Addendae

In a Reversal, A.P. Psychology May Be Allowed in Florida Schools After All

The College Board and the Florida Department of Education had been feuding over the inclusion of a section on gender and sexual orientation

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/us/florida-ap-psychology.html

cont'd

Those Trump administration era videos, particularly

https://files.persagen.com/01/The_many_controversies_of_Betsy_DeVos.mp4

publicly unveil GOP ideologies backed by far-right Christian billionaires & their foundations:

DeVos, Uihlein, Mercer, ... families - amplified in contemporary culture wars.

* historical revisionism (HBCU a choice)

* transphobia (wedge tactics; note also Roger Severino)

* erosion of public education: rescinding disability support; school vouchers (Christian education)

* eroding women's rights (sexual assault)

God’s Army Gathers in Fort Worth

Christian nationalist prophets, election conspiracist, wealthiest pastor in U.S. collide for week of right-wing politics

https://www.texasobserver.org/gods-army-gathers-in-fort-worth

* Southwest Believers’ Convention

* Kenneth Copeland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Copeland

https://persagen.com/docs/christian_nationalism.html

Michele Bachmann called Biden's win a "delusion" ...

Kenneth Copeland laughed derisively. "Yeah, he's going to be president, & Mickey Mouse is going to be king."

#ChristianRight #KennethCopeland #ChristianNationalism

Addendae

Baseball Fans Are Starting to Realize That the Owners Are Not Their Friends

If you peel back the curtain of professional baseball, there’s a labor battle between players ^ owners that has been raging for more than a century.

And in recent years, fans have started to side more with the players

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/baseball-players-league-union-history-mlb-labor-movement/

#DefundBillionaires #baseball

Addendae, cont'd

https://persagen.com >> search: "betsy devos"

Addendae

NBA players' union says Orlando Magic donation to DeSantis super PAC 'alarming'

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1192167673/orlando-magic-desantis-donation-nbpa

This dangerous dimwit (billionaire Betsy DeVos):

[img] Dick & former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos watch courtside during game betw. Orlando Magic (owned by DeVos family) & Brooklyn Nets, 2023-03-26, Orlando FL.

#RichardDeVos #BetsyDeVos #transphobia #TransLivesMatter #DevosFamily #OrlandoMagic #DefundBillionaires #neofascism #CultureWars #DeSantis #GOP #ChristianRight

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/833/543/331/932/149/original/916f1b94e3816f34.webp

The Ring Nebula comes into focus, and it's astounding

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1192120347/ring-nebula-james-webb-telescope

The famous Ring Nebula is seen in brilliant new clarity, thanks to a new James Webb Space Telescope image released by researchers in the JWST Ring Nebula Imaging Project.

The image was processed by Roger Wesson, according to Western University in Ontario.

Image: L Hubble; R: JWST

#JWST #HubbleSpaceTelescope #nebulae #RingNebula #astronomy #SpaceTelescopes #photography #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope

Addendae

You’re Probably Drinking Enough Water

If you're a healthy person worried about hydration, odds are, you're getting plenty. But no one can say exactly what the right amount is

Fighting Back!

Addendae

Voters could decide future of abortion access in Florida

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1191746133/abortion-access-florida-voters-constitutional-amendment-ballot-initiative

"As long as I have breath in my body, I'm going to continue to fight for freedom and liberation," says Trish Brown, who heads Power Up People

"I'm going to always continue to fight for being able to have control over my own body."

https://www.instagram.com/power_up_people

https://linktr.ee/poweruppeople

Black Lead Grassroots org Fighting for Equality, Dignity, & Liberation 4 ALL!

#PowerUpPeople #Florida #abortion

Addendae

Ethical challenges: DNA study of f. 18th/19th century African American community

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230803141708.htm

* recently identified genetic relationship betw. 23andMe users & enslaved/free African Americans that lived in Catoctin Furnace, Maryland 1776-1850

* researchers considered how best to inform descendants/genetic relatives of genetic connection to site

Ethical considerations when co-analyzing ancient DNA and data from private genetic databases

https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(23)00212-4

#BlackHistory

Addendae

Ethical challenges: DNA study of f. 18th/19th century African American community

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230803141708.htm

* recently identified genetic relationship betw. 23andMe users & enslaved/free African Americans that lived in Catoctin Furnace, Maryland 1776-1850

* researchers considered how best to inform descendants/genetic relatives of genetic connection to site

Ethical considerations when co-analyzing ancient DNA and data from private genetic databases

https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(23)00212-4

#BlackHistory

Landmark study opens possible way for Black Americans to trace their ancestry

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1191914142/a-landmark-study-opens-a-new-possible-way-for-black-americans-to-trace-their-anc

Image caption: "The remains of Catoctin Furnace in Maryland as seen in 2020. Researchers have now analyzed the DNA of enslaved and free Black workers there, connecting them to nearly 42,000 living relatives"

Catoctin Furnace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catoctin_Furnace

#BlackHistory #history #ancestry #DNAanalysis #genomics #DNAtesting

Addendae

Republican 2024 Climate Strategy: More Drilling, Less Clean Energy

Project 2025, conservative “battle plan” for the next Republican president, would stop attempts to cut the pollution that is heating the planet, & encourage more emissions

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-climate-project2025.html

#GOP #Project2025 #FossilFuels #capitalism #neoliberalism #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #HeritageFoundation

Addendae

Jailed Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Receives a New 19-Year Sentence

Aleksei A. Navalny, who is already in prison, was sentenced for supporting “extremism,” amid intensified suppression of dissent in Russia

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/world/europe/navalny-putin-opposition-verdict.html

#Russia #Putin #WarCriminals #totalitarianism #AlexeiNavalny

Addendae [here re: Beyoncé comment, above]

Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ celebrates Black queer joy. O’Shae Sibley’s killer tried to strip that away

https://19thnews.org/2023/08/o-shae-sibley-beyonce-renaissance-black-queer-joy

Killing of O'Shae Sibley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_O%27Shae_Sibley

* 28-yo gay man stabbed/died result of altercation outside Mobil gas station in Brooklyn NY

* unfolded when he/ friends confronted by a group of individuals for playing Beyoncé, vogueing

* possible hate crime

#Beyonce #BLM #queer #lgbt #BlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter

[humor] Obituary: Earth 😅

https://wronghands1.com/2023/08/04/at-worlds-end

"Earth. Not so peacefully, at the age of 4.5 billion years, after along battle with hunanity.

Survived by eight 5 2 billion culpable and sweaty humans.

In lieu of Flowers, the solar system asks that everyone surrender to their soon-to-be AI overlords.

Service to take place atop the polar ice cap.

Oh wait, never mind."

#humor #cartoons #WrongHands

Mark Margolis, 'Breaking Bad' and 'Better Call Saul' actor, dead at 83 😥

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/mark-margolis-breaking-bad-and-better-call-saul-actor-dead-at-83-1.6507105

Mark Margolis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Margolis

Breaking Bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad

One of the top-ranked TV series and perhaps my favorite of all time (watched entirely ~3-4x).

Very intelligently scripted, filmed.

E.g. use of color: https://northboot.xyz/search?q=Breaking+Bad+color+use

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/breaking_bad

#television #BreakingBad #MarkMargolis

Canada mental health

MUN's psychology residency on brink of 'collapse,' union issues letter to premier

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/mun-psychology-residency-1.6926529

* desperately needed profession in public health system

* doctoral residency program accredited by Canadian Psychological Association since 2003

* re-accreditation looming but centre has just half permanent faculty complement

* university administration repeatedly denied requests to permanently fill vacancies since 2019

#Canada #PublicHealth #universities #MUN

Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny given 19 more years for extremism conviction

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/alexei-navalny-prison-sentence-1.6927768

* already serving a 9-years on politically motivated charges

* deliberate Kremlin strategy to silence most ardent opponent

* sentenced in 2021 to 2½ years for parole violation

* extremism trial behind closed doors in penal colony

Alexei Navalny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny

Russian opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist

#Russia #Putin #WarCriminals #totalitarianism #AlexeiNavalny

Harold Pinter: Nobel Lecture

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDmDgSgSvgs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature#Nobel_lecture

* searing attack on U.S. foreign policy

* U.S. foreign policy "supported & in many cases engendered every rightwing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the WWII"

Wow. 👍️ 🙏

Harold Pinter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter

* British playwright, screenwriter, director, actor

* Nobel laureate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature

* 1 of most influential modern British dramatists

#HaroldPinter #NobelPrize