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Climate Migration - 64 Parishes Climate migration occurs when people move away from home due to extreme environmental conditions worsened or caused by climate change.

"In 2005 Hurricane Katrina resulted in the largest human migration in US history, with more than 1 million people leaving southeast Louisiana after the storm. Two decades later New Orleans’s population remains 20 percent less than before Katrina."

64parishes.org/entry/climat...

Closest I can imagine is that it only uses figs that don’t require fig wasps? Apparently the main brand uses a blend of some that do and don’t but that seems a stretch

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Intervention Symposium — "Plantation Methodologies" — 12 open access essays questioning scale, space, and subjecthood, edited and introduced by Alyssa Paredes, Sophie Chao and Andrés León Araya antipodeonline.org/2024/01/04/p...

Activists erased $10 million in student debt for nearly 3,000 HBCU students — and said Biden can d... "We're doing our part, and it's time Biden does his," the Debt Collective said as it erased debt Morehouse College students owed to the school.

Morehouse College transferred every penny of debt they held in collections to the Debt Collective, amounting to $10M for 2800 students. Instead of collecting on it, we canceled it all completely.

This is a no strings attached gift.
www.businessinsider.com/student-loan...

This winter break has primarily been me alternating between BG3 and making a new resume and cv from scratch in indesign and it’s not very hard to say which one has been more enjoyable

Home for the holidays and my hometown has changed the speed limits on a number of roads with varying degrees of new signage. I read the ordinance change months ago but actually driving on the roads now is so disconcerting, even if I agree with the safety purposes of the new lower limits

*chef’s kiss*

Every now and again I’ll get abt 15 minutes into a youtube video and realize i can no longer enjoy the style of content I’ve been consuming for ten years like someone hs flipped a switch in my brain. Then I wind up watching snooker videos or 500man mountain bike races for some reason.

“Reconsidering Reparations” by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

This weeks text for seminar 🫶 by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social . Really phenomenal read

Slave descendants are suing to fight zoning changes they say threaten their island homes off Georgia Black residents descended from slaves on a Georgia island have filed suit in hopes of stopping zoning changes that they fear will force them to sell their homes.

Hogg Hammock is a constant battleground as the last remaining Gullah-Geechee settlement in the coastal heritage corridor. Please read and help support the efforts of the Saltwater Geechee in preserving their way of life and rich history and knowledge on Sapelo Island apnews.com/article/gull...

The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail? The long read: From Brazil to Egypt, Turkey to Hong Kong, the 2010s saw a series of huge public uprisings. Yet many of them led to the opposite of what they asked for. I spoke to more than 200 partici...

"In the decade from 2010 to 2020, humanity witnessed an explosion of mass protests that seemed to herald profound changes...we can now see how the uprisings preceded – if not necessarily caused – outcomes that were very different from the goals of the protesters."
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

I adore Hollow Knight and it’s on either device! I also love stardew (500ish hrs 😭) and if you get a steamdeck it’s very easy to mod the game and add some great content to extend the games lifespan for yourself

Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions

Today, the Guardian and other orgs co-released "Trafficking Inc": a massive investigation linking Amazon, McDonalds, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Chuck E. Cheese to labor trafficking and forced labor, particularly in the Persian Gulf

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Precedent law really only needed more ways to falsely establish itself

booklist for this course is so good and yet my brain is absolutely fried

I have got to get a better schedule and space for reading bc I cannot be reading Cedric Robinson and Angela Davis in the same chair that I’m reading census data in my brain cannot handle it

Last installation event for the Linnentown living mosaic yesterday in downtown Athens. volunteers spent the morning assembling the mosaic, followed by a short program. Kudos to Dr. Jennifer Rice and Dr Lynn Sanders-Bustle for developing this project. (Aerial photos by me.)

Social scientists need to talk more abt power.

We who are obsessed w/ the psychology of human behavior must more frequently contend with the workings of power and status and hierarchy in our work.

Far too often, these concepts are absent from our theorizing, and that’s too bad. Let’s do better.

We do it bc it’s easy (the whole farm is shaded by pines) but it’s definitely faster to break down. It’s a lot easier to lay out though imo than a lot of other stuff

I cant even imagine how this would be useful

We’ve always covered w pine straw but winter is a joke down here we get maybe one freeze all season and it’s a lot more garden than farm these days

It’s SO good i used to play it all the time when I was little

Ignore the last 2 i ran out of space on the ps2 card and im keeping the other one for my snoopy save

The Jolt: Poll shows strong state support for public safety training center A new poll highlights the risks for Democrats with statewide political ambitions who oppose the Atlanta public safety training center, hinting at why so few prominent party leaders have argued against...

I wonder when the AJC will start polling ONLY residents of the City of Atlanta on what they think about Gov Kemp and his (statewide) policies.

More pro #CopCity advocacy pretending to be journalism.

Peanuts Comic Panel, first panel shows Charlie Brown exclaiming “No! Wait!” Second panel shows Snoopy pressing down the handle of a fusebox with a long fuse extending out of the panel, presumably an explosive off screen.

I have survived once again the implosion of my public forum