O estado de Israel não foi criado para a salvação dos judeus; ele foi criado para a salvação dos interesses ocidentais. - James Baldwin, 1979

So, under current law, the President can execute political opponents with no legal consequences, but cannot forgive student loans. Seems reasonable.

Extremely pumped with these two evidence briefs from the brilliant Tom Marois (co-published with @cplusc.bsky.social) on the critical role that public banks can- and should- play in addressing the 21st C's grand challenges. The future must be public- including the means of financing it

Evidence Brief: Public Banks 101 - Climate & Community Institute

Public banks of one type or another exist practically everywhere on earth. There too is nothing new about public banks. However, since the 2008-09 global financial …

Thanks to amazing advocacy by The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC), Health Canada now has a dedicated portal for abortion in Canada that includes information on where to access them. Incredible victory! 🎉

Good we’re not wanting to ramp up solar panel and computer chip production.

Nnpr.orgSep 30, 2024 7:51pm

Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.

A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt the tech industry

Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.

Britain was a country powered by coal. Now it’s the first G-7 nation to quit it. The coal age is over in the country that sparked the industrial revolution 200 years ago.

U.K., home of the industrial revolution, shuts its last coal-fired power plant

Britain was a country powered by coal. Now it’s the first G-7 nation to quit it. In a matter of hours, the boilers at the Ratcliffe plant will cool to the touch.

It’s done. This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain. HT National Grid ESO

hideous new levels of total war: Russia purposefully poisoned river that feeds into Kyiv water supply. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

‘Everything is dead’: Ukraine rushes to stem ecocide after river poisoning

Russia is suspected of deliberately leaking chemical waste into a river, with deadly consequences for wildlife

um ... yes. good new word.

Is the press ‘sanewashing’ Trump?

There’s a hot new term doing the rounds among media critics: “sanewashing.” The term itself actually isn’t new, and it wasn’t born in media-criticism circles, per se; according to Urban Dictionary, it...

and now we're at this stage.

Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech

Maura Finkelstein was terminated from Muhlenberg College following a pressure campaign that seized on an anti-Zionist Instagram repost.