Eastern black or Prairie swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes asterius)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2022-08-18 _F2A3010aaa
“From Georgia to Hawaii, restrictive voting laws are on the rise across the country. Add your name if you agree that politicians should expand access to the ballot box, not limit it.”
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“Friendly reminder: The USA is the only country in the world with “pre-existing conditions.
Everywhere else its’ referred to simply as your “medical history.”
“Pre-existing condition” is a term created by insurance companies as a means to defraud their customers.”
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“Global sea levels are rising at more than double the pace they did in the first decade of measurements and hit a new record high last year, the World Meteorological Organisation said on Friday, warning that the trend would continue for millennia.
Extreme glacier melt and record ocean heat levels – which cause water to expand – contributed to an average rise in sea levels of 4.62 millimetres a year between 2013-2022, the United Nations agency said in a major report detailing the havoc of climate change. That is about double the pace of the first decade on record, 1993-2002, leading to a total increase of more than 10 centimetres since the early 1990s.”
“Glaciers ‘already lost’: Extreme melt has contributed to 10cm rise in ocean levels”
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“"Poverty, by America": Author Matthew Desmond on How U.S. Punishes the Poor & Rewards the Wealthy”
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“Ukraine Is Being DESTROYED And Pentagon Papers Prove It”
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“Blinken Goes Full Cringe Promoting US Colonialism in Nigeria”
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“You're Not Immune To Propaganda”
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“The U.S. is cynically wielding “anti-terrorism” as a cudgel against the left.”
“Charges Against Stop Cop City Protesters Continue Terror of “Anti-Terrorism””
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“We Should Stop Calling It “Climate Change” — And Start Calling It Extinction
The Words “Climate Change” May End Up Being The Biggest Lie Ever Told - by umair haq
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“The Shadow of Ronald Reagan Is Costing Us Dearly”
“Reagan is singlehandedly responsible for America's demise, even worse than Trump.
"The myths of American individualism planted and nurtured under Mr. Reagan continue to cost us dearly as a nation. “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,” he insisted in that first inaugural.
The time is long overdue to reverse that equation.
How did we get to a point that doing less for Americans is a virtue, and comprehensive social welfare a privilege?
It goes back to Jan. 20, 1981. On that cold, windy day, Ronald Reagan, who had scoffed at mythical female welfare cheats on the campaign trail, a trope he had revisited since his 1966 campaign for governor of California, took the oath of office. The defeated Democratic President Jimmy Carter, also on the dais, shared some of Mr. Reagan’s distaste for social spending. During his presidency, Mr. Carter charged Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano Jr. with creating “pro-work and pro-family” rules for recipients (though they never went through).
Mr. Reagan went further. In his inaugural speech, he linked government itself to national decline. The economic crisis of the 1970s, he declared, was “proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government.” Social programs were wasteful. Worse, they lured families into dependence.
In other words: The government that helps families most helps them least. It was an idea that became an American ethic, with staying power through Republican and Democratic administrations alike. Attacks on social programs portrayed poverty as a moral failure and exploited racist stereotypes to mischaracterize social welfare as a magnet for criminal, failed and indolent Americans. The belief that successful families helped themselves remained an article of faith in both parties until the socialist Senator Bernie Sanders ran for president.
Under Mr. Reagan, conservatives were finally able to begin dismantling the New Deal state and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. In 1981 and 1982, Mr. Reagan made more than $22 billion in cuts to social welfare programs, including federal student loans and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, a modest program that paid businesses to train and hire economically disadvantaged people.
The federal deficit grew anyway, as Mr. Reagan cut taxes and accelerated military spending. Inheriting a national debt of about $995 billion, he nearly tripled it. But conservative activists still cheered.”
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“Citizens put our lives on the line with cops. Defund the Police and use social workers and mental health professionals instead of shooting before understanding. Distrust is caused by some cops as other cops do nothing re this. Stealing citizen property, cahoots with pawn shops and thieves. Harassment and removal from homes permanently. no knock killings at wrong addresses prove cops are trigger happy. Racial profiling and racial murders.
It's just a job that cops have been determined to make more dangerous. Yes, I have an attitude. That is not illegal. Stop shooting attitudes.”
“GOP holds hearing with NYC crime victims”
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“So the same guy who is currently running the proxy war in Ukraine that is costing us tens of billions a month - Antony Blinken - was the guy who worked the intelligence community to run cover for Hunter's laptop. Blinken is scum and he's gotten away with grand larceny of your tax dollars, literally. And if he keeps his job you should expect a lot more of the same and even worse.”
“BREAKING: Ex-CIA chief asked to write false Hunger Biden laptop letter to ‘help Biden win the election’
Biden’s campaign asked Morell to organize 50 colleagues to sign a letter claiming that emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian disinformation.
Morell testified that Blinken was the campaign official who reached out to him after The Post published an email about Hunter introducing his Ukrainian business partner to his father
Morell, identified as a potential CIA director under Biden, said he organized the latter to “help Vice President Biden…because I wanted him to win the election.”
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Caitlin Johnstone:
“Defending the most powerful is always the wrong position.
Defending cops from the people. The rich from the poor,
The US empire from weaker powers. White people from POC. Men from women, Israel from Palestinians.
You’re just helping to create a more unjust and imbalanced world.”
“That distortion is also what you're seeing here:”
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“Socialist just want free stuff.
I want the stuff our taxes are supposed to pay for.
I don’t want my hard-earned disappearing into the pockets of the wealthy.
I want education, healthcare, roads, transport, justice and protection.
I’ve fucking paid for it.
Give me it.”
And give me back the money you took out of my pay check to keep a social security account, with interest!
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“Spain’s Labor Minister, Yolanda Díaz, Is Working to Rebuild the Left”
“Spain’s labor minister, Yolanda Díaz, is a Communist — and her success restoring workplace protections has made her the country’s most popular politician. Now her new electoral platform Sumar is trying to use that popularity to revitalize the Spanish left.”
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“Globally, approximately 33 percent of our energy comes from oil, followed by coal, gas, and hydroelectric power.”
“What would it take to defeat Big Oil? Progressive Economist Weighs in.”
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“Sam Carana \ NearTermHumanExtinction, April 22 at 5:01 AM
“High sea surface temperature in North Atlantic”
“On April 20, 2023, sea surface temperatures (between 60°South and 60°North) had been at 21°C or higher for as many as 32 days. Such temperatures are unprecedented in the NOAA record that goes back to 1981.
On April 4, the sea surface temperature in 2023 (black line) was as much as 0.3°C higher than in 2022 (orange line) and we're only just entering the upcoming El Niño.
The situation is especially critical in the North Atlantic. Vast amounts of ocean heat in the North Atlantic are moving toward the Arctic, threatening to cause rapid melting of Arctic sea ice and thawing of permafrost. Last year, North Atlantic sea surface temperatures reached a record high of 24.9°C in early September and, as illustrated by the image below, the North Atlantic sea surface temperature on April 20 was as much as 0.5°C higher in 2023 (black) than in 2022 (orange).
As we're moving into the upcoming El Niño, the Arctic Ocean can be expected to receive more and more heat over the next few years, i.e. more heat from direct sunlight, more heat from rivers, more heat from heatwaves and more ocean heat from the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
The difference in global temperatures (Land+Ocean) between November 2022 and March 2023 is already about half a degree Celsius and we are not even in an El Niño yet.
Rising temperatures threaten to trigger massive loss of sea ice (and loss of albedo) and eruptions of methane from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean. Over the next few years, feedbacks threaten to start kicking in with increased ferocity and important tipping points threaten to get crossed, such as the latent heat tipping point and the seafloor methane tipping point.
El Niño can be expected to reach its full strength within a few years, with a maximum possible in 2026. Altogether, the rise from pre-industrial could be more than 18.44°C by 2026. Meanwhile, humans are likely to go extinct with a rise of 3°C and most life on Earth will disappear with a 5°C rise.
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