Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

@Huntn00 I’m reading a really interesting yet enraging book called They are the Plunderers’s. It’s very hard for me to want to finish because it makes me so goddamn angry how far down we’ve gone in the society. But it is an excellent book.

@Huntn00 I think what needs to be done, at least one of the multiple things that needs to be done, is we need to get rid of private equity firms, and we need to revamp our particular form of #VampireCapitalism.

Instead of companies I think that these fossil fueled extreme weather events should be named after the people who helped to make them happen like for example, the Rex Tillerson Heat Wave and the Frank Luntz Flood.

“We’re Huge in Learning Loss!” Cashing in on the Post-Pandemic #Education Crisis.
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Test scores are plummeting while tens of billions in federal aid flows to #schools. A visit to a recent education #technology convention provides a glimpse of the frenzy to profit from the recovery efforts.

#Teachers #Students #Learning #Pandemic #VentureCapital

https://www.propublica.org/article/education-technology-covid-pandemic-crisis-schools?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The Government Is Basically Burning Trash to Pad Its Climate Stats – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/federal-government-renewable-energy-certificates-climate-change-net-zero-misleading/

This is what happens when you vote conservative. Fascism is always their goal.

BBC News - Israel judicial reform: Key bill becomes law amid mass protests
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66258416

Washington health experts agree COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere – The Columbian

“The thing that I fear moving forward is that people will forget about those lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, and dismiss COVID as an ongoing threat in the community,” he said. “And I think that that would be a huge loss of all the knowledge that we had acquired during the pandemic.” Source: Washington health experts agree COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere - The Columbian

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2023/07/24/washington-health-experts-agree-covid-19-isnt-going-anywhere-the-columbian/

Elon Musk: Twitter rebranded as X as blue bird logo killed off https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66284304 But he bought Twitter.

Trump Loses It on Senate Republicans for Failure to ‘ACT’ on Biden Allegations: ‘How Long Does America Have to Wait?’ https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-loses-it-on-senate-republicans-for-failure-to-act-on-biden-allegations-how-long-does-america-have-to-wait/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Online games struggle to rein in hateful usernames, report finds https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-games/online-games-struggle-rein-hateful-usernames-report-finds-rcna95605

The current El Niño is coming on strong. Much stronger and far more quickly, in fact, than most researchers expected.

From a report by the BBC...
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Scientists already fear some worst-case scenarios are unfolding.

"I'm not aware of a similar period when all parts of the climate system were in record-breaking or abnormal territory," said Dr Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer at London School of Economics. "If I'm surprised by anything, it's that we're seeing the records broken in June, so early in the year. El Niño normally doesn't really have a global impact until five or six months into the phase."

The average global ocean temperature has smashed records for May, June, and July. It is approaching the highest sea surface temperature ever recorded, which was in 2016.

The area covered by sea-ice in the Antarctic is at record lows for July. There is an area around 10 times the size of the UK missing, compared with the 1981-2010 average.

Alarm bells are ringing for scientists as they try to unpick the exact link to climate change.

Dr Caroline Holmes at the British Antarctic Survey emphasises it is not just a record being broken — it is being smashed by a long way.

"This is nothing like anything we've seen before in July. It's 10% lower than the previous low, which is huge," said Holmes. She calls it "another sign that we don't really understand the pace of change."

"You can say that we've fallen off a cliff, but we don't know what's at the bottom of the cliff here," said Holmes. "I think this has taken us by surprise in terms of the speed of which has happened. It's definitely not the best case scenario that we were looking at — it's closer to the worst case."
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FULL STORY -- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66229065

#Ocean #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

My daughter: Have you ever been to a casino?
Me: Yes.
Her: What is it like?
Me: Imagine putting your money into a gumball machine but not getting a gumball

Judge rules Kansas Highway Patrol was violating rights with traffic stops.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/judge-rules-kansas-highway-patrol?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=77302

When healthy vegetables and greens are tainted by #PFAS https://www.greenmatters.com/health-and-wellness/pfas-kale - this is far from an isolated issue. Soil, water and air are all polluted. Everything including ourselves, polluted despite efforts to always eat #vegan or #vegetarian, recycle, lower carbon footprint. This is not a reason to abandon good choices - but rather be aware of how plastics are systematically killing us all. https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1105222327/epa-drinking-water-chemicals-pfas-pfoa-pfos #DrinkingWater #chemicals #pollution #plastics

I baked. 🐇

#baking #bunnies #fluffy

NEWS | LITIGATION | REDISTRICTING | ALABAMA
Alabama Republicans Send Congressional Map Without Second Majority-Black District to Governor

July 21, 2023

UPDATE: On Friday, July 21, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed the new congressional map into law.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, July 21, the Alabama House voted 75-28 to pass a new congressional map without a second majority-Black district in defiance of a federal district court order.

This new plan, called “Livingston Congressional Plan 3,” was passed by a conference committee and the Alabama Senate earlier today, so it will now head to Gov. Kay Ivey (R) for her signature. This plan has a Black Voting Age Population of 39.93% in the state’s 2nd Congressional District and 50.65% in the 7th Congressional District.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/alabama-republicans-send-congressional-map-without-second-majority-black-district-to-governor/

This cruel dumb "candidate" has completely
LOST CONTROL of his messaging from inside or outside.
He/his team are too undereducated to identify NAZI symbols.
Or maybe that’s what they stand for.
#wegottaditchhim #voteblue

I strongly recommend following @Deglassco, particularly if you are a non-Black American. You will learn all the things about Black American history that they did not teach you in high school, or probably even in college. And she ends each long thread with a bibliography for those who want to learn more on the subject. No other account has made me wish for an “unroll” function on Mastodon. I wish I could save each thread as a PDF.

If you hold a Big Mac up to your ear you can hear the sound of an employee telling you the ice cream machine is broken.