Went down a #CharterSchool rabbit hole today after mapping one in #osm #OpenStreetMap. It really is just one big grift, isn't it? Nominally, "non-profits" "run" the school, but in reality, the vast majority of the expenses for the "non-profit" are payments to a for-profit entity that "leases" its employees to the "non-profit" school. And the vast majority of the "non-profit's" "revenue" is "state program revenue," i.e., your tax dollars.
Fucking disgusting.
@charlesgaba For #tx12, Craig Goldman (R), who represents me... only half of our constituents get healthcare through employers. The rest either don't have it at all, or get it through government-arranged options.
Put in 10 hours of mapping/surveying with #StreetComplete and #OsmAnd. Got a whole lot added. Mapped out every business on the eastern side of Benbrook Boulevard. Also mapped out the sidewalks on the eastern side. Tomorrow I'll try and do the western side. This is a major corridor of Benbrook with a bunch of businesses, so having them all on the map, and updated/fleshed out, should be helpful for folks.
An interesting juxtaposition at the local library :P
#library #libraries #Benbrook #dfw #FortWorth #socialism #communism #marxism #capitalism
Aaaand now it's updated. Deleted the node and made the way/area the library.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/672388925
Also ended up updating some wikidata entries as well:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69492740
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69970929
#library #libraries #osm #OpenStreetMap #gis #dfw #FortWorth #Benbrook
En este artículo #Benbrook muestra cómo el #glifosato #glyphosate puede contribuir al desarrollo de cáncer en sangre
Se trata de un trabajo amplio y profundo que redondea decenas de investigaciones científicas y sigue revelando lo que por años se trató de ocultar #monsantopapers
https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-025-01057-1#additional-information
Despite episodic and variable patterns of exposure, the levels of glyphosate (GLY) detected in the urine of herbicide applicators and the general public are relatively stable across space (urban vs. rural) and time (weed spray season, not spray season). Substantial GLY metabolism data show that within minutes of entering the bloodstream, GLY moves into bone marrow, and then laterally through bone tissue and back into general circulation. As GLY moves through bone it comes into contact with calcium and a portion is immobilized via chelation. A novel two-part hypothesis is explored: first, the likely reason for the lack of variability in GLY levels in urine is that GLY stored in bone is excreted gradually over days to weeks, and augments the generally stable and modest levels of dietary exposure to GLY; and second, the prolonged systemic movement of GLY into bone marrow and bone extends contact between GLY and hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), increasing the risk of GLY-induced breaks and rearrangements in the DNA in HSCs. Studies confirm that GLY and glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) can trigger oxidative stress and impair DNA-repair mechanisms. Animal bioassays and epidemiology studies link GLY/GBH exposures to heightened risk of blood cancers, and possibly other pathologies. The hypothesis proposed here provides a plausible pathophysiologic basis for these observations relative, in particular, to blood cancers.
I did my civic duty of exercising my rights today. I walked up and down Benbrook Boulevard this morning with this sign. Got about a dozen gestures of encouragement from motorists, and only one encounter with an officer who asked if I could speak with him for a couple minutes. I politely declined and he was fine with that and kept on driving.
Rights are like muscles: they atrophy if left unexercised for too long.
#luigi #UnitedHealthcare #DenyDefendDepose #Benbrook #FortWorth
Preston Maness ☭
Erica L Hagman Aguilar
Total Traffic DFW
Howard Benbrook