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• Post #4386330

  #ICE #antifa #Prairieland #DOJ #Texas #zines "How Anti-ICE Protesters Became Prisoners in Trump’s War on Antifa 'We are not terrorists.' The Prairieland case became the Justice Department’s proving ground for its new war on antifa, and the defendants were soon indicted on federal terrorism and conspiracy charges punishable by decades in prison. Prosecutors spun up an elaborate tale of a Texas 'Antifa Cell' engaged in a campaign of terror—one in which the fireworks demonst...

• Post #4386217

  #ClimateCrisis #volcanoes #Iceland "Keeping an Eye on Iceland: Volcanoes and Climate Change In fact, the Arctic is warming nearly four times as fast as the rest of the world.5) This phenomenon is known as Arctic Amplification, which can be calculated across different regions of the Arctic from weather stations around the globe. In particular, the Arctic Amplification for Iceland shows that warming is twice as fast as the rest of the world, compared to other Arctic regions like northern Si...

• Post #4372614

  #extinction #Australia #BirdFlu #SeaLions "Bird Flu at Seal Bay Threatens Australian Sea Lions With Extinction-Level Breeding Failure H5N1 terns confirmed at Kangaroo Island colony; same seal-to-seal pathway killed 95% in Argentina Five infected terns found at Kangaroo Island's Seal Bay — home to roughly 5% of the global population of a species found nowhere else on Earth — have pushed Australia's endangered Australian sea lion to the edge of a catastrophe that wildlife scienti...

• Post #4335830

  #ClimateCrisis "Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years, compared with just under 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015. The acceleration, which becomes visible around 2013 to 2015, appeared across five major global temperature datasets with mo...

• Post #4308167

  #JimCrow #ScottsboroBoys #Yiddish #history "A Yiddish theater troupe condemned U.S. racism — then the Nazis came The 1935 Yiddish play ‘Mississippi,’ inspired by the Scottsboro Boys, is available to English readers for the first time. In 1935, the experimental theater group Yung Teatr invited audiences in Warsaw to a new play that was virtually all in Yiddish but wasn’t about Europe or Jews. It was a modified retelling of the plight of the Scottsboro Boys, nine Black teenagers who were f...

• Post #3898320

  #ClimateCrisis #Canada #GOP "Republicans Want to Punish Canada for “Exporting” Its Wildfire Smoke Into the US The Republicans make no mention of experts’ warnings that the climate crisis is supercharging the wildfires. Republican members of Congress are introducing legislation to impose sanctions on Canada over the fact that the smoke from wildfires has spread to the U.S. — an absurd effort to blame Canadian officials for the spread of the smoke without acknowledging the role of the clim...

• Post #3897517

  #neuroscience #memory "Targeted magnetic stimulation of the brain shows promise for memory improvement A recent meta-analysis published in the journal eLife provides evidence that applying noninvasive magnetic stimulation to a specific brain network selectively enhances a person’s ability to remember past experiences. The findings suggest that targeting this brain circuit improves event-based memory without altering other cognitive skills. This provides a promising foundation for developi...

• Post #3846132

  Quote of the day. “Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.” -- Albert Parsons

• Post #3793860

  #TrumpRegime #Gleichschaltung "The harrowing German concept that Donald Trump has not yet managed to achieve Hitler managed to enact ‘Gleichschaltung’ in two months; the U.S. isn’t quite there. Since the start of his second term, Donald Trump has been following a despot’s playbook. Trump himself has all but acknowledged this, by gleefully sharing with New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for their new book a 'historian’s' assessment that Trump has more power...

• Post #3793828

  #antifa "The plot to ruin America Nothing encapsulates the decline of the American project quite like the optics of its 250th anniversary. While four hundred masked neo-fascists marched through the capitol in navy-blue button-downs and khakis chanting “Reclaim America!”—entirely unchallenged either by police or antifascists—the official Independence Day parade was canceled because of extreme heat. It’s a disturbing vignette for our era. The country is turning far to the right and becoming...

• Post #3771639

  Posting a paywalled link and no workaround is like posting a picture without an alt text. It’s exclusionary behavior. Is that the sort of thing we really want to promote on the #Fediverse?

• Post #3771478

  #ClimateCrisis #DavidSuzuki "Suzuki: As the world burns, the powerful deny and delay 'Why do we stay on this destructive path, which leads to more pollution, extreme weather events, water shortages, health crises and wealth inequality?' We could be happier, healthier and more economically secure—if we were to act on the knowledge that many of our problems are related. For example, addressing the climate crisis will also help resolve issues around pollution, health and economic di...

• Post #3769662

  #SFEastBay #anarchism "Anarchist-Utopian Manifesto for the SF East Bay Bioregion A proposal for direct democracy, economic equality, and ecological restoration organized through local watersheds. (. . .) In *The Ohlone Way the East Bay Bioregion* - before the arrival of colonialism and capitalism - is described as a landscape of remarkable abundance: salmon-bearing streams, vast wetlands, oak woodlands, grasslands, and thriving human communities. The East Bay once demonstrated that huma...

• Post #3769621

  Quote of the day. "God is indeed a jealous God — He cannot bear to see That we had rather not with Him But with each other play." -- Emily Dickinson

• Post #3769361

  #ClimateCrisis #Africa #Gambia "In Gambia, Salt Water Intrusion Is the Leading Edge of Climate Change Salt water from the Atlantic Ocean used to stop 150 kilometers from the mouth of The Gambia River. But now, with sea level rise, it intrudes 300 kilometers or more, triggering an agricultural crisis. In this little village in West Africa, Ebrima Nyan is watching his farmland slowly wither away. When Nyan, 47, was a teenager, the village grew all the rice it consumed, in a field alongside...

• Post #3769127

  #AI "AI giants learn what everyone else on the modern internet already knows Here's some delicious AI irony for you. For years, tech giants have argued that if information is available on the internet, it can be used for AI model development and outputs. They call it fair use. Content owners have tried to prevent this, with no success. Now Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are discovering what the rest of the internet has already learned through painful experience: once you put somethin...

• Post #3611825

  #ClimateChange #Bangladesh "Climate change loss in Bangladesh Bangladesh is widely considered one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. Its low lying deltaic geography, high population density, and heavy dependence on natural resources make it exceptionally exposed to climate related risks. Rising sea levels, erratic rainfall, floods, cyclones, and increasing temperatures are no longer future threats but present realities, already affecting millions of people and causing...

• Post #3591199

  #ChristianNationalists "'Truth Is On Our Side': Alex McFarland Spreads False Christian Nationalist History As Right Wing Watch has noted multiple times in the past, one of the defining characteristics of Christian nationalist activists is a willingness to misrepresent history, as time after time they spread debunked myths and blatant falsehoods in defense of their right-wing ideology. This tendency was put on display by right-wing anti-LGBTQ Christian apologist Alex McFarland dur...

• Post #1942616

  #antifa "Great Antifa Hoax Yes, it exists. It’s not really a threat to anyone except neo-Nazis—but that’s all the excuse the Trump administration needs to turn the machinery of federal law enforcement loose on anyone with 'dangerous' ideas. (. . .) Daniel Sanchez Estrada, a green-card holder, was not even present at the protest. The government charged him with transporting 'a box that contained numerous antifa materials.' In fact, he simply moved a bo...

• Post #1942615

  #antifa #Australia #ACAB "Police raid Canberra bar over anti-fascism posters, threaten another raid A bar in the centre of Canberra was raided by police on Wednesday evening. Officers took away posters depicting Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Elon Musk and other right-wing politicians dressed in Nazi uniforms complete with symbols, including swastikas. The Dissent Cafe and Bar was closed and designated a crime scene. Its owner, David Howe, said the posters were purely satirical a...

• Post #1892803

  #TrumpRegime #Qanon "Trump elevates QAnon conspiracy theory in late-night Truth Social post President Donald Trump posts reminder of the claim that the ‘shadowy cabal that runs the world’ will be overthrown. President Donald Trump has posted a link on Truth Social directing his followers to a meme invoking a long-running QAnon conspiracy theory. The president posted the URL late Wednesday linking to an AI image of himself surrounded by crackling lightning and the slogans 'Th...

• Post #1754615

  #ICE #Portland #LessThanLethal #ACAB "Federal appeals court grants unrestricted use of crowd control weapons at Portland ICE building The court’s ruling eliminates restrictions imposed by two federal judges in Oregon that strictly limited when federal officers could use tear gas on crowds outside the facility. In a win for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that officers can use crowd control weapons outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility...

• Post #1501779

  "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." -- Ursula K. Le Guin

• Post #1482283

  #ClimateCrisis "Moderate global warming does not rule out extreme global climate outcomes Abstract Effectively communicating worst-case projections of global future climate—hereinafter referred to as worst-case climate outcomes—is essential for risk assessment and developing robust adaptation strategies to global warming. Yet, current approaches for identifying spatially consistent climate outcomes are limited, with worst-case global climates typically communicated via the average of...

• Post #1396884

  Quote of the day. "Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism, or socialism, means the reorganization of society upon scientific principles and the abolition of causes which produce vice and crime. Capitalism first produces these social diseases and then seeks to cure them by punishment." -- August Spies

• Post #1377023

  #coup "The five ways Trump could attempt a coup, by fascism expert Timothy Snyder Despite the debacle in Iran, a president at war has several pressure points at his disposal to postpone, restrict and ultimately cancel democracy, writes the historian. The United States is seven months away from the most consequential midterm elections in its history. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump, together with Israel, has started a war against Iran. These are the ideal conditions for a head of...

• Post #970264

  #OccupiedPalestine #Stanford "Defense attorneys for five Stanford pro-Palestinian protesters are trying to force the district attorney and his entire staff off the case by focusing on what they describe as the DA’s false charges of antisemitism against their clients. 'DA Rosen harbors an unwarranted and baseless view that these defendants are not only antisemitic, but they are also anti-American,' deputy public defender Avanindar Singh argued in a Feb. 25 motion to dis...

• Post #944079

  #fascists #sociology "Why Fascists Hate Sociology The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power. Fascists hate sociology, and not without cause: Some of the discipline’s most basic lessons can impede the authoritarian control fascists aim to exert over the state, the economy and society as a whole. The extent to which the architects of fascism consciously grasp sociology’s threat isn’t clear, nor is it clear how much it matters. Even if Florida’s (t...

• Post #867281

  #Iran #landmines "Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years The land mines were photographed outside Shiraz, a city located about three miles from one of several nearby Iranian ballistic missile sites. Images posted to social media Thursday show what experts said are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran, in what appears to be the first instance in more than two decades of American forces using the weapons. The ph...

• Post #572747

  #SunRa "Sun Ra’s Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley Course, 'The Black Man in the Cosmos' A pioneer of 'Afrofuturism', bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band. While attending Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, he had an out-of-body experience during which he was transported into outer space. As...