If I hear any more “small town values” pablum, I’m going to scream. #debate
Newly Crone
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Just want to be human among other humans. Preferably the kind, funny and smart ones. Also animals, show me all the animals.
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Murshed Zaheed“At press time, President Biden had reportedly called in the 101st Airborne Division to safely escort the white student onto Harvard’s campus.” https://www.theonion.com/harvard-admits-first-white-student-1850591962
Harvard Admits First White Student
CAMBRIDGE, MA—In the wake of the 6-3 Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action, Harvard University announced Thursday that they would admit their first white student. “After nearly four centuries in existence, we are finally able to leave behind our woeful legacy of discrimination and accept our first student…
ferricoxide@breadandcircuses
The funny thing is, energy is (can be) hugely profitable. That we're sacrificing billions of human lives and the continued human-habitability of the planet towards one _sector's_ means of making energy-related money just makes no fucking sense.
The funny thing is, energy is (can be) hugely profitable. That we're sacrificing billions of human lives and the continued human-habitability of the planet towards one _sector's_ means of making energy-related money just makes no fucking sense.
Bread and CircusesA partial transcript of the stark warning issued in the video below by renowned professor Kevin Anderson…
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We are heading towards 3° to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species including our own. And all we are doing so far is giving rhetoric and optimism and greenwash.
We are locking in very high levels of sea level rise, maybe 7 to 8 meters. We are changing weather and rainfall patterns as well as insect pollination of our crops. All of this plays out in one disaster after another. We’re talking about societal collapse here.
Countries make various promises about what they are going to do against climate change. These promises are a disaster and overly optimistic because they only rely on future generations, our children and grandchildren, to develop technologies that we don’t have today.
Pseudo-technologies are a facade to avoid asking the difficult political and equity-based questions. 'Net Zero' is a dangerous term in my view, and really means NOT zero. I always say 'net zero' is latin for 'kick the can down the road'.
I have to be honest and say as someone who has worked on climate change for years, my best guess is that we are going to fail. But it is a *choice* to fail. Political leaders, academia, and journalism have repeatedly chosen to fail on climate for 30 years.
It is a choice to fail, and it’s a choice to succeed. If we sit back and wait for the great and good to deliver this change, then we will fail. It comes down to all of us to play our role as best as we can in fighting the climate crisis. Hope arises from civility society.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_FtS_HNbkc
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #CO2 #Emissions
A True Paradise: WHERE WE ARE HEADING - Kevin Anderson
"Alito’s actions make no sense unless you understand that he is a movement conservative, who does what movement conservatives do when they feel under attack by basic scrutiny. This is yet more strong evidence that SCOTUS justices ought to be covered like the political actors they are, not as the high-minded philosopher-kings." @revolvingdoordc #scotus #uspol #media
Tony, Pretty MuchFor all the people who constantly berate everyone about how Democrats don’t change anything and elections don’t matter, I hope you’re reading this. Democratic leaders backed a more progressive candidate who supports abortion rights and dumped out one who didn’t. You all need to pay attention.
🚨🚨 Hey everyone - poor Sam Alito doesn’t want you to pay attention to the up coming expose on him around more ethics related issues that is about to run in @ProPublica
Just boost this to help him out a little - and make sure no one pays attention to what could be yet another massive ethics scandal around this right wing #SCOTUS https://www.wsj.com/articles/propublica-misleads-its-readers-alito-gifts-disclosure-alaska-singer-23b51eda
The Conversation U.S.#Juneteenth was the start of a long arc of history for the 182,566 enslaved African Americans in Texas who were told they had finally won their freedom.
One of them was Joshua Houston.
He had long served as the enslaved servant of Gen. Sam Houston, the most well-known military and political leader in Texas.
Here he is leading a Juneteenth Parade in Huntsville, Texas, in a photo circa 1900. (1 of 4)
#BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #Texas
Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom
For the formerly enslaved Black people in Texas, Juneteenth meant more than freedom. It meant reuniting families and building schools and developing political power.
Kevin LeecasterHa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,
the Florida state senator of Sarasota endorsed Trump so now DeSantis has line-item vetoed the aid that was in their budget to fix their water system and such.
Y'all need to wake up to what you've created with this MAGA crap.