LeRoy Westerling

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Dad to 2 humans & a cat
Professor, climate & wildfire science & assessment 
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HomePageHttp://ulmo.ucmerced.edu
Publicationshttps://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TpylvRYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&pagesize=100
Chair, Disaster Resilience Networkhttps://ucdrn.org/university-wide-council/?amp=1
Pyregence Consortiumhttps://pyregence.org

11 November 1921 | A Polish Jew, Adolf Zwerdling, was born in Przemyśl.

In Auschwitz from 8 August 1942.
No. 57393
He escaped from the camp on 24 October 1942. He was captured & perished in the camp on 17 December 1942.

The Supreme Court isn't waiting until Trump's potential reelection to enact Project 2025—they've already started by gutting federal regulations and legalizing insurrection.

My OpEd provides your quick summary of Project 2025. Hope you read & subscribe: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/project-2025-invites-fascism-to-america

Project 2025 Invites Fascism to America

Right wing extremists are promising violence -- here's what you need to know

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid
šŸ‘€ State of Tennessee tells U.S. Navy veteran he's not an American citizen and cancels his driver's license https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/state-of-tennessee-tells-u-s-navy-veteran-hes-not-an-american-citizen-and-cancels-his-drivers-license
State of Tennessee tells U.S. Navy veteran he's not an American citizen and cancels his driver's license

The state of Tennessee says a Navy veteran who has lived in the U.S. for more than seven decades is not an American citizen and has canceled his driver's license.

News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF)

If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.

https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs

Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps — Anchor Editions

The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006.

Anchor Editions

Meanwhile, Biden has been doing public events basically nonstop since the debate, including live, extemporaneous interviews. You are not seeing coverage of those because they don't fit the narrative.

Here's an interview he gave to a local civic media group in Wisconsin for the Fourth:

https://civicmedia.us/shows/special-broadcasts/2024/07/04/exclusive-interview-w-president-joe-biden-hour-1

Fun fact: Biden has always been an old-school politician who prefers to shake hands, kiss babies, and favor the local reporters and news outlets, and this is part of why elite media has such a grudge against him -- the NYT hasn't gotten a single long sit-down interview with Biden since his election, and it makes them seethe that a local reporter in Wisconsin gets one before they do.

EXCLUSIVE: Interview w/ President Joe Biden (Hour 1)

<p>Earl debuts his exclusive interview with President Joe Biden on a special Independence Day broadcast. He asks the President about the importance of the black community, the economic accomplishments of his administration, and the dangers posed by his opponent. Then, Earl discusses the political landscape heading into convention season. The Earl Ingram Show is a […]</p>

"After the debate, it seems like every political pundit has called for Biden to drop out of the race. But the editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer called on Trump to drop out.
The editorial makes an important point. If the entire press establishment sees fit to call on Biden to drop out because of a bad debate, why haven't they applied this same logic to the convicted criminal who promises to destroy American democracy and rule as an authoritarian dictator?"
https://www.theframelab.org/unfit-for-office-trump-biden/?ref=lakoff-and-duran-framelab-newsletter
Criminal Trump is clearly unfit for office

The 2024 presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump reaches a pivotal point

FrameLab
In 2020 Trump would give these deranged press conferences, and I watched as the Mainstream Media carefully picked out important information from the 90+ minutes rants, ignoring the crazy, to paint a picture of person in charge of the situation.

In 2024's debate Trump spewed a shocking mix of lies and anti-immigrant hate, and once again the Mainstream Media carefully ignored what would have been disqualifying for any previous presidential candidate.

The MAGA clique have already told us: in order to be ā€œgreat,ā€ we must all go backwards (into the past).

The second revolution they are preparing is the reversal and annihilation of all the strides we’ve taken toward liberty, equality, and justice for all. A more perfect union.

It’s an assault on women, on minorities, on LGBTQ+ and on all the orgs and individuals that have worked to uplift these groups and call out the nation’s failures and broken promises.

https://www.newsweek.com/project-2025-promises-second-revolution-1920506

Project 2025 Leader Promises 'Second American Revolution'

Kevin Roberts said the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling is part of a revolution which 'will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be'.

Newsweek

Time and time again, Chief Justice John Roberts made clear that this SCOTUS term was a term of contingent planning, leaving open two paths depending what happens with the election.

I wrote all about it at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-spinelessness-of-john-roberts

The spinelessness of John Roberts

Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't want to lead. He is, though, carefully setting up a path to allow the right-wing court to respond to whatever comes its way in 2025.

Law Dork