Please share if possible to raise awareness. Sorry if this is off topic.
There is currently extremely deadly flooding in West Africa.
This is in part due to climate change messing up the balance of the dry and rainy seasons.
The floods have a ripple effect and are also causing landslides and other disasters.
People have died, and will continue to do so.
Here are some news Articles:
The Guardian
RFI
The Sun Nigeria
PM News Nigeria
Here are some charities you can donate to to help:
Nigeria: The Borgen Project
Ghana: NADMO
CĂ´te d'ivoire: Disaster Relief
Togo and Benin are also severely affected. Please consider donating if youâre able or helping spread the word.
I have a slightly longer post on my blog that I'll be updating if anyone needs more information.
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This Fourth of July, I ask that you support Native Hawaiian independence.
The Kingdom of Hawaiâi was illegally overthrown with the help of American businessmen and we have suffered under the iron grip of America.
Our land is simply seen as a vacation spot, my people are simply seen as tour guides and hula dancers. We have had our culture, our history, and our people turned into a commercialized joke by America.
The rampant tourism kills our islands with endless hotels, attractions and overcrowding. The housing and living costs are out of control because of the false âparadiseâ narrative. The Navy poisons our water and destroys our land. Covid has killed so many of my people due to the reckless and selfish nature of tourists. I have lost loved ones to this virus, because tourists âcouldnât stay awayâ.
My people have suffered. I have suffered.
We are more than your vacation. We are more than an aesthetic.
We are a sovereign nation illegally occupied by the United States of America.
Restore Hawaiâi to Hawaiians. End the American Occupation.
See the links below to learn more and to read up on your Hawaiian history.
Americans overthrow Hawaiian monarchy | HISTORY
Hawaiian scholar Dr. Jonathan Kay KamakawiwoĘťole Osorio explains the movement asking the United States to return the lands taken during a 18
âÄina Momona is a Native Hawaiian led community organization dedicated to environmental sustainability, food security and resilience, and so
The United States Navy has a history of terrorism in HawaiĘťi (and throughout the world). In 1940 the Navy started to build the Red Hill Fuel
The latest number brings the statewide total since the start of the pandemic to 308,695.
Statements by extremist Israeli ministers continue to call for genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
These repeated statements, which Israeli ministers have consistently reaffirmed in every position they have taken, reflect a premeditated intention to commit genocide and crimes against humanity.
i fear we are never making it out of this alive because the greater collective of the human race is still struggling with "maybe we shouldn't openly and explicitly hate women" and the thought of managing to get to "maybe we should actually like and respect women" anywhere in my lifetime feels about as attainable as everyone spontaneously learning to fly
thanks. when i made this vent post i was really upset about how many people are perfectly comfortable being openly resentful towards women as a category of people, and are in fact getting more comfortable doing that within recent years as we experience a backslide in both the popularity of basic feminist principles and legal rights for women. but now that you've called me stupid for being upset by these things i have a lot more hope for the future of women's liberation.
you should really consider posting less about sonic the hedgehog and dedicating yourself to feminist thought full time because you clearly have a lot of compassion and valuable insight on the subject
Sorry, please feel free to continue posting about how this is the worst time in all of history (it isn't) how things will never get better (they will) and how we're all gonna die miserable and hopeless (we won't.)
that sounds like a much more productive way to spend time than posting about Sonic, you're right.
More than anything it would be the most productive if you shut your mouth and didnât stick your unwanted unwarranted opinion on a post no one even mentioned you or your weird sonic fixation in.
When someone talks about a struggle they see in the world that is causing them distress and your first answer is âquit whining about it, itâs not that badâ, you are unambiguously and objectively the asshole in the situation. And calling it âobjectively wrongâ when itâs clear you have no idea what objectivity means is comical.
I canât imagine someone like you would have a ton of close relationships outside your fave fictional characters if this is how you talk to people when they express their feelings.
A personnel surge supporting Kash Patelâs âpriority effortâ is underway, with intelligence experts tasked with running tens of thousands of
Ken Dilanian at MS NOW:
The FBI is surging resources into what it calls a âpriorityâ investigation related to the 2020 election in Georgia, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter, in an extraordinary effort by the nationâs most prominent law enforcement agency to find evidence supporting President Donald Trumpâs darkest election fraud conspiracy theories.
Documents obtained by MS NOW â which the two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to share internal matters, said were related to the Georgia election investigation â show that FBI leadership is authorizing intelligence analysts to work overtime, including weekends and holidays, on the case. And they show that FBI Director Kash Patel is ordering personnel from all field offices to participate.
âIn support of the Directorâs Office priority effort, the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) and Criminal Division are requesting all FBI field offices to immediately surge support to an FBI Atlanta priority investigation,â said an unclassified memo issued Wednesday.
The FBI declined to comment to MS NOW.
The memo went on to detail the number of personnel each field office must contribute, depending on its size, for a total of 260 FBI intelligence officials. The guidance did not include numbers for FBI agents, dozens of whom are also working on the investigation.
Each intelligence analyst would be expected to conduct a total of 708 records checks by July 17, the memo said.
 âOvertime (including weekends and holidays) has been authorized,â it added.
Asked what analysts would be looking for, one of the officials said, âLooking for derogatory information is the short answer. The idea is to build a case. Look at associations between people, look into their social media, their business activity, travel, contact with other investigative subjects.â
In January, the FBI executed a search warrant and seized more than 600 boxes of records relating to the 2020 election from storage in Fulton County, including physical ballots, ballot images, voter rolls and tabulation materials. When the basis for the search warrant was unsealed, it became clear that it relied largely on claims that had previously been debunked, including by Republican-led investigations in Georgia.
The FBIâs priorities are skewed towards Donald Trump and his regimeâs deranged obsession about the 2020 election results which he lost in fair and square.
See Also:
Democracy Docket: After legal losses, Trump admin forges ahead with bogus election fraud probes
Critics say the Trump administration is trying to rewrite and whitewash history by removing and altering scores of signs on public lands
Amy Qin and FlĂĄvio Pessoa at The Guardian:
Jerry Bransford, a former US National Park Service (NPS) ranger, has always had a deep connection with the land he grew up on â and the land hundreds of feet below it. His great-great-grandfather, Materson âMatâ Bransford, was one of the earliest explorers of Mammoth Cave in south-central Kentucky, the largest known cave system on the planet.
But for decades, Mat wasnât paid for his work. Enslavers rented him out for $100 a year to a man who wanted to turn the site into a tourist attraction â what would later become Mammoth Cave national park.
In the mid-19th century, Mat was one of several enslaved guides who became an expert in the hundreds of miles of underground terrain, leading notable guests like Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil and Ralph Waldo Emerson through a sprawling labyrinth of dark passageways and caverns.
âAt the hotel, restaurant and slave quarters, they were in slavery, but once they went down inside that cave, they were free,â said Jerry, 79, who worked at Mammoth Cave national park for more than two decades.
Mammoth commemorated this history with a sign showing five generations of Bransford cave guides. But now, it could be in jeopardy.
Often heralded as âAmericaâs best ideaâ, national parks are the closest thing the country has to sacred lands. What many may not realize, however, is that US history â not just nature â is at the heart of the visitor experience at most of the 433 parks, historic sites and monuments in the NPS system.
But over the past year and a half, this history has been under attack, as the Trump administration has raced to reconstruct a version of US history they prefer â one in which the Bransfords didnât exist, the genocide of Native Americans didnât happen, George Washington didnât own slaves and the glaciers arenât melting because of the ongoing climate crisis.
The Guardian spent months reviewing thousands of images, files and documentation while talking to current and former NPS employees to understand how the Trump administration has attempted to rewrite hundreds of years of US history.
This is the story of how they nearly did it â removing scores of signs across the country â and the scars this censorship campaign has left on the countryâs beloved NPS.
Critics say whatâs happening in the national parks is more insidious than pandering to Donald Trumpâs base or winning âculture warsâ â itâs about the erasure of anyone who is not white, wealthy, Christian or male, and it will probably have a chilling effect on how history is told at the national parks for years to come.
âItâs both stupid and uninformed and very pernicious,â said Anne Mitchell Whisnant, a history professor at Duke University who helped write visitor handbooks and conduct history research for several national parks in the US south-east before the Trump administration. âThe Trump administration has a very particular idea of whose stories are important and whose stories made the America that they hope to restore.â
The Department of the Interior did not answer questions about how flagged materials were reviewed and how many signs had been removed or altered across the national park system.
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Based on the Guardianâs review of flagged and removed material, stories about slavery, racism and discrimination against Black Americans and Native Americans, and the climate crisis were the ones most at risk of censorship. These are also stories the NPS has historically omitted or struggled to tell.
When the countryâs first national park, Yellowstone, was created in 1872, the Shoshone, Bannock, Crow, Blackfeet and other Native peoples who had called the area home for centuries were forcibly relocated to reservations and banned from entering the park.
But for most of the parkâs history, visitors were told that Yellowstone was a pristine wilderness untouched by human habitation, said Shane Doyle, Indigenous relations director for the Nature Conservancy and a member of the Crow tribe. Even now, Doyle says there are still brochures at Yellowstone that read: âWhen you watch animals in Yellowstone, you glimpse the world as it was before humans.â
âItâs like, what?â Doyle said. âThis is not a virgin paradise, like the Garden of Eden, people have been here for 12,000 years.â
It wasnât until the 1990s that the park service began to include more complete histories in existing parks â including mentions of slavery as a cause of the civil war â and establish new parks memorializing the history of Black, Asian American and LGBTQ+ history.
The Guardian has a detailed look at the Trump Regimeâs historical revisionist and whitewashing campaign of true American history from national parks.
Execution always sounds nice when youâre 100% certain the person is guilty of a horrific crime because the state told you they are⌠until thereâs proof they actually didnât do it.
State sanctioned executions will always be a âslippery slopeâ toward political executions with little to no significant evidence of an actual crime. If the masses are willing to accept that any person deserves to die because the state said so, that society, given enough time, is doomed to fascism eventually.
This has been the case time and again throughout human history.
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