Taimi: Hiker, Reader, Birder, Academic, Mom

The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury.
See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...

Freedom to Vote, $0.00
+ Birth Certificate, $50.00
+ Passport, $195.00
+ Time to Obtain, $500.00
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= A Poll Tax, $Priceless for Republicans

tRUMPSTEIN IS DESTROYING OUR CONSTITUTION!!

1st Amendment: GONE
Right to Assemble
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of the Press
Right to Petition

2nd Amendment: GONE
Right to Keep & Bear Arms

4th Amendment: GONE
Unreasonable Searches &
Seizures

Grrr

Trump Marks First Year In Office With Unhinged Racist Rant Targeting ‘Very Low IQ’ Somalis President Donald Trump spent the first anniversary of his second term on...

So far, I am only seeing TPM, Mediaite, and Daily Beast focusing on this.

We live in a world where the president calling an ethnic group "very low IQ" and "bad for our country" while insisting they "ought to get the hell out of here" barely makes headlines. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.

A state "may not—compel the public utility to sell or exchange electric energy when to do so would impair its ability to render proper, adequate, or sufficient service to its customers"
+utilities raise rates as needed

Anti-climate; pro-data centers

Lessons from Trump’s “war” on Chicago ICE and Border Patrol agents terrorized the city, and locals fought back.

The government is using face-scanning apps to check if random people on the street are citizens. And they say you cannot refuse.

Our new dystopia, on this week’s @revealnews.org

#AntiAbortion #HatingWomen

South Carolina is trying YET AGAIN to pass a bill that will impose the death penalty or imprison women (life sentence) who lose their baby for any

Death penalty and life imprisonment for a miscarriage or abortion is pure hatred of women.

Please share far and wide ⬇️

Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social

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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

US citizen George Retes speaks out about his unlawful detainment by ICE.

Institute for Justice website: ij.org

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Happy with the landslide nature of all this.

Also curious what the tantrum will be.

After No Kings Day 2 we lost part of the White House.

*thinks*

Uh. We might should set a guard on the Statue of Liberty.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

So, is MAGA Mike Johnson ever going to work again, or is he just going to keep humiliating himself by holding these weird press conferences every day? Trying to starve Americans and take away their health care to protect those in the Epstein Files certainly is a choice.

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Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show Why Rural America Turned on the Democratic Party | The Ezra Klein Show

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities

The political scientist @smettler.bsky.social examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zQ9...

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😤

🗣️PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER

Patti Smith 🥰

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

REPUBLICANS THREATEN MASS FIRINGS WHILE PRETENDING A "CLEAN FUNDING BILL" IS A FIX GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN FIGHT REPUBLICANS WANT: Clean funding bill THREAT: Mass firings DEMOCRATS WANT: Obamacare tax credit extension THREAT: Shut down government DEMOCRATS FIGHTING FOR ACA SUBSIDIES THAT KEEP WORKING FAMILIES INSURED the REFORMERS

Repubs are leveraging the firing of government employees to get Dems to concede to their budget bill.

Dems want to protect your finances from an extreme rise in premiums (75%+) and prevent millions from losing healthcare.

The parties are not the same.

One year later: Remembering the 108 lives lost in North Carolina to Hurricane Helene One year after Hurricane Helene, we remember and honor those in North Carolina who tragically lost their lives to the deadly storm.

One year later: Remembering the 108 lives lost in North Carolina to Hurricane Helene abcnews4.com/newsletter-d...

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Hail Zorp!
#rapture

So much greatness.

Heads up. Our healthcare is heading into leeches and mustard plaster territory.

A headline reads: "Wildfire Firefighters, Unmasked In Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying" over a photo of firefighters walking in a line through thick orange skies. Photo by Loren Elliott for The New York Times

The U.S. Forest Service has spent decades blocking efforts to better protect its wildfire fighters, sending crews into smoke without masks or warnings about the health risks, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/4mm9oMr

A dark blue graphic with red and white text that reads: “We’re 6 months into defending our civil liberties in President Trump’s second term. And we’re not backing down.” The ACLU logo is featured in the bottom right corner in red.

A dark blue graphic with red and white text that reads: “6 months into President Trump’s presidency, we have: stopped an executive order that would prevent trans and intersex people from receiving passports that align with their gender identity; filed a class action lawsuit to protect health care for incarcerated trans people; challenged President Trump’s unlawful invocation of the Alien Enemies Act; successfully fought for the release of Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Dr. Badar Khan Suri, and Mohsen Mahdawi; got President Trump’s order attempting to end birthright citizenship blocked in court; filed a lawsuit on behalf of two human rights advocates who were forced to stop their work with the ICC because of President Trump’s sanctions; challenged book bans in schools run by the Department of Defense; and more.” The ACLU logo is featured in the bottom right corner in red.

Count on it.