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Mom, environmentalist, lawyer, New Yorker, musician, nerd, MOT, devoted to democracy. Posting in my personal capacity, opinions my own. The GenZ kids are alright.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/01/arleta-ramirez-breastfeeding-custody-dispute/ Oh look it’s court asserting control over a woman’s body in a matter related to reproduction I’m so surprised.
In child custody dispute, breastfeeding mom is ordered to use bottle

A Virginia mother’s plan to breastfeed — and her daughter’s food supply — ran into an obstacle that advocates say is common: a custody dispute.

The Washington Post

“It’s like Musk is taking all of the content moderation best practice norms the trust and safety community has built up over the past decade and is trying to set them on fire,” Evelyn Douek tells Bloomberg's Davey Alba and Kurt Wagner.

https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/elon-musk-s-twitter-trust-safety-head-ella-irwin-breaks-rules-for-him

Twitter’s Trust and Safety Head Ditches Protocol for Musk Whims

Ella Irwin is Musk’s most faithful supporter, even when his impulses buck convention

Bloomberg

Agency
Depleted, hurt
Mission weakened, experts sucked out
Traumatized by Trump, locked up
Doomed, no hope in sight

#epa #trump #climatechange #sustainability #cinquain #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/climate/environmental-protection-agency-epa-funding.html

E.P.A. Struggles With Workload in Wake of Staff Exodus

Despite an injection of funding, the agency still has not recovered from an exodus of scientists and policy experts, both insiders and critics say.

The New York Times
"McCarthy recently appointed Santos to two House committees. Without any sense of irony, he appointed the fraudster to the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. McCarthy did it because he has no shame."
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/santos-mccarthy-and-the-shameless-republican-party/
Santos, McCarthy and the Shameless Republican Party

From Marc | The Republican Party today embraces crooks. It revels in cheating. It celebrates fraudsters.

Democracy Docket
Had the enormous privilege of hearing author Tova Friedman tell her story this afternoon. What an incredible human being. The Daughter of Auschwitz https://a.co/d/7eQBYHM https://a.co/d/7eQBYHM
Here's my latest, about how renewables are about to smash through the 25-percent barrier in the US electricity generation, like Kool-Aid Man:
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19012023/inside-clean-energy-us-renewables-generation/ #Energy #environment #solar
Renewables Projected to Soon Be One-Fourth of US Electricity Generation. Really Soon - Inside Climate News

Renewable energy is poised to reach a milestone as a new government report projects that wind, solar and other renewable sources will exceed one-fourth of the country’s electricity generation for the first time, in 2024. This is one of the many takeaways from the federal government’s Short Term Energy Outlook, a monthly report whose new […]

Inside Climate News

17 January 1933 | French Jewish girl Rosa Lisoprawski was born in Paris.

She arrived at Auschwitz on 22 January 1944 in a transport of 1,155 Jews from Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber at the age of 11.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Paris #France #girl

New details link George Santos to cousin of sanctioned Russian oligarch

The New York congressman once claimed Andrew Intrater’s company was his “client." Another Intrater company allegedly made a deposit with a firm where Santos worked.

The Washington Post
Exxon Scientists Predicted Global Warming, Even as Company Cast Doubts, Study Finds

Starting in the 1970s, scientists working for the oil giant made remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the planet.

The New York Times
Just saw Hedda Gabler for the first time - in the form of a school production - and: Oh my.