woohoo!

So happy to hear the surgery was successful. Thank you for the update. 💗

Sounds so hard. Fuck cancer. And I hope the chemo can kick its ass.

So awful, Matt. Fuck cancer indeed. I hope the experts find a good alternative.

Rly seems like a general strike is the only option now, pass it on

UMass has a new webpage to track federal actions as a community resource
www.umass.edu/news/federal...

Thank you!

Doesn't matter, cause it's going away?

Summary from winter break: I'll take Houthi missiles in Israel (w Israel's defense system and bomb shelters) over Los Angeles fires.

When are you moving to PA?

I think many people really underestimate how likely a new pandemic is to occur in the next four years.
Even if you think of a pandemic as a once-in-a-century event, that's a 4% chance over the next four years. And I think in the world we live in a pandemic is far from a once-in-100 years event. 🧪

It’s not an administration, it’s celebrity apprentice all stars season

Opinion: Meatpacking plants can’t be allowed to pollute The Agri Star meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa is one of the nation’s direct discharging meatpacking plants. The plant discharges …

“The highest number of EPA enforcement cases in Iowa have been in Postville, including four related to the Agri Star meatpacking plant…The percentage of people living in poverty in Postville more than two times the state average.” www.thegazette.com/staff-editor...

A year ago, Azerbaijan ethnically cleansed 100,000 Armenians.
Today it is hosting the world climate summit (COP29).
When there are no consequences - these things will happen again and again and again.

There will not be a better moment to demand immediate ceasefire.

A Sci-Fi US rail map, with lots of stops, from https://ggwash.org/view/230/sci-fi-coast-to-coast-high-speed-rail-network

The President should say he is making a major announcement tomorrow morning and announce that the United States is beginning construction on this high speed rail network effective immediately

Biden leaned into climate & environmental justice, & delivered in ways that would’ve been unimaginable a decade ago. It’s a huge part of the Admin priorities & accomplishments- b/c it’s important! We always need to push for more, forever. But if the climate coalition shrugs “meh”, we aren’t serious.

Under the current Biden climate policies, if we work hard on implementing them, we can get to an 80% clean electricity system by the end of the decade. If those policies go away, there is zero chance we will get there. Let’s work hard to get to 80% and also add more climate policy to get to 100%.

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cat model.

Mountains of Trash Create New Perils in Gaza, U.N. Agency Says UNRWA said that more than 330,000 tons of solid waste had accumulated in the enclave, posing “catastrophic environmental & health risks,” among them hepatitis A.

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06...

For my introduction to environmental engineering course in the fall.

Thank you!

5. The fact #Covid remains a bigger threat makes the vaccine uptake rates mindboggling. Far more people have been vaccinated against #flu than against Covid. I'm not arguing against flu shots; too few people get them. But 6.4 times as many people are dying from Covid than flu. Get a Covid booster!

Just saying that Austin isn't as cute as it used to be. now that women can't get health care. I wouldn't want to live there, But yeah visiting is nice.

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Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Woman Who Sought Court-Approved Abortion Hours before the ruling, a group representing the woman, whose fetus received a fatal diagnosis, said she was leaving Texas for an abortion.

As long as you don't need female health care. Abortion is strictly illegal in Texas even if the women's health is at risk.
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/u...

Gay's resignation received in Israel with approval and from some, even glee. The alignment is clear: Israel is with the American and global right. And those Israelis who don't like this alignment, can't do much about it.

Santa, underrated climate hero:

1. Spreads anti-coal message to impressionable young hearts and minds

2. Flies on 100% carrot-powered sleigh

3. Works from home 364 days of the year

I recently attended a Friendsgiving where two of the invitees were absent because they hadn't been feeling well. the next day, they tested positive for covid! which none of us caught! because the sick people weren't assholes!