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fluxed, 11 days ago to random

"Trump’s attorney, David Warrington, sent ProPublica a cease-and-desist letter demanding this article not be published. The letter warned that if the outlet and its reporters 'continue their reckless campaign of defamation, President Trump will evaluate all legal remedies.'"

#Trump #convictions #election2024

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits

fluxed, 28 days ago to random

"Minnesota is poised to prohibit #bookbans in #schools and public #libraries... The law establishes... a 'Library Bill of Rights' and states that libraries cannot restrict access to material 'because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.'"

(gift link)

https://strib.gift/2b0kbobsj

#firstamendment #censorship #librarians

fluxed, 1 month ago to photography

#photography #windowfriday #fensterfreitag #monochrome #minneapolis

https://www.instagram.com/input.translation/

fluxed, 2 months ago to Idaho

An #Idaho lawsuit before the #SupremeCourt is challenging #EMTALA, the federal law requiring #hospitals to do "whatever they can to stabilize whoever comes through their ER doors with a medical emergency."

This has profound implications for #abortion care, and for this week's Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick interviewed Dr. Dara Kass, an ER physician, about what's at stake.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/id928790786?i=1000652290865

#choice #prochoice #healthcare

fluxed, 2 months ago to Pubtips

Ten Minnesota #newspapers, some in operation for more than 140 years, are ceasing publication in April.

All are owned by Alden Global Capital, which has been accused of "vulture" #capitalism by "taking over legacy newspapers and making drastic cuts, reducing #publishing frequency and slashing #newsroom jobs in an effort to boost profit margins."

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/ten-minnesota-newspapers-owned-by-vulture-fund-to-cease-publication

#journalism #hedgefund #media

fluxed, 2 months ago to random

A new study finds that popular weight loss drug #Ozempic "could be profitably produced for less than $5 a month, even as maker Novo Nordisk A/S charges almost $1,000 in the US..."

The company's combined 2023 sales of Ozempic and related product Wegovy topped $18 billion.

#bigpharma #medicare #obesity #pharma

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/03/28/ozempic-maker-novo-nordisk-facing-pressure-as-study-finds-1000-appetite-suppressant-can-be-made-for-just-5/

fluxed, 3 months ago to science

"Last spring, #scientists learned of plans to scale back a government database that’s widely used in #pesticide research. Now, following months of advocacy, USGS appears set to restore the beloved public resource, slowing what some experts see as an ongoing erosion of public access to #environmental data."

#science #publichealth #pesticides #ecology

https://undark.org/2024/02/29/usgs-pesticide-database/

fluxed, 3 months ago to random

A great piece from @brianklaas - categories, models, and cognitive traps.

"We... experience the world in simplified snapshots, crammed into generalized, abstracted categories captured by language and represented by symbols.

It helps us survive, navigating an infinitely complex world. But now, we... have gone too far in the other direction—paying too much attention to the forest and forgetting that every tree matters..."

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/funes-the-memorious-and-the-useful

fluxed, 3 months ago to ethelcain

Fallout from the Alabama supreme court decision...

"The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system has paused in vitro fertilization procedures following an #Alabama Supreme Court decision due to fear of criminal prosecution and lawsuits, a spokeswoman said."

#IVF #abortion #reproductiverights

https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/uab-pauses-in-vitro-fertilization-due-to-fear-of-prosecution-officials-say.html

fluxed, 3 months ago to art

"The bill would remove criminal exemptions for #schools, public #libraries, and #museums that distribute or display 'obscene matter' to a minor...

The incredibly short piece of legislation gives no indication of how the new rules would affect paintings or sculptures that feature nude figures, or books that include descriptions or definitions of sexual conduct."

#librarians #bookbans #art #firstamendment #republicans #westvirginia

https://newrepublic.com/post/179132/west-virginia-republicans-house-bill-librarians-jail

fluxed, 4 months ago to conspiracy

"For every 1,000 cases of #measles, about 200 children may be hospitalized, 50 may get pneumonia, one child may develop brain swelling along with deafness or disability, and between one and three may die.

Despite the availability of an incredibly effective #vaccine, the #disease is spreading worldwide.

Last month, the World Health Organization announced an 'alarming' 45-fold increase in measles in Europe from 2022 to 2023."

#vaccines #healthcare #antivax #conspiracy

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-outbreaks-anti-vaccine-misinformation-rcna136994

fluxed, 4 months ago to Energy

United States <> China

From:

https://ember-climate.org/data/data-tools/data-explorer/

#energy #climate #fossilfuels #LNG #coal #solarenergy #nuclearenergy #hydropower

A similar chart for China which is remarkable for the steep slope of energy usage/production from 2000 to today. Coal is by far the largest constituent, with a healthy dose of hydro in the green sector.

fluxed, 4 months ago to Duluth

Pro-Trump, election-denying #Republican Rep. Pete Stauber took credit for an #infrastructure boost - replacement of a huge bridge between #Duluth, MN & Superior, WI - only to be reminded by Pete #Buttigieg that he, Stauber, had voted "no" on #Biden's infrastructure bill:

https://www.alternet.org/buttigieg-republican-infrastructure/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=AlterNetMedia%2Fmagazine%2FTOP+STORIES

fluxed, 4 months ago to random

From 2015, to today...

Is there one woman here (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RIP) who would, in good conscience, pose for a photo with Elise Stefanik in 2024?

Stefanik's public promotion of Donald #Trump, a known rapist, makes her proximity to #RBG in this photo all the more obscene and revolting.

#metoo #womensrights #EliseStefanik #ruthbaderginsburg #SCOTUS

fluxed, 4 months ago to Health

"Plasticizers—the most common of which are called #phthalates—show up inside almost all of us, right along with other #chemicals found in #plastic, including #bisphenols such as #BPA. These have been linked to a long list of #health concerns, even at very low levels...

In our new tests, we checked a wider variety of foods to see how much of the chemicals Americans actually consume. The answer? Quite a lot."

#packaging #ForeverChemicals #PFAS #plastics #foodsafety #food

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the-plastic-chemicals-hiding-in-your-food-a7358224781/

fluxed, 5 months ago to random

New York Times columnist Tom Wicker (who had been on Richard #Nixon's secret list of political opponents in the early '70s) wrote in 1989 about what an overturn of Roe v. Wade would mean for #Republicans who see it to fruition, and the support that would accrue to #Democrats who stand up for #reproductiverights.

We may find out this fall if Wicker's prediction vis-a-vis #abortion was correct.

#roevwade #SCOTUS

fluxed, 7 months ago to newyorkcity

"Montreal... will no longer allow gas in new buildings of up to three storeys as of Oct. 2024, and ban the #fossilfuel as of Apr. 2025 in larger new builds. The ban will include gas-based heating & hot water systems... [and] barbecues & stoves...

#NewYorkCity is leading the way in America by eliminating #gas hookups and gas use in new development citywide... With a population of over eight million... a milestone in the #energy transition."

#ClimateChange

(H/T @Graems)

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/10/27/news/montreal-joins-growing-wave-cities-banning-natural-gas

fluxed, 7 months ago to rangers

#Diamondbacks or #Rangers?

"When it comes to supporting the #LGBTQ community in #baseball... it’s one of the biggest mismatches in history...

The Rangers are the only team in baseball that still doesn’t host a #Pride Night.

The general consensus is that many people who work with the Rangers want to host a Pride Night, but someone very powerful in ownership is dead set against it."

#WorldSeries #MLB

https://www.outsports.com/2023/10/26/23933545/world-series-preview-arizona-diamondbacks-texas-rangers-gay-pride-torey-lovullo-billy-bean

fluxed, 7 months ago to Health

"More than 170,000 smaller [2-10 passenger] #planes, known as piston-engine aircraft, still use leaded #gasoline...

'Exposure to #lead can cause irreversible and lifelong #health effects in #children... Aircraft that use leaded fuel are the dominant source of lead #emissions in our air.'"

#airpollution #healthcare #EPA #transit #aviation

https://wapo.st/3QjSRuN

fluxed, 8 months ago to anime_titties

"Dengue fever will become a major threat in the southern United States, southern Europe and new parts of Africa this decade, the WHO's chief scientist said...as warmer temps create the conditions for the #mosquitoes carrying the infection to spread...

Rates of the #disease have already risen eight-fold globally since 2000, driven largely by #climatechange as well as increased [#migration] of people and #urbanization."

#publichealth #climate #globalwarming

(HT @WWBugs)

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/dengue-will-take-off-southern-europe-us-africa-this-decade-who-scientist-says-2023-10-06/

TexasObserver, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to news

For the first time under President Joe #Biden, officials are using authority established under former President Donald #Trump to waive dozens of laws in order to continue construction on the racist southern #border wall.

From our friends at Truthout:
https://www.texasobserver.org/biden-border-wall-expansion/

(Edit: Lots of context, and discussion worth considering in the comments.)
#immigration #news #Mexico #BorderWall #politics #USpol #law

clive, 8 months ago to random

I was just thinking about how hilarious it was that in the original superman comics he was a reporter for a newspaper

That really dates things, doesn’t it?

It’s been so long since I read the comic that I’m wondering …

Did he ever … write anything? Did the comic, with any frequency, describe stories he’d filed, the reception of them … the execution of his job, as it were?

there have got to be Superman experts on Mastodon who know the answer to this question 😂

fluxed, 8 months ago to journalism

@markjacob:

"Politics isn’t a frivolous sport, despite the way mainstream #media often treat it. Politics is whether poor kids in your town get dinner. Politics is whether your former English teacher has to ration her insulin. #Politics is whether your mom is shot at the grocery store because society encourages ownership of #assaultweapons."

#journalism #propaganda #democracy #voting

https://couriernewsroom.com/news/6-toxic-attitudes-that-could-kill-democracy/

fluxed, 8 months ago to random

@brianklaas looks at the "Lead-Crime Hypothesis" - that the toxic effects of leaded #gasoline might explain big spikes in #crime.

Interesting - and it also merits the inclusion of a #fossilfuels hashtag, because it's yet more evidence that fossil fuels have much to answer for.

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/did-leaded-gasoline-cause-a-huge

fluxed, 8 months ago to Unions

#Republican Nikki Haley:

“'I will continue to be a union-buster, because every time you see me on national TV busting the #unions, another CEO calls,' she said while serving as governor. 'It just works.'

'If you come to South Carolina, the cost of doing business is going to be low here... We are going to make sure that you have a loyal, willing workforce, and we are going to continue to be one of the lowest union-participation states in the country.'”

#labor #strikes

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/nikki-haley-unions-gop-2024/