Kate Pond (she/her)

That’s about two average elementary schools’ worth of kids.
What are we doing?

Scientists trace heat waves back to individual fossil fuel companies, with potentially sweeping courtroom implications | CNN For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the boundaries of ex...

For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the boundaries of extreme weather event research in multiple surprising ways.

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I’d like someone to “connect the dots for me” and explain this analogy… but also
BULLSHIT UNFOUNDED ‘RHETORIC’ DOESNT MERIT DISCUSSION OR DEBATE.
It’s just flat out wrong.

I feel an amalgamation of anger, fear, worthlessness, etc. when I compare these ideologies to the thousands of hours of painstaking review to try to teach students about rhetoric and valid claims backed by evidence.
But sure- vaccines are slavery.
#DontGiveUpDoubleDown !!!

As if it weren’t already my vision of waking #hellscape…
Watch- In less than 12 months they will be scrambling for federal intervention to “save them” from their own stupidity.
Oh #florida.
#PeopleWillDie
You’re like a geographic representation of ‘hold my beer’

Epstein survivors may release unofficial client list if Justice Department stalls Pressure is mounting after a House panel released 33,000 heavily redacted DOJ documents.

Epstein survivors float release of unofficial client list

Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Point of no return

by @silentmiddlechild

There are only two emotions: fear and love.
What will you choose?
#loveISresistance
#chooseLove

Ps: anyone who thinks Vonnegut should be banned is OBVIOUSLY too stupid to understand anything Vonnegut ever wrote.

Your Fall reading list just dropped.
Fuckin Not-sees.

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Someone ask her to define “appropriate”
She has a skewed view of morality

Hegseth orders National Guard troops in DC to carry weapons | CNN Politics Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard members patrolling the streets of Washington, DC, to begin carrying their service weapons as they fulfill President Donald Trump’s crime crack...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard members patrolling the streets of Washington, DC, to begin carrying their service weapons as they fulfill President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the nation’s capital, according to a US defense official.

“If we THINK” is not grounds for charges. Evidence; evidence is what leads to charges.
Jfc.

🤔

lol. I needed this.

It’s crazy to me that all this cruelty, all this horror, all of it- is based in some individual’s denial and fear of their mortality.
You can’t force/coerce or otherwise bargain or buy your way out.
We all die someday.
The goal while you’re here?
#love
#LoveIsResistance
#resist

National Guardsman speaks up against his colleagues who are working with ICE and following illegal orders

Cost of public college tuition:
Sweden: $0
Norway: $0
Finland: $0
Denmark: $0
United States: $9,596

When Republicans say it's OK to give billions in tax breaks to the top 1%, don't tell me we can't afford to make public college available for free.

I just want to thank CNN for making the empathic choice to use a photo of tRump from the back. I appreciate anytime I don’t have to see his pig-anus face.

I would just like someone to be able to “see” and “hear” I side my neuro-spicy brain…
But…. I don’t want it this way.
☹️

Will we ever be able to repay what women of color do to protect us all?
#democracy

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Woke=reliable and valid presentation of events/ideas

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Well yeah, but one can’t overthrow and occupy a country that’s not on the brink of civil war and crippled financially….

Microsoft workers occupy HQ in protest against company’s ties to Israeli military Employees outraged by report Azure platform used by Israel to store surveillance data collected on Palestinians Dozens of Microsoft employees occupied the company’s east campus in Redmond, Washington to protest against what they say is the use of its software by the Israeli military to carry out operations in Gaza and enable the surveillance of Palestinians. Three months after the company said it was launching an independent investigation into the use of its Azure software, current and former staff occupied a space they declared the “Free Zone”, holding placards that read “Join The Worker Intifada – No Labor for Genocide” and “Martyred Palestinian Children’s Plaza”. Continue reading...

Microsoft workers occupy HQ in protest against company’s ties to Israeli military

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I’m sure this is one of those “slippery slope” moments akin to corporate-sponsored schools…
I’m sure I’ll be saying “I told you so” within a decade….
This shit is ridiculous.
I want my taxes used for public services.
God
Fucking
Damn
It.