Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

#BenjaminNetanyahu is close to ending the rule of law in #Israel. https://www.commondreams.org/news/protests-judicial-coup

Firebomb Attack on July 23, 2023 at Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Plano, Texas

US and Pride flag in front of the church pictured above. Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Plano, Texas was firebombed overnight on July 23, 2023. According to the church, a hate group has been targeting it since at least June 25. Source: Firebomb Attack on July 23, 2023 at Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Plano, Texas

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2023/07/24/firebomb-attack-on-july-23-2023-at-community-unitarian-universalist-church-of-plano-texas/

@rchusid Although I never participated in #Twitter, actually hated the name as in picturing little old ladies twittering, the bird was a much friendlier icon than a cold steal X as if The Empire headed by Palpatine just disbanded The Senate. 😳

@NSBooklady2 @Huntn00 If starting from scratch could argue over whether Twitter is the best name, but now it has a strong brand identity and it is foolish to give it up--especially for something with such little meaning as X.

@Huntn00 @rchusid Hey, what's your problem with little old ladies .. like me? 😀​Seriously though, the name referred to 140 character messages going back and forth – like birds tweeting

WHY ?

#TransJoy is seeing yourself in the mirror and being unable to stop yourself from smiling

The rebranding of Twitter makes no sense. My guess is that Musk was once traumatized by a movie.
#Twitter

Really, how many ways can he twist himself up to actually believe this BS?

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/tim-scott-refuses-hold-trump-accountable?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=77315

DEADLY PARKS!

Heat-related causes have killed more people in the nation's national parks so far in 2023 than in a typical entire year, and the month that's usually the deadliest hasn't arrived yet.
#News #GlobalWarming #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis

https://www.newser.com/story/338028/extreme-heat-brings-more-deaths-in-national-parks.html

It seems like the right hates LGBT people, and especially trans people, but that's masking a deeper truth:

They are terrified of us

If it's possible to question and break free from the most "basic" and "obvious" assumptions about gender and sexuality that our society is implicitly structured around, what other assumptions are wrong?

We are the vanguard of a better society, which is why they are fighting to put us down. And they wouldn't be fighting so hard unless we had a chance of winning...

Has anyone else noticed a gradual warming... or am I deluded?

it's 2023 in America & a Congressman has to endanger his health to bring attention to a basic human right's issue. OSHA hasn't set a rule for workplace heat protection requirements bc corporate leaders are against them: Democrat Rep Greg Casar is doing an "all-day hunger & thirst strike" & vigil on the Capitol steps to push for a national standard to prevent heat-related illness, deaths on construction sites. #UnionStrong #CorporateGreed https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/greg-casar-national-standard-heat-related-illness-deaths-construction-summer/

Acts of Kindness Go a Long Way! 💖

You don’t have to plan or schedule a time when to be kind. Let kindness and compassion flow from your heart and watch it grow. Acts of Kindness Go a Long Way! 💖

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2023/07/25/acts-of-kindness-go-a-long-way-%f0%9f%92%96/

A lot more things are ewaste than you think

And in half the states, it’s illegal to throw them out. Here’s what to do instead. A lot more things are ewaste than you think

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2023/07/25/a-lot-more-things-are-ewaste-than-you-think/

WTAF?!?!?! Politicians want to give themselves an $8000 dollar raise, but are standing in the way of raising the minimum and student debt?! FUCK THAT SHIT! WHEN WE GONNA STRIKE? #WhenAreWeGonnaStrike #Strike #RaiseTheWage

OPINION
This Is the End of the U.S.-Israel ‘Special Relationship’

UNSHARED VALUES
The ultra-rightwing Netanyahu government can no longer claim special status as the Mideast’s only democracy–and Americans share the blame.

David Rothkopf
Updated Jul. 24, 2023 9:40PM EDT / Published Jul. 24, 2023 1:01PM EDT

America’s special relationship with Israel has, for the foreseeable future, come to an end.

Many will deny this. Many will hope it is not so. But the damage that has been done cannot be easily undone. A relationship built on shared values cannot be easily restored once it is clear those values are no longer shared.

For years, Israel made the case that it was America’s essential ally in the Middle East because it was the only state in the region that was a democracy—not a theocracy or an autocracy like all its neighbors.

That is no longer the case.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-the-end-of-the-us-israel-special-relationship

Read PDf version here:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:757c20dd-1988-312f-9f9e-5582a2f4b3ed

What #climate scientists say about the current #ExtremeWeather events they have predicted

"Now all the projected changes are happening, so I reflect on how much needless environmental damage and human suffering will result from the work of those politicians, business leaders and public figures who have prevented concerted action. History will judge them very harshly."

Prof Ian Lowe, emeritus professor, Griffith University

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/northern-hemisphere-heatwaves-europe-greece-italy-wildfires-extreme-weather-climate-experts

In case you didn't already know, Net Zero is a scam promoted by the fossil fuel industry and their financiers to perpetuate Business As Usual for as long as possible...
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"Why Net Zero is not enough"

More than 4,000 governments and companies around the world have pledged to go Net Zero. This includes more than one-third of the world’s largest publicly traded companies.

That sounds like a step in the right direction, right? If every organisation “stops emitting”, our world will be great again.

Well, not exactly…

If we continue to be in a collective delusion that Net Zero is the solution, we will be proved terribly wrong.

In "Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough", Holly Jean Buck discusses the implications of chasing Net Zero from various frames — looking at it not only through an environmental lens but a social justice perspective as well.

Instead of telling us to do better, this book provides different stakeholders concrete steps for planned phase-out on top of sound arguments and justification for it.

Simply put, the framework of Net Zero and its concentration on emissions diverts public and policy attention away from the fundamental task of ensuring effective and lasting climate change mitigation, which requires an unwavering end to the fossil fuel sector.
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Always remember, Net Zero is NOT zero.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.li/VQBar

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

"Abbott’s willingness to pursue such a militant enforcement campaign, and the decision by so many Republican governors to assist him, provides another measure of the same impulse evident in the proliferating red-state laws restricting or banning abortion, rolling back voting rights, and prohibiting gender-affirming care for transgender minors."

#Texas #GregAbbott #constitution #Confederacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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~ Ron Brownstein

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/texass-immigration-policy-biden/674784/