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A flurry of balloons from China has crossed over Taiwan, passing over the self-governing island that Beijing claims as its own. This comes just days before Taiwan holds its presidential and parliamentary elections.
Humanity's hottest year in at least 125,000 is now over.
But with further warming ahead, we may soon look back on it as an average year, rather than an aberration. https://t.co/4eG9QROwvB
By now, you should realize that there is no chance ā zero ā that global warming will remain comfortably below 1.5Ā°C. Itās not going to happen, even though back in 2015 in Paris, nearly every country in the world agreed to take all necessary actions to achieve that.
So we know 1.5 is dead at this point. But why is it dead?
Take a look at the chart below of 40 leading nations and how each of them have done so far in meeting their climate commitments.
Nobody, not one nation, is on track to do what they promised. All we ever get is more Business As Usual.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #CO2 #Emissions
āFormer county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses in #Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judgeās ruling.
Thatās in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan County clerk should pay the couple who sued.ā #LGBTQ #legal
https://apnews.com/article/b99cdf7b93a1e144fdff2c3b24d96c2c
A judge has ruled that a former county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Kentucky must pay up. Kim Davis must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple. Thatās in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury says the former Rowan County clerk should pay the couple who sued. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports attorneys for Davis had argued that the fees and costs sought by the attorneys were excessive. But U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning disagreed and said Davis must pay since the men prevailed in their lawsuit. Attorneys for Davis were expected to appeal the ruling.
But donāt call them fascists because that would be partisan and rude.
"Trumpās most fanatical followers have created a situation where...elected officials who dare defy the former president face serious threats...
"As a result, the threat of violence is now a part of the American political system, to the point where Republican officials are ā by their own admissions ā changing the way they behave because they fear it." #fascism #maga #trump
https://www.vox.com/23899688/2024-election-republican-primary-death-threats-trump
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Letās keep working to unrig the system.
New research: Unlike flu, COVID-19 attacks DNA in the heart.
"Direct research on the hearts of COVID-19 patients who have died from the disease has revealed they sustained DNA damage in a way completely unlike how influenza affects the body."
#Covid #covidlong #LongCovid #COVID19 #HeartDamage #SarsCov2
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