The media blitz & outsized police response to the United Healthcare CEO assassination is nagging at me. Other victims don't get this level of attention or police response. What makes this guy's life more valuable than theirs?
EnviroDisaster
@envirodisaster.bsky.social
Environmental law professor interested in environmental policy, nature pics, and long-winded fantasy books.
Today, the right-wing media sets the news agenda in this country... Even the mighty New York Times follows in its wake, aping the tone they set disturbingly often. newrepublic.com/post/188197/...
Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?
It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer.
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“What does it mean, for a city, to make sober decent terms with death? It means living in reality. It means doing whatever it can to postpone the inevitable. It means settling for the best of bad options. But it does not mean blindly submitting to fate.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/o...
Opinion | New Orleans’ Striking Advantage in the Age of Climate Change
Unlike the other major cities that appear on lists of unsafe places, New Orleans has a striking competitive advantage.
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Still can’t believe this guy is going to head HHS.
RFK Jr., Who Hates Adderall, Says Heroin Was Great for Treating His ADHD — Futurism
The man Donald Trump has chosen to lead the United States' health system claimed that doing heroin helped him become a better student — the same month he said that people on Adderall should be sent to
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (12/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.
Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (10/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (9/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (8/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
The state of Georgia has fired every member of a health care committee tasked with investigating maternal deaths after their report of 2 women who likely died due to abortion ban was leaked to the public. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Georgia Fires Entire Committee on Maternal Mortality Over Leaked Report on Abortion Ban Deaths
The heartbreaking story of Amber Thurman was first reported in ProPublica earlier this year
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 📚💙
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (6/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 📚💙
Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
Periodic reminder that not all activism takes place online in casual and exposed places where you can observe and judge it. Before you decide someone isn't loud enough about a Thing, consider whether they've gone to ground to get the work done. Consider doing the same.
I'm not saying Don't Recycle I'm saying we need to remove the social/commercial license from these people, block them from policymaking arenas And we need to stop them selling a proposed solution (Recycle!) that is orders of magnitude too small to fix a problem they created (forever production)
Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2y agoThe People Who Make The Things You Buy with the justification that you can recycle those things are making 1000x more of those things than you could ever recycle, and at some point I think we should ask why They think that's OK www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20) #BookSky 📚💙 #Books #BookChallenge
Anyone else a fan of #TheNib? They had the best political cartoons - witty and artistic. I miss them. 😞
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚
Feels like a good morning to tell Bluesky the story about when I overdosed on my underwear, so let’s do this! 🧵
Hi @safety.bsky.app I’ve been a woman on the internet for a long time so I promise not to complain about every nasty, mean-spirited, and inaccurate list I’ve been put on but this guy put me on a “rape list” and I’d like him to be booted into the sun if possible. Thx!
this happened again today just interviewed the COO of a cooperative in North Carolina that is bringing gigabit fiber for $80 a month to long-unserved rural communities thanks to ARPA legislation those communities turned around and voted out the folks that made it happen
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2y agoevery single week I talk to a different municipality or cooperative that is using American Rescue Plan Act funds to deploy amazing cheap broadband to rural markets that rewarded the people that wrote and passed the legislation by kicking them out of office