"Despite its waters being the clearest they’ve been in 40 years, Lake Tahoe is brimming with microplastics, according to a new paper published in Nature. The findings confirm a 2019 study that detected microplastics in Lake Tahoe for the first time."
🏞️🔬🧋 {#id:6195#} #Microplastics #environment
🏞️🔬🧋 {#id:6195#} #Microplastics #environment
03:54 PM - Jul 24, 2023
#SpoutibleNews Like "Cocaine Bear" before it – a 2023 film loosely based on a bear that consumed cocaine in a forest in 1985 – the "Cocaine Sharks" show has piqued widespread interest before it even aired.
03:35 PM - Jul 24, 2023
I have been waiting and waiting for this to happen!
01:05 AM - Mar 10, 2023
Woke = Empathy + Courage
You either Have the Courage to NOT feel threatened by caring for other people that are different than you or you don't. The GOP & those like them, Don't Have that Courage & they mask their fear, hate & lack of courage as a bravado, which is very odd & pathetic.
You either Have the Courage to NOT feel threatened by caring for other people that are different than you or you don't. The GOP & those like them, Don't Have that Courage & they mask their fear, hate & lack of courage as a bravado, which is very odd & pathetic.
02:25 PM - Feb 03, 2023
Now that Dominion has shown everyone emails and evidence that FOX is not a news station simply a lying, political arm of the Republican Party, can we finally pull their channel from every army base in the country and abroad. Our soldiers deserve better than FOX
11:43 PM - Feb 17, 2023
Just paying attention ...
03:41 PM - Feb 18, 2023
Sounds about white
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Helen Highly @HelenHighlyWhite man shoots two cops and steals a police cruiser
Hours-long standoff ensues
Cops ask him to come out, but he doesn’t
Cops enter, and he resists
But there are no tasers, batons or bullets
And they bring David Emory Linthicum in without a scratch.12:13 PM - Feb 10, 2023
Cockeysville police shooting suspect in custody after eight-hour standoff, Harford County Sheriff’s Office says – Baltimore Sun
The 24-year-old who police say eluded capture twice and was sought in the shooting of a Baltimore County detective Thursday night in Cockeysville is in custody, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office said early Friday morning.
05:53 PM - Feb 18, 2023
♥️ Together we move forward
Northampton will “create a joint commission to investigate racial harms against Black residents and workers in Northampton, making a statement as part of a nationwide conversation on reparations in the country”
#Reparations
https://www.gazettenet.com/City-counc
Northampton will “create a joint commission to investigate racial harms against Black residents and workers in Northampton, making a statement as part of a nationwide conversation on reparations in the country”
#Reparations
https://www.gazettenet.com/City-counc
gazettenet.com
Northampton to create reparations commission to study racial harms, joining national conversation
NORTHAMPTON — The city is moving ahead with plans to create a joint commission to investigate racial harms against Black residents and workers in Northampton, making a statement as part of a nationwide conversation on reparations in the country.The...
10:06 AM - Feb 18, 2023
NEW: The Mississippi House's white GOP supermajority passed a bill removing power from Jackson's majority-Black elected judges and giving it to judges and prosecutors appointed by an all-white cast of state officials to oversee the capitol district.
Jackson's mayor compared it to "apartheid."
Jackson's mayor compared it to "apartheid."
05:52 PM - Feb 08, 2023
6 white cops raided a home, no warrant, accused two Black men of selling drugs and “dating white women”. They handcuffed,waterboarded, tortured, tasered them. Feds investigating https://newsone.com/4512716/mississippi-cops-beat-waterboarded-handcuffed-black-men-shot-1-for-datin...
09:43 PM - Feb 17, 2023
“That her cultural impact has been too outsize, too disruptive. In short, that she should be penalized for taking up too much rarefied space. Once again, it’s misogynoir—the intertwined anti-Blackness & misogyny that pathologizes & stigmatizes Black women.”
Punished for being too good at the job.
Punished for being too good at the job.
04:11 PM - Feb 18, 2023
"In 1938, 17 brass and copper heads and the upper half of a brass figure (dated to the 14th-15th century CE) were found by accident during house building works at Ife in Nigeria. The realism and sophisticated craftsmanship of the objects challenged Western conceptions of African art."
02:39 AM - Feb 13, 2023
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Toni Morrison wrote James Baldwin the most beautiful love letter. She read it at his funeral in 1987.
“Our crown,'' you said, ''has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do,'' you said, ''is wear it”
https://speakola.com/eulogy/for-james-baldwin-by-toni-morrison-1987 #Spoutible #books
“Our crown,'' you said, ''has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do,'' you said, ''is wear it”
https://speakola.com/eulogy/for-james-baldwin-by-toni-morrison-1987 #Spoutible #books
08:13 PM - Feb 14, 2023
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Their faces should haunt all of us. Peace to their families.
10:08 PM - Feb 14, 2023
Shane Lamond is a D.C. Metropolitan Police Dept Lieutenant. Prosecutors say he was passing inside information/intel to the Proud Boys before they attacked the Capitol on January 6th
https://apnews.com/article/biden-proud-boys-washington-law-enforcement-capitol-siege-07b606c578399a4...
https://apnews.com/article/biden-proud-boys-washington-law-enforcement-capitol-siege-07b606c578399a4...
10:37 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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The NAR is a massive & dangerously underreported Christian dominionist movement whose leaders work w/ Mike Flynn. I write about it often bc the national media won’t. https://buckscountybeacon.com/2022/08/underreported-and-massive-theocratic-movement-joins-forces-wit...
12:13 PM - Feb 15, 2023
Train derailment near Detroit: six cars came off the track, one was carrying hazardous materials. Run by NORFOLK SOUTHERN, same company whose train exploded with deadly chemicals in East Palestine, OH. In the last 5 years, federal inspectors flagged 36% more hazmat violations vs the 5 years before
02:13 PM - Feb 16, 2023
Only fitting that my 1st spout is the time I replied to radio host James O’Brien’s question “What have Harry & Meghan done wrong?” This article was my answer & my writing career was born.
Happy born daughter Spoutible! Thanks for inviting me to the party.
https://link.medium.com/Fmsbj4Bm4wb
Happy born daughter Spoutible! Thanks for inviting me to the party.
https://link.medium.com/Fmsbj4Bm4wb
12:43 PM - Feb 01, 2023
your reminder that Elon Musk is not an engineer, Donald Trump is not a successful businessman, and Fox News is not news
10:20 AM - Feb 17, 2023
well this is crappy.
It's really hard to stomach how abortion rights in this country have devolved so quickly. oy yoy yoy. if only people had listened a decade ago. 🤨
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-kentucky-state-government-health-6d8f6dcd42bf22b11c8712d6c896891...
It's really hard to stomach how abortion rights in this country have devolved so quickly. oy yoy yoy. if only people had listened a decade ago. 🤨
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-kentucky-state-government-health-6d8f6dcd42bf22b11c8712d6c896891...
10:27 AM - Feb 17, 2023
Rick Scott Finally Caves, Changes Plan To Sunset Medicare and Social Security.
The Florida senator says he didn’t really mean it, okay?
https://newrepublic.com/post/170651/rick-scott-finally-caves-changes-plan-sunset-medicare-social-sec... #Politics
The Florida senator says he didn’t really mean it, okay?
https://newrepublic.com/post/170651/rick-scott-finally-caves-changes-plan-sunset-medicare-social-sec... #Politics
10:43 AM - Feb 17, 2023
History of America's treatment of Black people
1619-1865: Enslavement
1865-1965: Jim Crow, Red lining, lynching, & no reparations
1965-2020: Mass incarceration, war on drugs, & still no reparations
2021-Now: What slavery? What systemic racism? It's a felony to read such books
#BlackHi
1619-1865: Enslavement
1865-1965: Jim Crow, Red lining, lynching, & no reparations
1965-2020: Mass incarceration, war on drugs, & still no reparations
2021-Now: What slavery? What systemic racism? It's a felony to read such books
#BlackHi
11:56 PM - Feb 08, 2023
American history is Black history
Source: “The Greenville News (Greenville, South Carolina) · 2 Oct 1918, Wed · Page 4” #BlackHistoryMonth #1619project #1619Hulu
Source: “The Greenville News (Greenville, South Carolina) · 2 Oct 1918, Wed · Page 4” #BlackHistoryMonth #1619project #1619Hulu
09:11 PM - Feb 02, 2023
The 1619 Project
DEMOCRACY
Page 33
"quota system intended to keep this country white. Because of Black Americans, Black and brown immigrants from across the globe are able to come to the United States and live in a country in which legal discrimination is no longer allowed."
DEMOCRACY
Page 33
"quota system intended to keep this country white. Because of Black Americans, Black and brown immigrants from across the globe are able to come to the United States and live in a country in which legal discrimination is no longer allowed."
11:51 AM - Feb 14, 2023
Every state can improve voting laws.
1. Ban voter challenges
2. Prevent long voting lines
3. Limit partisan poll watchers
4. Strengthen vote counting and certification
5. Require courts to protect voting rights
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/five-voting-laws-needed-to-protect-democr
1. Ban voter challenges
2. Prevent long voting lines
3. Limit partisan poll watchers
4. Strengthen vote counting and certification
5. Require courts to protect voting rights
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/five-voting-laws-needed-to-protect-democr
06:19 PM - Feb 12, 2023
BREAKING: Arizona court DISMISSES Republican lawsuit to limit work requirements for poll workers and force the hiring of more GOP poll workers. Another court victory for DSCC, azdemparty and the voters of Arizona. Another loss for the RNC.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-maricopa-c
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-maricopa-c
11:56 AM - Feb 13, 2023
My family owns farms. We're constantly bombarded with white developers' offers to buy our property. We haven't experienced the same attacks as the Black Colorado rancher.
At least not yet.
Here's a brief history video re: Black farmers & the fight to keep their land.
#BlackHistoryMonth
At least not yet.
Here's a brief history video re: Black farmers & the fight to keep their land.
#BlackHistoryMonth
The History of Black Farmers - YouTube
Well before formal legislation was passed, promising freed slaves certain land rights, Black farmers traveled west, exploring, and developing heavily foreste...
07:31 AM - Feb 14, 2023
Today's subject for my Substack Tuesday post is Spoutible and Christopher Bouzy. I also discuss my friendship with a writer I met on (yikes) Myspace and woes on Twitter.
02:14 PM - Feb 14, 2023
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What's incredible is that there are survivors of the #OxfordSchoolShooting who were re-traumatized in last night's #MSU shooting. #OnlyInAmerica #GunReformNow https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/14/michigan-state-shooting-trauma-former-oxford-h...
10:44 AM - Feb 14, 2023
