GleaningSage

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Colorado, USA. Science, personal finance, pro-equality, against fascism.
Show threadGleaningSageJan 29, 2025
@axios does anyone believe they would get paid? Isn't this exactly what happened at Twitter (employees were promised this and then got stiffed)?
GleaningSageOct 19, 2024
Robert ReichOct 19, 2024

The Biden-Harris admin has canceled $175 billion in student debt for nearly 5 million people.

Project 2025 seeks to get rid of student loan forgiveness programs and income driven payment plans.

The result? Monthly student loan payments could triple for many borrowers.

GleaningSageOct 7, 2024
Robert ReichOct 7, 2024
Just another reminder that when multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
GleaningSageNov 15, 2023
Texas ObserverNov 15, 2023

“Looking back, it’s clear to me that there was a lot of outside money and coordination. It made the race more political than local."

Top story: Historically low-budget, non-partisan school board #elections have been turned into expensive, highly-politicized battlegrounds, thanks to the influence of outside money and professional Republican political consultants. https://www.texasobserver.org/school-board-pacs-consultants-right-wing?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=audience

#news #politics #USpol #Texas #Republicans #schools #education #democracy #corruption

These Are the Right-Wing Ideologues Taking Over School Boards

Conservative consultants and PACs are turning Texas school boards into partisan battlegrounds. From Steven Monacelli.

The Texas Observer
GleaningSageOct 30, 2023
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Oct 30, 2023

Need to point this out.

As a murderer stabbed a Muslim woman named Dr. Talat Khan to death, witnesses report that 17 Texans pulled out their firearms. 17! The murderer stabbed her, stopped to check her pulse, confirmed she was alive, & went back to stabbing her to death.

And 17 "good guys with guns" did nothing.

A reminder that the "good guy with a gun" myth is a propaganda point to sell more guns. It does nothing beyond an anecdote to save lives.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12688199/pulse-talat-khan-miles-fridrich-texas.html

Texas pediatrician, 52, is stabbed to death by knifeman, 24, who 'came out of nowhere' while she was...

Dr Talat Khan, 52, was sitting with her dog outside an apartment block in Conroe when the killer 'came out of nowhere' and launched himself on the mother-of-two.

Daily Mail
Show threadGleaningSageOct 27, 2023
@ai6yr Maybe Boston Dynamics should change its name to Torment Nexus
GleaningSageAug 30, 2023
Mark Ingalls Aug 29, 2023

There’s big #weather happening today so for those who don’t know, TV station WeatherNation is owned by the same entity operating alt-right conspiracy channel Real America’s Voice. The two even share production facilities in the Denver area.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/20/weathernation-real-americas-voice-bannon/

A weather network, tied to one of Steve Bannon’s platforms, comes under fire

Meteorologists at WeatherNation have raised concerns about Real America’s Voice, the conservative channel with which it shares an owner.

The Washington Post
GleaningSageAug 28, 2023
Eric TopolAug 28, 2023

What Covid can do to the lungs

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/31/health/covid-lung-damage.html?searchResultPosition=2

An Inside Look at Covid’s Lasting Damage to the Lungs

This 3-D reconstruction of lung scans reveals damage that has lingered for years in patients who became severely ill early in the pandemic.

The New York Times
GleaningSageAug 24, 2023
AxiosAug 24, 2023

U.S. maternal mortality rates are startlingly high, nearly doubling from 2018 to 2021 to 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to CDC data.

For non-Hispanic Black women, the rate was far higher, at 69.9 deaths per 100,000 births in 2021. https://t.co/xdZNgMzu1G

1 in 5 mothers were mistreated during pregnancy care: U.S. report

As the U.S. battles rising maternal death rates, 1 in 5 mothers say they were verbally abused, ignored or otherwise disrespected by health care providers during maternal care.

Axios
Show threadGleaningSageJul 28, 2023
@JohnShirley2023 Making outlandish claims is a feature of fascist movements. Timothy Snyder outlines this in The Road to Unfreedom much better than I can here, but basically it makes people more pliable if they believe crazy but harmless things and it's a way to create buy-in for much more harmful beliefs.