U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities
"The Trump EPA approved the highly persistent pesticide isocycloseram, a “forever chemical,” for golf courses, lawns & food crops such as oranges, tomatoes, almonds, peas, & oats. The administration plans to approve 3 more PFAS pesticides in the coming year." biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
I literally just had my yearly check-in and recertification in October. I am disabled, can't work, and am on SSI. I can't afford my medically mandated diet without SNAP, and reapplying is a lot of work, which is made harder by my disability and poor health. This is maddening.
This is rape culture.
This is why so many people don’t come forward.
A young girl was being bullied at school by a boy who made AI generated nudes of her.
She told the principal. She told the guidance counsellor. They didn’t stop it.
Finally she hit the boy responsible, and SHE got expelled:
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
From Utah to China, where in the world could Arizona copper sitting under an Apache holy site go? www.kjzz.org/tribal-natur...
“Today, globally ~$200 billion/yr is invested in nature, vs over $7 trillion to activities of environmental degradation...trying to increase nature-positive finance to forests/critical natural systems, without addressing the negative, is fighting a losing battle” globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
The EPA is attempting to deny climate change and rollback critical scientific findings.
Unlike our federal government, I know climate change is real and I'm taking action to fight back.
We are a government ruled by viral video fiat now.
You aren't even allowed to research which viral video has whipped the regime into a mania and how they came to believe it, because the research of the systems themselves is viewed as "censorship."
This how you end up randomly invading Portland.
Today (9/27) in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book SILENT SPRING was published inspiring the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency that the current administration of heathens has sucked dry in favor of unbridled greed. [From Leanne Grabel]
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!
David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage
They are literally canceling culture
This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions
Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’
Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”
This explains it better than I can
Today, in a move that has alarmed conservationists, the Department of the Interior unveiled a proposal to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule—effectively removing conservation as an equal priority in public-land management.
#publiclands #BLM #protectpubliclands #parkchat
A sobering eulogy for the magnificent old-growth Teakettle forest that just burned in the s Sierra, and how USFS leadership repeatedly failed to support the mgmt actions that likely would have saved it from severe fire effects. A telltale ex of the bigger crisis in our national forests & at USFS. 🌎
F*ck‼️
Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
Covid accelerates vascular aging
An 18-country, 38-center study of ~2,000 participants
—Effect predominantly in women, adding 5 years of aging
—Seen with non-hospitalized and mild-moderate Covid
—Reversible in some at 1-year; vaccination link to protection
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Tell the EPA: Reapproving dicamba will cause immeasurable harm to pollinators and people. act.biologicaldiversity.org/jrdCu6M_CEW4...
Pointless self-harm to humanity is the common thread here.
Goes for health and vaccine the same way as it goes for climate, US competitiveness, and any number of issues.
On Nevaeh Crain’s third hospital visit, an obstetrician insisted on two ultrasounds to “confirm fetal demise.” By then, her blood pressure had plummeted and a nurse noted that her lips were “blue and dusky.” Her organs began failing. Hours later, she was dead.
why does coal use she/her pronouns
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
