#uspoli

[allthegeopolitics]

New anti-war encampments were established at the University of North Carolina and Arizona State University on Friday, as protests calling for their institutions of higher education to condemn Israel’s war on Gaza and divest from Israeli firms persist, Anadolu Agency reports. Police attempted to clear the sit-in at Arizona State University, but prosecutors defiantly remained on a campus lawn after their tents were torn down and carried away by law enforcement. Demonstrators attempted to gather what they could, and locked arms around a canopy that was left standing. School authorities attempted to clear them from the site by turning on sprinklers, but demonstrators quickly moved to place various objects, including large water bottles, on the sprinklers to block them. “Water is life,” the prosecutors chanted, according to a live feed from the local ABC television station affiliate. “One, two, three, four, occupation no more. Five, six, seven, eight, Israel is an Apartheid state. One, two three, four, we don’t want your dirty war. Five, six, seven, eight, Israel is a terrorist state,” they added.

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

A wall with Canada? The idea came up during a Republican presidential debate, from a candidate insisting his party's border policies aren't tough enough. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy brought it up unprompted on Wednesday night in Miami. Bombing drug labs in Mexico has become an increasingly popular idea in his party, along with building a wall along the southern U.S. border. But Ramaswamy said these policies don't go far enough. He lamented that the northern border does not get discussed as often as it should. "I'm the only candidate on this stage, as far as I'm aware, who has actually visited the northern border," Ramaswamy said, on the tail end of remarks about border security. "There was enough fentanyl that was captured just on the northern border last year to kill three million Americans. So we've got to just skate to where the puck is going — not just where the puck is," he said.  "Don't just build the wall — build both walls."

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[mindblowingscience]

Black children may have more severe asthma episodes than white children but are less likely to be transported to the hospital by emergency medical services (EMS), according to a new study. A baseline understanding of how prehospital treatments and transport for children with asthma varies by patient race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status will aid in future research and efforts to improve equitable pediatric asthma treatments, the researchers say. Asthma, a lifelong disease with symptoms that include wheezing, shortness of breath, and tightness of the chest, affects about 25 million people in the United States and is a leading cause of death among children. Non-Hispanic Black children are about three times more likely to die from asthma-related causes than their white counterparts, according to 2020 data.

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[newsfromstolenland]

Today's message from my mother, who has the syntax (and heart) of a communist revolutionary:

"Our democracy in canada and the united states is an illusion. Our political candidates all want slight variations of the same things and avoid making large-scale and fundamental changes. Our problems will never be solved by a vote alone."

[leguin]

We now have all the exposure of life pre-Roe but none of the paternalistic protections: Women are now seen as fully autonomous moral agents, which means that they will be legally on the hook for endangering the babies they carry, but they will also be punishable as autonomous adults. Women thus remain children for purposes of pregnancy and giving birth, but have become adults for purposes of criminal liability.

It’s easy to lull yourself into the false belief that a reversion to life pre-Roe would simply mean that the reproductive freedom movement needs to redouble efforts to fund and transport persons needing abortions to more hospitable states. That would be awful, we think, but maybe not that catastrophically bad. But as Goldberg warned in 2019, “the past can prove inadequate to understanding the depredations of the present.” We are not in fact moving “backward” to life before Roe. We are more likely moving sideways into a fundamentalist religious regime in which life pre-Roe will come to look like a vastly less terrifying option than a world in which women are subject to revanchist religious claims—claims with no support whatsoever in the Constitution—about the lives they may carry, the unknown crimes they may commit, and the choices they are no longer permitted to make.

[hiriaeth]

God Dems in congress are spineless demons

Everyone on this list needs to choke

Note most of these are backbenchers that no one cares about and seeing as there are over 200 dems in congress I wonder what the rest did.

[nando161mando]

People know .

US/Israeli Gaslighting is not working on everyone .

NYU students participate in national walkout in support of Palestinians

[sequencefairy]

It's my turn with the red ball of prophecy and I'm using it to say Mitch McConnell will be among the grave dust before the turn of the season.

[mxlxdroit]

i've shared this as a gift article, so anyone who clicks it can read it in full--exciting effort by the labor dept to extend time-and-a-half overtime eligibility for salaried workers making up to $55,000

[cooking-with-hailstones]

Hey so for the sake of my sanity can people tag their US election posts?

I'm just bracing myself for a full year of being screamed at by my dash that I'm evil and want all queer people to die if I don't vote Democrat and I just don't want to see that every single day until November 👍

(and if anyone tries to get snippy with me about this, 🇨🇦)

[lazulisong]

you know when people started freaking out about the government going to bread and circuses to appease the masses this wasn't exactly what i imagined for the circus

[allthecanadianpolitics]

American women will be able to obtain abortions in Canada if the United States Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and returns abortion law to the state level, says Karina Gould, minister of families, children and social development.

In an interview with CBC News Network's Power & Politics on Tuesday, Gould was asked if American women would be allowed to access the procedure in Canada.

"I don't see why we would not," she told host Vassy Kapelos. "If they, people, come here and need access, certainly, you know, that's a service that would be provided."

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[mindblowingscience]

Nearly six years after the United States helped negotiate it, the Senate is moving to ratify a global climate treaty that would formally phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, industrial chemicals commonly found in air conditioners and refrigerators, insulating foams and pharmaceutical inhalers.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate will vote this week to advance the Kigali Amendment, an addition to the Montreal Protocol climate treaty aimed at drastically reducing the global use of the compounds.

"HFCs need to be dealt with as soon as possible because they are thousands — thousands — of times more damaging to our atmosphere than carbon dioxide," Schumer said on the Senate floor last week.

These compounds were widely adopted in the 1980s and 1990s to replace another family of chemicals, chlorofluorocarbon, or CFCs, which damage the Earth's ozone layer. But after the switch, HFCs emerged as some of the most potent greenhouse gases.

Successfully phasing out HFCs around the globe could reduce warming by up to 0.5 degrees Celsius (or about 1 degree Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. As the world struggles to limit warming this century to 1.5 degrees Celsius to try to avoid several catastrophic tipping points, half a degree can make a major difference, said scientists.

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[newsfromstolenland]

The Lempkin Instuite for Genocide Prevention is worried about the genocidal nature of all these anti-trans bills in America. https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-genocidal-nature-of-the-gender-critical-movement%E2%80%99s-ideology-and-practice

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention voices its concern over the growing number of laws introduced in the United States that target transgender individuals and the transgender community.

Anti-trans hostility in the US has become a staple of the Republican Party’s election strategy and is clearly being used to stoke voters’ fears of a changing world by raising the specter of a malevolent polluting force tied to liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and democracy.

The Lemkin Institute believes that the so-called “gender critical movement” that is behind these laws is a fascist movement furthering a specifically genocidal ideology that seeks the complete eradication of trans identity from the world.

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[leguin]

In several states, along with raising chickens, cows and hogs, corrections departments have their own processing plants, dairies and canneries. But many states also hire out prisoners to do that same work at big private companies. The AP met women in Mississippi locked up at restitution centers, the equivalent of debtors’ prisons, to pay off court-mandated expenses. They worked at Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and other fast-food chains and also have been hired out to individuals for work like lawn mowing or home repairs. “There is nothing innovative or interesting about this system of forced labor as punishment for what in so many instances is an issue of poverty or substance abuse,” said Cliff Johnson, director of the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi.

[swingsdown]

also to every single dumbfuck motherfucker i see gloating about "hahaha you said vote blue?? well that didn't do anything" we ended up here because NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE VOTED WHEN IT COUNTED THE MOST

"dems control the presidency and the senate! this is proof they don't care!" do you NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THE SCOTUS WORKS? DO YOU NOT? UNDERSTAND????