LGBTQ people in the EU, there is a survey from the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency on LGBTQ experiences (e.g. with discrimination and acceptance) in European countries, highly recommend filling it out!
‘I need one more indictment’: Trump goes off-the-rails in pre-arraignment rage https://www.rawstory.com/i-need-one-more-indictment-trump-goes-off-the-rails-in-pre-arraignment-rage/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
BREAKING: the youngest and only gen z member of Congress just came out swinging against #KOSA, echoing concerns that LGBTQ and human rights groups have been raising for months https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-08-03-breaking-youngest-member-of-congress-comes-out-swinging-against-kosa
👀”US military is considering putting armed personnel on commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, in what would be an unheard of action aimed at stopping #Iran from seizing and harassing civilian vessels…”
“Conspiracy to defraud the United States”
#LockHimUpAlready #TrumpIsACriminal #AuditTheFedUnderMnuchin
Maine’s ballot initiative to make electricity a public good could set a national precedent for giving power to the people.
#Maine #power #energy
https://progressive.org/latest/power-struggle-in-pine-tree-state-daigon-230802/
No doubt most of us missed this at the time but isn’t this interesting. Two days prior to Jan6, troops were being mobilized and the Insurrection Act was already being openly discussed.
DEFENSE
Esper orders hundreds of troops from 82nd Airborne home from D.C. area
This is the second time this week Esper has ordered the troops to head home.
By LARA SELIGMAN
06/04/2020 03:44 PM EDT
Updated: 06/04/2020 04:32 PM EDT
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has ordered home several hundred active-duty troops from the 82nd Airborne Division who were brought to the national capital region to respond to protests if needed, a defense official told POLITICO.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/esper-troops-washington-dc-301568
Legs still sore from Wednesday’s 43km trail ride. I’m strangely proud that they gave out before my heart stopped. I’ve reached a new rung of confidence in my ability to not die. I’ve been inwardly timid about pushing too hard, there was even a guy out on the trail who’d give me heck for pushing myself too hard. Haven’t seen him in a while.
I'm so sick of everything being framed as a "cost". What about the *benefits* of doing a thing? Like, what are economic benefits of having extensive and healthy rainforests?
If some fucking economist is like, "we can't calculate that, it's literally incalculable," I'm going to fucking strangle him. Just because something doesn't fit nicely into your spreadsheets, it doesn't mean it lacks value.
NPR: U.S. employers added 187,000 jobs in July, still marking a steady pace of growth. The unemployment rate edged down to 3.5%.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1191884937/employers-jobs-economy-inflation-soft-landing
Trump is in big trouble
So the news is focusing on Hunter Biden “scandals”
Good.
Because we need to remember that this, too, is another Trump scandal
Trump blackmailed Zelenskyy and Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden
There was an impeachment over it
Trump personnel like Manafort were exposed over it
Lt Col Alexander Vindman went through hell over it
Time to tell the Hunter Biden story the way it was meant to be told
Another Trump crime
Climate change slowing down key ocean “conveyor belt”
Could collapse completely by 2060
https://grist.org/climate/a-vital-atlantic-ocean-system-could-collapse
@grist
Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w
We est. collapse of AMOC around mid-century
AMOC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation
global oceanic thermohaline circulation; zonally integrated component of surface/deep currents in Atlantic Ocean
#GlobalWarming #oceanography #AMOC #IPCC #ClimateChange #EcologicalDestruction
Addendae
Why it's so important to figure out when vital Atlantic Ocean current might collapse
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190519762/why-its-so-important-to-figure-out-when-a-vital-atlantic-ocean-current-might-col
Deep in the Atlantic Ocean there's a massive current the size of 8,000 Mississippi Rivers.
Its role in the Earth's climate is so powerful that it determines weather f. the equator to Europe, crop production in Africa & sea level rise on the East Coast.
Scientists say there's a risk this vital current could shut down as the climate gets hotter, with dire consequences worldwide
Adoption >> buying a pet. #petrescue #massachusetts https://mastodon.boston/@MSPCAAngell/110825933006674607
Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
Due to the increased #Wagner presence, #Poland will deploy more troops to its border with #Belarus after two #Belarusian helicopters entered #Polish airspace at low altitudes, hampering radar detection.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/08/02/europe/poland-belarus-wagner-nato-tensions-intl/index.html
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.