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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
February 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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I’m signing off the year with a look back at all the things that went right in 2024. Because plenty did. From “mind blowing” medical advances to tumbling renewables records, here are the good news stories you may have missed in the mainstream media www.positive.news/society/what...
December 30, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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Approximately 3 days of 3 angstroms of Solar Dynamics Observatory data from February 2015 showing a huge filament wrapped around the Sun. All images repaired, processed, graded & ramped with music by Chris Zabriskie.
Credit: SDO / NASA / AIA / Seán Doran
November 15, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Another article on benefits of restoring megafauna, this one focusing on potential climate change mitigation.

earth.org/reviving-gia...
How Does Megafauna Contribute to Carbon Balance? | Earth.Org
The restoration of large populations of free-roaming megafauna can help reduce concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. We explore how.
earth.org
November 14, 2024 at 6:03 AM
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March 30, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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This is a good chart. #energysky

Sure, go ahead and spend your own $ on new nuclear, but if you want new generation on the grid fast and at low cost, solar PV just wins. By a lot.

"Average Cost And Time To Market For Utility-Scale Energy Sources" in 2021 dollars.
cleanedge.com/data-dive-ch...
March 4, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Slavery was Legal.

Colonialism was Legal.

Jim Crow was Legal.

Apartheid was Legal.

Legality depends on who has power and the kinds of laws they pass to preserve their own privileges and bigoted views. Legality often has nothing to do with justice.
February 11, 2024 at 4:38 AM
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In Texas now, a doctor who performs an abortion on a woman who doesn't want a child faces 99 years in prison. But a creep who slips abortion meds into his pregnant wife's drinks, causing their baby to be born with complications? That's six months. Tell me again how it's not about punishing women?
Texas attorney who poisoned pregnant wife with abortion medication sentenced to 180 days in jail
Mason Herring's estranged wife told a court that their now 1-year-old daughter has developmental delays and attends therapy eight times a week.
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2024 at 5:48 AM