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That last comment isn't even a joke they are literally part of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors group.
Reblog and put in the tags the worst movie you've ever seen (that isn't part of a currently mainstream franchise, like Star Wars or the MCU).
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Exorcists appealed for more aid from psychologists to help them sift between the "possessed" and the mentally ill.
In one month, the Supreme Court:
Denied death row inmates the right to present evidence of their innocence in federal court after their wrongful conviction in state court,
Gutted Miranda rights,
Ended regulations on the open carry of firearms,
Overturned Roe v. Wade,
Allowed public school employees to coerce prayer by students,
Decimated tribal sovereignty, and
Ended federal regulation of greenhouse gases.
And congress jumped into action right away! In response to the American peoples frustration and anger with the court, Congress was lightning fast to...
Confirm and assign 24/7 security for all Justices and their families. Because, obviously, it's the poor oppressive judges who need protection right now.
This new EPA ruling is bigger than you think. And it’s going to harm you on every level.
This decision is SHOCKING in its breadth. It guts environmental protection (basically ruling that the EPA cannot issue regulation on *anything* that it does not have explicit statuatory authority on) but does much more.
By elevating/codifying the "major questions" doctrine, the decision makes it nearly impossible for agencies to regulate with any confidence, from the EPA to the CDC to OSHA. And it throws basically every regulatory decision of the last several decades open to challenge.
Private industry is about to have a fucking feeding frenzy.
TLDR: In short if the EPA finds that a chemical that is getting dumped into the water gives you cancer they can't regulate it. They need congress to pass a law to ban it. IE people get to die so corporations can do whatever they want. They need to ban it one. Chemical. At. A. Time.
This is a disaster for you, your health, the climate, and the entire ecology of the the United States.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1103595898/supreme-court-epa-climate-change
6/30/2022
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emis
"By a vote of 6 to 3, the court said that any time an agency does something big and new – in this case addressing climate change – the regulation is presumptively invalid, unless Congress has specifically authorized regulating in this sphere."
Insane.
The silence on social media is alarming — we should be very scared and very, very angry.
It’s not just your right to an abortion that’s being attacked by this Court. It’s all sorts of critical human rights.
Yeah, it’s time for them to go
This is a blatant act of violent colonialism that undos decades of legal precedent that protected the civil rights of Native Americans. This is an unspeakable and deeply violent tragedy.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-expands-state-power-over-tribes-win-oklahoma-2022-06-29/
A federal badge will now serve as an impenetrable shield against civil liability.
Reports that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn one of its major precedents recently gripped much of the country. Today, the high court effectively did just that.
Except it wasn’t Roe v. Wade—the case that established a constitutional right to an abortion—that the justices declared null. It was a different early-1970s precedent with far-reaching implications for anyone who has their rights violated by federal government agents.
Going forward, such victims will essentially have no recourse against those rogue actors. A federal badge will now serve as an impenetrable shield against civil liability for violating the same laws agents are charged with upholding.
You’d be forgiven for having never heard of it, as these cases tend to cruise under the radar. But you’d really be forgiven this time, seeing as the Supreme Court partially opted to dismantle Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics—its 1971 decision that allowed a man to sue federal officers who searched his home without a warrant and then strip-searched him at a courthouse—not by hearing a case and deciding on the merits but by refusing to do that.
The justices announced today—exactly 51 years after the Court handed down Bivens—that they would decline to consider two major petitions. In the first, St. Paul Police Department Officer Heather Weyker, who was serving on a federal task force, conjured a fake sex-trafficking ring and jailed a teenage girl for two years on trumped-up charges. In the second, Department of Homeland Security Agent Ray Lamb allegedly tried to kill a man who had a personal beef with Lamb’s son; video appears to show Lamb attempting to pull the trigger of his gun, though it jammed.
Federal courts in both cases agreed with what may sound intuitive: Both Weyker and Lamb violated clearly established law. They are thus not protected by qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that can make it difficult to sue local and state actors when they violate the Constitution. But because they were working for the federal government, they are protected by absolute immunity, the courts said, and their victims—Hamdi Mohamud and Kevin Byrd, respectively—may not sue them for disgracing their positions.
“Today, on the 51st anniversary of Bivens, the Supreme Court overturned Bivens,” says Anya Bidwell, an attorney at the Institute for Justice, the public interest law firm representing both Mohamud and Byrd. “They are not explicitly saying it, but they are effectively doing it.”
The explicit part of that puzzle came two weeks back when the high court ruled that a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer—who allegedly assaulted the owner of a bed and breakfast and then sent the IRS after him for lodging a complaint—cannot be sued for violating the First and Fourth Amendments. This overturned a lower court decision that came to the opposite conclusion and etched in stone that immigration agents are, in some sense, above the law.
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Lying scumbags. All of them. Blatantly.
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This needed to be fact-checked.
Clarence Thomas was not appointed by a president who lost the popular vote. He was appointed by H. W. Bush, not W. Bush. H. W. Bush won the popular vote at 53%.
Something this egregiously wrong makes me worry about the rest of it. I suspect the confusion stems from the fact that John Roberts was appointed by W. Bush, who did lose the popular vote, but John Roberts is not one of the 5 name-checked here; he did in fact concur on the judgement itself but not on the larger issue of overturning Roe. So yes, five justices who voted yes on the judgement were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote, but they are not the same five as the ones who voted to overturn Roe completely.
I keep seeing the idea that the Supreme Court is un-impeachable and it’s NOT TRUE. Supreme court justices can be impeached, and have. Samuel Chase was impeached in 1809. Abe Fortas resigned rather than be impeached in 1969. Fourteen other federal judges (also lifetime appointments) have also been impeached.
And there is grounds for impeachment for several of them. Lying to the Senate during your confirmation hearing is Federal Perjury. They have comitted public crimes.
Call your congresspeople. Let them know you want these criminals removed from their authority. They are not untouchable.
Contacting Congress
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I quick reblogged this while I was on a work call, but now that I’m off...
You need to bring up specifics. Ask your congress people for specific actions.
So we need to:
Impeach Justice Thomas for the many times he failed to recuse himself (including this one) when he had financial motivation to vote in a specific manner AND for his wife’s role in January 6 and his leveraging of his position for her benefit.
Impeach Justice Kavannaugh for his misleading words to the Senate during his confirmation hearings regarding his stance on Roe v Wade.
Impeach Justice Gorsugh for his misleading words to the Senate during his confirmation hearings regarding his stance on Roe v Wade.
Focus on Thomas because he has the most evidence and most compelling case.
Example script:
I am __ and I am a constituent of ___. I am calling concerning what I believe to be gross misconduct and “Bad Behavior” from (a) member(s) of the Supreme Court. It has come to my attention that Justice Thomas received financial incentive that may have informed his vote in the recent case that overturned Roe v. Wade and others. I think his conduct requires congressional review an I think it is right for ___ call for his impeachment. Furthermore, I have heard various Senators express they were mislead and lied to by Justices Kavannaugh and Gorsuch during their confirmation hearings. I believe this to be “Bad Behavior” worthy of impeachment and congressional review as well. Thank you.
“Bad behavior” is important because it is the language used in the Constitution.
Be specific and pass it on!
don't just reblog this post and call it a day. it took me about five minutes to copy the text above and edit it to add my name and location, and then send that in to my senators and my representative. they have easy to locate online forms in order to contact them, easily found at the links above.
contact them. call for impeachment. then there's always this comment as well
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(TW:R4p3) How do you deal with thinking about the terrible things the gods did? Like the rape of europa?
Short answer: I don’t deal with it or think about it because the gods didn’t actually do any of those things.
I’ve already discussed mythology and how people continue to misunderstand it’s function, purpose, and role within Hellenic Polytheism and also Ancient Greece. So here are some links to better help you understand what I mean:
Explaining Mythology
Understanding the Gods Outside of Mythology
More Explaining Mythology
Robert Garland on Mythology
And you can find a lot more searching through the following tags: #mythology #thoughts on mythology #zeusdeity #zeus #zeus deity
Also under one of those links is a link to a podcast episode I did specifically about Zeus and his mythology.
So hopefully that helps! 👍🏻
Heres your reminder to use literally anything but chrome
And here's your reminder that Firefox actively works to protect your privacy and prevent tracking.
Firefox also has “Facebook fence” which is used to contain Facebook into isolated tabs that prevent tracking as you browse, since so many sites have social media plugins/ads that help collect data for Facebook and other apps.
You can tell Firefox to fence in Facebook in the browser preferences. Also a good time to change your search engine to DuckDuckGo and leave Google search behind (or only use it with another browser that’s separate from daily use).
The EFF (OP of the tweet) has various types of privacy tools that they’ve created. Some are browser plugins. I recommend going to their site to learn more about internet privacy and advocacy (and donating a few bucks if you can spare it). https://www.eff.org/pages/tools
EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and mor
Ugh, okay, so - yes, use Firefox, of course.
But this is implying that Google’s “controversial new ad targeting tech” is worse than what came before, when it ... just isn’t. By pretty much any measure, it’s an improvement.
The ecosystem for online targeted advertising has developed to target individual IDs. Historically, advertisers have relied on “third-party cookies”, which are little bits of code, to track users around the internet and target them as individuals. These cookies contain or can be linked back to PII (personally identifying) data, which is why they have been deemed to infringe on consumers’ privacy: in order for an advertiser to target you, fragments your personal information would have been shared between hundreds of parties in a matter of seconds.
Now, third-party cookies are going away. Google made certain of that by promising to remove them from Chrome by 2023. There are selfish reasons for this - removing cookies will increase advertisers’ reliance on walled gardens, such as the Google ad network - but nonetheless, most would agree this is a step in the right direction. It means that the heydey of unrestricted sharing of consumer data in the name of targeted advertising is ending: there will still be targeted advertising and sharing of data, but with a lot more restrictions. Now, the ad industry is scrambling to figure out how we still do targeted advertising in a world without an unlimited pool of third-party data to draw from (and yes, it would be nice if we could live in a world without targeted advertising at all, but unfortunately it is still very much the basis for the entire ad-funded internet).
So, what is this “controversial new ad targeting tech” that Google is testing? Well, firstly, this article looks to be a year old, in which time Google have actually made changes in response to criticism to make their solution more privacy-safe. The current solution is called Topics, but in 2021 when the article came out, it was called FLoC, which stands for Federated Learning of Cohorts.
The underlying idea is: instead of sharing consumers’ individual data and targeting them as individuals - get an algo to find patterns in consumers’ online behaviour, group them into cohorts with similar characteristics, share the classification logic that describes these cohorts instead of sharing data, and target them at the cohort-level, not the individual-level. So this means that, in theory, Google is no longer targeting you as an individual as per the old cookie-based method, and is not sharing your personal data around. Instead it’s assigning users into groups or cohorts based on their behaviours - like, i dunno, “travel enthusiasts” or something - and giving advertisers the ability to target those groups. But crucially, without exchanging any personal identifiers about consumers.
And look, obviously it would be nice if advertising didn’t exist at all, and no-one likes the thought that Google is modelling your behaviour and classifying you into groups... but like. If you use Chrome or other Google products then Google has all this data about you anyway. The amount of data Google has about you hasn’t changed... this way they are just sharing less of that data with other parties.
I’m not some big Google stan or anything, but the original post is just scaremongering and totally lacking in context. FLoC/Topics isn’t a perfect solution by any means - nor will it be the only solution for cookieless advertising - but it’s a small step forward.
But yeah use Firefox obv.
Scientists chained themselves to the White House fence, blocked bridges and occupied buildings. Dozens were arrested.
"... “I’m taking action because I feel desperate,” said U.S. climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who along with several others locked himself to the front door of a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles. A recent report found that the financial giant is the biggest private funder of oil and gas initiatives in the world.
“It’s the 11th hour in terms of Earth breakdown, and I feel terrified for my kids, and terrified for humanity,” Kalmus continued. “World leaders are still expanding the fossil fuel industry as fast as they can, but this is insane. The science clearly indicates that everything we hold dear is at risk, including even civilization itself and the wonderful, beautiful, cosmically precious life on this planet. I actually don’t get how any scientist who understands this could possibly stay on the sidelines at this point.” ..."
Corporate media will not cover the climate crisis.
More media outlets are starting to cover this:
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/climate-scientists-are-desperate-were-crying-begging-and-getting-arrested
Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-risk-arrest-in-global-climate-protests-2022-4
Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/uk-police-arrest-83-climate-activists-blockade-oil-terminals-2022-04-02/
Bloomburg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-03/more-than-200-arrests-made-at-climate-change-protests
These are just a few examples all to say it's not hopeless. They are getting some attention!
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Reading the article, the observers of the phenomenon pointed out that an almond tree fertilized by a peach tree produced fruit that was edible, but a peach tree fertilized by an almond tree produced fruit that was inedible.
That sounds kind of like the difference between a hinny (father is a horse, mother is a donkey) and a mule (father is a donkey, mother is a horse). Mules tend to inherit the donkey’s head and the horse’s limbs, so they’re usually a little bigger and stronger than hinnies…which is why everyone talked about using mules for transporting goods, etc, yet rarely talked about using hinnies in the past for labor / transport.
Writers, in your created worlds with your created beasts, what sorts of hybrids might exist in your domesticated animal populations, and if so, for what tasks might they be used? Same for cultivated crops, are there hybrids, and if so, are they edible or useful, or inedible / awful in some way?