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“By ‘the time the guillotines come out’ the revolution is essentially over, and we have lost. When someone says this, they think that they are saying something radical. But they are actually saying, ‘I don't want to have anything to do with actually making a revolution happen.’”

Today in Labor History May 26, 1857: Dred Scott was freed from slavery. Scott is most well-known because of the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision. He had sued for his family’s freedom, arguing that they had lived four years in the north, where slavery was illegal. The Court ruled 7-2 that people of African descent weren’t U.S. citizens and thus had no standing before the court. Scott’s lawsuit was funded by the children of Peter Blow, who had turned against slavery in the years since their father had sold the Scotts to John Emerson. After the ruling, Emerson’s wife and her new husband, who was an abolitionist, deeded the Scotts back to the Blow children. They manumitted the Scotts on May 26, 1857. However, Dred Scott died from tuberculosis fourteen months later.

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"Climate change is causing enormous amounts of ice to melt in West Antarctica. It's a huge driver of sea level rise worldwide. But the water is rising more quickly in some places than others. Galveston, Texas — thousands of miles away from Antarctica — is experiencing some of the fastest sea level rise in the world."

#Nature #Antarctica #Ocean #SeaLevel #Glaciers #Ice #Science #Climate #ClimateDiary #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

Sometimes my #dog sighs like she can read the news

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Édimbourg, Écosse

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I picked up a pizza from my favorite pizza place and I was taking the elevator up to my apartment when another person got on and they were holding a very large IKEA box with some sort of flat pack furniture in it and, for some reason, I decided to say "that's a big pizza!" and he just flatly said "It's not a pizza. It's a coffee table."

So I guess we're not going to be neighbor besties.