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kegill, 3 days ago to climate

More Russians than Americans believe #climateChange is “a serious threat to humanity.”

#Trump, who says climate change is a hoax, recently promised oil executives he would slash oil regulations for a $1 billion donation.

When reporting about the (legal) implied solicitation of a bribe, reporters for @washingtonpost and @nytimes ignored record temps announced Wednesday and how fossil fuels affect climate change.

https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-promises-to-slash-oil-regulations-for-a-1-billion-donation-those-news-reports-ignore-record-temps-and-climate-change/

kegill, 3 days ago to climate

Today’s #climateChange crisis: Mexico City is running out of water.

However, reservoirs are “historically low” in Bogotá, Colombia, as well.

“There is an element of climate change that’s contributing to these conditions … there’s also a very strong human-built environment element — a governance element, a politics element, and a mismanagement element of both the natural and the human environment. ”

https://apple.news/A0uOB0h9LRi-CHmkSC-2m_A

kegill, 5 days ago to climate

“I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,” said Gretta Pecl, at the University of Tasmania. “[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted.”

Me, too. 😕

Three quarters of scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on #ClimateChange expect a global temperature increase at least 2.5°C (4.5°F) this century “with disastrous results for humanity.”

@guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

kegill, 6 days ago to random

A second Boeing whistleblower has died.

Joshua Dean, 45, of Wichita, KS died suddenly after two weeks in ICU. The quality auditor was deposed “in a shareholder lawsuit filed late last year.” He also filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration.

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, 62, died in March after giving a deposition about Boeing’s SC plant. He died of a gunshot wound. The police investigation into his death is ongoing.

Photo: Barnett and Dean.

kegill, 9 days ago to random

Did you know … the US is building a floating pier to deliver food and supplies to Gaza … working around the Israeli blockade that has northern Gaza in a famine?

If you read/watch/listen to only US media … probably not.

US Gaza floating pier
NYT: Mar 7, 10; Apr 25, 27; May 1
WaPo: Mar 8, 31; Apr 6, 25, 30

Gaza famine
NYT: Apr 27, 27, 28; May 3, 4
WaPo: Mar 28; Apr 6, 4; May 3, 4

kegill, 9 days ago to random

Compare and contrast.

Yes US news media traffic in doom and gloom when that framing gives fodder to authoritarians.

We should all read and $upport the @guardian

“US adds 175,000 April jobs as hiring slows and unemployment stays steady … It was the 40th straight month of job gains in the US and the 27th consecutive month with the unemployment rate below 4% – the longest such streak since 1953.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/03/us-april-jobs-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

kegill, 9 days ago to random

The @WSJ headline implies students were manipulated by outsiders

It’s disinformation. Columbia University students ACTIVELY sought advice, researched prior protests.

Better:
Before launching protest, Columbia students consulted with external groups, researched historical university responses

FROM THE STORY, 4th graph:
“We took notes from our elders, engaged in dialogue with them and analyzed how the university responded to previous protests.”

#journalisticMalpractice

kegill, 13 days ago to climate

WHY are we still building on barrier islands and ocean beaches in the southeast?

𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗚𝘂𝗹𝗳 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝟲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬. 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗣𝗼, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 “𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱.”

In 14 years, sea level for Dauphin Island has risen 6.7 inches. In 58 years, 11 inches. Yes, it’s rising faster.

#giftLink #ClimateChange
https://wapo.st/3QopozF

Map showing location of Dauphin Island, AL, at the mouth of Mobile Bay.

kegill, 13 days ago to random

Hunter Biden’s attorneys are going to sue FOX. About time.

Biden’s attorney issued the following statement.

May the force be with him!

https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/hunter-biden-strikes-back?r=5wdm&utm_medium=ios

kegill, 15 days ago to random

Given the comments from SD Gov. Kristi Noem, now seems like a good time to boost this analysis:

What the NRA and GOP demagogues don’t want you to know about the Second Amendment.

It was about slavery.

https://kegill.medium.com/what-the-nra-the-gop-and-crt-demagogues-dont-want-you-to-know-about-the-compromise-that-is-the-6f69a95c7b03

kegill, 15 days ago to random

I’m gobsmacked. Framing FTW.

“If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

“If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

“If you're under 30, the number is 100%.”

https://twitter.com/sundaedivine/status/1784630955723919484

kegill, 16 days ago to random

“This is how fascists campaign”

The campaign that Donald J. Trump is running in 2024 is a stark departure from 2016. It’s not just that he’s eight years older, chronologically. It’s the transformation in his rhetoric.

Reflection on a NYT magazine story with lousy headline.

https://themoderatevoice.com/this-is-how-fascists-campaign/

kegill, 17 days ago to random

The rewired-by-Trump RNC hired ONA's Christina Bobb to run its "election integrity" program. She's been indicted for election fraud.

https://themoderatevoice.com/rnc-election-integrity-legal-counsel-one-of-the-18-indicted-for-election-fraud-in-arizona/

kegill, 17 days ago to random

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩’𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥’𝐬.

Headline after headline Friday reflected political pundit reaction to Thursday’s Supreme Court oral arguments. The case? Former president Donald J. Trump’s claims of immunity from prosecution for his central role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection.

From “The Trumpification of the Supreme Court” to “Trump Melts Institutions, SCOTUS Edition” most link Trump with the 6-3 conservative majority.

1/3

kegill, 18 days ago to Israel

"You people are fascists!" Atlanta policeman shouts at Emory economics professor during Thursday protest.

The video is chilling but moves too fast and is too loud. So I made screen grabs and provided written commentary.

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #PolicyBrutality #Emory

https://themoderatevoice.com/you-people-are-fascists-atlanta-policeman-shouts-at-emory-economics-professor-during-thursday-protest/

kegill, 19 days ago to random

Given the publicly-funded infrastructure and research that made US billionaire wealth possible… hell, yes.

“The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2% tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise £250bn a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality and global heating, ministers from four leading economies have suggested.”

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/apr/25/billionaires-should-pay-minimum-two-per-cent-wealth-tax-say-g20-ministers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

kegill, 19 days ago to random

Who Wrote the Bible?

Why am I only now discovering this book by Richard Elliott Friedman, published in 1987?

Especially simce Friedman is the Ann & Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at my alma mater, the University of Georgia.

"Remarkable. Friedman has written that most rare of books: a legitimate intellectual contribution that is also a good read. The field of biblical studies will be enriched by this book." —Dallas Times Herald

https://a.co/25xjSnl

kegill, 19 days ago to random

Mounted police being used against peaceful protesters:
Selma 1965, Austin 2024

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3kqvz5tbxrf2t

From Kevin Kruse on BSky

Mounted police being used against peaceful protesters: Austin 2024

kegill, 21 days ago to random

“Prosecutors at the outset sought to emphasize the gravity of the case, the first of four criminal prosecutions against Trump to reach trial, by framing it as about election interference.”

CAN YOU SEE THE SKEPTICISM HERE?

GAG
“The opening statements also served as an introduction to the colorful cast of characters that comprise the tawdry saga…”

Do better, @AP

fatsam, 22 days ago to random

Asked elsewhere what I could talk on for fifteen minutes:

I'm a professional speaker, I can talk that long on a lot of subjects. Areas with actual expertise?

Writing science fiction; writing in general. Database scalability. Stand-up comedy. Raising children.

sundogplanets, 22 days ago to random

I'm reading Astrotopia by Mary-Jane Rubenstein and it's just amazing. I don't usually make it through books that are on depressing topics like the destruction of orbit, but this book is fascinating and real while also being completely hilarious. Like, I have laughed out loud multiple times while reading it and I'm only halfway through.

It's all about how the "NewSpace" tech bro billionaires are using the language of manifest destiny and see themselves as end-of-the-world prophets. Wowee.