An immigration officer has been charged with third-degree assault and criminal mischief following an investigation into how he treated a protester who said the officer put her in a chokehold. https://cnn.it/41QrdKT
While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.
NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy...
The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.
NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break
People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die
This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig...
The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.
Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...
Literally LOL’ed imagining that!
I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:
"Four members of Congress who receive classified briefings on the war hold millions in defense contractor stocks. Those stocks surge every time peace fails.
This is not speculation. The trades are filed. The briefings are logged. The gains are public."
As gasoline prices climb & California loses refining capacity, the state is importing more and more gas refined from Russian oil, thereby funding Russia's war in Ukraine.
Almost seems like being stuck on fossil fuels is a lose-lose proposition.
My answer to the @muckrack.com Daily trivia question: Senator Gaylord Nelson had the idea for Earth Day, but I'd say multiple environmental disasters were the catalyst: the Santa Barbara oil spill, and the Cuyahoga River fire.
To address climate change, we need to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
But where do they come from?
- Energy (burning and producing fossil fuels)
- Industry (beyond energy, cement, refrigerants, and landfills emit a lot)
- Food (cleaning forests, burping cows, nitrous oxide)
"Georgia Democratic U.S. Rep. David Scott, the first Black man to chair the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, has died after nearly 50 years of elected office. He was 80 years old." www.ajc.com/politics/202...
"Solar that’s as easy to install as an appliance would be a game changer for the four out of 10 U.S. households that can’t get rooftop systems for financial or logistical reasons."
An #EarthDay primer on balcony solar, aka plug-and-play solar from @canarymedia.com.
First ones that come to mind: the “YEAHHHHHHH” in “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who, and for some reason, the line “I really wanna thank you, Lord” in “All Good Gifts” from “Godspell” gives me goosebumps – probably because I wish I could hit that note.
Ortiz was WONDERFUL. He's getting the Artistic Excellence Impact Award from the National Hispanic Media Coalition.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social and @lizadonnelly.bsky.social: 56 years ago today, "more than 20 million Americans -- 10% of the country's population at the time -- gathered to call for the nation to address the damage caused by 150 years of unregulated industrial development."
#EarthDay
Felicity. She and Tucci met at Emily's wedding to John Krasinski, and soon, Krasinski and Tucci were brothers-in-law.
Felicity pops up in one or two episodes of Tucci's series "Tucci in Italy."
Let it flow…
AVENGERS: ENDGAME and AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY co-director Joe Russo is "suggesting that re-watching a seven-year-old, three-hour-long movie is required homework before the franchise reawakens." 🙄 (paging @idislikestephen.bsky.social)
Oh no! I'm so sorry.
A bird's eye view of the one very short block of Weinberg Street in Chatsworth, between Valley Circle Blvd. and Larwin Street.
It may be cumulative. They repaved a VERY short block in Chatsworth recently: Weinberg Street, between Valley Circle and Larwin.
Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci are linked by "The Devil Wears Prada" movies, and family (he's married to her older sister), and now they'll be linked on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!
The Oscar nominees are set to be honored in a joint Walk of Fame ceremony on Thursday, April 30 in Hollywood.
"When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark."
From Matt Hamilton at @lamaterial.bsky.social:
The U.S. attorney in L.A., who regularly attacks state leaders for allegedly enabling fraud, "almost never talks about the time he partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union to help defeat a prosecution brought by the office he now leads."
I only know you from here, but I see a thoughtful, kind, talented, hardworking person who cares. I also know how difficult it can be to look at things with a different lens than the one provided by current circumstances. Hang in there.
Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.
This made me gasp.
"Lenny Pozner, Noah's father (Noah was the youngest kid murdered at Sandy Hook) spends his days filing copyright takedowns on images of his dead son because those images keep getting recycled into 'crisis actor' content whenever there's a new mass-casualty event somewhere else."
