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September 20th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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September 19th, 2020 — Uncategorized
- Op-Ed: Pseudo-expertise should not guide America’s response to COVID-19 – Los Angeles Times
- Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas : Planet Money : NPR
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- NPR's Nina Totenberg Remembers The Late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg : NPR
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Does Not Intend To Retire Anytime Soon : NPR
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RT @byjoelanderson: Surely this good apple’s sense of entitlement over an $8 burrito doesn’t ever show itself in grotesque abuses of power.
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RT @nycsouthpaw: The House passed a bill already—in May. Months ago! It approved $3 trillion to help with the crisis and bail out the administration’s missteps. House Ds passed it largely without Republican support. Senate Rs never took it up, never marked it up, never offered an amendment.
- Rare books stolen in London heist found under floor in Romania | Crime | The Guardian
RT @guardian: Rare books stolen in London heist found under floor in Romania
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RT @drmistercody: The reveal here is high art.
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RT @ch_blattner: For more than two years we have been fighting for this – finally, the Swiss Federal Court ruled yesterday: The people of the Canton Basel-Stadt (Switzerland) will be the first in the world to get to vote on whether primates should be granted basic rights. We are beyond happy!
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/trump-drug-prices.html)
RT @nycsouthpaw: For a lobbying public affairs shop to say this on the record, as I understand it, is more or less the equivalent of “the Lannisters send their regards.â€
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RT @nycsouthpaw: For a lobbying public affairs shop to say this on the record, as I understand it, is more or less the equivalent of “the Lannisters send their regards.â€
- Untitled (https://religionnews.com/2020/09/17/head-of-federal-election-commission-calls-separation-of-church-and-state-a-fallacy-and-2020-election-a-spiritual-war/)
RT @jackmjenkins: 1. So I spoke to the head of the Federal Election Commission today.
He told me the separation of church and state is a "fallacy," that Trump’s 2017 EO allows faith leaders to endorse candidates, and that the 2020 election is a "spiritual war."
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87 : NPR
RT @jeneps: Ginsberg’s dying message: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
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RT @Laurie_Garrett: The genetic forms of #SARSCoV2 circulating in the US/Canada/Mexico are clearly very different from patterns seen everywhere else in the world. Significance, if any, is unknown.
- Untitled (https://www.gisaid.org/fileadmin/gisaid/files/hcov19/GISAID_hCoV-19_Analysis_Update_2020-09-18_1600UTC.pptx)
RT @Laurie_Garrett: The genetic forms of #SARSCoV2 circulating in the US/Canada/Mexico are clearly very different from patterns seen everywhere else in the world. Significance, if any, is unknown.
- 'Hail, gallant woman': Amy Dorris praised for coming forward with Trump assault allegation | US news | The Guardian
RT @LynnRoseberry: Liz Plank: “I’ve run out of ways to explain why it is upsetting that the president of the US…has been accused of having spent much of his adult life hurting women. In any other news cycle- & any other reality-this should be big news…â€
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September 18th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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September 17th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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RT @Celtic_Asynja: A perfectly timed photo of a Raven stealing the sun in a smokey Pacific Northwest.
Photo by Shelley Lewis Photography.
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/william-barr-sedition.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage)
RT @ayeletw: It is desperately important that young people vote. This is a terrifying threat.
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/16/dejoy-usps-delays-senate-report/
RT @michikokakutani: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s controversial midsummer operational directives delayed nearly 350 million pieces, or 7 percent, of the country’s first-class mail in the five weeks they were in effect, according to a new Senate report.
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RT @HeerJeet: I don’t think people are prepared for how much QAnon is going to upturn politics, even if (or particularly if) Biden wins.
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RT @GretchenTG: This is going viral because of the comic relief. But I want to be clear that parents are being put in an impossible situation now and it will derail entire careers, especially for moms. Some thoughts… #SciMomJourneys
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RT @BarackObama: Over the last few months, I’ve learned a thing or two from the young people in our country. I figured I would return the favor by sharing with you how to make a plan to vote in this upcoming election.
Get registered and vote early:
Video: @attn
- (500) https://votesave.us/obama
RT @BarackObama: Over the last few months, I’ve learned a thing or two from the young people in our country. I figured I would return the favor by sharing with you how to make a plan to vote in this upcoming election.
Get registered and vote early:
Video: @attn
- 'The difference is QAnon': how a conspiratorial hate campaign upended California politics | QAnon | The Guardian
RT @jason_a_w: You need to read @juliacarriew’s story about the California GOP: it completely lines up with what I am seeing in the Pacific Northwest
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RT @rabihalameddine: Vincent van Gogh – Pollard Birches – 1884
- Newly revealed USPS documents show an agency struggling to manage Trump, Amazon and the pandemic
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RT @FilmFan1971: Please enjoy this rare photo of Orson Welles jamming with Laurel & Hardy.
- Malaysian Monkeys Steal Man's Phone and Use It to Take Selfies | Complex
- Why the West’s Wildfires Are So Enormous – The Atlantic
RT @dwallacewells: “In the past few months, one in every 33 acres of California has burned.â€
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RT @rokwon: I feel unusually chipper so I’ll take advantage of this brief window to say we have 7 weeks until the elections. If you ever wondered what you’d do if tested the way decent people were tested in Nazi Germany: we’re those people now, & maybe we can change the outcome
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RT @HarrietMould: I legit don’t think I’ve ever seen this pose this way round before.
- Opinion | I can’t believe you’re forcing me to vote for Trump, which I definitely didn’t already want to do – The Washington Post
- Global Warming Shifts Arctic Climate From Ice and Snow to Water and Rain – The New York Times
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-disinformation-trump/2020/09/15/c84091ae-f20a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html
RT @rickwtyler: A domestic troll-farm using child labor to pump out misleading and false political messages against â¦@JoeBidenâ© without legal disclaimers is being run by the non-profit â¦@TPUSAâ© headed by community college dropout â¦â¦@CharlieKirk11â©.
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September 16th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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September 15th, 2020 — Uncategorized
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/14/glaciers-breaking-antarctica-pine-island-thwaites/?hpid=hp_no-name_301pm-antarcticice%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
RT @EricHolthaus: As always, @chriscmooney has a masterful description of exactly what today’s study means.
In short, the natural brakes on the glaciers are shearing off. Their flow towards the sea is accelerating.
- Untitled (https://hpwren.ucsd.edu/cameras/wilson.html)
RT @theeroamer: the mt. wilson tower cam recording its own demise as the wildfires begin to surround it is causing some unexpected heartbreak this evening.
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RT @theeroamer: the mt. wilson tower cam recording its own demise as the wildfires begin to surround it is causing some unexpected heartbreak this evening.
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RT @ekp: People outside the US can see it clearly
- British Military Prepares for Climate-Fueled Resource Shortages
RT @NafeezAhmed: EXCLUSIVE: The British government is planning for ‘resource shortages’ induced by an inevitable catastrophic rise of near 4C temperatures by 2100 via @VICE
- The Man Who Refused to Spy | The New Yorker
RT @matthew_petti: This is an insane story.
The FBI tried to coerce an Iranian scientist in America into spying on Iran.
When he said no, they accused *him* of spying.
When a judge threw out the case, they threw him in ICE detention, where he caught coronavirus.
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RT @CharlesFinch: America in the eyes of the world.
- Untitled (https://abcnews.go.com/International/satellite-images-show-deterioration-antarctica-glaciers-lead-rising/story?id=72985182)
RT @ClimateHuman: This is all happening so much faster than I expected.
- Duration-selectivity in right parietal cortex reflects the subjective experience of time | Journal of Neuroscience
Time-sensitive neurons in the supramarginal gyrus fatigue & skew our subjective perception of time, according to new research from @HayashiMJ @BerkeleyPsych in #JNeurosci.
How the brain creates the experience of time: http://jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0078-20.2020 https://twitter.com/SfNJournals/status/1305552157068886018/photo/1
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RT @revmagdalen: THIS. What did people think it meant, for Trump to accuse Obama, Hillary, and Biden of treason?
- Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose blocks Cuyahoga County elections plan offering ballot drop-off sites at libraries – cleveland.com
RT @Sifill_LDF: This is not good.
- Judge rules Chad Wolf likely unlawfully serving as Homeland Security secretary and temporarily blocks some asylum restrictions – CNNPolitics
RT @Matt_Kiser: Judge rules Chad Wolf likely unlawfully serving as Homeland Security secretary and temporarily blocks some asylum restrictions
via @CurrentStatus
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RT @MattGertz: The situation continues to escalate in frightening ways.
- Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility | Law & Crime
RT @monaeltahawy: “Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy—just about everybody…That’s his specialty, he’s the uterus collector.â€
Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at #ICE Facility
h/t @brooklynmarie
- Oregon prisoners evacuated due to fires are being pepper sprayed by guards | US news | The Guardian
RT @SamTLevin: NEW: Oregon prison guards have repeatedly pepper sprayed evacuated prisoners who are trapped in overcrowded facilities and already sick from smoke.
I spoke to folks inside who were sprayed and are struggling to breathe…
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RT @juliaioffe: JK! Just when you think you’ve turned the corner, this thing sucks you under and you can’t breathe again. Greetings from the ER.
(I’m posting these updates not for pity, but for awareness. #COVID19 is real and it is serious. Be careful, wear masks, practice social distancing!)
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RT @GovInslee: Today, you said about the climate “It’ll start getting cooler. You just watch.â€
That is false.
This abandonment of leadership has left states on our own to protect the lives and livelihoods of the people we represent.
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RT @billmckibben: This is going to be the most important election for the next few million years
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Antarctic Glaciers Are Growing Unstable Above and Below Water
New studies show fractures on surface ice and warm seawater melting the ice from underneath. That’s a harbinger of a coming collapse—and sea level rise.
- Antarctic Glaciers Are Growing Unstable Above and Below Water
Antarctic Glaciers Are Growing Unstable Above and Below Water
New studies show fractures on surface ice and warm seawater melting the ice from underneath. That’s a harbinger of a coming collapse—and sea level rise.
- UN rights chief decries racism in US, keeps eye on Hong Kong – ABC News
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/caputo-virus.html?referringSource=articleShare)
RT @waltshaub: Caputo sounds like Kurtz (in both “Heart of Darkness†and “Apocalypse Nowâ€): “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.†He wants bullets to fight imaginary death squads. These people are insane, and they are dangerous.
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RT @DuckDuckGo: Duck Facebook.
Using behavioral targeting for manipulation is very real, dangerous, and deserves much more serious oversight & regulation.
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/14/glaciers-breaking-antarctica-pine-island-thwaites/
RT @eilperin: NEW: Two major Antarctic glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints, scientists say, raising the prospect of more extreme sea level rise. Read this piece by @chriscmooney and watch the footage of how the damage has evolved:
- Life on Venus? Astronomers See Phosphine Signal in Its Clouds – The New York Times
- The Arctic is burning like never before — and that’s bad news for climate change
RT @DrTELS: I thought twice, maybe three times before describing these fires as "alarming" to @NatureNews. But I stand by it. I’m worried. @ClimateHuman
The Arctic is burning like never before — and that’s bad news for climate change
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/opinion/activism-trump-masks-climate.html)
Opinion | When Good People Don’t Act, Evil Reigns
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Opinion | When Good People Don’t Act, Evil Reigns
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September 14th, 2020 — Uncategorized
- Opinion | When Good People Don’t Act, Evil Reigns – The New York Times
- Untitled (https://apple.news/AMgKf7zqvTDyXeqjhKHf6AA)
RT @larrybrilliant: It gets worse and worse; epidemiologists depend on CDC’s MMWR Weekly Report. To learn that Trump and his appointees edited out CDC’s COVID danger warnings because they “conflicted with the presidents more optimistic message†makes me sick to my stomach.
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Trump doesn’t care if wildfires destroy the west – it didn’t vote for him
- Trump doesn't care if wildfires destroy the west – it didn't vote for him | Wildfires | The Guardian
Trump doesn’t care if wildfires destroy the west – it didn’t vote for him
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RT @alicegoldfuss: something non-Oregonians might not know is that white militias are setting up "checkpoints" along evacuation routes to look for "antifa" who they believe are setting the fires
we have layers of terror over here
- Untitled (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-woodward-tapes-jamil-1058678/)
RT @JamilSmith: I wrote about what Trump told Bob Woodward, and the whistleblower allegations that @DHSgov deliberately downplayed the threat of white-supremacist violence. Trump is running on keeping white people safe, but it’s clear that he doesn’t even care about them.
- Op-Ed: With global heating, expect inferno seasons in the West – Los Angeles Times
RT @KHayhoe: "As climate scientists we take absolutely zero pleasure in being right. We are terrified…but we cannot look away, for the sake of our families, for the sake of people we don’t know and for the sake of the natural world." @ClimateHuman speaks for us all.
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/oregon-wildfires.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytclimate)
RT @nytclimate: “This situation of large fires, and that low snow year — these are both things that I and my colleagues who’ve studied climate change in Oregon for 20 years have been saying would happen eventually,†said Philip Mote of OSU. “And now they’re happening.â€
- An Interview with Connie Willis, Part II | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
- Technology and the 2020 Election: How Silicon Valley Technologies Impact Our Elections and Shape Our Democracy
- How the Coronavirus Attacks the Brain – The New York Times
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- This Woman Surfed the Biggest Wave of the Year – The Atlantic
- Shere Hite, Who Challenged Myths of Female Sexuality, Dies at 77 – The New York Times
- A Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executives’ Private Views on Climate Change – The New York Times
- Ancient Python Lays Eggs, Apparently Without Male Help – The New York Times
- How the Coronavirus Attacks the Brain – The New York Times
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September 13th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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- 'We should have the right not to like men': the French writer at centre of literary storm | World news | The Guardian
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- A Book About Nature That Is So Much More – The New York Times
- Ramen With Charred Scallions, Green Beans and Chile Oil Recipe – NYT Cooking
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RT @Phil_Lewis_: Question: “You had seven matches, seven masks, seven names. What was the message you wanted to send?â€
Naomi Osaka: "Well, what was the message you got is more the question. I feel like the point was to make people start talking.â€
- Stanford doctors denounce Trump appointee Dr. Scott Atlas
RT @michikokakutani: Dozens of Stanford University Med School’s top faculty denounce former colleague Dr. Scott Atlas – Trump’s new coronavirus advisor – for promoting what they called “falsehoods and misrepresentations of science.â€
- Scientist Who Denies Climate Change Hired At NOAA By Trump Administration : NPR
RT @nprpolitics: Longtime Climate Science Denier Hired At NOAA
- Attack Surface: audiobook for the third Little Brother book by Cory Doctorow — Kickstarter
- 30 Minute Soft Pretzels | Sally's Baking Addiction
- Google Cloud is making 'significant gains' in market share, but proving its legitimacy to large customers is still its 'biggest struggle,' according to a recent Gartner report
- Why Can't My Camera Capture the Wildfire Sky? – The Atlantic
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RT @CoreyCiorciari: Pure🔥by @patagonia.
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RT @Pinboard: The thing that bugs me about this kind of politician climate discourse is that it’s not really honest. The idea of an emergency presupposes something that you can do. But humanity could disappear tomorrow and this level of warming would be baked in for many years to come
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- Jackie Mitchell – Wikipedia
RT @lhbizness: Never forget that a seventeen-year-old girl once struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back in an exhibition game and men were so butt-hurt about it that they banned women from baseball.
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September 12th, 2020 — Uncategorized
- Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic : NPR
“Less than 10 percent of plastic has ever been recycled.”
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/climate-change-california-wildfires.html)
RT @cflav: Climate experts have long worried about the cascade effect: Multiple disasters, triggering and amplifying each other in the same place. But it always seemed like a problem for later.
And then California happened.
With the great @thomasfullerNYT.
- The future has arrived. These explosive fires are our climate change wakeup call | Wildfires | The Guardian
RT @nature_org: "What we’re seeing now, with massive wildfires, worsening storms, and record droughts and floods is just the beginning of the climate changes to come."
A look at how the wildfires in the western U.S. are our climate change wake up call via @guardian.
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/climate-change-california-wildfires.html?referringSource=articleShare)
RT @WoodwellClimate: Record wildfires are clearly linked to climate change. “People are always asking, ‘Is this the new normal? I always say no. It’s going to get worse,†explained Woodwell Climate’s president Dr. Phil Duffy.
- Nora Dannehy, Connecticut prosecutor who was top aide to John Durham’s Trump-Russia investigation, resigns amid concern about pressure from Attorney General William Barr – Hartford Courant
RT @danielsgoldman: It is exceedingly rare for DOJ prosecutors to resign in protest, and this is the 2nd one this year to do so bc of improper political influence.
This tells you all that you need to know about the bastardization of the Durham investigation by Bill Barr.
- Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, WA | Official Website
- GALLERY — Titanic: Honor and Glory
- Washington Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution | AirVisual
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September 11th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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