Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

“I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network
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Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers.

But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist.

#News #insurance #health #healthcare #MentalHealth #doctors #patients #therapy #government #business

https://www.propublica.org/article/ambetter-ghost-network-consequences

"It’s a global #climate obstruction strategy that dates back decades," https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/05/how-oil-and-gas-companies-infiltrate-higher-education-to-maintain-influence-princeton-university-mit/

#BigOil #FossilFuel #ClimateCriminals #Academia #CorporateCorruption #ClimateBreakdown #UnitedStates

Global study of crop pollination: bad news, good news. Many crops (including coffee!) are missing pollination and have reduced yields. But, we can manage habitat and fix this https://www.rutgers.edu/news/are-crops-worldwide-sufficiently-pollinated

Is Senator Cotton covering for his colleagues, or himself? Russian propaganda has been spewed by Republican lawmakers for years. Now it’s documented that at least 600 Americans have been paid to be influencers for Russia. “Cotton downplays Russia paying obscene amount to MAGA influencers for content friendly to Russia: "A few memes or videos in the vast sea of political commentary is not gonna make much of a difference in this election." -Sen Cotton #USPol https://www.marketwatch.com/story/russia-has-long-sought-to-propagandize-americans-through-active-measures-now-its-paying-americans-to-do-its-dirty-work-9bbc5655

'You never take responsibility': Top PA newspaper issues list of debate questions 'to hold Trump accountable' - Alternet.org

https://www.alternet.org/trump-debate-questions/

Haar over Edinburgh https://peertube.tv/videos/watch/9fb8fdea-d409-4138-80b4-4886d90acd11

People credit Tim Walz with using "weird" to describe the weirdos the republic party chose as its standard bearers, and he definitely did, but he was not the first to hang that label on #trump
George Bush commented after the inaugural speech in 2017 "that was some weird shit."
He climbed on rubble after 9/11 to puff out his chest as super patriot, and he strutted around in a flight suit but now he is too cowardly to step up on behalf of the country and condemn this assault on our nation.

"The consequences of this journalistic malpractice extend far beyond misleading headlines. By laundering Trump’s words in this fashion, the media is actively participating in the erosion of our shared reality. When major news outlets consistently present a polished version of Trump’s statements, they create an alternate narrative that exists alongside the unfiltered truth available on social media and in unedited footage.

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https://newrepublic.com/article/185530/media-criticism-trump-sanewashing-problem?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social

I agree with @jeffjarvis about the historic significance of who is coming together to defeat Trump and to elect Harris. He writes about this at https://buzzmachine.com/2024/09/06/the-unprecedented-grand-coalition/. I would add that this is is also a moment of profound ethical significance. You either publicly support Harris in the name of using peaceful democratic means to shape our country or you are for violence and repressive, minoritarian rule.

I would be arrested for writing and publishing this article in Pakistan. And that’s precisely why it needs to be written and published.

September 7 marks 50 years of violent religious apartheid in Pakistan and almost no one is talking about it.

I hope you take a moment to read and share.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/marking-50-years-of-apartheid-in

Trump’s plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire US Department of Education K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted that is.

There have been so many senior #Republican endorsements of #KamalaHarris that I went looking for a list. Wikipedia has organized the abundance into three lists:

1. List of former Trump administration officials who endorsed Kamala Harris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_Trump_administration_officials_who_endorsed_Kamala_Harris

2. List of former Trump administration officials who endorsed Joe Biden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_Trump_administration_officials_who_endorsed_Joe_Biden

3. List of Republicans who oppose the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_oppose_the_Donald_Trump_2024_presidential_campaign

#USPolitics

Shimmering in the night of space, a solar sail is pushed by the pressure of photons from the sun as it orbits the earth. It's just a test - it's tumbling, its engines aren't keeping it aligned. But it's a step toward the dream of solar-powered space flight.

This photo is taken from the solar sail itself. It has four black-and-white wide-angle cameras, centrally located aboard the spacecraft. Near the bottom of the photo, the view from one camera shows the reflective sail quadrants supported by booms. At the top of the photo is the back of one of the sail's solar panels. The booms are mounted at right angles, and the solar panel is rectangular, but they're distorted by the wide-angle camera.

The sail is called the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System. In my next post, check out a prettier picture of what it might look like from afar.

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The sexism is on the surface. #BrokenPost
Kamala Harris ran her office like a prosecutor. Not everyone liked that. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/06/harris-veep-boss-management/

Colorado mountain towns are full of vacant trophy homes and short-term rentals. Some officials want permission to tax them. | SummitDaily.com
https://www.summitdaily.com/news/colorado-mountain-towns-home-short-term-rental-tax/

Killed in her pink roller skates, a Palestinian girl’s photo in Gaza goes viral @palestine @israel

https://www.cfpublic.org/2024-09-07/killed-in-her-pink-roller-skates-a-palestinian-girls-photo-in-gaza-goes-viral

The Fraternal Order of Police endorsed a convicted rapist and felon for president of the United States. Case closed.