Electrifying volcano eruption set off the most extreme lightning detected

Lightning seen "at heights and rates not previously observed."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/electrifying-volcano-eruption-set-off-the-most-extreme-lightning-detected/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Stop letting the rich tell you poverty is a moral failure. They just don’t want to pay their taxes.

Everyone deserves food.
Everyone deserves shelter.
Everyone deserves healthcare.

And in the richest country in the world, we can afford to give it to people.

I wish schools taught this.

Memorial Day began in 1865 when 10,000 former enslaved & a few white missionaries honored fallen Union soldiers.

It was founded in memory of those who gave their life to end white supremacy terror, slavery, & human trafficking
https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston

DeSantis can’t stop shooting Florida in the foot

Florida passed SB 1718 allowing undocumented immigrants in the state to be targeted because…reasons

Truckers are calling for a boycott of Florida. This is huge.

"Truckers, don't enter the state of Florida. Let's be united as Latinos in defense of our Latin American brothers who are being assaulted by this very stupid law, which incites hatred and discrimination...My truck won't move. Don't enter Florida. Nobody enter Florida."

MAGAs praised the expulsion of Dem TN lawmakers for “lack of decorum” after they loudly protested the murder of children at a Christian school—& now after subsequent protests in response to subsequent mass shootings—MAGAs claim Dems didn’t protest loudly enough when children were murdered at a Christian school.🤔

This is what it looks like when MAGAs politicize the murder of innocent children for cheap political points, rather than activate & demand justice to ensure children don’t die in vain.

In #Norway, the #ElectricVehicle Future Has Already Arrived

About 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway are battery-powered. As a result, the air is cleaner, the streets are quieter and the grid hasn’t collapsed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-vehicles.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

So, wait… Trump’s tax cuts DIDN’T pay for themselves? They just let the ultra-rich finance their wealth on the backs of working people? And now those same supporters want to cut social security, Medicare, and the social safety net?!

Ya don’t say.

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

“Gorsuch’s failure to disclose has been defended on the grounds that the justice was not friends with the purchaser of his land, whereas Thomas’ failure to disclose Crow’s gifts has been defended on the grounds that the justice was close friends with him. Which ‘friend’ rule wins? Who can possibly know.”

#uspol
#histodons
@histodons https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/chief-justice-accountability-thomas-gorsuch-royalty.html