"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth."
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell.
#blacklivesmatter #BlackHistoryMatters #BooksMatter #StopRonDeSantis #Reading
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell.
#blacklivesmatter #BlackHistoryMatters #BooksMatter #StopRonDeSantis #Reading
10:25 AM - Mar 14, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
“I think [sexual violence] is a formidable weapon of war, but we’re not yet doing enough to stop it,” he says. “[Sexual violence] is a red line that should not be crossed in conflict. And if it is crossed, the world should react together and be able to say ‘no, this is not acceptable.""
theguardian.com
02:00 PM - Apr 29, 2024
"The chemicals will be passed down to children for generations, said Laura Facciolo, a Veneto resident who drank contaminated water. She said the findings underscore the need to ban PFAS, and the disaster’s injustice." #PFAS #FOREVERCHEMICALS
12:22 PM - Apr 29, 2024
"Micro- and nanoplastics were found in the plaque excised from 58% of these patients, Landrigan writes, putting them at significantly elevated risk of non-fatal stroke or heart attack, or “death from any cause.”
12:11 PM - Mar 23, 2024
Frisch: You found about a 1 percent decline in sperm counts per year.
Swan: Yes, which would mean a 50 percent decline over fifty years. We’re actually seeing something a little steeper than that.
Swan: Yes, which would mean a 50 percent decline over fifty years. We’re actually seeing something a little steeper than that.
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Carretha Jackson @CarrethaJackson"Production of the chemicals that I think contributed to this decline — there are other factors as well — began to take off after the Second World War. So it’s plausible that THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR SIXTY YEARS, or two generations. Not a long time evolutionarily." #FertilityRate 📉04:31 PM - Jul 17, 2023
04:34 PM - Jul 17, 2023
"Production of the chemicals that I think contributed to this decline — there are other factors as well — began to take off after the Second World War. So it’s plausible that THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR SIXTY YEARS, or two generations. Not a long time evolutionarily." #FertilityRate 📉
04:31 PM - Jul 17, 2023
"A Senate report last year concluded “this horrific practice is not confined to the past, but clearly is continuing today.” In May, a doctor was penalized for forcibly sterilizing an Indigenous woman in 2019."
apnews.com
Canada’s Indigenous women forcibly sterilized decades after other rich countries stopped | AP News
Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians and at least five class-action lawsuits allege the practice has not ended in Canada.
04:37 PM - Jul 12, 2023
02:27 PM - Jul 07, 2023
“What this law does is it says, let’s trust our experience and education of our librarians to decide what books should be in circulation.” - llinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias
nowthisnews.com
“First of Its Kind” Illinois Law Will Penalize Libraries That Ban Books - NowThis
The new law will require the state's libraries to uphold a pledge not to ban material because of partisan disapproval, starting on Jan. 1, 2024. If they refuse, they will not receive state funding. Pritzker said the law will make Illinois the first state in the nation to outlaw book bans.
11:31 AM - Jun 14, 2023
Per the CDC, the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black (subsequently, Black) women was 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, 2.6 times the rate for non-Hispanic White (subsequently, White) women #ToriBowie #blackwomen #BlackMaternalMortality
06:44 PM - Jun 12, 2023
Imagine the amount of money it takes to buy an entire sports league .... and a few souls. #PGA
04:46 PM - Jun 06, 2023
1. Raising the federal minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21.
2. Mandating universal background checks.
3. Instituting a reasonable waiting period for all gun purchases.
4. Barring purchase of assault weapons that serve no other purpose than to kill people quickly.
2. Mandating universal background checks.
3. Instituting a reasonable waiting period for all gun purchases.
4. Barring purchase of assault weapons that serve no other purpose than to kill people quickly.
09:37 AM - Jun 08, 2023
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"The health inequities documented in this project have their roots in a long history of medical racism. "
03:09 PM - May 23, 2023
1. Raising the federal minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21.
2. Mandating universal background checks.
3. Instituting a reasonable waiting period for all gun purchases.
4. Barring purchase of assault weapons that serve no other purpose than to kill people quickly.
2. Mandating universal background checks.
3. Instituting a reasonable waiting period for all gun purchases.
4. Barring purchase of assault weapons that serve no other purpose than to kill people quickly.
09:37 AM - Jun 08, 2023
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Imagine the amount of money it takes to buy an entire sports league .... and a few souls. #PGA
04:46 PM - Jun 06, 2023
🎵In the desert sun ev'ry step that you take could be the final one🎵 RIP #TinaTurner You will always be One of the Living 💋
03:01 PM - May 24, 2023
"This will help scientists understand whether the region has a tipping point that could throw it into a state of irreversible decline. Such a feared event, also known as the Amazon forest dieback, would transform the world’s most biodiverse forest into a drier savannah-like landscape." #climate
apnews.com
Brazil builds 'rings of carbon dioxide' to simulate climate change in the Amazon | AP News
Deep in the Amazon, Brazil is building a complex of towers arrayed in six rings poised to spray carbon dioxide into the rainforest. The aim is to understand how the world’s largest tropical forest responds to climate change. Known as AmazonFACE, the project will probe the forest’s remarkable ability..
02:38 PM - May 24, 2023
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"Researchers have engineered microbes to produce carbon-based chemicals that are used as a feedstock to make fuels, drugs and industrial chemical products."
#climatechange #GlobalWarming #Decarbonization
#climatechange #GlobalWarming #Decarbonization
11:34 AM - May 24, 2023
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."
Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison
03:31 PM - May 23, 2023
"The health inequities documented in this project have their roots in a long history of medical racism. "
03:09 PM - May 23, 2023
“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler #write #keepwriting #OctaviaButler
That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler #write #keepwriting #OctaviaButler
03:36 PM - May 20, 2023
#OctaviaButler #affirmations photo from the Octavia Butler Exhibition, http://Huntington.org #writers #writerslife
#seeit #believeit
#seeit #believeit
03:00 PM - May 19, 2023
“This is no accident,” the suit alleged. “The clear agenda behind the campaign to remove the books is to categorically remove all discussion of racial discrimination or LGBTQ issues from public school libraries. Government action may not be premised on such discriminatory motivations."
nbcnews.com
01:18 PM - May 19, 2023
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind." - Jim Morrison
10:12 AM - May 19, 2023
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind." - Jim Morrison
10:12 AM - May 19, 2023
“Jim read as much and probably more than any student in the class, but everything he read was so offbeat I had another teacher (who was going to the Library of Congress) check to see if the books Jim was reporting on actually existed.”
10:07 AM - May 19, 2023
"In the centuries prior to that, all babies were dressed in white gowns, which allowed easy access for diaper changes and could be bleached after wearing. Clothing for children up to the age of six or seven was treated as unisex (which allowed parents to use the same clothes for every baby born)."
10:39 PM - May 17, 2023
"First, I always have the ending. Always. I always know. Maybe sometimes even the final sentence is written in my notes, but I know where I’m going. For me, it’s always easier to write to a destination."
03:49 PM - May 16, 2023
WV Governor Jim Justice signed this bill today on anniversary of Hitler's birthday and of the Columbine shooting. LET THAT INFORMATION SINK IN. They want the U.S. in chaos.
02:24 PM - Apr 20, 2023
theguardian.com
01:55 PM - Apr 20, 2023
"In Georgia, the arrested activists are part of a movement seeking to stop the construction of a $90 million police training facility located in a forest in Southeast Atlanta. "
11:27 AM - Apr 17, 2023
