[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

Note that this article is not about the US

Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills – with lasting consequences

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Bit unexpected with everything going with the national park service, but welcome. Appears the decision might have been made by the contractor?

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 168 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Current trajectory estimates are more like +2.5C to +3C by 2100 based on existing policy. We've actually managed to move the trajectory downward even though we obviously have a lot to go. Every little bit counts. It is far less binary than this overly simplistic tweet is suggesting

Excessive claims like this end up demotivating people and make them want to give up when we can reduce the damage each time we move our trajectory down by 0.1C

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A Guatemalan national who says he was wrongfully deported to Mexico is back in the United States, his legal team told CNN, in what appears to mark the first time the Trump administration has brought back a migrant after a judge ordered the administration to facilitate their return.

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He is now in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s custody, Realmuto told CNN.

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https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/almost-all-livestock-in-the-united-states-is-factory-farmed

Estimates are still quite high globally too. Around 94% of all globally farmed animals are factory farmed. 74% of all farmed land animals are factory farmed and virtually all farmed fish

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 179 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There have been tons of protests and there have been some pretty widespread ones outside of Tesla this weekend. The media is just hardly covering it making them seem way smaller than they are

Here's a map of recent Tesla Takedown protests alone

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

Here's just a handful of photos from yesterday

Most people within the US aren't aware these protests are happening either. There are also broader nationwide protests planned on April 5th as part of the 50501 movement. This will be the 4th nationwide 50501 protest

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 203 points 4 months ago

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

1st ammendment to the constitution since conservatives love to claim they support it

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 123 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The state and local is where most of the progress is going to happen in the next 4 years. They control a lot more than you think - even including running elections for federal office. Pay attention to all your local elections - they are going to matter a lot

EDIT: While I'm here, going to mention there are local elections in some localities across the US tomorrow (feb 25th) in parts of California, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, & Maine

Here's a substack post with more info about those local elections

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 117 points 6 months ago

Reminder to get off Facebook and Instagram

This isn't the first time they've pulled stuff like this nor will it be the last

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 111 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Meanwhile Biden is considering calling a special session directly. It's not a commonly used presidential power but it is an option

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 128 points 9 months ago

To save some people a click

The Harris campaign has arranged to have a small plane fly over Tuscaloosa during the game with a banner declaring, “Trump’s Punting on 2nd Debate.”

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The Harris campaign will also air a national ad during one of the most highly anticipated games of college football where she calls on the former president to meet her on the debate stage one more time.

“Winners never back down from a challenge,” the ad’s narrator says. “Champions know it’s any time, any place. But losers, they whine and waffle and take their ball home.”

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 168 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

During the debate, he doubled down on his full page ad calling for the execution of the central park five. Despite everything since then that's come out strongly showing they were innocent

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 189 points 10 months ago

Ah yes the strategy of trying to court jewish Americans by *checks notes* being blatantly antisemitic. There's no real reason to mention he's Jewish here other than to be antisemitic and imply he's a "bad jew"

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 176 points 10 months ago

Don't worry, when reporters asked his campaign about a very easily provable fact on a live-broadcast and widely recorded event, they said this:

In an emailed response to an inquiry about the lisp from a Huffington Post reporter, the Trump campaign said, “Must be your s****y hearing. Get your ears checked.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-elon-musk-interview-x-stream-lisp-b2595384.html

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 256 points 11 months ago

Headline undersells how he did this during the 90's during the Don't Ask Don't Tell era. Was not nearly as socially or politically acceptable then as it is now in the US to do that

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