Reverse Watergate @reversalawaters@qoto.org

#GOPCircus #TaxCuts #Trillions

Antiabortion Heartbeat Bills Are not Morally, Scientifically or Legally Sound https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antiabortion-heartbeat-bills-are-neither-morally-nor-legally-sound/

“I’ve got my thinking #cat on”

Two Americas...

via Michael de Adder, Washington Post

That time in the Paradiso when Dante has St. Thomas go off on the danger of Twitter…

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean. Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque. This rarely-seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean. Image credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Amazing. 140-165 tornadoes so far in January, likely ranking it #2 January since records began in 1950. https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/this-january-could-go-down-as-2nd-most-active-for-tornadoes/1474411

"We’d like to tell you that our new 'undesirable' status doesn’t worry us," Meduza said in a statement. "But that would be untrue. We are afraid. We fear for our readers and for those who have collaborated with Meduza over many years. We fear for our loved ones and our friends." https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/01/26/if-it-s-a-fight-they-want-it-s-a-fight-they-ll-get

Stephen Dunn took this incredible photograph with his flash illuminating a spider and revealing its wet web with a rainbow effect. 😲 💗

Childhood Trauma Linked to Civic Environmental Engagement and Green Behavior

https://neurosciencenews.com/green-behavior-child-trauma-22339/

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#BrainOfShane
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On what would have been the 50th anniversary of the #SCOTUS decision in Roe v. Wade, President Biden will issue a Presidential Memorandum on Further Efforts to Protect Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services, announces the White House.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/01/20/a-proclamation-on-50th-anniversary-of-the-roe-v-wade-decision/

Please support this fundraiser for the family of murdered Forest Defender Manny "Tortuguita" Terán. Funds will help with travel costs and an application for an Emergency Visa for Manny's mother, who is in Panama. https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-family-of-manuel-tortuguita-paez-teran

These photographs show the forest defender who has been occupying the canopy of the Weelaunee forest since this morning, and an arborist brought in by the police, who are determined to destroy the forest.

Reportedly, in response to police bringing in heavy machinery, the defender has climbed up out of the tree sit that they were occupying to take a position higher in the tree.

The occupier is wearing a gas mask because police have been launching tear gas at them.

This takes place in a context in which the police have already shot and killed someone in the forest earlier today.

https://atlantapresscollective.com/2023/01/18/press-release-police-murder-protestor-in-atlanta-forest/

ProPublica used Blacklight (https://themarkup.org/blacklight) to show that nine online abortion pill providers are sharing sensitive data with Google: https://www.propublica.org/article/websites-selling-abortion-pills-share-sensitive-data-with-google

The off-the-shelf e-commerce tools aren't built for privacy, and patients face new legal risks since overturn of Roe v Wade.

In July, Dara Kerr and I found online abortion pill provider Hey Jane sending visitor data to Meta, Google and others (now stopped), and found a reviewer's personal information: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/07/01/online-abortion-pill-provider-hey-jane-used-tracking-tools-that-sent-visitor-data-to-meta-google-and-others