And another day of extremism, an even worse FL bill, ‘climate-friendly’ fuel causes cancer, the haves and have-nots of American high schools, ‘15-min cities,’ prioritizing sleep, human composting, and Scott Adams once again shows his true colors comes to a close:
“Because nothing is racist to a racist, or they’d have to admit they’re a racist.” — Marsha Warfield
US mass killings linked to extremism at highest level in decades, report finds. The number of US mass killings linked to extremism over the past decade was at least three times higher than the total from any other 10-year period since the 1970s, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL report also found that all extremist killings identified in 2022 were linked to rightwing extremism, with an especially high number linked to white supremacy.
Gov. Greg Abbott says most gun crimes involve illegally owned weapons. That’s not true in mass shootings. Most of the state’s 19 mass shootings over the past six decades were carried out by men who legally possessed firearms, an investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. -- In other words, Governor Greg Abbott is a liar.
Thought the ‘Stop WOKE Act’ was bad? A new Florida bill is worse. Florida House Bill 999 is a dangerous expansion of the unconstitutional ‘Stop WOKE Act,’ putting entire majors disfavored by legislators on the chopping block. — There is so much bad shit in this bill that I couldn’t mention all of it. If you’re in higher education, read this. If you care about higher education, read this. All of it is bad for education.
This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk. The Environmental Protection Agency recently gave a Chevron refinery the green light to create fuel from discarded plastics as part of a “climate-friendly” initiative to boost alternatives to petroleum. But, according to agency records obtained by ProPublica and The Guardian, the production of one of the fuels could emit air pollution that is so toxic, 1 out of 4 people exposed to it over a lifetime could get cancer…That risk is 250,000 times greater than the level usually considered acceptable by the EPA division that approves new chemicals. Chevron hasn’t started making this jet fuel yet, the EPA said. When the company does, the cancer burden will disproportionately fall on people who have low incomes and are Black because of the population that lives within 3 miles of the refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Millions who rely on Medicaid may be booted from program. But as states begin checking everyone’s eligibility for Medicaid for the first time in three years, as many as 14 million people could lose access to that health care coverage.
Black married couples face heavier tax penalties than white couples, a report says. Researchers with the nonprofit think tank found that Black couples were more likely to face marriage penalties (46% to 43%) and less likely to receive marriage bonuses (36% to 43%) than white couples.
A viral high school tour underscores the haves and have-nots in America's schools. These basic disparities are the aftereffects of a legacy of systemic racism and racial segregation in schools, according to Jamel Donnor, a professor of education at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. “For so long, many school districts fought integration, fought desegregation, and so a lot of resources were dedicated to that.” he said. “A lot of resources were actually used to circumvent school desegregation as well. And then you also have to throw in that mix white flight, which also played a role in all those things.” -- If you haven’t seen the video, it’s posted in this story. Wow. The privilege and opportunity gap widens every fucking day.
Newspapers Pull “Dilbert” After Creator Scott Adams Calls Black People a “Hate Group”. The long-running series Dilbert will be removed from several local and national publications after its creator, Scott Adams, called Black Americans a “hate group” and urged white Americans to “get the fuck away” from them in a recently uploaded YouTube video. On Friday, publications like the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the USA Today network announced that they’ll be severing ties with Adams due to his remarks…“Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the fuck away,” Adams said. “Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed. So I don’t think it makes any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore. It doesn’t make sense. There’s no longer a rational impulse. So I’m going to back off on being helpful to Black America because it doesn’t seem like it pays off.” None of this should be super surprising to anyone who’s followed Adams, who’s been on this “anti-woke” shtick for a while.
How ‘15-minute cities’ turned into an international conspiracy theory. Duncan Enright never imagined he’d get death threats over a plan to reduce grinding city traffic...The accusations flung at Enright were wild and varied, and mostly from people with no connection to Oxford, he said. Many were from outside the UK. They claimed he wanted to confine people to their neighborhoods and accused him of being part of a malign international plot to control people’s movement in the name of climate action. “It was quite alarming,” Enright told CNN, “I haven’t really had anything like that before in my many years in local government.” Enright had been swept into a conspiracy theory, fast gaining pace around the world, which has rebranded plans to cut traffic, reduce air pollution and increase walking and cycling in cities as “climate lockdowns.”
What's really behind the wave of sadness among teenage girls? We asked 9 of them. Much of the conjecture about why girls are experiencing a spike in sadness has come from adults, whose theories include smartphones and social media, as well as anxieties about the world teens will inherit, rife with problems like climate change. Metzger and eight other teenage girls interviewed across six states generally agreed with those hypotheses, but they said their generation has the confidence to speak up about how they’re feeling and why they think that is — if adults are willing to hear their voices.
A new bill has been proposed in Florida that would enact a series of animal protections and guidelines, such as banning cat declawing, animal testing for cosmetics and dogs hanging their heads out of windows. Florida Senate Bill 932, filed by state Minority Democratic Leader Lauren Book, says that dogs would not be allowed to stick any part of their bodies out of the window, ride in the driver's lap or ride on motorcycles.
Want to live longer? Then prioritize sleep in your life. Men who followed all five of the healthy sleep habits had a life expectancy that was 4.7 years greater than people who had none or only one of the five elements of low-risk sleep, the study found. The impact of healthy sleep habits was much lower for women: Those who followed all five sleep habits gained 2.4 years compared with those who did none or only one.
Human Composting Poised to Become a Billion-Dollar Industry. Composting a human currently takes eight to 12 weeks, and is estimated to use just one-eighth the energy required for cremation.
Surprising ‘forbidden planet’ discovered outside our solar system. An M dwarf star is smaller, cooler and redder than our sun. These dim stars are some of the most common in the universe, and in recent years, astronomers have discovered that M dwarf stars are more likely to have planets orbiting them. But astronomers weren’t expecting such small stars to host giant planets — and that’s exactly what they found when they took a closer look at the TOI-5205 planetary system.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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