LONDON REPORTBACK! After endlessly racially abusing tube passengers, “Billy Steel” takes a sudden nap (around the 5:00 mark, if you want to skip all the racism).
Joe Biden’s calling for people to be prosecuted just for being anarchists and if you honestly think you’ve still got an electoral way to avoid fascism this should be a wake up slap
Biden says he wants to throw me in prison, and you still expect me to not say anything bad about him that might “discourage people from voting”?
Even on this post the ‘okay but vote’ crowd shows up to preach their pointless electorialism over any kind of actual resistance.
I swear, the Gestapo could be rounding up minorities in their street and executing political opponents in broad daylight and they’d still be talking about how it’s important to vote for the next Gestapo-In-Chief because Candidate Heinrich Mc Fascism Light promised not to execute political opponents on Sundays and that’s like 1/7th less murder time.
Liberals are the most spineless fascists I have ever seen.
all I can see is “no, you don’t have our solidarity”, and the message has been received loud and clear
@scottishwobbly I wanted to send an ask but it wouldn’t let me. I find this very interesting and agree with you that both candidates are Bad™️ and it’s like America is being forced to choose between two people that they don’t even want. I hate it. I’m wondering what you think the solution should be? Like what should we do? Because I am interested in what other like-minded people think would fix this problem. I am surprised there has not been a revolution in our country over our government yet and I keep wondering what is going to be the last straw, if ever. (You can send back an ask if it would be easier).
yeah my blog is fucked that way, i won’t show in your notifications or notes either, but honestly going through my posts from the last few days n reading the articles etc should provide insight for starting points, as far as organisations go, the IWW is a directly democratic worker’s union with several community defense committees across the so-called united states: https://iww.org/
Try find a local Food Not Bombs chapter or other mutual aid networks - searching your area + mutual aid / food not bombs on social media is the easiest way to find them usually.
But most importantly, talk to your friends and neighbours, get to know what their political motivations and limits are, and start discussing potential actions you could realistically achieve together to contribute to an aspect of the struggle that motivates you most
The new rules chip away at protections for sexual assault survivors. Among other changes, universities are no longer obligated to investigate most sexual assaults that occur off-campus, where an estimated 80 percent of college students live, or to complete their inquiry within 60 days. Professors and administrators no longer have to report sexual violence when they’re informed of an incident. The regulations also narrow the type of sexual harassment that universities are required to probe to behavior “so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the [school’s] education program or activity.” At the same time, the DOE effectively raised the evidentiary bar for schools to take action from a “preponderance of evidence” to a “clear and convincing” standard—or from a more than 50 percent likelihood to a more than 75 percent likelihood. Universities would also be found in violation of the regulations only if they responded to sexual harassment in a way that was “deliberately indifferent.”
Three staff members have the virus that causes COVID-19 and 24 more are in quarantine for exposure in the Broken Bow School District about 190 miles (300 km) west of Omaha, superintendent Darren Tobey said in a statement. Preschool and grade 6 to 12 classes are canceled until Aug. 24.
President Donald Trump has made reopening schools a re-election campaign issue, threatening to pull federal funding if institutions fail to do so, but resumption of classroom teaching ran into trouble in several states this week.
Broken Bow’s cancellation followed the closure of schools in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama in recent days as students and staff were infected or forced to self-isolate.
There is no national plan for school reopening, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has urged districts to resume in-person classes when they consider it safe.
That has led to a patchwork of policies, ranging from Republican Governor Pete Ricketts saying it was safe to resume in-person learning in Nebraska to Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham delaying classes until Sept. 8 in New Mexico.
Adding to confusion are states like Arizona, where Republican Governor Doug Ducey set voluntary health benchmarks for when schools should reopen but left the final decision up to districts.
In an interview with KTAR News, Arizona school superintendent Kathy Hoffman on Thursday called the situation “toxic,” with some districts disregarding the benchmarks and reopening on Monday, “putting their staff and their teachers’ lives at risk.”
One such Phoenix district was forced to cancel its reopening after staff said it was unsafe and called in sick for Monday.
WITH JUST OVER two weeks left until the Massachusetts Democratic primary, progressives across the country are focused on the high-profile primaries of Sen. Ed Markey, who is fending off a challenge from Rep. Joe Kennedy, and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse, who is running against House Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal.
Elsewhere in the state, other progressive challengers are struggling to attract similar attention. In the crowded House race to replace Kennedy, two progressives appear tied for third behind two more conservative Democrats. And in the Boston-area 8th Congressional District, Robbie Goldstein, a 36-year-old primary care physician, is scrambling to get his name out and convince voters he’s not running a long-shot bid.
On Wednesday, Goldstein’s campaign released a poll claiming he trailed just 7 percentage points behind nine-term moderate incumbent Rep. Stephen Lynch. Conducted last weekend by Lincoln Park Strategies, the poll found that 29 percent of likely voters remain undecided. However, Lynch held a clear advantage when it came to name recognition, with roughly 70 percent of voters knowing who he was, compared to 40 percent recognizing Goldstein. Still, the pollsters concluded Goldstein “has a real chance to win” because among undecideds, 42 percent said they’d prefer to vote for a more progressive candidate, 71 percent said they’d prefer a pro-choice candidate, and 73 percent said they’d prefer a candidate who backs Medicare for All.
Goldstein’s case against Lynch rests on substantive policy differences, including Medicare for All and reproductive rights. The incumbent opposes single-payer health care, and while Lynch has criticized federal efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and “draconian” state-level abortion restrictions, he himself identifies as pro-life and believes ending pregnancies should be “legal and rare.”
Goldstein’s campaign argues that this race presents a viable opportunity to bring another progressive to Congress, even if Lynch is not as influential as other incumbents who’ve been toppled, like Reps. Joe Crowley and Eliot Engel. “I am constantly confounded by progressives’ infatuation with claiming these big headline victories instead of just winning and building power,” said Karen Clawson Cosmas, Goldstein’s campaign manager. “We can replace a do-nothing moderate Democrat with someone who is actually a champion of the issues of the progressive wing of the party.”
Lynch has long been the most conservative member of the Massachusetts delegation, though he argues that’s all relative for their deep blue state. “Calling me the least liberal member from Massachusetts is like calling me the slowest Kenyan in the Boston Marathon,” Lynch quipped a decade ago in the Boston Globe.
The condition of the MV Wakashio was worsening early on Saturday and it split by the afternoon, the Mauritius National Crisis Committee said.
“At around 4.30pm, a major detachment of the vessel’s forward section was observed,” it said in a statement. “On the basis of the experts’ advice, the towing plan is being implemented.”
The vessel struck a coral reef on July 25, spilling about 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil and endangering corals, fish and other marine life in what some scientists have called the country’s worst ecological disaster.
On Friday, some residual oil from the ship leaked into the ocean, Mauritius Marine Conservation Society President Jacqueline Sauzier told Reuters on Saturday morning.
Authorities deployed booms on Saturday to help with oil absorption around the vessel.
The Crisis Committee said special attention was being given to sensitive sites such as the Blue Bay Marine Park, Ile aux Aigrettes and the Pointe D’Esny National Ramsar Site.
The weather is expected to deteriorate over the next few days with waves of up to 4.5 metres (15 feet), authorities said.
Most of the oil from the vessels have been pumped out, the Mauritian government said on Thursday, but there was still 166 tonnes of fuel oil inside and authorities were working to remove it.
Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Saturday Tokyo planned to send a team of officials from the ministry and other specialists to assess the damage. The MV Wakashio is owned by Japan’s Nagashiki Shipping and chartered by Mitsui OSK Lines (9104.T).
Scientists say the full impact of the spill is still unfolding, but the damage could affect Mauritius and its tourism-dependent economy for decades.
Removing the ship is likely to take months. Former colonial power France has said it will assist with the cleanup.
These finfings were published
Thursday in the journal Nature
Communications Earth and Environment, and suggests that Greenland’s glaciers have
reached a tipping point, or perhaps the point of no return.
This means that if the climate
crisis were to end today, the ice sheet would continue to shrink because the
amount of snow fall each year is less than the amount of melted ice flowing
into the ocean each year.
“And what we’ve found is that the ice that’s discharging
into the ocean is far surpassing the snow that’s accumulating on the surface of
the ice sheet.”
The researchers analyzed
monthly satellite data from more than 200 large glaciers draining into the
ocean around Greenland, dating back to the 1980s and 1990s. Doing so, they were
able to calculate how much ice crumbles into icebergs or seeps into the ocean,
as well as track yearly snowfall amounts, according to Science Daily.
The team found that through the
1980s and 90s, ice loss and annual snowfall amounts were basically in balance,
keeping the ice sheet intact. During those years, the Greenland ice sheet lost
about 450 gigatons (about 450 billion tons) of ice each year from flowing
outlet glaciers, which was replaced with snowfall.
“We are measuring the pulse of the ice sheet—how much ice
glaciers drain at the edges of the ice sheet—which increases in the summer. And
what we see is that it was relatively steady until a big increase in ice
discharging to the ocean during a short five- to six-year period,” King said,
reports the NY Daily News.
King points out that large
glaciers across Greenland have retreated about 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) on
average since 1985—“that’s a lot of distance,” she said. The glaciers have
shrunk back enough that many of them are sitting in deeper water, meaning more
ice is in contact with water. Warm ocean water melts glacier ice, and also
makes it difficult for the glaciers to grow back to their previous positions.
“Glacier retreat has knocked the
dynamics of the whole ice sheet into a constant state of loss,” said Ian Howat,
a co-author on the paper, professor of earth sciences and distinguished
university scholar at Ohio State. “Even if the climate were to stay the same or
even get a little colder, the ice sheet would still be losing mass.”
Unsurprisingly, as the COVID-19 crisis wears on, the government and its chorus of loyal MPs are working overtime to make sure blame is shifted in as many different places as possible. Whether it is Public Health England, scientists, teachers, holidaymakers, or protesters — one thing is for sure: they do not want the finger pointed at them.
This government is exceptionally good at shifting the blame, and sadly, it seems to work. It only takes a brief conversation with residents in my role as a local councilor to hear the anger directed at anyone and everyone — “groups of teenagers,” “shoppers who are too close,” or this week and much to my dismay, “mothers who should take their holidays to look after their children.”
This pandemic has been difficult for many families. The government offered no solution for childcare — something that was already a serious problem before the crisis. Like many others during the lockdown, my female friends and I have supported each other in juggling work and trying to teach our offspring.
We vented about our little cherubs, worried about the mounting food bills, and consoled each other regarding the never-ending piles of washing. We have supported each other on more than one occasion when we found ourselves in tears feeling guilty and inadequate, with concerns about failing our children and worries about our household income.
In May, a study from the London School of Economics found that women were more likely to deal with homeschooling, childcare, and chores during the crisis, an extension of the unpaid work that many spent hours doing in the home before this pandemic. Another recent survey showed that a lack of childcare was a factor in almost half of the layoffs impacting women workers since COVID-19 hit.
We simply cannot emerge from this pandemic with no change to childcare. It’s time to make the case for transforming the sector — and the Left as well as trade unions must lead the way.
Successive governments have refused to treat the care of our children as the social necessity it is, instead allowing it to become a for-profit business. This has resulted in many families being unable to afford childcare, but also problems in the system itself — with informal working conditions, like those associated with au pairs, leading to exploitation in many cases.
For regularized childcare workers and small providers, the coronavirus pandemic has meant a huge economic crisis. Many are going out of business already, with more likely to follow. A recent survey by the Childcare online platform found that one in six providers was likely to have closed permanently because of COVID-19, while one in three was unsure if they could reopen.
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