Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

National red flag law anyone?
If the Army determined he could not be trusted with a firearm, a judge should have been able to do the same.

Maine mass shooter's family reached out to sheriff 5 months before rampage, sheriff's office says
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/31/2202747/-Maine-mass-shooter-s-family-reached-out-to-sheriff-5-months-before-rampage-sheriff-s-office-says

@Waitnwallflower Happy Halloween!

EPA has tested Corsi-Rosenthal boxes for aerosolized virus removal and (as expected) they worked very well, built by adults or by 5th graders, run on high speed or low speed.
https://today.uconn.edu/2023/10/epa-testing-shows-the-power-of-d-i-y-air-filters-to-trap-viruses/

Remember, the teens who come to your door tonight are still trying to adjust to leaving childhood behind.

Be kind. They need the candy more than the darling little ones.

#Vote #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy

“I really believe it’s down to one issue on the ballot. Not taxes, not even abortion, nothing. The one issue is: Do you believe in democracy, or do you believe in authoritarianism?”

— Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), on CNN, explaining why he’s voted for Democrats in the last two elections.

Republicans are lying when they say slashing IRS funds will lower the deficit. For each extra $1 the IRS spends auditing rich tax cheats, it can collect $12. Defunding the IRS will INCREASE the deficit.

They want to help their rich donors cheat, while the rest of us pay for it.

Doctors Without Borders spokeswoman tells Chris Hayes that the situation in #Gaza is
"One of the worst humanitarian catastrophes that we have ever seen." This from an organization that has worked in war zones and disaster areas worldwide for decades.

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