Notices by Steven Zekowski (steve_zeke@freeradical.zone)

@inthehands

And again today

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@inthehands
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Ran this search a month ago

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@steter

https://www.salon.com/2026/06/09/ranked-choice-voting-is-working-in-maine-it-can-work-everywhere-else-too/

RE: https://flipboard.com/@salon/news-politics-vjnjnsc9z/-/a-xxIl0LR8Q4SiiFh4BRCEqQ%3Aa%3A3199680-%2F0

#RCV #RankedChoiceVoting #Maine #elections #voting #democracy #USpol

> [We need] a commitment to one another to disrupt the normalization of mass suffering and death. To use our voices, our time, our talents, and our money to support organizations that educate and empower rather than silence and punish. To advocate for all children in all spaces, whether or not they want us at the table or try to hold us down.

Like #MsRachel Dr Chomilo is told he can advocate for #children, just not #Palestinian children.
#UShealthcare #gaza #Pediatrics
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/american-academy-of-pediatrics-gaza/

@danwentzel
Sorry. As much as I hate Trump & like your ETTD acronym, debt fear mongering like this is bull💩. USA can’t become insolvent in its own money. Fed gov creates $$ when it spends them into existence. We don’t need to borrow/tax to acquire dollars. See #MMT, eg Stephanie Kelton’s “The Deficit Myth” or https://findingmoneyfilm.com/

Nonsense like this prevents us from housing, feeding, educating, & providing healthcare with pointless “how are we gonna pay for it?” question.

https://aje.news/b8762y?update=4414623

Attacks on oil, gas fields causing ‘damaging pollutants’ locally and globally
Patrick Galey, the head of investigations at Global Witness, has told Al Jazeera that attacks on oil and gasfields in Iran, Qatar and other countries in the region are causing both local and global environmental harms “in real time”.
#health #pollution #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #IranWar #environment

@aral
Serious question. What browser(s) do you use? I’m still using Firefox but looking for good alternative.

> The #FBI formally notified #Minnesota officials on Friday that it would not grant them access to evidence from the investigation into the killing of #AlexPretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said on Monday.

#ICE #ICEmurders #minneapolis #coverup

https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/fbi-wont-provide-minnesota-investigators-with-evidence-in-alex-pretti-killing-state-says/

@inthehands
I found this site to provide feedback.
https://support.abc.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360003079511

I doubt it will help, but I feel better. My comments were about how German corporations were also thinking about the bottom line in the 1930s, and asking how the recipient will explain to their kids or grandkids that they aided the USA's slide into fascism.

@inthehands
The Nathan T quote immediately reminded me of the Keynes quote that Krugman immediately followed with — the beauty contest in which the goal is to pick who you think everyone else will pick.

> [#SCOTUS] gave Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the right to remove USPSTF members at will and rescind the panel’s recommendations by fiat. And he is doing just that.
…
> What is likely to happen now is that the USPSTF will be “ACIP”-ed. In other words, as he did with the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP), Kennedy is likely to make a clean sweep of current members and replace them with his cronies, unqualified and conflicted.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/rfk-jr-braidwood-uspstf/

#UShealthcare #medicine #RFKJr

@aral @Su_G @benroyce
That Upton Sinclair quote is one of my favorites — applies to so many issues. #evergeen

Disturbing but important commentary. This paragraph sent a chill down my spine:

“Trump is using the protests in LA as his equivalent of the burning of the Reichstag—a ginned-up emergency used to deploy dictatorial powers, which once deployed won’t be voluntarily withdrawn.”

Trump’s Dangerous Escalation in LA | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/la-national-guard-ice-raids/

#USpol #LAprotests #NationalGuard #fascism

> ...this isn’t accidental but rather a form of profitable confusion built into the system to benefit insurers and intermediaries.

> Patients – especially the uninsured and underinsured – are left to make impossible choices: delay treatment or take on debt, ration medication or skip checkups, trust the health care system or go without. Meanwhile, I believe the rhetoric of choice and freedom disguises how constrained most people’s options really are.

https://theconversation.com/us-health-care-is-rife-with-high-costs-and-deep-inequities-and-thats-no-accident-a-public-health-historian-explains-how-the-system-was-shaped-to-serve-profit-and-politicians-256393

#USpol #healthcare

> In reality, the organization is really a cardboard backdrop. It spends a lot of money to raise a lot of money so it can spend a lot of money on banal advertising that makes consultants rich every couple years. It wastes the talent and energy of people who want to be put to work, Shakir told me.
#DNC #democrats #USpol

Faiz Shakir Would Like the DNC to Do Something - The American Prospect https://prospect.org/politics/2025-01-20-faiz-shakir-would-like-dnc-do-something/

> Forensic Architecture’s latest report documents the extent and intent of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, strengthening South Africa’s case in the ICJ charging Israel with the crime of genocide.

#genocide #gaza #israel #palestine #maps #forensics

Mapping the genocide in Gaza – Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/mapping-the-genocide-in-gaza/

@pluralistic
John Oliver did a great job with this about a year ago. #McKinsey #corruption #capitalism

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ

@pluralistic
It’s disheartening to the point of exhaustion that there are people who create these diabolical apps, run these businesses (or UHC for that matter), and wake up each morning thinking their livelihood is a morally acceptable way to spend their time. I probably have unrealistic expectations for the human race.

@tek
I used to read this to my kids when they were little (in their 30s now).

Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1864/