🔥💣🔥 “The new bomb, which can travel about 90 miles, is expected to be “a significant capability for Ukraine,” said one of the U.S. officials. “It gives them a deeper strike capability they haven’t had, it complements their long-range fire arsenal,” the U.S. official said. “It’s just an extra arrow in the quiver that’s gonna allow them to do more.”
New US-made longer-range bomb expected to arrive as soon as Wednesday in Ukraine - POLITICO
“Marohn suggests that what’s happened in places such as Ferguson and Penn Hills is the equivalent of a Ponzi scheme. It’s “the development version of slash-and-burn agriculture,” he tells the author. “We build a place, we use up the resources, and when the returns start diminishing, we move on, leaving a geographic time bomb in our wake!”
@flatwaterfreepress Hey, I just followed you and it looks like you’re doing great work. Suggestion you might do better in the Fediverse if you follow some accounts, I found you here and it’s a good handful to know about.
Hell yes! But I’m guessing there’s slim chance of this becoming law, unless Biden gets a trifecta in his second term.
“The legislation would prohibit publicly patrolling, drilling or engaging in harmful or deadly paramilitary activities, interfering with or interrupting government proceedings, interfering with someone else exercising their constitutional rights, falsely assuming the role of law enforcement, and “training to engage in such behavior.”
“Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what they encounter on the internet. Gov. Gavin Newsom last month signed Assembly Bill 873, which requires the state to add media literacy to curriculum frameworks for English language arts, science, math and history-social studies, rolling out gradually beginning next year. "I've seen the impact that misinformation has had in the real world — how it affects the way people vote, whether they accept the outcomes of elections, try to overthrow our democracy," said the bill's sponsor, Assemblymember Marc Berman, a Democrat from Menlo Park. "This is about making sure our young people have the skills they need to navigate this landscape."
Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools
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“In part, the fascist right has been able to forge ties to the left due to a serious lack of knowledge on the left regarding the complex history, different forms, and multiple tactics of fascism. Among those tactics are the use of scapegoating, reductionist and simplistic solutions, demagoguery, and a conspiracy theory of history.7 Fascists have historically used radical-sounding or populist appeals and adopted themes opportunistically from socialism and the labor movement, and then mixed those themes with theories of nationalism and racial pride. Nazi, after all, is an abbreviated acronym of the National Socialist German Workers Party.”
” …fascism is not confined to any specific era, culture or countries. Far from being a phenomenon limited to the European states which have experienced fascist regimes, movements of this type are to be found in practically every western country, and indeed are growing more strident in the leading democratic societies which have never experienced fascist rule–Britain and America.”
In today’s No Brainer department. (Gift link, no paywall)
“By installing cool roofs, air conditioning use could be cut by about one-third in warm regions, estimates Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. If all large North American cities — those with populations above 1 million — adopted passive cooling on roofs and pavement, we’d prevent the equivalent of the world’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions, or 57 billion tons of carbon dioxide.”
We’re building roofs wrong. A different approach can save money and lives.
Just returned from a delightful gathering a dear friend hosted.
Driving thru the neighborhoods, I noticed every so often a house with cars parked up and down the street.
Obviously, the homes of folks who were hosting feasts.
In any extended group of friends and family, there are those with the time, resources, expertise, and willingness to step up and hold space for others.
Is this starting to sound like the #fediverse yet?
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