Wen, to random
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‘Scary’: public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/us-public-schools-texas-book-bans

The board of trustees for the Cypress Fairbanks independent school district in Houston voted 6-1 earlier this month to redact certain chapters in science textbooks, including those about vaccines, human growth, diversity, and climate change.
The Texas Taliban are determined to ensure that the state remains rooted to the 15th century.

adanvers, to psychology
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New blog post! I wrote about making art as emotion regulation. I connect it to expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal, from James Gross's work.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202405/art-as-emotion-regulation

@psychology.grup.pe

Wen, to environment
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Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/judge-throws-out-case-against-uk-climate-activist-trudi-warner-sign-jurors-rights

Don't worry, Westminster will introduce new laws to deal with that… Probably as well thought out as declaring Rwanda a safe country!

A ridiculous case - but we still have the GMC putting their oar in on behalf of the malevolent, incompetent maladministration.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/16/uk-doctors-involved-in-climate-protests-face-threat-of-being-struck-off

Wen, to conservative
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Children used as guinea pigs to test if blood treatments were contaminated

http://archive.today/2024.04.19-150637/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/children-used-as-guinea-pigs-to-test-if-blood-treatments-were-contaminated-lmwz5xmbw

Families were not told even when they contracted deadly viruses, according to documents about the scandal in the 1970s and 80s collected by the

First there was the ‘Blood Scandal’, well before the PO, but similar ‘keep them dying before compensation' mentality. Serial British Governments, and have delivered this.

Wen, to UKpolitics
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Jail for holding a placard? Protest over the climate crisis is being brutally suppressed

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/13/climate-crisis-protest-activism-repression

Not only jailed for peaceful protest, but also now facing being struck off by the GMC. The state is working hard to suppress protest in all of its forms in the UK. We have been warned, ignore these signs at your peril.

Wen, (edited ) to random
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Legal fears over Michael Gove’s new definition of ‘extremism’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/09/revealed-legal-fears-over-michael-gove-definition-extremism
Bugger legal fears, everyone should be scare of the intent AND the consequences of this.

The communities secretary wants ‘trailblazer’ government departments to pilot a scheme to ban individuals and groups deemed extremist from public life

banned_tweets_of_john_cusack, to Palestine
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Wen, (edited ) to news
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London demonstrations (and Glasgow and Cardiff and…) demonstrations for ceasefire

  • is unreported in The Guardian, The Times, The Fail

  • is reported in the Independent - which states estimated numbers but has a headline about 12 people arrested (out of reported 200,000

  • is relegated to an England only page in the BBC (numbers listed as 10s of thousands), but ignored in Scotland, Wales or NI

A fantastic example of ‘news management’.

blamellors, to random
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BHM

My grandparents couldn’t vote until they were in their 70’s. My mom went to jail for her political activism so she could vote and have choices.

All you have to do is check your registration and get a ballot . They did the hard work so you could vote .

skykiss, (edited ) to random
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90% of the people thrown off the voter rolls in FLA are Democrats.

Voter suppression in Florida. Nearly 1 million registered voters have been dropped from Florida’s active voter rolls since last year, with Democrats & voters w/ no party affiliation (NPA) accounting for 90% of the departed.

https://www.floridabulldog.org/2023/12/election-integrity-voter-suppression-florida-1-million-fewer-voters-2023/

Filani, to berlin Arabic

German police attacked and detained pro-Palestine students at The Free University of yesterday during a lecture titled ‘Universities in Troubled Times’.

video/mp4

Rasta, to Engineering
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Funny things impress me:

YouTube algorithms just figured out I was an Engineer, and took my attention away from my work, to fascinate me with a Fixed Fire Suppression demonstration video.

We were once using Halon, but environmental concerns stopped that. This is the same principle, with a different gas agent.

StatX fire suppression system, manual or automatic use, on ships.
https://www.statx.com/ if you watch too much, you'll go blind 😂

dougiec3, to random
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ai6yr, to politics
skykiss, to random
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NEW: There is no same-day registration in ; voters must register 30 days before an election.

But local election officials are free to move polling precincts around—even 13 hours before an election.

And two just moved in Hinds County.


https://www.mississippifreepress.org/35330/hinds-county-moves-two-polling-places-hours-before-polls-open

skykiss, to Florida
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