavy nets across seabed disturbs marine sediments, world’s largest carbon sink, scientists report

Not new, but new to me

Harlan Crow and a few billionaires have provided Clarence Thomas with:

-38 destination vacations

-26 private jet flights

-6 helicopter flights

-Yacht voyages

And we're going to let Thomas rule on Moore v. US, which could permanently shield billionaires from a wealth tax?

Mike Johnson's Wild Anti-LGBTQ Past Revealed By CNN's K-File

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/new-gop-speaker-advocated-for-criminalizing-gay-sex-and-claimed-same-sex-marriage-would-lead-someone-to-marry-his-pet/

The end of the Sarennes glacier near Alpe d'Huez. Final measurements done on 16 October.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange
https://www.ledauphine.com/environnement/2023/10/19/a-l-alpe-d-huez-le-glacier-a-fondu-d-un-metre-en-moins-d-un-mois

An immunocompromised person in my family got COVID for the first time, AT THE HOSPITAL because they stopped requiring ANY PRECAUTIONS. No masks, no nothing.

They can't avoid the hospital so that means they'll just have to roll the dice each time they go?

What a cruel world.

Immunocompromised means the vaccine doesn't work as well. So what the current US policy says is equivalent to "you're on your own" good luck! 😡😡😡

The disappearance of thicker #Arctic sea ice by decade in October... 🧊📉

More info on data: https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/pan-arctic-ice-ocean-modeling-and-assimilation-system-piomas

💯@soniasodha 'The pandemic will cast a long shadow over the Covid generation because of terrible political choices'.
These continue with a failure to reconfigure learning spaces, and improve ventilation. #CovidIsAirborne #LongCOVID @guardian @yahooNewsUK
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/empty-classroom-seats-reveal-long-063308176.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

‘This place wanted to be a wetland’: how a farmer turned his fields into a wildlife sanctuary https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/22/farm-wetland-bird-animal-sanctuary-oregon?

“Placing HEPA air filters into classrooms in the Bradford area of the UK reduced the number of covid-19-related absences among students by more than 20 per cent”

Clean air works. Why are we not doing this more?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2398713-schools-cut-covid-19-sick-days-by-20-per-cent-using-hepa-air-filters/

This is what "freedom" means to the right wing. https://www.comicsands.com/tp-usa-david-boyles-assault-2666018152.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

"I admit that I started thinking about this after spending the weekend walking underneath a grove of hundreds-of-feet-tall, centuries-old California Redwoods. As I gazed at the morning fog settling over the giant trees, I wondered: Why are we really spending billions on GPUs and data centers, fueling a spike in water consumption during a drought? For products consumers may or may not want or need?" -Sharon Goldman

https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-ai-is-teetering-on-the-edge-of-a-disillusionment-cliff-the-ai-beat/

Wow it gets better.

“she was forced to leave Temple University for neighbouring UPenn after a dispute with her boss, who then attempted to have her deported.”

& Penn

“They issued an ultimatum, if she wanted to continue working with mRNA she would lose her prestigious faculty position, & face a…pay cut.”

”…that same week, I had just been diagnosed with cancer…I was facing 2 operations, & my husband, who had gone back to Hungary to pick up his green card…got stranded…”

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech

This is huge. And likely to go under the media radar.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4236066-arizona-governor-revokes-saudi-owned-alfalfa-farm-lease/

The Guardian article on the #NYC #rainfall #deluge and #flooding and the analysis on which it is based are okay, but entirely miss the key point - "with every degree (Celsius) of warming, the atmosphere can hold 7% more moisture"[1]. In greater #NY / #NJ the temperature is now about 2.2C over the 1900 - 2020 average [2]. This equates to the atmosphere holding 15.4% more water than average. No "rapid attribution study" necessary. It's simple atmospheric #physics.

Guardian - "Type of storm that drenched New York is up to 20% wetter due to #ClimateCrisis. Rapid attribution study finds storm 10-20% wetter after city experienced a month’s worth of rain in just a few hours on Friday"

Guardian article -
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/02/new-york-city-flooding-rain-storm-climate-change

[1] ZDF Report (in German) -
per #ZDF weather expert, meteorologist Özden Terli
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/klima-starkregen-hitze-experten-100.html

[2] US Temperature Data per #US #EPA
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-and-global-temperature

#ClimateEmergency #Climate #Klimakrise #Klima #ClimateDiary #GlobalWarming #NewYork #NewJersey #Weather #TorrentialRain #Floods #FlashFlood #FlashFloods #Meteorology

The University of Pennsylvania, where Kariko was on track for a professorship, decided to pull the plug on her when her grant rejections piled up.

"I was up for promotion, and then they just demoted me and expected that I would walk out the door," she told AFP in an interview from her home in Philadelphia in December 2020.

Kariko didn't yet have a green card and needed a job to renew her visa. She also knew she wouldn't be able to put her daughter through college without the hefty staff discount.

She decided to persist as a lower-rung researcher, scraping by on a meager salary.

It was a low point in her life and career, but "I just thought...you know, the (lab) bench is here, I just have to do better experiments," she said.

Now, her pioneering work—which paved the way for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines—has won her the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
#NobelPrize #medicine #nobel #mrna #Kariko
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-katalin-kariko-scientific-maverick-paved.html

Psst... get your COVID booster everyone, it's based on Nobel Prize-winning technology!

On Monday, President Biden is to deliver remarks to celebrate the Americans with Disabilities Act (#ADA), which he cosponsored as a senator, and to mark #DisabilityPrideMonth, according to the White House.