Nora the librarian

The US is not at war with the cartels bc congress has not declared war. This is basically saying the President can kill anyone he wants if he just says they were part of a drug cartel.
Call your representatives and tell them this is not okay and that they must stop it.

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

This is very bad because there is no oversight of how the US government is checking whether people are even part of the drug cartels that they claim.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Without paid leave, Social Security remains incomplete today, at profound cost to us all. After nearly a century, it is time to complete Social Security by restoring the final form of wage loss insurance that should have been there all along: paid leave. (6/7)

The reason EV range (and gas mileage) go down so much when you drive faster is because, when you drive twice as fast, you hit twice as many molecules AND you hit each of those molecules with twice as much force, which means drag increases exponentially.

Masked ICE Agents Detain Interpreter Who Helped U.S. Military The Afghan man was living the U.S. legally and was detained during a routine green card appointment.

“They should’ve come here legally,” MAGA says. Well, they did. One Afghan interpreter was arrested after a green card appointment. Another? Detained after his asylum hearing. Both helped U.S. troops. Now ICE wants to deport them.

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Nice news is nice.

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

News story: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Study it references: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"People in China, the world’s biggest polluter, were among the most concerned, with 97% saying its government should do more to fight the climate crisis... The world’s 2nd biggest polluter, the US, was near the bottom, but still had 1/3 of its citizens saying its government should do more."

When they have deported people without an opportunity to defend themselves in court—even when that person was not a citizen (and some of them are citizens)—they are depriving those people of liberty and property, and sometimes even of their lives.

It was a messed up and false thing to say. (🧵9/9)

When the Trump administration or any agent of the US government deprives a *person*—not just a citizen—of life, liberty, or property without the opportunity to defend themselves in court, they are violating the constitution. (🧵8/9)

It is not a function of “the proposed punishment” unless he means whether the punishment deprives life, liberty, or property (and, if it doesn’t, is that even a punishment?). (🧵7/9)

It is not a function of “the status of the accused” unless he means the status of being a person (or not) or status of being in the US (or not). (🧵6/9)

“What process is due” is a function of whether the person is in the US and whether the government here is depriving them of life, liberty, or property—full stop.

It is not a function of “public interest” unless he means the public interest of the US Constitution being upheld (or not). (🧵5/9)

When JD Vance says “what process is due is a function of our resources, the public interest, the status of the accused, the proposed punishment, and so many other factors,” he disagrees with the US constitution. (🧵4/9)

From the 14th Amendment, Section 1:
...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Source: constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ (🧵3/9)

From the 5th Amendment:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury... ...nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

Source: constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ (🧵2/9)

The US Constitution says all persons residing in the US—not just citizens—cannot be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law. It says this TWICE: once in the 5th Amendment and once in the 14th Amendment. (🧵1/9)

'Please take care of us:' Federal cuts close PCB evaluation at NC State building NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson says the Health Hazard Evaluation of Poe Hall has been closed due to federal cuts. Poe Hall was closed when toxic chemicals were discovered in the fall of 2023.

Hitting close to home ☹️ www.wral.com/news/investi...

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#taxes

I appreciate you sharing this. It is disheartening to watch my government being dismantled and my country scrapped for parts. I will keep trying to save all I can. If you know of actions that can be taken I hope you'll share them.

The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...

I want them to stop dismantling public health. I am losing my colleagues and all of us are losing our safety. I hope we don't have to start losing eyeballs again to wake up to the problems.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

For my public library and museum people

Holding the line

The weird thing about having no cats is if you drop a hair tie on the floor it will still be there the next day if you don’t pick it up

At the student/alumni networking event, I overheard a grad student say to themself, “grad student!” while picking up an entire box of leftover pizza to take home.
Yep, that is a verb. That young person definitely grad studented that pizza. Good for them.

Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis

The apocalypse is expensive.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...