Sunday, February 28, 2021
Poems by 10 Contemporary Black Poets | JSTOR Daily
Poems by 10 Contemporary Black Poets | JSTOR Daily: Poems by Black poets, including Morgan Parker, Hanif Abdurraqib, Simone White, Terrance Hayes, and more.
Poems of Muslim Faith and Islamic Culture | Poetry Foundation
Poems of Muslim Faith and Islamic Culture | Poetry Foundation: A collection of poems, prose, and audio and video recordings that explore Islamic culture.
Sipping Champagne on the Titanic: Twenty Billionaires Own More Than the Bottom Half of Americans
Sipping Champagne on the Titanic: Twenty Billionaires Own More Than the Bottom Half of Americans: How can there be so many billionaires so self-absorbed in their greed that they cannot see the suffering that surrounds them?
Millionaires just paid their last penny into Social Security for the rest of this year. That’s because, once you earn your first $142,800, you stop contributing. But if they were to pay their fair share into Social Security―like you & I―we could expand benefits & extend our fund
Millionaires just paid their last penny into Social Security for the rest of this year. That’s because, once you earn your first $142,800, you stop contributing. But if they were to pay their fair share into Social Security―like you & I―we could expand benefits & extend our fund
Tulsa Race Massacre: Causes, Events, and Aftermath
Tulsa Race Massacre: Causes, Events, and Aftermath: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 may be the worst act of racial violence in US history. Learn about the causes and events of the little-known disaster.
US racial inequities in vaccination raise risk of new Covid hotspots and variants | US news | The Guardian
US racial inequities in vaccination raise risk of new Covid hotspots and variants | US news | The Guardian: Just 4.6% of Latinos and 5.7% of Black Americans have received a dose, compared with 11.3% of white Americans
House GOPers ALL voted against providing Americans with $1400 each, extending unemployment, vaccine funding claiming only a small percent of bill went to Covid relief. Yet These same GOPers voted in 2017 for a massive tax cut where top 1% receives 83% of the benefit
House GOPers ALL voted against providing Americans with $1400 each, extending unemployment, vaccine funding claiming only a small percent of bill went to Covid relief. Yet These same GOPers voted in 2017 for a massive tax cut where top 1% receives 83% of the benefit
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Floods, storms and searing heat: 2020 in extreme weather | Environment | The Guardian
Floods, storms and searing heat: 2020 in extreme weather | Environment | The Guardian: While Covid has dominated the news, the world has also felt the effects of human-driven global heating
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men — ProPublica
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men — ProPublica: They were pillars of their communities and families, and they are not replaceable. To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry.
Friday, February 26, 2021
The Terrifying Alliance Between End Times Christian Zionists and Donald Trump - In These Times
The Terrifying Alliance Between End Times Christian Zionists and Donald Trump - In These Times: This far-right Christian organization wants to use foreign policy to pursue the end times—and it has an ally in Trump.
Mental Health Is a Political Problem
Mental Health Is a Political Problem: Mental health is often framed in individual terms with individual solutions – but rising levels of depression, anxiety and stress across society make it clear that we need political answers.
Jared and Ivanka made up to $640 million in the White House - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Jared and Ivanka made up to $640 million in the White House - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income while working in the White House.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
WATCH: The Forverts premieres Yiddish version of Woody Guthrie’s classic, ‘This Land is Your Land’ – The Forward
WATCH: The Forverts premieres Yiddish version of Woody Guthrie’s classic, ‘This Land is Your Land’ – The Forward: Co-translator Linda Gritz says she aimed to put a Jewish spin on the song, while preserving its universal yearning for freedom.
Freshwater fish in "catastrophic" decline, one-third face extinction
Freshwater fish in "catastrophic" decline, one-third face extinction: 80 freshwater species have already been declared extinct — 16 of them in 2020 alone.
The Lockdown Showed How the Economy Exploits Women. She Already Knew. - The New York Times
The Lockdown Showed How the Economy Exploits Women. She Already Knew. - The New York Times: Silvia Federici has been warning for decades of what happens when we undervalue domestic labor.
Atlantic Ocean circulation at weakest in a millennium, say scientists | Environment | The Guardian
Atlantic Ocean circulation at weakest in a millennium, say scientists | Environment | The Guardian: Decline in system underpinning Gulf Stream could lead to more extreme weather in Europe and higher sea levels on US east coast
#ClimateEmergency #wearesofucked #stephenmillerisonTVandbloodsportsaretrending
#ClimateEmergency #wearesofucked #stephenmillerisonTVandbloodsportsaretrending
Most high-seas shark species now threatened with extinction | Science | AAAS
Most high-seas shark species now threatened with extinction | Science | AAAS: Overfishing has cut oceanic shark populations by 71% over past 50 years, global survey finds
Shark populations in the high seas have fallen by 71% since 1970, researchers have found. The main cause is overfishing, which has put three-quarters of these species at risk of extinction.
“It’s the first big picture” of the decline in sharks, says Nuno Queiroz, a marine ecologist at the Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources who was not involved with the research. The new global perspective, he says, “gives you an idea how pervasive the fishing has been.”
Humans have hunted sharks for centuries for their meat and fins. A related group of fish, the rays, are caught for their gills, which are used in traditional Chinese medicine. Studies have identified severe regional declines of specific species, such as the loss of scalloped hammerhead sharks in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, but no one had compiled trends in all oceans.
In the new study, shark experts took a look at 31 species of oceanic sharks and rays—all of the species that live in the open ocean. (The group is now analyzing coastal sharks and rays and reef-dwelling species.) With long-term data from fisheries and research surveys, the scientists calculated how populations have changed since 1970, a widely used benchmark.
“Some of the declines are staggering,” says Nicholas Dulvy, a conservation biologist at Simon Fraser University and co-leader of the effort. Dusky sharks, for example, have dwindled by 72%, the researchers report today in Nature.
Only one-third of the 31 species were threatened in 1980, the researchers determined by looking at data from that time. Now, three-quarters are at risk of disappearing. “I was just shocked,” Dulvy says. “It has gotten bad very rapidly in the last decade.”
The reason: too much fishing. Compared with 1970, boats today are bigger and do more fishing with gear that catches a lot of sharks, such as long lines of baited hooks. And many sharks have always been vulnerable to depletion because they take years to reach reproductive maturity.
The good news is that fishing regulations can help species recover, such as bans on the landing of sharks. The white shark, for example, is bouncing back off the U.S. east and west coasts because of that kind of protection. For less endangered species, lessening the amount of catch can help significantly.
“The U.S. is one of the only countries that’s been really successful in reversing sharp population declines through management,” says co-author Sonja Fordham, president of Shark Advocates International. “It’s difficult; there’s intense pressure from the fishing industry to protect short term economic interests.”
Fordham hopes the new findings will be a “loud wake-up call” to governments and fisheries managers to protect sharks from overfishing.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
President Biden: Reopening Homestead Goes Against Every Promise You’ve Made to Protect Immigrant Families and Children | United We Dream
President Biden: Reopening Homestead Goes Against Every Promise You’ve Made to Protect Immigrant Families and Children | United We Dream
Err... perhaps locking children in cages in concentration camps is what makes America less than great and makes us less than civilised/ cruel in the eyes of the rest of the world/ our own children....? #closetheconcentrationcamps #MAGA #BlueMAGA
Err... perhaps locking children in cages in concentration camps is what makes America less than great and makes us less than civilised/ cruel in the eyes of the rest of the world/ our own children....? #closetheconcentrationcamps #MAGA #BlueMAGA
The (Almost) Unbelievable Tortures of Steven Tendo – Mother Jones
The (Almost) Unbelievable Tortures of Steven Tendo – Mother Jones: A snake pit. Severed fingers. COVID. A US immigration judge.
Last night, in a legally wrong and harmful decision, a court granted Texas' request to continue blocking the government's 100-day deportation pause. Voters rejected Trump's inhumane immigration policies, but the Texas government wants to force them on the country.
Last night, in a legally wrong and harmful decision, a court granted Texas' request to continue blocking the government's 100-day deportation pause. Voters rejected Trump's inhumane immigration policies, but the Texas government wants to force them on the country.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
The Environmental Threat You’ve Never Heard Of | Hakai Magazine
The Environmental Threat You’ve Never Heard Of | Hakai Magazine: It’s called coastal darkening, and scientists are just beginning to explore it.
Monday, February 22, 2021
US B-1 Bombers Arrive in Norway for First Time - Sputnik International
US B-1 Bombers Arrive in Norway for First Time - Sputnik International
Did you know that every time there's a bomb flown above our heads a little angel sprouts its wings and millionaires get a little spring in their step?
Did you know that every time there's a bomb flown above our heads a little angel sprouts its wings and millionaires get a little spring in their step?
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Mike Davis’s Forecast for the Left | The Nation
Mike Davis’s Forecast for the Left | The Nation: OLD GODS, NEW ENIGMAS: MARX’S LOST THEORY
By Mike Davis
Is this $24m forehead piercing the new cosmetic craze? | Loop News
Is this $24m forehead piercing the new cosmetic craze? | Loop News
#TheVirusIsCapitalism #ClimateEmergency #WeAreAllGoingToDie #EatTheRich
#TheVirusIsCapitalism #ClimateEmergency #WeAreAllGoingToDie #EatTheRich
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Monday, February 8, 2021
Want to Reverse Inequality? Change Intellectual Property Rules. | The Nation
Want to Reverse Inequality? Change Intellectual Property Rules. | The Nation: Changes in IP have done far more than tax cuts to increase inequality—and US protection of IP could lead to a cold war with China.
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Europe Generated More Electricity From Renewables Than Fossil Fuels in 2020
Europe Generated More Electricity From Renewables Than Fossil Fuels in 2020: Report reveals renewable energy overtook fossil fuels in Europe for the first time ever.
Sea Levels Are Rising Faster Than Most Pessimistic Forecasts - Bloomberg
Sea Levels Are Rising Faster Than Most Pessimistic Forecasts - Bloomberg: New research indicates economies have to emit even less carbon than budgeted to keep oceans from rising.
Economics' failure over destruction of nature presents ‘extreme risks’ | Biodiversity | The Guardian
Economics' failure over destruction of nature presents ‘extreme risks’ | Biodiversity | The Guardian: What is biodiversity and why does it matter to us?
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Monday, February 1, 2021
Why Trumpism Will Live On - CounterPunch.org
Why Trumpism Will Live On - CounterPunch.org: Just a week after the U.S. Capitol was attacked by his supporters, Donald Trump has become the first president of the United States to be impeached twice. But regardless of how Trump leaves the White House — the Senate won’t act on the impeachment before Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20 — the domestic terrorism he has inspired will not end there. More
Borneo Bay Cat - International Society for Endangered Cats (ISEC) Canada
Borneo Bay Cat - International Society for Endangered Cats (ISEC) Canada: The Borneo Bay Cat is one of the least known felids in the world, with nothing known about its habits, behaviour, ecology or reproductive biology.
Outside of protected areas, habitat loss due to commercial logging and palm oil plantations is the main threat to the Bay Cat. Wildlife traders are aware of the cat’s rarity, and they have been captured illegally from the wild for the skin and pet markets. Poaching of the cats' prey species is a growing problem.
2016: Hillary’s Dreadful Education Plan | Diane Ravitch's blog
2016: Hillary’s Dreadful Education Plan | Diane Ravitch's blog: I recently received a copy of Hillary Clinton’s policy book, assembled for her by her most trusted advisors in 2014. This policy book was released in 2016 by Wikileaks after it hacked into Jo…
Trump officials lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall
Trump officials lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall: Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout last fall.
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