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Johnny Cash Is a Hero to Americans on the Left and Right. But His Music Took a Side. (slate.com)

In July and August of 1961, Johnny Cash recorded a batch of songs that became the basis for Blood, Sweat and Tears, a record many regard as merely a concept album about working people. But Blood, Sweat and Tears is a concept album about race in America, about the violent enforcement of racial hierarchies in America. It is the...

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Biden announced that his administration has secured voluntary commitments

So what’s the enforcement mechanism when these companies break these commitments? This sounds like it was just a big marketing event for tech companies.

Italy starts removing lesbian mothers’ names from children’s birth certificates (www.cnn.com)

The northern Italian city of Padua has started removing the names of non-biological gay mothers from their children’s birth certificates under new legislation passed by the “traditional family-first” government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

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There’s a reason one of the five things prohibited under the UNs 1948 convention against genocide is the forcible transfer of children. This is just a step down that same path.

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Except the slope of your graph looks like a kicker ramp while OP looks more like a quarter pipe, so it really doesn’t look like population growth can account for the uptick in heat deaths

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Love the energy, but before posting anything on the internet you should imagine a prosecutor asking you to read it to a jury

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And regulations to provide for the humane resettlement of climate refugees

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I’m stealing this.

Please do!

I’m seriously worried for the world.

Same :(

We are entering a new age of the diggers and levellers and that ended with the beheading of the king and no real change.

First of all, great reference, the English civil war is a fascinating period of history.

But second of all, it wasn’t the diggers who chopped off Charles’ head, they basically never had any real influence on anyone. It was the nobility in parliament that did that (and honestly, Charles did it to himself by being such a stubborn pain in the ass for the nobility), and they were the same ones who didn’t have a plan/couldn’t really imagine a world without a king, which is why they basically forced Cromwell to be king in all but name and then crowned Charles’ son when Cromwell died.

They want to scorch the earth instead of fix it.

I can imagine a lot of scenarios where a bit of scorching is a necessary first step in fixing (but I can also imagine a lot of scenarios where scorching goes off the rails and/or starts cycles of vengeance, so, yeah, we’re seriously worried for the world and for good reason).

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Fair enough, the emergence of groups like them is definitely a symptom of a stressed social system, it’s just I don’t think they’re often the actual cause of the stress, and sometimes listening to those radical groups is the only way to resolve the actual stress (e.g. abolitionists in the United States were right and we just needed to completely abolish slavery for moral and practical reasons but most everyone thought they were crazy until like 1863). I don’t think that really applies to the diggers (the English civil war was a bunch of rich people fighting for power by throwing mountains of poor people at each other who were never organized enough to have their own faction in that fight), but it might apply to our present-day situation (e.g. people like Pia Klemp make a lot of sense to me).

On a related note, if you’re into the history of political upheavals, I highly recommend this podcast called Revolutions^1^ that actually did a season on the English Civil war and is just absolutely fantastic throughout it’s whole ridiculously long run.

^1^ best links for finding it depends on if you’re on a desktop, iOS, or Android device,

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Still a ~10x increase in heat deaths.

And I don’t know if it is misleading, why does it make sense to adjust for population here? Like, objectively more people are preventable dying from heat, and “There would be fewer preventable deaths if fewer people were around to die of preventable causes” isn’t a very satisfying answer to that problem.

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This was a really well written comment that gave me a bit to think about, so thank you for the effort you put into it. I’m definitely emotionally engaged by this issue, so maybe I just needed to hear someone else say this

we should not lose sight of the real human impacts and absolute number of lives lost. Behind every statistic is an individual tragedy. We should have compassion for those suffering while also trying to objectively understand the data.

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And the two who received a mistrial were retried, found guilty, and both sentenced to over 15 years

e; and that was just the federal charges, there was a state level case that sent a bunch more to prison for a while too

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It’s shocking and appalling, but conservatives attacking professors and college administrators giving into them as once great institutions implode is where we’re at right now. From a prior article about this story linked at the bottom of OP,

In 2021, Nikole Hannah-Jones, a writer for The New York Times Magazine, was denied a tenured position at the University of North Carolina (“tHe nAtIoN’S FiRsT PuBlIc uNiVeRsItY”), after the university’s board of trustees refused to approve her appointment. Conservatives had taken issue with her involvement in The Times’s 1619 Project, which re-examined slavery in the United States.

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I mean, that sounds exactly like tired/defeated thinking to me. Frustrating to see it play out, tho.

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And their revenue is still down and they had the worst day for their stock price ever when they announced this news. People are too tired and stressed out to fight a dying behemoth that used to be good like we’re living in a Dark Souls game or something.

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Fair, exhausted parents trying to buy a moment of peace has been a cornerstone of American capitalism since RCA used Howdy Doody to sell television sets

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what’s to stop government officials from simply ignoring the Supreme Court

A federal government being willing to enforce the law Reconstruction style and send in federal troops to effect the arrest of these traitors and the unconditional surrender of their government. Anything less is just giving the anti-democratic forces time to get stronger and chip away at more of our society.

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They’re taking away the workers’rights to get water breaks, not the supervisors’ rights to give them. So, if you’re a happy and compliant little drone who kisses enough ass maybe you’ll get one, and making workers’ feel the need to do things like that is where the real value in this lies for the bosses I think.

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Ah, thanks for the heads up. Looks like I accidentally stuck a letter on the URL when I was going to save it, I’ll edit my OP link in a second here.

e; Should be fixed now

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All the text in my title comes from the source, but thanks for checking!

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Hard to say since news organizations had to sue this department to get these numbers and pretty much every department is always trying to sweep dirt under the rug like that

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Sounds like they looked at 90 incidents which produced 59 arrests

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Making it more difficult for journalists and the like to stay on top of when the attorney general comes and goes to the capitol (which could help us guess at who he might be meeting with, how much time he’s putting into various initiatives, etc.) by messing with the public record like this is part of making our lives worse

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It’d be pretty hypocritical if he was doing this to protect his own health after spending so much time fighting against the efforts of the governor to do the same for other citizens of the state, but fortunately there’s no reason to believe this is the case.

As this article notes,

The attorney general has definitely been in the state Capitol at least a handful of times since he was sworn in in December 2019. HuffPost searched Associated Press and Reuters photo databases for images of Cameron inside the building. A few turned up.

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No, the only way his health could be causing this behavior is if he has an allergic reaction to having to follow the same security protocols as the people who work for him, or if the thought of journalists being able to easily cross reference his comings and goings with different lobbyists seen in the Capitol gives him hives or something

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Working hard or hardly pretending to care about police murders?

abcnews.go.com/US/…/story?id=73940937

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I think deep down the idea of a world where things like this happen to individuals who don’t deserve it terrifies a lot of people, so they bend over backwards looking for ways to justify it

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Hell, even if they were rapists or murderers they shouldn’t be getting treated like this -

Children incarcerated on the former death row unit of Louisiana’s Angola prison were locked in their cells without air conditioning for several days this month amid scorching summer temperatures, according to a teenager held at the facility. The child, identified by the pseudonym Charles C., said in a statement to his attorney that the kids were only let out of their cells for an eight-minute shower, which they had to take while handcuffed with their ankles shackled.

On Monday night, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other legal groups submitted statements from young people held at Angola to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs asked the court to order State officials to immediately move all kids out of the unit and to cease transfers into the unit. With heat indexes in the surrounding area reaching as high as 133 degrees this month, a medical expert for the plaintiffs warned the court that the conditions could be fatal.

“I would not dare to keep my dog in these conditions for fear of my dog dying,” Dr. Susi U. Vassallo, a medical expert for the plaintiffs, wrote in a statement submitted to the court. “It has been dangerously hot in Angola so far this summer. Confining children for all or most of the day to concrete and cement buildings without air conditioning is foolhardy and perilous.”

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I doubt he’d live long in Iraq

With conditions in prisons being what they are in this country, his odds won’t be too much better there

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The document noted that Meyer had previously undergone mental health treatment and has been diagnosed with conditions including autism spectrum disorder and major depressive disorder

Not even that deep

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