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He/him - keeping the pronouns, Dump can shove it. (311.5). Professor Emeritus of structural geology, interested in Photography, application of GIS to Environmental problems, Climate Crisis, environmental stewardship and giving back as a Volunteer.

I support the rights of the #LGBTQ+ community and #WomensRights to make their own choices and control their own bodies. GQP Fascists, and religious nutballs, keep your hands off!!

I mean, I know that's obvious. He's basically claiming that Palestinians want to die and the US is letting that happen. But I don't think those specific words have gotten enough attention.

REMINDER: “For every degree Celsius that Earth’s atmospheric temperature rises, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere can increase by about 7%, according to the laws of thermodynamics.”

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/storms-dump-nearly-a-year-of-rain-in-northern-china-19000-evacuated

#ClimateCrisis #ExtremePrecipitation

Storms dump nearly a year of rain in northern China, 19,000 evacuated

Almost 20,000 people from more than 6,000 households were evacuated, the authorities said. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times
July 25, 2025

“We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”

Letters from an American

Another news link. Apparently Walters was watching video of naked women while a parent was speaking to board!

https://nondoc.com/2025/07/25/board-members-tv-in-ryan-walters-office-displayed-nude-women-during-executive-session/

Board members: TV in Ryan Walters' office displayed nude women during executive session

Oklahoma State Board of Education members reported seeing nude women on a TV screen in Superintendent Ryan Walters' office July 24, 2025.

NonDoc

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is going to be terrible for anyone in the US planning to ever retire.

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/retirees-face-18100-benefit-cut-7-years

Retirees Face an $18,100 Benefit Cut in 7 Years | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

2025-07-24-The Social Security and Medicare trust funds are only a little more than seven years from insolvency, based on

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
But others read the meaning differently.
It was not savagery—it was desperation.
Turner’s rebellion was proof not of Black violence, but of how far a people must be pushed…
to be heard. To imagine freedom—and fight for it.
14/19
Image: It is thought that Nat Turner was holding this Bible when he was captured two months after the rebellion he led against slaveholders in Southampton County, Virginia. Michael R. Barnes, SI, Gift of Maurice A. Person and Noah and Brooke Porter.
In the white Southern mind, the rebellion had proved a terrible thesis: That Black freedom would not build—it would destroy.
So slavery, however brutal, was declared necessary.
Safety required dominance. Order required blood.
13/19
Image: Cover of William Styron’s influential but fictional version of Turner’s story.
Even after the killings ended, fear remained.
Not because Turner lived. But because his name did. It lingered—in silence, in sermons, in the laws that followed: Laws against reading. Preaching.
Gathering. Laws written in fear.
12/19
Video: The Birth of a Nation trailer, film, defection of Nat Turner’s rebellion, 2015, search Searchlight Pictures.
https://youtu.be/ezWiUTXB11A
THE BIRTH OF A NATION: Official HD Teaser Trailer | Watch it Now on Digital HD | FOX Searchlight

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Hopefully, we will have legitimate voting in the midterms.