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75% decrease in insect biomass within my lifetime and I'm supposed to care about cover letters

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The state's parole board recommended Littlejohn for clemency after hearing arguments that his guilt is unclear. Ultimately, it's the governo
Emmanuel Littlejohn has been waiting for months to find out whether he will die on Thursday or get to live. It's been "the hardest thing I ever did."
Littlejohn, 52, is set to be executed for the shooting death of a convenience store owner during a robbery in Oklahoma City in 1992. If Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt declines to grant him clemency, Littlejohn will be the third inmate executed by the state this year and the 17th in the nation. He's also one of five men the U.S. is executing in a six-day period, and he's set to die just about eight hours before Alabama is expected to execute Alan Eugene Miller using nitrogen gas.
"I would say to the governor: Do what you think is the right thing," Littlejohn told USA TODAY in a recent interview.
Littlejohn has admitted to his role in the robbery but has maintained that his accomplice was the one to pull the trigger, not him.
"I accept responsibility for what I did but not what they want me to accept responsibility for," Littlejohn previously told USA TODAY. "They want me to accept that I killed somebody, but I haven't killed somebody."
In a rare move, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 to recommend clemency for Littlejohn, whose legal team argued that the evidence in the case was unclear, especially who the triggerman was.
Still, Republican Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said afterward that his office would still be arguing against clemency to the governor, calling Littlejohn a "violent and manipulative killer."
If you’re outraged over Missouri murdering Marcellus Williams, then you should know Oklahoma is planning on carrying out an execution of Emmanuel Littlejohn this Thurs. at 10am.
Littlejohn was pardoned by the PPB. There’s still time to call the Governor: 405-521-2342.
I was able to leave a voicemail by pressing 1 then 4 then 0. After what happened in Missouri, there's an overwhelming sense of hopelessness that the care about public comments but I hope Emmanuel is able to avoid Khaliifah's fate.
Hi, the best thing to do is to call the Governor’s office directly and press 0 to be connected to a staff person. Ask that the governor respect the wishes of the pardon and parole board and grant clemency to Emmanuel Littlejohn. 405-521-2342
the nypd doing a mass shooting over a $2.90 fare evasion truly is the inevitable endpoint of the police as an institution and also just the encapsulation of how everything we're fighting is all the same fucking thing at its core. nypd kkk idf you're all the same.
Four people were struck in the subway shooting, including a bystander who was hit in the head and an officer.
a lot going on in this article and the fact that they didn't let anyone in his family know except by leaving a fucking business card at his mom's door is fucked but i keep thinking about this part:
they handcuffed a BYSTANDER that they shot????? they shot a random guy by accident because they were so incompetent at trying to execute someone over a $3 fare and handcuffed that bystander while he was lying on the ground with a gunshot wound??? and the other bystander who they shot in the HEAD is still in critical condition? $5.8 billion annual budget for this shit
thinking about lozito v new york city, where a person was brutally stabbed in the face head and neck on a subway car by someone on a killing spree while nypd officers were literally on the subway with them hiding in the next car the whole time and waited until the stabbing victim had disarmed the guy himself before they came in. the cops were literally there to find this killer, they'd been searching for him in a citywide manhunt for like 24 hours and flooded the subway with cops to do that, and the pigs who were there knew it was this guy and even while a random commuter was actively being stabbed in the fucking head they stayed behind a closed door to watch. and when lozito sued, the judge dismissed the suit saying that the police have "no special duty" to protect anyone. radiolab ep on the case:
A look at what happens when the police don’t do the one thing you expect them to.
anyways. "no special duty" to protect the people and yet they're fucking everywhere on the subway all day playing fucking candy crush on their phones. literally all they are there for is to protect the city from $2.90 fare evasions and that's fucking it. i know this is very obvious and not a novel observation that the police don't protect people but the fact that it's the fucking nypd on the subway… just can't stop thinking about these two events together
(more on how The Police Legally Have No Duty To Protect You: fivefourpod ep on castle rock v gonzales, which is also covered in the radiolab ep)
At this point I'd say it's more legal for the NYPD to shoot you than to protect you from getting shot.
Also the NYPD and the MTA a n d the mayor all are defending this because the man who evaded fare "had a knife." 4 people were shot. That's more people than dollars of fare evaded. That's one concealed knife vs 4 bullets in people.
Anyone feeling safw yet?
Land and environmental defenders faced brutal silencing tactics in 2023, with a record year for killings in Colombia and criminalisation cas
Last year nearly 200 environmental defenders were killed — certainly an undercount. The leading culprit? The mining industry. The most dangerous region? Latin America.
These are the stark realities we need to confront as we face a new mining boom linked to the energy transition
— Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos) September 14, 2024
Nearly 70 percent of mining companies globally are headquartered in Canada and 50 percent of the world's publicly listed mining and mineral exploration companies are in Canada.
— Harsha Walia (@HarshaWalia) September 14, 2024
Representation matters

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—salvador allende’s final speech, 9/11/73
this week marks the 47th anniversary of the US-backed overthrow of salvador allende. allende was the first latin american marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy. under allende, universal healthcare, tuition-free education, minimum wage, worker safety protections, free school lunches for children, and other socialist programs were implemented. according to the national bureau of economic research, blue collar wages rose 56% in 1971.
after allende moved to nationalize chile’s US owned industries and align with socialist cuba, nixon (who’d already been carefully monitoring allende’s rise) gave direct orders to the CIA and the US state department to “put pressure” on allende’s government. while the US publicly worked to sabotage chile’s economy with trade restrictions and aid denial, the CIA secretly collaborated with reactionary forces in the country to undermine allende’s credibility and ultimately overthrow him in a bloody coup.
in allende’s place, the US helped install military leader augusto pinochet who returned “freedom” to chile through re-privatization and the extra-judicial murder of an estimated 3,197 chileans. despite pinochet’s reputation as one of latin america’s most brutal fascists, the US supported his regime without issue. “i would say they are dictatorial,” nixon later conceded, “i would also have to, on the other side, indicate that they are non-communist and that they are not enemies of the united states.”
dana scully character of all time. she's five foot two. her two day jobs are cutting up dead people and professional ghostbuster. she's got daddy issues. she owns a fluffy little dog. she's held multiple different government officials hostage multiple times. she kissed her boss on the mouth. she accuses said boss of trying to kill her like once a year with literally no foundation. she's catholic but her favorite movie is the exorcist. she shot her best friend. she was abducted by aliens and still refuses to believe in them. she dresses like an underpaid arts teacher. she met god in a parking garage. out of the two times the man she's been blisteringly in love with for years confessed his feelings to her, the first time she got so overwhelmed she started crying and the second time she thought he was high on painkillers. she can't park a car. she once had an existential crisis, got a tattoo, and slept with a serial killer. she wears socks on the beach. she might be immortal
WHY WE MASK: It's Not "Just A Cold": A Handy Scientific Guide to Surviving COVID-19 Together
Here, have a free science zine with a ridiculously long title! Endless thanks to my partner and fellow disabled artist, Kimball Anderson aka @earnestattempts, who helped through the entire year-long process with art edits and image descriptions (located in the alt text). Additional thanks to my friends Dupe and Caitlin, who gave me thorough copy-edits, and every friend who read drafts or listened to me rant about COVID-19.
Feel free to spread it far and wide! And hit me up if you're interested in printing &/or distributing free copies :D
Read WHY WE MASK with Endnotes - includes working URLS so you can read the scientific papers I cited for yourself. Plus links for all the other resources, and a full transcript.
Download WHY WE MASK - Free PDFs to read, print, and share! Any donations go towards print copies &/or local mask blocs.
Can't get enough free printable COVID zines? Check out @newlevant's excellent What's Up With COVID & How To Protect Yourself: 2024 Ed! It was a huge inspiration in the final stretch.
Extra pages under the cut:
Is your landlord invading your privacy? Is your apartment heated inadquately? Do your utilities keep getting shut off because your landlord isn’t paying? Have you been trying to get them to repair your dishwasher for five months and they won’t replace the spray arm part even though it’s visibly broken?
You’ve heard of employee unions using collective bargaining to force the bosses to provide better pay and better working condiditions. But did you know if you rent an apartment in an apartment complex, you can do something similar?
It’s called a Tenant Association, and it’s basically a union for renters.
Here’s an overview of the why and how of forming a tenant association
Here’s a more thorough organizing manual
When it comes down to it, you and your fellow tenants are the ones paying your landlord’s salary. Go remind them of that.
Surprising New Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations. (New York Times)
Excerpt from this New York Times story:
The connections are commonsense but the conclusion is shocking.
Bats eat insects. When a fatal disease hit bats, farmers used more pesticides to protect crops. And that, according to a new study, led to an increase in infant mortality.
According to the research, published Thursday in the journal Science, farmers in affected U.S. counties increased their use of insecticides by 31 percent when bat populations declined. In those places, infant mortality rose by an estimated 8 percent.
“It’s a seminal piece,” said Carmen Messerlian, a reproductive epidemiologist at Harvard who was not involved with the research. “I actually think it’s groundbreaking.”
The new study tested various alternatives to see if something else could have driven the increase: Unemployment or drug overdoses, for example. Nothing else was found to cause it.
Dr. Messerlian, who studies how the environment affects fertility, pregnancy and child health, said a growing body of research is showing health effects from toxic chemicals in our environment, even if scientists can’t put their fingers on the causal links.
“If we were to reduce the population-level exposure today, we would save lives,” she said. “It’s as easy as that.”
The new study is the latest to find dire consequences for humans when ecosystems are thrown out of balance. Recent research by the same author, Eyal Frank, an environmental economist at the University of Chicago, found that a die-off of vultures in India had led to half a million excess human deaths as rotting livestock carcasses polluted water and spurred an increase in feral dogs, spreading waterborne diseases and rabies.
“We often pay a lot of attention to global extinctions, where species completely disappear,” Dr. Frank said. “But we start experiencing loss and damages well before that.”

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i hate hate hate that the term harm reduction has left addiction support circles because applying it to political candidates is just so massively misunderstanding what harm reduction is and that it is supposed to be individualized. what reduces harm for one person might be actively harmful to another, so saying shit like "voting for kamala is harm reduction" is just like. harm reduction for who? because it will reduce harm for a select few, while damaging the rest of us. idk where im going with this but its just so annoying that everyone misuses harm reduction en masse while real harm reductionist tactics would make them scream and throw up
Becoming a gardener has made me discover so many different types of bugs that I never knew about. I had no idea that my area had so many native bees (there's a species of North American bee that only visits squash plants!! there are bright green metallic bees!!). I've seen bugs behave in ways that I've never found anyone talk about irl or online (a garden near me has a catnip plant that is ALWAYS covered in blue mud dauber wasps, why?). I've learned that there's many, many bugs and other creepy crawlies that are impossible to find information about online for whatever reason, and there's many spiders specifically that I've never been able to find the names of.
It's also made me terrifyingly, devastatingly aware of how few bugs there are compared to when I was a kid and that those numbers are visibly dropping every year. Butterflies are still a rare sight, no matter how hard I try. I'm getting more bees visiting my squash and bean plants, but less in the flowers. The wasp nest that was built near my window like it is every year is considerably smaller than previous years, even with more material to build with and a consistent source of water nearby. There's fewer grass spiders and the huge orb weavers I loved so much have disappeared completely in the last couple years.
We've stopped raking the leaves. We've planted more things, even started a wildflower garden. I've set out bug baths and a bee house. I'm planning on planting more next year, but will that even help? How can my little yard even begin to undo just a fraction of a fraction of the damage done by climate change and massive loss of habitats?
This isn't meant to be a doomer post, so please don't lecture at me like it's one. I'm just tired and sad and I miss my spiders.
because my writing to prisoners post is making the rounds again, heres a helpful resource from NAC on how to get started
adresses of revolutionary/socialist and anarchist political prisoners in:
germany and italy
the usa
prisoners from the george floyd uprisings
please add to the list if you can
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european democracy! liberty and freedom!👍

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these are stones
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a rock or a stone by mary oliver
I'd like to spotlight Ahed Alshaer (@ahedalshaer), who's reached out to me for help raising money for her family. Ahed is a 22-year-old dental student from Gaza, who was in her 4th year at Al-Azhar University when the genocide began. She needs to evacuate herself, her parents, and her siblings, and she also wants to complete her education so she can start helping people as a dentist.
Her mother is suffering from a respiratory infection, and her father is diabetic—both difficult conditions to manage with limited access to medicine, clean water, and food. Ahed is asking all of us to help raise the money so she can evacuate her family (8 members) when the crossing opens again, and they can build their futures somewhere safer. In her own words,
Please don’t read this as a tragedy story. I’m here to ask you to prevent it from getting more tragic and to help us start our life all over again. I’m here to ask for your help not your sympathy, to ask you to take action whether by donating or by sharing this to everyone you know who can help, please read this with your heart and take action as if it’s your family, your mom, your siblings who are under these conditions.
Her campaign is verified on line 407 of the Butterfly Effect Project's spreadsheet.
Hello, Please read this as if I'm a member of your family . maybe your sister, daughte… Ahed Alshaer needs your support for Help Gazans fa
€2,805 / €80,000