The best thing you can do to be an ally on Covid is wear a respirator mask in public spaces, particularly indoors.
The second best thing you can do is put on a mask if you see someone masking. Don’t wait for them to ask, just put it on.
This will go a long way to diminishing stigma and save lives.
Democrats brought funding for TSA agents who just missed their first full paycheck after 28 days of the DHS shutdown. Bills for CISA cyber defense, the Coast Guard, FEMA disaster relief, and more. Republicans blocked every one.
more here:
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Videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit.
Please note most federal grants *required* information on how the grants would benefit underserved or understudied groups. If you applied for a grant, you *had to* include something that would speak to diversity and equity.
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It's so funny to hear "climate alarmism" as akin to a hysterical religious movement, as everyone continues to ignore the increasingly shrill pleas from scientists that everything is getting really bad and the evidence of catastrophe mounts at a pace shaming virtually all predictive models
"They find him charismatic. His impulsiveness is mistaken for decisiveness; his narcissism for confidence; his recklessness for fearlessness."
"...the transition to pathocracy begins when a disordered individual emerges as a leader figure. While some members of the ruling class are appalled by the brutality and irresponsibility of the leader and his acolytes, his disordered personality appeals to some psychologically normal individuals."
"...pathocracy is a system of government 'wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people'."
What strikes me about this political era is how our public institutions — academic, legal, corporate, media — are normalizing the Trump regime — and how easy it is for them to do so, since the regime is just the inevitable, maximalist version of governance in the longtime fossil-fuel economy.
Not saying we’re not in a pathocracy — we absolutely are! — I’m just saying that, from my POV, any business or governance that furthers the development of fossil fuels, no matter how “reasonable” the individual at the helm, requires pathological levels of disavowal at this moment in human history.
Climate change is producing a severe crisis of hegemony in the system: The elites cannot picture a coherent way forward, they cannot form stable, coherent, non-pathological alliances that could navigate the future. The demands produced by the results of science confront the demands of the markets..
Obvious attack on the First Amendment, and also--importantly--an attack on the second amendment
One asshole did a stupid thing, and the completely legal firearms owned by other protesters became evidence of domestic terrorism
Worth adding here that the FBI waited *years* to declare open war on the Black Panther Party, assassinating & incarcerating its leaders en masse. The thing that tipped the balance wasn't the guns, but the free breakfasts, groceries, & clinics that represented a genuine threat to state power.
This is big, both institutional-systemically and symbolically.
This is the essence of the extractive state - it denies nature in science and in its violence to physical reality. An anti-ecology politic relentlessly tending to fascism.
Steps in Trump war rhetoric:
1. We don’t have to play by the rules in war
2. We won the war
3. If you go by the rules I just made up we won
4. No fair
This is really interesting, about how secret police forces like ICE are grown. They cannot be given impunity.
Really enjoying the final stage capitalism where the most successful capitalists buy control of the free market and end it entirely
Take their planes. Take their yachts. Take their ranches and houses and cars. Take their coin and art collections. Take their investments and YouTube channels and X accounts.
Put 'em in public housing and sign 'em up for SNAP.
I'm not suggesting prisons because 1) prisons are evil and 2) rich people like this typically manage to avoid prison.
I want them to suffer the total loss of the riches and honor they sold their souls for.
Start with immediate civil asset forfeiture of the fortunes of the billionaires and millionaires suspected of committing crimes for this administration. Just take all their shit.
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An FAA rule proposed during the Biden administration would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to safely remove spacecraft from orbit within 25 years of launch.
The Trump administration recently killed the rule.
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
Never fund DHS again. Abolish it completely.
If someone wants to moan about "but but we have to ____" yeah fine we can discuss a new department, but *this* department has to go.
Regardless of political party, politicians are not meant to be worshiped, idolized, or put on a pedestal. They are meant to work for you, represent the needs of people, be critically assessed, and be held accountable. Our views of politics and politicians must change.
Not only this, but politicians will let you down many times. Rather than idolizing them, praise them when they do right. Challenge and push them when they do wrong. And never lose track of the fact that no matter how great they initially seem, they are politicians who serve their own self-interests.
If the U.S. Supreme Court weakens the Voting Rights Act in a pending case, Mississippi could eventually redraw the state’s congressional map and eliminate its majority-Black district.
Trump administration is allegedly collecting $10 billion on the TikTok deal
Lol, I had the wrong link! Lets try this again! As a (human) editor, I was snapping along with this one. www.gamedeveloper.com/design/makin...
