Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich

Well, today we're taxing the rich...

It's Allergy Season, But To Which Trees? Note: this article and comments are open to everyone as a public service.

Many people are plagued by allergies to spring tree pollen. But let’s be sure to blame the right trees. Here is a story about tree pollination, a very interesting subject. This post is available to everyone.

this is how it’s done

Yes, you can make friends with trees. Here’s why it’s a good idea. We form interspecies relationships with our pets. So why not plants?

Researchers in Finland found that the majority of respondents to a survey have a favorite tree. It’s not unusual, says arborist RJ Laverne, for that bond to feel like friendship. We form interspecies relationships with our pets. So why not plants?

This is a threatened genocide.

😒😒 just my union here to prop up a technology industry that threatens our labor power and demeans our knowledge as educators. great thanks.

Did not expect to come on here today and see my union leader schilling for AI 🤣🤮

tired of visibility

how about a single day where we stop legislating trans ppl out of public life

extent are emissions from biomass preprocessing and bioconversion included in removal quantification? Full inclusion of all relevant sources in quantification. Very Robust Included under conditions; new builds, non-renewable energy sources, or specified GHGs only. Weak Included using conservative default values or emissions factors. Weak Excluded based on a narrow system boundary limited to capture and storage. Very Weak Not discussed. Fund. Flawed How are emissions from the BiCRS system allocated among CDR and coproducts? Full allocation of emissions to the CDR process regardless of coproducts. Satisfactory Based on standardized principles, such as energy or mass balance. Satisfactory At project discretion (partial, full, non

the reason we keep getting reports showing ultra-low-quality standards for carbon offsets is because it is fundamentally a system that rewards volume of sales, not quality of service

A system of trading climate action for profit will always tends towards not working!!!

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A collage of two photos of myself. On the left is a black and white photo of me arriving to the beach after a run with a peace sign. This is the last run I have been on which happened in 2020 6 years ago today — on the right is a photo of myself on a typical day recovering from minor exertion with an eye mask and oxygen concentrator on.

6 years ago today I went on my last run (pic left) — today I’m 36 and I’ve spent my entire 30’s with #LongCovid struggling to walk up and down the block, or work more than 1-2 hours a day.

Heres 4 things I never thought I’d lose at this age:

wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog

Got married a week ago 💞🦋

I really hate nationalism. I really hate the ideology that makes someone look at an indisputably illegal war of aggression that's killed zero US service members and hundreds of other people and only say something like this

It's such an infurating thing to try to explain to liberals here, that we've always been "that guy" and this is just the same shit but more blatant that we've been doing for ages and that this country is not salvageable and no mainstream politics will stop this

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The way to understand this, I think, is that everybody knows that when Trump or Vance says "illegals" he's not talking about legal status, but about social desirability, and so people think that that distinction goes both ways.

Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.

Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests

Omg. Iran killed 16,500 protesters and injured 330,000 in two days.

ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA A DAY OF TRUTH & FREEDOM

MINNESOTA: Friday is a statewide day of non-violent moral action and reflection. That means no work, no school, and no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action.

Plus, there will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis: iceoutnowmn.com

We have ~15 separate radio dispatches, one for each neighborhood, and dozens more for the suburbs/Saint Paul. Each dispatch/monitoring channel contains somewhere between 500 and 2000 people. At any given time there are probably a dozen mobile patrols and 100 on-foot observers in each neighborhood.

Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week have been transferred to an ICE facility and called for th...

"Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe 'entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.'"
I don't even know what to say at this point except fuck ICE and fuck the settler colonial government of the so-called united states
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Heat map and PMC estimates, 1 in 55 infectious and 892,000 new daily infections for Jan 12. We expedited the report to release it two days early.

The size of the winter COVlD wave has been revised upward as post-holiday data come in.

We estimate 1 in 55 people in the U.S. are actively infectious.

🔥WV: 1 in 14
🔥IN: 1 in 15
🔥MI & OH: 1 in 21
🔥MO: 1 in 22
🔥CT: 1 in 24
🔥KS: 1 in 25
🔥MA & IL: 1 in 27

Quick 🧵 1/4

Make it viral.

Anyway the single best check on your espoused prescriptions for social change is whether you yourself are doing what you say others need to do. It's extremely clarifying and usually very humbling.

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.