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#CLIMATE

July 3 was hottest day ever recorded across Planet Earth. Monday, July 3rd was the hottest day ever recorded on Planet Earth. A record that lasted until…… …..Tuesday, July 4th. Totally unprecedented and terrifying. It will get worse. The fossil fuel industry is to blame.

“Around the country, utility companies are using their outsize political power to slow down the clean energy transition — and they are likely using your money to do it,” writes @DavidPomerantz
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/opinion/utility-bills-clean-energy.html

#PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The number of U.S. 13-year-olds who never read for fun has nearly quadrupled.

TIP 43% of white students admitted to Harvard are legacy, athletes, or related to donors or staff. 86% admit rate for athletes.

#Pennsylvania already enables $340 million for private school vouchers. No accountability means: we don’t know if students receive a quality education or if educational outcomes are boosted. INVEST IN #PAPUBLICSCHOOLS.

BETSY DEVOSS AND HER BROTHER ERIK PRINCE  founder of mercenary Blackwater USA are Nazis who aim to privatize public education and the business of war. They are not Patriots.
They are Evangelical, White Nationalists, Republican Fascists.
#NeverForget they are Traitors who want to end Democracy.
#FreshResists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h7AoQ2xyV0

Governor Whitmer stood up to the DeVos billionaire crew, rejected vouchers, and got a great budget for students. Please do this for PA
@GovernorShapiro ! @PaHouseDems

NC LT Gov Mark Robinson AND moms for Liberty SUPPORT THE DICTATORS like Hitler

Expose the big money corruption in the ultra wealthy groups pushed by KOCHS ETC. like #MomsforFacisim trying to turn the country over to a few billionaires !

Moms for Liberty has been called Klanned Karenhood, twatzis, Ku Klux Karens, Moms for Hitler, and Asshøles with Casseroles. It’s very important for @Moms4Liberty to realize two things here.
1) They are the Nazis.
2) America already beat the Nazis, and we’ll do it again.

At Moms for Liberty‘s Philadelphia event, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) says dictators like Hitler, Stalin and Mao are being taken out of context and promotes reading their writings. 2 weeks ago Mark Robinson endorsed Donald Trump for president. This explains a lot.
“…It is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes.”

“MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature on Wednesday voted to stop Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration from requiring seventh graders to be vaccinated against meningitis.”

Public funds should go to public schools.

Stop Republicans from continuing to cheat their way into unchecked power.

Pa. House identifies a way to pass a state budget without implementing a voucher plan

#StopVouchers #DeVosPlan4PA #FundPAPublicSchools #PASchoolsWork #PABudget @SenWilliamsPA
Lindsey Williams @LindseyForPA
PA State Senator (District 38) who loves using her law degree & communications skills to fight for working families. She/her. Official
@SenWilliamsPA https://lindseyforpa.com/

PA @senatorlaughlin voted against teachers, against public schools, and against our kids.
He supported a voucher plan hatched by Betsy DeVos and right wing special interests that would divert dollars from our public schools and hand them out to private ones.
This right wing cabal conspired to rob our public schools of desperately needed funding – and @SenRobinsonPA voted with them.
The #BetsyDevosPlan4PA is wrong for our schools.

#schoolvouchers #PAgov #PAleg #OhioEd #nced @GovernorShapiro @PaHouseDems @PaSenateDems TAKE NOTE
School vouchers hurt vulnerable students. Full stop. Please focus on supporting the public school students who are counting on you and abandon billionaire-backed voucher schemes.
Arizona school voucher program growth explodes to $900 million for the upcoming school year
The projected costs are nearly 1,400% more than initial estimates. Universal vouchers are the end game for the DeVos billionaire crowd. If you open the door, they will not stop pressuring you until EVERY student is eligible for a voucher in PA. Look to AZ for what will happen.

After gutting affirmative action, Republicans target minority scholarships

Moms for Liberty’s focus on school races nationwide sets up political clash with teachers unions

Republicans are saying that misinformation and hateful speech needs to be protected so they can use it for political purposes?

“Don’t be afraid to go into the library and read every book!” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Central York SD did the right thing in returning banned books to its HS library & settling on a compromise that gives parents the option to restrict their own child’s access [not everyone’s]. Thanks largely to student protesters! @CBSDSchools @PennridgeSD

#CAPITALISM

Green Stamps were a commodity right?

David Z. Morris @davidzmorris Jun 30
I’m reading BLOCKCHAIN RADICALS: HOW CAPITALISM RUINED CRYPTO AND HOW TO FIX IT  by @TBSocialist (Out in August, review soon)
And reader, I was not prepared to learn that the phrase “the tragedy of the commons” was coined by a white supremacist because he assumed people of color were incompetent.
“The truth is that the story of the “tragedy of the commons”, commonly used to justify the need for capitalist markets and push for neoliberal economic policy, was one made up by the conservative American ecologist Garrett James Hardin. JHardin later retracted his original thesis in response to evidence of historical and existing commons, stating that “The Tragedy of the Unmanaged Common” would have been a better title, but the damage had already been done. What’s also problematic is that Garrett was vocal about his white nationalist, hard-line anti-immigrant and pro-eugenics views. There seems to be a noticeable connection between ideological support for neoliberalism and anti-democratic tendencies with a reactive belief that humans can’t manage a commons.”

“African Americans make up 16.8 percent of the military but only 12.4 percent of the U.S. population.” One odd, surprising, and important facet of the chief justice’s opinion: He explicitly exempts military academies from his new ban on race-conscious admissions “in light of the potentially distinct interests” they may present. https://supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

A reminder that Robert F Kennedy Jr is a propagandist chaos agent hired by treasonous felon Steve Bannon and has allied himself with traitors Michael Flynn and Roger Stone. He’s in no way a Democrat.

ACLU “The Court’s ruling does not prohibit universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected their life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise. Colleges can still consider race as long as they do so in this manner.”

Kurt Vonnegut on the American dream
“Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no loaws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.

CHILD LABOR LAWS

How does this not amount to a string of states admitting that their economies are so fucked up they need child labor to maintain standards of living, and/or that their economies are overindexed on jobs that *can be done by children*?

Iowa’s new child labor law just went into effect. 14 year-olds can now work in meat coolers, 15 year-olds can join assembly lines, and 16 year-olds can serve alcohol. This rollback is part of a coordinated effort in conservative states to dilute national child labor laws.

A major child labor rollback goes into effect in Iowa this weekend.
14 year-olds are now allowed to work in meat coolers, 15 year-olds can join assembly lines and 16 year-olds can serve alcohol.
In a few weeks, similar rollbacks take effect in Arkansas.

Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid

Kevin McCarthy has endorsed a
“GOP study group” to find ways to end Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.

The new gilded age
Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county Report • By Estelle Sommeiller and Mark Price • July 19, 2018

Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn’t Trickle Down, Study Says

Paper looks at fiscal policies in 18 countries over 50 years Governments shouldn’t worry about taxes on rich, author says!!!

America is living on Borrowed Money Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) @froomkin The once-liberal NYT editorial board is calling for cuts to Social Security and Medicare in a sad and misguided attempt to be seen as Serious. ⁦@AGSNYT is an elitist before anything else.

Dan Whitfield@DanWhitCongress Jul 4
When the super rich didn’t want to give people another stimulus during the worldwide pandemic their excuse was that people would put it in the bank and not spend it back into the economy.

MONITEAU
When poor people make more money, they spend it and stimulate economy.
When rich people make more money, they hoard it in offshore accounts and remove that money from circulation.
It’s not that hard to realize that tax cuts for the wealthy do not help the economy.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could preempt Congress from ever instituting a federal wealth tax

After a nudge from billionaires’ think tank, justices agreed to hear a case designed to preemptively block a wealth tax. Another lucrative gift for conservative justices’ billionaire benefactors and the super rich.

Harvard prof, WWI German saboteur & terrorist, Eric Muenter poisoned his wife, and then things got weird. How weird?
On July 3, 1915, an assassin, Eric Muenter, entered JP Morgan’s Long Island mansion and shot him twice. This was ostensibly to bring about an embargo on arms, and in protest of his profiteering from war. Morgan, however, quickly recovered from his wounds.

Twitter Payments LLC, just got its first money transmitter license.
Google has removed the vast majority of Twitter links from their search results… Elon’s decision to block the Google “bot” from crawling their site is reportedly to blame.  Twitter will now be invisible on the world’s largest search engine

 

All of the spot #Bitcoin ETF filings have been resubmitted The ball is back in the SEC’s court

The Into the spaghettiverse Second FTX Asset Recovery Report Is Packed With Bombshells
New claims put Sam Bankman-Fried and his friends even closer to the center of a brazen conspiracy. Highlights of this mess include the claim that $20 million of FTX customer funds went to Guarding Against Pandemics (GAP), a quote-unquote “nonprofit” run by Gabe Bankman-Fried, Sam’s brother. This deepens existing questions about the Bankman-Fried family’s knowledge of and participation in the fraud.

Ripple to Sell XRP Escrow to Pay for Lawsuit?– David Schwartz, Consensus 2017 (3-years before the lawsuit)
#XRP #Ripple #david #schwartz #consensus #bitcoin #lawsuit #SEC
“Our decision to put 54B #XRP into escrow and what was behind that, and whether we use that, for example, to fund the lawsuit…if we were threatened and had to draw on that, we certainly would.” David Schwartz 2017

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#PRIVACY

Ransomware criminals are dumping kids’ private files online after school hacks “Not until Feb did district officials disclose the breach’s full dimensions, noting the complexity of notifying victims with exposed files up to 3 decades old.” “Truth is, they didn’t notify us about anything,” said a mother whose son’s case file has 80 documents.
All that stuff that went down on our “permanent records” is eventually going to be leaked.
The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts.
“Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of continually bumping into an ex-abuser at a school in Minneapolis. Other victims talked about wetting the bed or crying themselves to sleep. Complete sexual assault case folios containing these details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom. Other exposed data included medical records, discrimination complaints, Social Security numbers and contact information of district employees.

WOW. Signal CEO @mer__edith calls out doublespeak on UK #OnlineSafetyBill.
On @Channel4News talking about the UK Online Safety Bill’s mass surveillance provision. Pols wanting to regulate tech are instead promoting tech snake oil—doesn’t matter if it’s a backdoor, frontdoor or door that uses hashing: there’s no safe+private way to scan all our messages.
She’s right. Dictators around the world are waiting for the UK to set the *wrong* example.
https://www.channel4.com/news/online-safety-bill-debate-could-it-lead-to-unprecedented-paradigm-shifting-surveillance

TRUMP

People still have no idea how big of an idiot Trump is and was.

A group of Secret Service  joined in the MAGA plot of criminal sedition to help Trump overthrow the government and deleted their text messages to cover it up which should result in them going to prison too.

Donald had to increase the percentage of money going from his PAC to his legal bills by a factor of 10. He couldn’t get a loan to pay E Jean. Truth social now owes the SEC $18M. He owes $1M in sanctions fees. And almost a BILLION is coming due in other loans loans. Lulz.

Republicans are increasingly going after all vaccines including protecting kids from meningitis and even chicken pox.

America First was about racism, and violence in the 1930’s, and that’s what it’s about today.
That is why Trump chose it. He is a racist. His followers are racists. Republicans who kiss his ass in Congress are racists.
They don’t like it when we speak truth to power.

TAX ALL THE CHURCHES TO PAY FOR UIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. IT’S WHAT GOD WOULD HAVE WANTED.