Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Any journalist incapable of distinguishing between Judaism and Zionism commits a category error that should bar them from the profession.

For example, uncritically allowing Jonathan Greenblatt to call the Columbia protest antisemitic, eliding the fact Jewish Voice for Peace is one of the organizers, should be grounds for firing.

@zachvat @DemocracyMattersALot
Their public calls for Civil War in the USA are meant to activate their terrorist cells in the West to help stoke division as we've seen over and over.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/how-russia-secretly-orchestrated-dozens-of-us-protests

"The most pressing threats to our safety as Jewish students do not come from tents on campus. Instead, they come from the Columbia administration inviting police onto campus, certain faculty members, and third-party organizations that dox undergraduates." #Democracy https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia?triggerShare=true?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

"So two things are being asserted:

1. Famine in Gaza is now unavoidable and will kill many civilian noncombatants even if more food aid starts getting in now.

2. The responsibility for this starvation of children, women and noncombatant males lies squarely with Israel, which is obstructing food aid deliveries"

Conclusions of a memo to Anthony Blinken from US State Dept officials seen by foreign policy journalist Colum Lynch.

#Israel #Gaza #Famine

https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/unavoidable-exponential-outpacing.html

@mekkaokereke you can’t have a birth rate crisis and a border crisis at the same time. Unless you’re racist. So…

Higher levels of CO2 increase survival of viruses in the air & transmission risk

“We knew SARS-CoV-2, like other viruses, spreads through the air we breathe. But this study represents a huge breakthrough in our understanding of exactly how and why that happens, and crucially, what can be done to stop it.

“It shows that opening a window may be more powerful than originally thought . . . causing the virus to become inactivated much faster"

#Covid19 #C02 #AirQuality

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/april/carbon-dioxide-aerosol-study.html

Are some #insects evolving in response to light pollution?

"We find a stark decline in blacklight trap efficacy over 25 years of monitoring in Delaware, USA, mirrored over 10 years of monitoring in New Jersey, USA. While the precise causes of this decline remain a subject for discussion, the practical consequences are clear: insect conservationists cannot fully rely on long-term trends from entomological light traps."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-024-00588-x

#ALAN #Entomology #Conservation

"More people across the United States, nearly 40%, are living in places with unhealthy levels of polluted air, according to a new report from the American Lung Association"

Sources of pollution include: extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and increased oil & gas extraction

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/health/unhealthy-air-report/index.html

A transcript of #NaomiKlein's speech at the Seder in the Streets in front of Senator Schumer's house in New York City. 👇

This thread is the whole speech because, well, it's that important -- Klein went out in public and claimed a path for US Jewish futures that is in coalition with those harmed by Zionism, but that is also deeply nested within Judaism as a multi-millennial tradition. We're lucky to live and breathe at the same time as Naomi Klein...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel

The fact that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife was one of the organizers of Donald Trump’s armed insurrection should be mentioned every time SCOTUS is in the news, IMHO.

USC went from cancelling their valedictorian’s commencement speech on a made up claim of safety, to canceling all commencement speakers, to canceling commencement altogether—all to prevent the student USC educated on genocide studies from applying her USC education at USC.😑

What a complete failure in leadership.

Report

Netanyahu has referred to US student protesters as “antisemitic mobs” & accused them of physically attacking Jewish students & faculty.

Bernie Sanders replied:
"No, Mr Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians & wounded more than 77,000 – 70% of whom are women and children."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bernie-sanders-issues-scathing-statement-directed-at-netanyahu-over-campus-protests/ar-AA1nFr98

#StudentProtests ..

The Supreme Court is currently deciding whether Republicans can block doctors from helping pregnant women in medical emergencies. I am not exaggerating.

The Biden administration is fighting to save those women's lives. Every time someone says "I won't vote for Biden," they're saying "I don't care about those women. Let them lose their uteruses, or die, or whatever. I have other priorities."

That's a goddamned fact.

This video is a good explanation of Moyle v. US.

#USPol #abortion

Black landowners are disproportionately vulnerable to laws and discriminatory practices that allow speculators and developers to acquire their property.

Read all our previous coverage here:

https://www.propublica.org/series/dispossessed

"Here’s what you’re not being told: The most pressing threats to our safety as Jewish students do not come from tents on campus. Instead, they come from the Columbia administration inviting police onto campus, certain faculty members, and third-party organizations that dox undergraduates."

https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia

Joe Biden today on the 4th anniversary of TFG telling Americans to inject bleach to cure COVID:
"Don’t inject bleach.
And don’t vote for the guy who told you to inject bleach."

Let's watch Sarah Cooper again, who brought the idiocy of the trump years to life in this funny lip-sync video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxDKW75ueIU&list=PL-8pDWAJLeYjt_QWcEZ_t7eYdax-YkkS5&index=2

I'm a Jew who's been afraid at Palestine protests.

Then, I learned more. I learned that I didn't know what people were chanting. I learned there was a lot to unlearn.

Then I decided I don't want my identity used to shield a genocidal apartheid state.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/being-afraid-does-not-mean-youre

BREAKING: UnitedHealth has confirmed that a ransomware attack on its health tech subsidiary Change Healthcare earlier this year resulted in a huge theft of Americans’ private healthcare data.

In a statement, UHG said the criminal hackers stole files containing personal data and protected health information that it says may “cover a substantial proportion of people in America.”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/22/unitedhealth-change-healthcare-hackers-substantial-proportion-americans/