So much for "right to life"! SMH...
Just watched SCOTUS expert (Marcia Coyle) highlighting their trend towards defanging/negating agencies in general, keeping w/"freedom", and keeping power asymmetrically in the Courts. And then, she noted, it seemed like they're leaving a little space open in their just-announce new-year calendar, in case any ex-President felons need their assistance.
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Otter Wiki: A minimalistic wiki powered by Python, Markdown and git
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Los activistas luchan contra la construcción de centros de datos por su consumo energético y de agua
Ça doit être épuisant de réfléchir aussi fort
politis.fr/articles/2024/10/bi…
Où notre chroniqueur toujours de bonne humeur revient sur les dernières fulgurances étincelantes du toutologue Raphaël Enthoven.
The Albanese government has today declared stronger protections for the waters around Heard Island and McDonald Islands, one of Australia’s wildest, most remote areas. The marine park surrounding the islands will be extended by 310,000 square kilometres, quadrupling its size.Announcing the decision, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said Heard Island and McDonald Islands – about 4,000 kilometres southwest of Perth – are a “unique and extraordinary part of our planet. We are doing everything we can to protect it.”
But the announcement, while welcome, is a missed opportunity on several fronts.
Important areas around the islands remain unprotected, despite a wealth of scientific evidence pointing to the need for safeguards. On this measure, the government could have done far more to protect this unique wildlife haven.
#ClimateDiary. Already been a wobbly few days, floods, hurricanes, wildfires and all; now I read the opening paragraph of this new article by key climate scientists and communicators, including @MichaelEMann and @rahmstorf
😢😢😢
“We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.”
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These people in the #LNP must have rocks in their head ... #termination of pregnancy is a fundamental part of #WomensRights & #WomensHealth and to even to have a conversation about reversing these rights in #Queensland is a betrayal.
Labor health minister #ShannonFentiman said:
Jann Stuckey doesn’t believe him, and she knows the LNP and David Crisafulli better than anyone. And so if she doesn’t believe him, then I don’t think anyone in Queensland can believe him.
So those Queenslanders that fought hard to get voluntary assisted dying as part of our health scheme, should be really worried today. And all of those women and girls who have fought hard for years to see legal and safe and affordable access to termination of pregnancy should be really scared today.
abc.net.au/news/2024-10-08/que….
Time to staff the barricades! #WomensRights #ProChoice #WomensHeath
The Australian newspaper revealed this week that Scenic Rim MP #JonKrause told a candidates’ forum that “we need to ensure that there are enough people in the parliament to be able to **#repeal** those laws or to make significant amendments”.
Guardian Australia can reveal that another MP, the retiring rightwinger #MarkRobinson, told a Christian podcast in August there “are no doubt corrections that will happen over time”.
Robinson said the LNP’s core issues – including youth crime, the cost of living, housing and health services – were “the big things the election will swing on” but in future changes could be made in line with the party’s broader platform.
“I see our values are very firmly anchored in **"family values"** ,” Robinson said.
Where do we get these reprehensible politicians?
Florida #Republican Demands #Hurricane Aid She Tried to Block
“Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna demanded more #FEMA funding for #Florida, just weeks after she voted against a bill that provided $20 billion for federal emergency funds.
As #HurricaneMilton approaches the Florida coastline, #Luna has waded into a growing spat between Vice President #KamalaHarris and Sanctimonious #DeSantis.”
#AnnaPaulinaLuna #WhitneyFox
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Heat map of compound swearwords. This is the kind of information I care about.
#heatmap #information #informationisbeautiful #swearwords #reddit
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Our next #Autumn #MysteryAuthor is another follower of minimalism – at least when it comes to the desk… note the order of the #bookshelf right next to the chaos of the #box on the floor…
An #author poised on the boundary between #order and #chaos then. But who could it be?
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #comics #translation #bookstodon @bookstodon
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9 October 1899 | A Polish Jewish woman, Lea (Laya) Rajchman, was born in Koźminek. She emigrated to France.
In September 1942 she was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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