Sean_Of_The_Island

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East Coast Canada, Small Town, Eco Socialist, Anti Fascists, Education and Tourism, Really concerned for the fate of this world, Empathy Spouge!
The Racist History of Abortion and Midwifery Bans | ACLU

American Civil Liberties Union
GOP Candidates Have Nothing Useful to Say About Gun Violence - Vanity Fair https://apple.news/Ae5nQaC8IRg2trvgLnUjd5w #guns #us #gop
GOP Candidates Have Nothing Useful to Say About Gun Violence — Vanity Fair

The presidential hopefuls were quick to make the school shooting in Iowa—home of the first contest of the Republican primary—about anything but the guns. “We have to deal with the cancer that is mental health,” said Nikki Haley.

Fascism is not on the march, it's running full speed.
Since 2015, the Earth League (of which I'm a member), Future Earth & WCRP have published "10 New Insights in Climate Science" to COPs. This year's is out now as an accepted manuscript:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/ten-new-insights-in-climate-science-20232024/F7F1C10C07FD241BFE30ACC4BA555A56
Some headlines:
* Overshooting 1.5°C is fast becoming inevitable, greatly increasing risks
* Fast-shrinking carbon budget calls for fossil fuel phase-out
* Concern: the uncertain future contribution of land and ocean carbon sinks
* Climate and biodiversity emergencies are linked
* Justice
Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2023/2024 | Global Sustainability | Cambridge Core

Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2023/2024

Cambridge Core

#MAGAMike poses a threat to democracy & is unsuited to be in the powerful Speaker's office. He's a religious zealot who's repped extremists -incl. Christian nationalists who openly promoted violence🚨.

Johnson's ardent religious beliefs brought him to serve, often for free, clients affiliated with some of the US' most extreme anti: abortion/LGBTQ groups in the nation -incl. agitators connected to militant movements with a penchant for violent expression.

#GOPExtremists

https://www.alternet.org/mike-johnson-2666446057/

Mike Johnson’s legal background includes representing 'extreme' militant movements — 'often for free'

In contrast to MAGA firebrands like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) isn't known for being abrasive, brash or flamboyant. Johnson has even been described as "soft-spoken," but that doesn't make...

Alternet.org

"Trump spent years trying to get people to buy gold-plated condominiums, apartments gilded with veneers of luxury and class. He spent years trying to get lots of people to buy lots of things, really, with allegations of fraud lingering around him and his company for much of that time. But he was never more successful in parlaying dishonesty into investment than since he embraced a career in national politics in 2015."

~ Philip Bump

#Trump #fraud #lies #voters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/04/trump-misinformation-republicans/

How Donald Trump uses dishonesty

The 2024 Republican front-runner has a robust record of deploying misinformation and lies. It’s useful to understand how he does so and why it works.

The Washington Post