Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

On middle-aged men, ethnic nationalism, and Brexit:

"The current nationalist populist movement in the global North is a generational swansong, as ageing baby boomers perceive migration as a threat to their accumulated nest egg and fail to understand that mobility and diversity are already part of the future of their societies. Seventy-five per cent of young Brits voted against Brexit; their elders robbed them of a European future."

François Crépeau, Towards a Mobile and Diverse World: ‘Facilitating Mobility’ as a Central Objective of the Global Compact on Migration, International Journal of Refugee Law, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2018, Pages 650–656, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eey054

I wrote for Scientific American about how the pseudoscience and hate fueling Trump's mass deportation plans mirror grim concentration camp history around the world. And when you take the same ingredients and bake them the same way, you get similar results. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-massive-deportation-plan-echoes-concentration-camp-history/

#Doonesbury #comics #Trump

Entire strip here:

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/08/11

This is not hyperbole if we don't defeat Trump and his Nazis in November.👇

Let’s fix this, Washington Post. “Does DEI training discriminate against white people?” The answer is no.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are valuable goals. They benefit everyone. That’s almost self-evident.

Attempts to rectify discrimination against disadvantaged groups is NEVER discrimination against the advantaged group.

If some judges find otherwise, they will be wrong.

https://wapo.st/4cmtGzm

Republican VP candidate JD Vance tells ABC News mass deportations should start with one million people. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-vance-mass-deportations-start-1-million-defends/story?id=112739447

In an alternate reality, the current Portuguese government believes there is *too much* public investment in railroads

'o ministro com a pasta das infra-estruturas ter admitido que não é “saudável para o mercado o Estado investir tanto em comboios”.

https://www.publico.pt/2024/08/08/economia/noticia/cp-surpreendida-interferencia-ministro-planos-alta-velocidade-2100113

'Quase uma década depois, a percentagem do orçamento alocada pelo Governo português à investigação e desenvolvimento — ou seja, à ciência — voltou aos valores praticados em 2014. Segundo os dados divulgados nesta terça-feira pelo Eurostat (Gabinete de Estatísticas da União Europeia), a percentagem de despesa do Governo português em 2023 correspondeu a 0,71% das despesas totais –, ou seja, muito similar aos 0,7% das despesas totais através do Orçamento do Estado verificados em 2014.'

https://www.publico.pt/2024/08/08/ciencia/noticia/2023-fatia-orcamento-governo-investigacao-recuou-valores-2014-2100053

'People carried signs reading “Not in our city,” and “Will trade racists for refugees.”
“They all had one thing in mind; it was to not let this hate get a foothold,” said Ewan Roberts, who manages Asylum Link Merseyside, the charity that was on the target list.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/world/europe/liverpool-protests-southport.html

'In medicine, the traditional model for researching disabilities repeats itself again and again: nondisabled researchers conduct their studies ‘on’ disabled people as their subjects. While there may be nothing inherently wrong with this mode of scholarship, it carries limitations that should be acknowledged. The fact is: patients can have different priorities from clinicians.'
https://aeon.co/essays/we-need-the-first-hand-experience-of-disabled-researchers

'Some of the effects of this have been typical, like the landlords who have converted apartments to short-term rentals, which has raised rents and sent students farther from the university and into the smaller towns on the periphery. But one result has been very particular to Bologna: the consumption of mind-numbing, heart-stopping amounts of mortadella.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/opinion/italy-tourists-bologna-mortadella.html

'That puts the dinosaur story into unusual company. Every once in a great while, people going about their ordinary lives have looked up and seen something they never imagined. A ship with towering masts and billowing sails materialized on the horizon, for instance, in waters that had never known a vessel bigger than a canoe. Or a stranger turned up in a valley so remote that its inhabitants had thought themselves alone in the world.'

https://lithub.com/giants-bones-fossilized-testicles-how-humans-reacted-to-the-discovery-of-dinosaurs/

'We provide evidence that functional antibody responses mediated by IgG and IgA are associated with protection against malaria in young children vaccinated with RTS,S, and suggest potential differences in the correlates of immunity between males and females. These findings reveal new avenues that could be used to achieve malaria vaccines with higher efficacy.'
#Immunology #Malaria #Vaccine
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(24)00130-7/fulltext

'Ben-Gvir, o supremacista de extrema-direita que é ministro da Segurança Nacional, incendiou as redes dizendo "tirem as mãos dos nossos heróis". Smotrich, ministro das Finanças, idem. Uma turba de israelitas disparou para Sde Teiman, trepando vedações, empurrando guardas.'

https://www.publico.pt/2024/08/10/mundo/opiniao/rasgar-recto-pau-legitimo-118-paginas-israel-mundo-2100408

Climate Activist Arrested For Playing His Cello Outside Citibank Faces 7 Years In Prison - CleanTechnica

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/09/climate-activist-arrested-for-playing-his-cello-outside-citibank-faces-7-years-in-prison/

#ClimateChange

What if there were tampons in the boy's bathroom? So what? Every boy, with a mother, used a bathroom with tampons, and pads in it his whole life. Men and boys should be comfortable and educated about menstruation, PERIOD (I'm not sorry).

https://www.rawstory.com/i-did-this-thing-called-journalism-minnesota-writer-debunks-megyn-kellys-smear-of-walz/