greenkatydid

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Checking out the Tusk!

I’m an environmentalist, humanitarian, progressive. Small biz person. Inquisitive. Animal lover. Sometime photographer.
Staunch defender of democracy.

ALT-Text profile pic: Green katydid (grasshopper-like insect) sitting in middle of a peach colored lily, chewing on the yellow stamens.

ALT-Text header pic: Top half of US Capitol building in front of warm orange sunset sky on election eve 2022 surrounded by silhouettes of 9 flags offset.
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A Game-Changing Telescope Is About to Drop First Pics. Here's How to Watch. Via @sciencealert #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

A Game-Changing Telescope Is A...
A Game-Changing Telescope Is About to Drop First Pics. Here's How to Watch.

After more than 20 years in the making, we're finally about to see the first images from the Vera C.

ScienceAlert
Enlist your dog in the fight against facism
California Will Not Waver in Defending Itself from Federal Overreach: Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration for Attack on California’s Clea... https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/california-will-not-waver-defending-itself-federal-overreach-attorney-general
California Will Not Waver in Defending Itself from Federal Overreach: Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration for Attack on California’s Clean Vehicles Program

LOS ANGELES – California Attorney General Rob Bonta, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and the California Air Resources Board today led a coalition of 10 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against the federal government challenging the unprecedented and unlawful use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to upend California’s clean vehicles program, specifically the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACCII), Omnibus, and Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) standards.

State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General
Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU

American Civil Liberties Union
Rest in peace John Robbins (author of Diet for a New America). You had a huge impact on my life and those of so many others. Thank you for caring and sharing your heart with the world. We will miss you! Blessings to Deo, Ocean, Phoenix, and the many others who loved him.

"Your school, like your country, is made up of Americans of many different races, religions & national origins.

So if you hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin, don't wait: Tell him that

THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN."
- #Superman

Padilla's assault & handcuffing is getting all the attention, but what Noem said is perhaps more terrifying.

"We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Admitting they're not here for violent criminals, they're here to overthrow our elected officials

“For decades, Republicans have promised to cut NPR, but have never done it, until now,” Trump boasted in a Truth Social post on Thursday.

Republicans have been trying to take the “public” out of public broadcasting for almost as long as the system has existed.

That ain’t no way to treat our Senator!!

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday and briefly detained after trying to question Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-alex-padilla-forcibly-removed-dhs-sec-kristi-noems-press-conferenc-rcna212688?link_id=2&can_id=5a3760fafa13b07f50a097341c047be2&source=email-trump-blindsided-with-unpleasant-surprise-at-les-mis&email_referrer=email_2773673&email_subject=dem-senator-handcuffed-by-trump-goons-for-asking-question&&

Sen. Alex Padilla forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference in Los Angeles

Noem was in L.A. to address the ongoing protests against President Donald Trump's immigration policies. Padilla was handcuffed by federal agents after his removal.

NBC News

Another successful Universal Basic Income study. There was no drop in productiveness "On average, study participants worked 40 hours a week and stayed in employment" “We find no evidence that people love doing nothing,” instead "their lives were “more valuable and meaningful” and felt a clear improvement in their mental health" since poverty is on purpose to keep us feeling stressed and beaten so we don't fight back #1984book

#Politics #UBI

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/article/a-german-experiment-gave-people-a-basic-monthly-income-the-effect-on-their-work-ethic-was-surprising/

A German experiment gave people a basic monthly income. The effect on their work ethic was surprising

A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.

CTVNews