Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Doctors grapple with how to save women's lives amid 'confusion and angst' over new Louisiana law • Louisiana Illuminator

Under a new state law, Louisiana doctors might not be able to quickly access one of the most widely used life-saving medications for pregnant women.
https://lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/louisiana-women/

Great thread from Cory Doctorow (as usual) about the connection between failure to react to climate change, political conservatism, and the Koch oligarchy.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113080389191550876

#ClimateEmergency #climate #disasters #politics

"On October 1, in Louisiana, a law will go into effect that reclassified the drug misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. Misoprostol can be used for abortion. It is also used for routine reproductive care and during medical emergencies to treat postpartum hemorrhage."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Republicans #abortion #healthcare #women #ReproductiveRights #misoprostol #Louisiana
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-3-2024

Christian group recruits ‘Trojan horse’ election skeptics as US poll workers | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/christian-election-poll-workers

"My criticism concerns the very premise of the [NYTimes] article [about Trump and Harris' "housing plans"] —allowing with straight face a Trump spokesperson to sell mass deportation as a housing policy. A reality-based article might then relate in plain English that to the extent that a housing policy can be divined, it’s wholly rooted in an authoritarian, racist (and expensive!) proposal to deport millions of people."

~ Michael Tomasky

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
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https://newrepublic.com/article/185528/media-trump-moms-liberty-2024

I get asked a lot about funding for school gardens. Small grants available here! https://wildones.org/seeds-for-education/

Not that major newspapers care, but maybe the rest of us do: “Trump promoted another Truth Social account that calls for killing his political opponents.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/truth-social/trump-promoted-another-truth-social-account-calls-killing-his-political-opponents

"With Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket, Democrats have the wind at their backs in their fight to regain control of the House this November.

On the path toward winning back the majority with a net gain of just four seats, we have identified five House races we see as close but winnable and hope you will join us in supporting these fantastic candidates. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/fight-five-democratic-house-majority"

Well, Florida Health Dept lost a major lawsuit. Wait until Rebekah Jones gets her case into court. It's in here.

https://open.substack.com/pub/rebekahjones/p/shortstack-florida-geographer-who?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Via Ammar Moussa:

This is what Donald #Trump meant when he meant "send it to the states."

Now lifesaving medication is getting pulled off the shelves.

BREAKING: Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new #Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. https://lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/louisiana-women/

Exec at #Trump Media Jumped the Line for U.S. Visa After Company Lobbied #GOP Lawmaker
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A former aide to Rep. Don Bacon, a #Nebraska #Republican, said she intervened on the company’s behalf even though she thought it was inappropriate.

“It was specifically the congressman that suggested I needed to deal with it.”

#News #Immigration #Politics #Government #Business #TrumpMedia

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-media-foreign-executive-us-visa-don-bacon

For today's round of #MinCup24 the storytelling vote goes to copper 😄

It features into some of my favorite folktales and legends:

- The City of Brass (1001 Nights), where djinn are captured in copper vessels and adventurers explore a magical city

- The Copper Forest, a Hungarian folktale where one of the stereotypical three princesses is actually in love with the enemy king, and finds a way to marry him in the end

#folklore #folktales #storytelling #minerals

This #perovskite Borg-like crystal can have complex faces, In fact, perovskite has a wide range of morphologies. Perovskite rains from stars, and perovskite structure fuels brilliant new technologies. #VoteTheFuture #MinCup24
mindat.org/photo-214655.h… via mindat.org

#MinCup24 ROUND 1 MATCH 3: #Perovskite vs #Copper

Will you pick your futuristic cube or the ancient gleaming metal? The choice is yours!

VOTE: https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r1m03
RESULTS: https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/results/r1m03

Florida state parks whistleblower fired after exposing Ron DeSantis’s plans | Florida | The Guardian

Florida state parks whistleblower fired after exposing Ron DeSantis’s plans James Gaddis tanked Florida governor’s secretive scheme to build hotels and golf courses over acres of preserved land Richard Luscombe in Miami Tue 3 Sep 2024 13.35 EDT Share Florida’s department of environmental protection has fired a whistleblower who exposed and sank governor Ron DeSantis’s…

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2024/09/03/florida-state-parks-whistleblower-fired-after-exposing-ron-desantiss-plans-florida-the-guardian/

Lula says Elon Musk’s wealth does not mean world must accept his ‘far-right free-for-all’ | Brazil | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/03/luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva-elon-musk-brazil-x The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has said he hopes the crisis surrounding the social network X in Brazil might teach the world that “it isn’t obliged to put up with [Elon] Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich”.

Tim Walz stole a great line from The West Wing and made it his own:

“But that’s not these guys. Trump and Vance, when they talk about freedom, means government should have the freedom to invade every corner of our life. They talk about small government, small enough to be in your bedroom, small enough to be in your exam room, small enough to be in your library, telling you the things you should make decisions about.”

#uspol

Exclusive: John McCain’s son decries Trump appearance at Arlington as a ‘violation’ that turned cemetery into campaign backdrop; switches registration to Democrat and endorses Harris

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/03/politics/jimmy-mccain-decries-trump-arlington-appearance/index.html

In May, record flooding washed away soil in parts of southern Brazil, revealing the remnants of at least 35 ancient creatures. Among them was a 233-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton, possibly the oldest ever discovered, belonging to the two-legged predator Gnathovorax cabreirai. #ClimateChange

https://buff.ly/3zcALFd

🔥Gov. #Walz in Wisconsin:

"Ask yourself, who's the right leader for our country? Kamala #Harris, who has spent decades putting criminals behind bars, or Donald #Trump and #JDVance, who get up every single morning, run to the nearest camera, and whine how they're being treated unfairly. I'll damn sure guarantee you: When they wake up in the morning, they're not thinking about you. They've never thought about you since the very beginning."